4 Ways to Make Money with Article Marketing Part 2
In a previous post I revieled 2 ways that I use to make money with article marketing. Here in part 2 of that post I talk about 2 additional ways. Here is the link to the first part 4 Ways to Make Money with Article Marketing Part 1
Sell Your Own Products – Selling your own products through article marketing is done pretty much in the same way as you would sell affiliate products except that instead of writing a presell or review page you would direct them from your article’s resource box to your own sales page.
Build a List – This works well for enhancing all three of the above methods. First you would drive traffic from your articles to what’s known as a squeeze page. On this page you would offer the visitor some type of enticement to sign up for your newsletter. This can be a free ebook or a 5 part mini-course for example.
After they sign up for your list you could send them an email about a new article that you just put up on your website or blog. The article would have Adsense strategically placed on it. Another technique would be sending them an email when you find affiliate products that they may be interested in or to promote your own products.
It’s important that you don’t just keep sending them blatant promotions because you will come across as somewhat of a spammer and they will quickly unsubscribe.
If you would like to know all of the nitty gritty details on these 4 ways to make money with your articles check out my brand new course. It’s called The Complete Article Marketing Plan. It shows newbies with absolutely no experience how to make their first $1000 online and it also shows experienced marketers how to get more traffic from article marketing done right.
4 Ways to Make Money with Article Marketing Part 1
Although there are lots of ways to make money with article marketing here are 4 of the methods I use. All of these methods require you to write articles or have them written by someone else and submit them to article directories. The articles will have links back to your website included in your article’s resource box. These are evergreen methods that will have you making money with your articles for years to come.
Adsense – This is the first method of Internet marketing that actually made me money online after years of trying. It’s probably one of the easiest ways to start making money with your article marketing. It’s easy because you don’t have to sell anything.
You simply drive traffic to your website and have Google Adsense ads placed in strategic locations on your pages. Google actually chooses which ads to place on your web pages based on the content that’s already there. Your readers see the ads and all they have to do is click on them and you get paid. The pay usually ranges anywhere from a few cents to a few dollars.
Affiliate products – another way to make money with your article marketing is with affiliate products. This is where you choose a merchant’s product that you would like to promote. Then you would drive your article readers to a landing page where you would presell the product. You don’t actually do any selling; leave that up to the merchant’s sales page.
The only objective of the presell page is to get your visitors to click a link on your page that leads to the merchant’s sales letter. If they buy the product or service you get paid. Another type of landing page you could drive your article readers to is a review page. This is where you write a review of one or more products with links to the respective merchants.
Here is the link to Part 2
Turn Your “5 Tips” Article Into 5 New Articles
Leverage your work by doing the article research once and turning it into several articles. It’s easy to find 25 short tips on your topic all over the Internet whereas finding 25 topics to write about is much more difficult. So, what you do is take your 25 tips and make 5 “five tips articles.” Then you can expand on each tip and make a complete article based on each tip. This will give you thirty articles total in a fraction of the time that it would have taken to think up and research 30 articles from scratch.
3 Powerful Article Marketing Traffic Tips
I’ve tried just about every type of traffic generation method that I can find, but article marketing still tops the list for producing high quality targeted traffic. Some traffic methods work really well for a while and then fizzle out; however article marketing has kept a steady flow of traffic coming to my sites and blogs for years. Below I’ve listed 3 article marketing traffic tips that will assure that you get the highest return on your investment of article writing efforts.
1. Submit your articles to ezinearticles.com before you submit them to any other directory. As you may have seen in a previous post ezinearticles.com is a powerful article directory with almost 10 million visitors per month. One of the reasons that they get so many visitors is that Google appears to love them and places their content (your articles) high in the search results.
Another reason you would want to submit to ezinearticle.com first is because they only accept unique content that hasn’t been already submitted all over the Net. There is one exception to the rule. You may submit your articles to your own blog or Web site first.
