You’ll know If you’ve read my blog before that I  am I big supporter of EzineArticles and Article Marketing in general. Two months ago I bit the bullet and signed up for the premium ezine article service, I had been holding out as the $97 did seem a bit steep. However the additional stats and articles being accepted within hours rather than days pursuaded me to try it.

I decided that as I was paying almost $100 I had better make sure I submited at least 100 articles a months to get my moneys worths. In order to test the effectiveness of this level of article marketing I have focussed on 5 sites 3 of which are clickbank 2 are adsense/ebay sites.

I used one of my clickbank accounts that was earnign about $50 a week on average for the 3 clickbank products.  I also did nothing else to the sites, no new content or other forms of site promotion.

I also wrote articles in the style I advocated in my Article Marketing Step by Step in Wordpress Goldmine, so in general the articles took less than 70 minutes a day to write I tried to write a minimum of 5 a day.

So 2 months down the line how are things going??

Well The clickbank account is now averaging around $400 a week with a best day of $137.  One of the Adsense/ebay sites with 3 content pages has earned almost $600 on it’s own.  The final site is a bit of a failure but it has had the lowest number of articles submitted for it so $150 is probably acceptable.

I’ll let you decide if you think that this proves that article marketing works… I know what I think!

I recently completed an Article Marketing Course as part of Wordpress Goldmine and in the past few weeks I’ve done a few interviews where I mentioned some of the things the course features. The one aspect that has had most comments and questions (and occasional abuse) is my assertion that when article marketing you should treat your Resource/Bio box like an Adwords Ad.

I thought I’d use this blog post to try to clarify exactly what I mean.

The first thing that you need to realise that as a marketer the resource box is the most important part of the article, this is where you are going to make your money and allow you to realise you dreams. To put it as simply as possible, If you get 1000 views on an article and have a 10% Click Through Rate (CTR) 100 people will visit your site. If you manage to get a 30% CTR you have 300 visitors and hopefully make 3 times as much money as you did previously.

Simply increasing my click through Rate has Increased the income on some of my clickbank accounts from a regular $40 per day to over $100 a day several days a week.

The way I’ve done this is to look at how adsense ads are displayed and worded and then apply these techniques to my articles. People who do PPC sucessfully spend hours getting their ads right and testing them to make them as effective as possible. So why shouldn’t article maketers take as much time and effort to work out which resources boxes convert best and attract buyers.

Look at the following 2 resource boxes and guess which one would convert best.

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In fact don’t guess test it out on your next articles..

Finally don’t think that you need to write short resource boxes, you can still use adsense styled resource boxes in longer format.The main thing is to experiment and see what grabs the attention of your readers.

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Nothing Will Promote your site better or Drive traffic to your site as well a Article Marketing. Unfortunatly most people make basic mistakes when they submit their articles.  I recently checked 100 random articles that were listed on ezine articles and 0ver 75% of them had basic errors that if changed would increase the traffic from their articles.

Over the next two weeks I am going to be Running an Advanced Article Marketing course for the members of Wordpress Goldmine.  Believe me you won’t have seen anything like this before.

Check out the Video below and feel free to grab the embed code and add it to your site.

If you want to reduce the amount of time it takes to find a profitable niche you could do no worse than to take a look at the example set by big business.

Have you ever noticed that when a new Wal Mart opens up in a new area they are quickly followed by smaller stores. or when McDonalds opens up soon after you’ll find a new Wendy’s close by. When Starbucks open up what happens? Smaller coffee stores spring up in the area. Why do you think this is?

The market leaders spend a lot of time and money on researching new locations. Do the smaller stores do the same research? Of course not they  just follow along behind the big guys , why spend money on research when Maccy D’s have already done it for you.

It’s the same in internet marketing if you want a short cut to a niche then look at what the big guys are doing. The ideal place to do this is at article sites like Ezinearticles and Articlebase. The first thing you need to do is to identify the big guys in each niche.

You’ll notice the 2 key words in that sentence are “each niche”If you look at the guys who have published most articles overall you’ll find a lot of information but it won’t actually help you too much in most cases. However if you go into each niche you can follow a link find out who are the top writers with the most articles in that niche.

I tend to look at the guys lower down the list rather than the top ones this is mainly because I’ve found they will be targeting different niches where as the top one will be targeting a single niche. It’s these multiple niche models that appeal to me more.

The expensive PPC analysis software that is being promoted at the moment works by assuming that if someone spends money on PPC ads for a long time then the ads are profitable. We will assume the same …

…If someone spends the time and money to write over 50 articles in a niche then it’s profitable for them. You then just need to look at their business model and improve it.  Improving on most article marketing is suprisingly easy as most article marketers make simple mistakes, I looked at over 100 articles researching this blog post and I estimate over 75% of them could have been improved in one way or another.

I hope you enjoyed the return of the Monday tip.

If you are interested in learning more about Advanced Article Marketing this months project in Wordpress Goldmine will be of interest to you. Following the success of the February Project (over $70 income from the site in the first 2 weeks)I’ll be creating a series of daily videos showing Advanced Article Marketing tips including a method that I am testing that is currently getting a very high clickthrough rate.

Whoops, it’s been 7 days since I last posted I can’t believe how time flies when you are engrossed in the olympics. Here in spain most of the action happens between 2 am and 5 Pm so as a sports fan my body clock has been thrown into chaos.

I’ve been enthralled by the performances of Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and the British Cycling Team although I have to say calling Phelps the Greatest Olympian of all time is a bit premature, yes without a doubt he is the greatest swimmer of all time but people like Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis who won medals in multiple events or Olympians like Sir Steve redgrave who won 5 gold medals over 5 different Olympics probably have a greater claim to the title of greatest olympian.

I bet you are wondering how I can link the Olympic greats to Internet marketing..easy! It’s all about variety.The greatest olympians are the ones who take part in a variety of events. Just like that the most sucessful marketers are constantly trying new things. It’s very easy to get caught in the trap of creating the same types of sites all the time. I’ve spent months building the same type of affiliate blogs and before that the same types of adsense sites. They work so why change them? Well by changing you find more efficient methods of working and more profitable types of sites.

Last month I decided to try something completly new, I forgot about trying to rank #1 in google, I didn’t add my new sites to social bookmarking sites. In fact I didn’t do any additional promotion at all apart form post articles to ezinearticles. Each site took me about 10 minutes to complete and i don’t think I’ve spent more than 15 minutes on the sites since I made them.

This is what I did…

1. Used my rapid Niche research method to identify a busy niche.
2. Created a simple 1 page site with free tips on it and monetized it
3. Outsourced 10 Articles
4. Posted Articles To EzineArticles

That was it , nothing more, here are my stats from ezinearticles for the pen name I used..

This first site isn’t the most profitable site but at around a month old it has still earned me over $100, which puts it in profit. Not bad for a site that hasn’t yet been optimized and has has less than 30 minutes spent on it.

So go and try something new it might work , and it might not. But if you are like me you’ll learn more from your failures than your sucesses.