I’ll admit that I don’t enjoy writing at all and it’s an extreme rarity to see me pump out 5 articles in 1 day for ezine. Well, I just started my new article marketing campaign with your strategies so that’s not saying much yet lol.

What I seem to notice on ezine from the most view articles is that they are sitting in the 400-450 word amount and they have great titles. So this is how I’m structuring my new articles.

My other goal is to stop trying so hard to make sales. I’ve been trying “so hard” since last summer and it’s really got me no where. I need to focus on providing quality for the internet and the people that are in seek of the information I’m writing about. I think internet marketers get too caught up in the “omg gotta make sales!!!” mindset and it’s done nothing good for me (but it has made “gurus” rich lol).

I have a question I was hoping to get answered and it isn’t the best question ever. But it’s something that will help me get my article marketing campaigns going, which I’m sending to my blogs which sells my products.

How many articles do you normally submit to EZA for the niches you like to attack? Do you research 10 keywords and write 10 different articles? 20 keywords? 50? more?

I know it’s a bad question because I “should” do as much as I can, but I have about 20 blogs in different niches and I want to know how much time is necessary to spend writing for each one.

I was thinking of doing 5 articles per blog, but I would love to hear your approach!! Thank you!

Thank you for your reply. It’s sincerely appreciated. I might try going the blogging route, which as you say, is more personal than article marketing.

Before I do though, I think I will give it one more shot. I’ve finally noticed that most of the articles in the market I was promoting, don’t really seem to get overloaded with views, so I’m wondering if I should try a more popular market.

I was able to rank pretty well in Google for the product I was promoting, but it didn’t translate into many sales. I’m a little slow on all of this and must confess that I’m old enough to have owned a typewriter- remember those?

Anyway, I’ll plug away awhile longer and see if good things start to happen.

Thanks again. Always look forward to receiving your valuable information.

Don

And I’m not a big fan of Goarticles – and ironically was just speaking to someone a few minutes ago who *tracks* views on all the directories for our submissions – Goarticles is usually amongst the worst – and I almost hate paying someone to post them…:-) But then in some random niche…….they will have this huge amount of views out of left field, so you just never know.

(plus it’s a good idea to use all of hte major directories at least once per “niche” in my opinion – just for the reason you stated above – more links does equate to more authority – and more authority does equate to more traffic!)

Lastly – thank you for the nice email you sent last week – I meant to respond – but just have been swamped with stuff – I’m glad these strategies are giving you hope and enthusiasm, and I hope they work well for you, too!

Amazing, just writing 5 or 6 articles and submitting to goarticles and EZA, my rankings have improved greatly in just the past week.

I like goarticles because I can place a call to action link right into the body of the article (same with articlesbase). However, it’s way too early to tell at the moment if I’m going to get views and conversions from goarticles. Some people say they love goarticles, others say they hate it. I’ll know in a month or two how I feel about it.

Keep up the great work and continue writing. I would have never figured out how to correctly write articles if I didn’t find this blog last week.

I’ve also found an author on EZA that is getting anywhere from 2k-10k views per article just within the last month. Freaken crazy and yes, his titles are just like you what write about. Here’s to hoping I can replicate his success!

Don – I would definitely start a blog – yes – and it’s really a *complimentary* strategy to the article marketing – not a competing one – or something that needs to be mastered as a secondary consideration to the first.

As an example – as as an absolute minimum – you could be re-purposing the articles you submit, on your blog – which gives you more search engine coverage at the very least. I’d change the titles a wee bit – post them on the blog FIRST – and then re-purpose with slight modifications to the other directories in a sliding scale or totem pole of priority. (with EZA being the top of the pole, articlesbase being second, etc)

In general though – UNLESS you are simply trying to make easy cash using re-directs (which will eventually tire you out and is not really *marketing* per se anyway) I would always use the articles to build a list when posted on the directories – and use the articles on your OWN blog for natural search traffic first. (i.e. – if you get 1000 views on EZA and get 20% CTR – you are getting 200 visitors from those articles….BUT if you get even 30% of the views on your OWN blog via the search engines – you are already 50% better off on traffic than you would be submitting them to the directories, with a top position via the “page rank piggyback” sort of concept that is so popular with bum marketing…and that I’ve written about here.

So….in the event the above makes as little sense to you as it does to me now that I’m re-reading it – YES to starting a blog – and YES to focusing on building your OWN high ranking, high traffic blog or website as the priortity and central piece of the puzzle – look at your OWN content as an asset – and think of re-purposing to the directories as a supplemental strategy to get traffic. (otherwise you WILL be disappointed….or burned out)

As always, enjoy any advice you have to offer.

I recently have started article marketing beginning with Articlesbase. I hit the first page of Google for many of those articles, but got a modest amount of views and few sales. I’m thinking that maybe my keyword choices weren’t the best.

Anyway, about a week ago, I submitted some articles to Ezinearticles. Got on the first page for one and the CTR seemed okay, but no sales. I think though, that most of those clicks were from EZA members-checking out the article. So, I’m kind of lost on all this. I think I’ve made some decent improvements, but the return is still minimal.

Ian, do you think I might be better off trying a blog? I would like to get one thing right though, before moving to the next, but so far, the effort has far outweighed the return for the article writing.

Really appreciate any ideas you may have. Thank you.

Don