If you have been doing affiliate marketing for a while, I am sure you are aware that Ezinearticles.com has been the best article directory for years. Well, no doubt, Ezinearticles.com ist still extremely powerful. The big problem is: there are too many marketers promoting clickbank products by publishing keyword rich articles on ezinearticles.com. Especially since Bum Marketing became popular.
In case you have no idea what Bum Marketing is:
Bum Marketing or the Bum Marketing Method is an simple is a practically fool proof variation of article marketing that allows you to earn money online from the commissions of affiliate products
How does Bum Marketing work?
You write keyword optimized articles about under-exposed niches, submit them to popular article websites, let the search engines pick them up, earn affiliate commissions, get opt-in signups or make money from selling your own products.
It seems a lot of marketers are under the impression that the more articles they write the more money they will make. Just go ahead and look at the Warrioforum or any other affiliate forum. You will always come across people starting their newest BIG project. They sit down for 10 days and start writing 20 articles per day and submitting them to ezinearticles. These guys are under the impression that this will make them rich.
All of these "big project diaries" die. I never saw anyone posting: WOW! I am making a consistent $100 a day from my big article project.
Most either make some $$ when the article is approved and is seen on the front page of ezinearticles for a while. After that traffic dies.
So why is this? Well.... this kind of article marketing worked some years ago. But the internet has changed. What worked yeasterday very often does not work today anymore.
So PLEASE! Do not waste your time writing hundreds of crap articles! And PLEASE be aware of one thing: these days INBOUND links is what counts when it comes to article marketing!
This is why it is 1000 times better to do your keyword research VERY carefully, write SOME keyword dense articles and after that get as many inbound links pointing to your article as possible.
Just make a test yourself: take the top ranking article in ezinearticles.com and have a look how many backlinks are listed in google. After that check the backlinks of a lower ranking article for the same keyword.
Get the point?!
I also noticed that SITEWIDE LINKS will do wonders for the ranking of ezinearticle articels in google. (e.g. Blogroll links)
So how to get inbound links?
1. Social Bookmark your article
2. Build A Squidoo Lense (but be aware that it might get locked...)
3. Build a Hubpage
4. Build a Linkwheel (e.g. by using SENuke)
5. Add the link to you forum signatures
6. Yahoo Answers and all other Q/A services
7. Write another article and submit it to other article directories (Put the url of your ezinearticle in your bio box) A great and very effective way do get your article out to hundreds of article directories is Uniquearticlewizard
8. Use Article Video Robot and have your ezinearticle converted into video with some mouse clicks. Autosubmit your video to 15 video networks with one click.
9. Get a http://www.ping.fm profile, create a profile on all websites listed at ping.fm and send a short update containing your ezinearticel's url to all websites connected to ping.fm
10. Pligg sites are also a great way to get some nice backlinks fast. These are digg style social news sites. Either start a search on google for "powered by pligg" and you will get a list of thousands of pligg sites or go to http://www.pliggdirectory.net/.
These are just some tips to get some backlinks to your ezinearticle FAST.
And another short note: in the past months I noticed that articles submitted to Articledashboard and Articlebase rank pretty well on google. So ezinearticles.com is not the only great article directory out there!
June 27th, 2010 - 22:46
Article marketing is really great if you have the time and effort to make new articles each day.~;,
December 4th, 2010 - 00:03
so far the best thing that you can do to market some stuffs is article marketing. it is very effective in reaching potential customers .*`
January 24th, 2011 - 14:18
Yea good stuff. But still takes a lot of work and this is why people succeed and many dont!