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regular30 · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 7

Hi ppl. I plan to buy article submitter pro and give this whole article writing a shot.

I know this is good for SE ranking but how good is it for getting traffic? I don't plan to be doing this in few months, so SE links etc isn't a priority for me.

Say I submit 1 article to 100 sites. How much traffic should I expect to get to my site from that article? How much from the initial posting, and how much from the afterflow of traffic? Yes I know it depends on teh article quality and the ppl who read it and dozen of other stuff.

I just need a rough estimate so I know if it's worth my time. I plan to write my own articles, and as I am slow writer ( I'm the type that plans it out in my mind first ) I wanna know if this will be worthwhile for me.

If it gets too little traffic for the time spent, it's better for me to spend that time doing other ways to get traffic.

quest · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 879

With your current plan you probably won't get much traffic at all.

The Internet is full of unread articles.

I read an interesting experiment done by Jon Leger who makes more in a month than 99% of the people here will make in their Affiliate Marketing lives.

He posted articles to the TOP Directories. He generated Traffic for his niche. The traffic resulted in 1 sale for his efforts.

This business is not about QUANTITY. It's about Quality. If you can write articles worth reading others will in turn post those articles on their sites.

It's those links out from the other sites that generate the real boost.

Beyond the initial small boost the top Article Directories can give.

So the strategy of volume in Article Directories is not very useful.

I have seen so many articles that just lead to sites that are now dead. The resulting "ranking" spilling to the person who owns the Article Directory.

So the advice (From someone who actually knows how to make this work) is to FOCUS.

Write quality articles. Submit to the popular directories. Then move on to the next part of your project.

Articles can work out well. But there is a point of diminishing returns.
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TeamGlobal · Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 47

Hello regular30,

First let me start off by saying that I can't accurately answer your question about how much traffic you will receive from writing 100 articles.

What I can tell you is that I have personally found article marketing to be well worth the effort. I would go so far as to say that article marketing has never failed me.

As you are just getting started in this I would agree with quest that quality is extremely important. When you write a quality, informative and useful article you immediately set yourself leaps and bounds above many others in your niche.

When I first started article marketing I found myself getting discouraged. Based on what I was reading at the time I thought would get a flood of traffic shortly after submitting my articles.

I was too busy thinking short term by wanting immediate results. So I thought that article marketing wasn't working for me. I later found out that it was me who was not working for article marketing. I was just throwing junk up against a wall and hoping that something stuck. I didn't have a plan and my results showed it.

As it turns out by focusing on getting a flood of traffic in the short term I missed a lot of other things that were extremely important. The quality of my articles was not up to snuff. The on-page SEO of my websites was horrible and my sales funnel left much to be desired. In other words I wasn't prepared to receive a flood of traffic. Truthfully what good would 1,000 extra visitors a month do for me if they didn't convert in some form or fashion?

Here are a few of the changes I made that helped me that may help you as well (this is by no means detailed or complete):

I did my initial keyword research to determine which keywords I wanted my webpages to rank highly for.

I constructed the pages for my website based upon my keyword research

I prepared my websites to receive traffic by improving my sites' SEO and having all parts of my sales funnel in place.

I wrote quality articles based upon my keyword research and provided the reader with useful information. These articles included engaging titles and resource boxes with a call to action to get the click.

You want to know what happened the next day? Nothing. The day after that. Nothing. I received no immediate and miraculous results...but after a week or so I checked my server logs and noticed that I was getting visitors. As it turns out most of the visitors were coming from the very same directories I had submitted my article to.

Soon many of my pages started to move closer and closer to page one on Goggle and my traffic steadily increased. My number of newsletter subscribers increased as did my Adsense revenue. To my surprise I hadn't noticed the ClickBank sales. Apparently I had an old email address so I didn't receive sales notifications at that time.

I'm happy to say that I am now getting regular sponsorship requests from those wanting to advertise on my site. It's also very gratifying when people write you out of the blue to thank you for providing the information in the article. Some of those people even asked for one-on-one coaching.

In closing article marketing is a tremendous tool to have in your marketing toolkit. I am by no means an expert. In fact I'm far from being an expert. That's why I can comfortably say if it works for me it can certainly work for you.

I wish you great success in your article marketing efforts.

All The Best,

Tony
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whyamirich · Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 3

If you approach article marketing with the idea that you're going to get a lot of direct traffic from the article sites, you will fail. If you approach article marketing with the idea that some extremely popular website is going to republish your article and send you a lot of direct traffic, you will also fail.

The first objective of article marketing is the SEO benefits that come from the anchor text in the backlinks that are generated. Other benefits are branding, exposure, and to some degree, the direct traffic.

Your best results will come when you target specific keywords, create your page on your site properly, and submit unique content to each and every article directory to which you publish. When done correctly, article marketing is one of the best (if not the best) forms of reliably creating long term traffic.

Before (proper use of) article marketing:

# Page Views Referrer
1 1547 12.05% *search.yahoo.com
2 1328 10.35% http://search.yahoo.com/search
3 170 1.32% www.google.*

After article marketing (2 articles and 3 months later):

# Page Views Referrer
1 5583 22.67% www.google.*
2 3717 15.09% http://www.google.com/search
3 1222 4.96% *search.yahoo.com
4 1035 4.20% http://search.yahoo.com/search
5 762 3.09% http://www.google.ca/search

I can't believe how many people still don't get it.
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TeamGlobal · Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 47

Thanks for your input Kurt.

You hit the nail on the head with your mention of "anchor text". I don't think I would have gotten good rankings for competitive keywords without it.

I think that informative posts like yours go a long way toward helping people "get it".

All The Best,

Tony
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ShawnLim · Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 35

Wow, I have learned a lot from you guys here man.
Thank you so much.

Recently I was trying with article marketing as well.
I thought that quantity may be one of the factors,
so I wrote 50 articles and submit them to popular
article directories.

Well, so far, the traffic I get is not really much.
Maybe like what you guys said, quantity doesn't work,
quality works.

Will try more strategies in the future.
Thank you so much eh.

By the way, how many article directories did you
guys submit to?
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raigor · Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Posts: 5

SO what's the deal between quality and quantity then. Seems there are article rewriting software which can give you lots of articles . How does it compare to good hand written articles ?
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kennichi · Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 66

I have found that writing and submitting articles has been the most effective way for to drive traffic on your sites. It is depending upon your Article.
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TeamGlobal · Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 47

raigor,

The quality and quantity issue does not have to be an either or isse. It can be a both issue.

Creating and submitting many quality articles would be ideal. You can create many quality articles quickly if you are focused and organized.

I probably wouldn't go with using some article writing software to create articles you are going to submit, but that's a personal decision.

The only real way to find out what methods work most efficiently is to test it and track it. Without testing and tracking you are only left with guessing.

Good luck to you with your article marketing.

All The Best,

Tony

Blackgreen · Joined: 17 Apr 2008 Posts: 31 Location: UK

Some articles seem to work better than others in terms of the amount of traffic they send you.

It can be useful to make a note of which ones deliver then you can continue in that direction.
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