Free traffic and sales with articles

July 17th, 2008 by mazri | Filed under Free Articles, Selected Stuff.

The best course of action to take sometimes isn’t clear until you’ve listed and considered your alternatives. The following paragraphs should help clue you in to what the experts think is significant.

Secret Article Profits attracted my attention because writing articles for profit is something that I have enjoyed for many years. It also pays the bills. I signed up at EzineArticles.com some months ago and having written one article, I moved on to other endeavours because I wrote it to get traffic, not specifically to sell something.

Gradually I noticed that many people were writing to generate sales, which is now relevant to my new business, so Dylan Loh’s offering was timely. That’s Dylan on the right. –>

What you get:

* Article writing blueprint - this is the core deliverable. Subtitled “Learn the secret art of turning every piece of article you write into instant cash!”, it is a 42-page ebook.

* How To Churn Out Cash Sucking Articles At Lightning Speed - this is the second core deliverable, consisting of clear instructions on how to write attention-getting articles.
* Interviews with leading article marketers such as Jason Waganer, Dean Shainin, Blaz Blanic, Steve Treslager, and Matt Rhodes.

Anyone can see from the product’s home page that Dylan Loh has a gift for writing and it is borne out in the product. He has distilled what budding writers need to know about:

* Selecting a niche market
* Keyword research
* Article writing
* Article marketing
* SEO
* Promotional resources
* How this comes together to make you money.

The list of free resources alone is worth the $47 price.The killer content for me was the clear sequence of steps rather than the steps themselves. Knowing the correct sequence is crucial.

Shift in Thinking

Although my natural reaction would be to write on a topic that I know well and interests me, chances are that a very small portion of the population would be interested and there might not be anything to sell through the article. Secret Article Profits shows how to think like a mercenary.

The interviews with the experts are GOLD because actual money-making articles are listed. Seeing a profit-making article is better than just reading some theory.

Great package, Dylan!

Bum Marketing

Outside North America, the expression bum marketing has an unfortunate meaning. In the home of the brave and the land of the free it means a form of article marketing that even a homeless person (a “bum” in North America) could achieve and buy himself a distillery!

Secret Article Profits uses the bum marketing method in this sequence:

1. Research keywords and identify the niche market you want to target.
2. Find low-competition keywords to target.

Hopefully the information presented so far has been applicable. You might also want to consider the following:

3. Write an article or ten and optimise them based on the targeted keyphrases.
4. Submit these articles to popular article websites.

Your Challenge

How does Dylan make so much money? Secret Article Profits launched today, so he probably hasn’t made a lot yet, but he is somewhat of a veteran as per his blog: Dylan Loh’s Sites. His old sites are still churning away, topping up his ClickBank account.

Here is some of Dylan’s maths:

* You spend 30 minutes to write a new article. You take the phone off the hook and get down to serious writing. 13 hours and a starved, RSI-afflicted body later you have 25 articles, each with an affiliate link or two inside.
* You submit these articles to a long list of article repositories, including EzineArticles. If each of these articles were to earn you $20 commission, you would be making $500 per month.
* If you took 10 days off work and churned out 130 hours’ worth of well-researched prose, you could make $1250 each week, or $5000 per month.

So it is clear that buying ebooks will do little for you if you do not act on the instructions. Dylan Loh’s Secret Article Profits has stripped away many layers of mystery and you are left with a clear blueprint. All you have to do is make the time to write what you can. If you are like me, you won’t churn out articles in 20 minutes. One hour is more likely, and if you only spend an hour each night, it could take you six months to write 100 articles.

One of the best ways to boost your personal brand and drive traffic to your site is by submitting “expert” articles to certain sites. By establishing yourself as a renowned expert in a certain field, people will start to regard your site as a trusted source for information. In other words, the traffic you drive to your site will actually stick.

Luckily, there are many free article submission sites that will allow you to include a short bio and link back to your site. Below are 10 sites that are known for sending good traffic.

1. Ezine Articles – Regarded as the most popular place to submit articles, building a portfolio of popular content on Ezine Articles will really help your traffic.

2. Buzzle – Buzzle is as popular as Ezine Articles these days and the site will randomly feature authors throughout the site, which is an added bonus for attracting readers.

3. Gather – This is an article submission resource, as well as a social networking site. Here, you will be able to connect with other writers and readers in order to increase your traffic.

4. Associated Content – You can publish for free on this site or promise exclusive rights and get paid for your work. Associated Content is a great tool for boosting your brand, though your articles won’t prominently feature a bio and backlink like some other sites.

5. Articlesbase – This is a fairly new directory of articles that has gained a lot of momentum recently. Use this site properly and you might drum up a lot of viral traffic.

6. ArticleGeek – Another popular article directory, ArticleGeek is designed to garner you some targeted traffic, which is always a good thing.

7. ArticleCity – This is one of the easiest sites to quickly submit an article with a biography and backlink. ArticleCity is quickly becoming one of the most popular places to read and submit free articles.

8. Article Blotter – This site has recently seen a facelift and is attracting a lot of new readers and writers.

9. WebArticles.com – This site is mainly focused on articles about family and parenting. If this is related to your niche, then WebArticles.com is a great place to find some targeted readers.

10. Power Publish Directory – A UK site, this directory focuses on business-related topics and asks that all articles be at least 500 words long.

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This post was contributed by Heather Johnson, who is an industry critic on the subject of Business Cards. She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323 at gmail dot com.

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