With so many different things to manage, I often find myself overlooking the seemingly simple stuff that you kind of think should take care of itself. Article marketing is a huge part of my business – both in the creation of original content for my own network of sites, as well as offsite content creation to drive traffic back to my little slice of the online universe. As those of you who have worked with me personally will attest – I’m a huge believer in unique content – I don’t (and won’t) use article spinners, PLR articles and other mediocre methods to generate copious amounts of crappy content. Why? For the most part – I can write an article faster than most people can spin one ( that is fit to be published) mostly because I have a hyper active imagination, phenomenally fast fingers and incredible amounts of Caffeine pumping through my veins 19 hours a day.

Over the last few weeks though – I’ve seen a dramatic drop in some of my affiliate commissions from articles I have syndicated to the various online directories, and while I’ve been sort of aware of it in the background of my daily awareness – I’ve never gotten up the motivation to see why. Here is another good example of how laziness and being wholly unprepared comes back to bite everyone in the ass.

One article submitted to Ezine Articles using one of my pen name accounts generated a SIGNIFICANT amount of commissions for a given clickbank product – it had a good title, solid, informative content and resource box pointing back to a highly optimized landing page – all a reasonably easy way to make a nice living on autopilot. Do enough of these in enough diverse markets and after a while you [Read more...]