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Who Says Article Marketing Doesn’t Work?
Posted on February 28th, 2010 4 commentsView any internet marketing forum and you’ll no doubt find a new post every week stating that article marketing doesn’t work. Who writes these posts? Usually people who have submitted a couple of articles, didn’t make $1000 from them overnight, and then gave up and decided that article marketing “doesn’t work”.
I always wonder what they mean by “doesn’t work”.
Do they mean article marketing doesn’t get them 10,000 visitors overnight?
Do they mean they didn’t make $500 for every article they submitted last week?
Or maybe they just haven’t seen a return on the time invested in writing and submitting their articles to directories.But writing off article marketing as a serious method is a mistake. It’s like me buying a wizz bang exercise bike that has a million different functions, and then announcing it doesn’t work because I’m still not fit. Well, actually it didn’t make me fit because I didn’t know how to use it properly. It’s not the bike’s fault, it’s my fault.
This is what happens when you know how to use something properly (all articles were submitted less than 1 year ago):
If you do it right, article marketing works perfectly. Just like that expensive exercise bike – once I learned how to use it.
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4 responses to “Who Says Article Marketing Doesn’t Work?”
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I see that you’ve had great results with article marketing. I guess now my question would be to you, what do your conversion look like once that traffic has clicked through to your website/landing page? Are the numbers just as high?
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Rebecca March 3rd, 2010 at 08:40
Ah, well that is a topic for a whole other post
Let’s just say – conversions are usually very good because I give readers what they’re looking for. Sorry I can’t go into too much detail there!
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I’d love to see you do a case study on this so that you can reveal your niche and earnings on an article marketing campaign that is just for testing.
I’ve written hundreds of articles and all them added together haven’t had as many views as even the first one on your screen shot!
I need to know your secrets!
P.S. Feel free to email me and use me as your guinea pig for turning an article marketing newb into a super affiliate god!
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Rebecca April 6th, 2010 at 23:54
Hi Ian
If I could replicate this again, I would – everyday
It is a combination of many things coming together to get this result. I threw a lot of mud at the wall.
Sure, it can certainly be done again but there is no formula. I was, I admit, fortunate that my article was naturally linked to from some authority websites, through no effort of my own (well, besides writing the article itself which people obviously found useful).You can see the massive difference between the top article and the one under it. That top one has links coming in to it – GOOD links.
This reinforces the fact that one quality article is better in the long run than 500 sub-standard ones. If you can get those natural links coming in, you’re set.
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Flippa Chick March 2nd, 2010 at 18:49