2. Base your articles on long tail keywords. Writing articles based on two word keywords such as “weight loss” will likely leave your articles berried in an ocean of competition. Long tail keywords are 3, 4, and 5 word keyword phrases. There are far fewer searches for these keyword phrases, but they can actually produce more traffic for you because they are easier to rank well for in the search engines. An example of a long tail keyword phrase may be “article marketing traffic tips”
3. Include your long tail keyword phrase in your article title. Your article title is the most important element of your article as far as traffic is concerned. You can write the most interesting and informative article the world has ever seen, but write a boring headline or one that won’t be found in the search engines and you can forget about traffic.
Not only should your headline include your long tailed keyword it should either include a benefit or create curiosity. First you use your long tail keyword so people will find your article then you must make your title compelling so the people who find it will read it.
Be sure to visit my Complete Article Marketing blog often as I will be revealing all types of article marketing tips from basic to advanced.
How to Outsource Article Writing Without Money
There is a way to outsource article writing without money. Simply ask a friend, college student, or high school kid to write articles for you. Now why in the heck would they want to do that? Tell them you make money by promoting products online and you will do all of the online marketing. They will do the article writing and you will split the commissions with them.
You could make a deal for a certain period of time. For example, you will split the commissions for 60 days for all the articles they write for you this month. You could also have them be your partner on a specific web site. As long as they are writing for you all of the commissions the site makes will be split. If they stop writing they stop getting paid. Of course you will be paid for a long time to come as the articles will continue to produce traffic. The most time consuming component of article marketing is, of course, writing so outsourcing that could increase your profits dramatically.
Writing eBooks to Make Money
Writing ebooks to make money is a great online business. More and more people are coming online to find information so the popularity of ebooks is growing stronger by the day. Many of the online marketing millionaires started their business writing and selling ebooks.
Although you can make a fantastic living marketing your own ebooks it’s not necessarily the best way to get started in online marketing. The thought of writing and selling an ebook can be intimidating for a beginner. To be successful there are basic skills in writing and marketing that should be developed first.
Writing skills – While you certainly don’t need to write like Ernest Hemmingway to make money writing basic skills are important. People do not want to spend their money on ebooks that are filled with grammatical and spelling errors.
Market research – One of the biggest mistakes that new ebook writers make is spending months working on an ebook that almost no one wants to buy. You must first learn how to find a market that is willing to spend money on information. Then find out what it is that they would like to know.
Keyword research – Next you would need to learn how to do some basic keyword research. Doing this you will be able to find out which keywords your prospective buyers are typing into the search engines to find what you will be selling.
Traffic – After you have written your ebook you can’t simply post it on a web page because no one will see it. You need to learn how to drive traffic to your offer.
I know this all sounds a little complicated, but there is a much easier way to start writing to make money. That is with article marketing. By practicing article marketing you will develop all the basic skills necessary to eventually start writing ebooks to make money.
One of the best aspects of starting with article marketing is that you only need to spend about an hour or so writing an article. Then you can submit it to a few article directories to see what type of traffic it delivers. You could also promote an affiliate offer in the same niche that you would like to write about. This will help you determine if the niche is profitable before wasting months writing an ebook.
Another great benefit of starting with article marketing is that after you have written fifty to eighty, one page articles you can compile them into an ebook and sell it. This will allow you to earn money from your articles while you are writing your ebook. Can it get any better than that?
Article marketing is a powerful and proven method to get started in online marketing. Like any other type of Internet marketing business, article marketing must be done correctly in order to be profitable. If you would like to see exactly how to get started with article marketing and find out how I made my first $1000 online and much more, check out by brand new course – The Complete Article Marketing Plan .
Writing to Make Money
You can make your first $1000 online and much more by writing articles just like I did. Writing to make money is easy if you know a few secrets. This article briefly outlines the process so you can get started today. The best part is there is no experience necessary to begin. You don’t need a degree in journalism and you don’t even need to know how to make a website to get started.
There are several methods of writing to make money. You could start a writing service by which other people would pay you to write articles for them. The going rate for a one page, 500 word article is approximately $8.00 to $15.00. Many people will be interested in buying articles in packages of 10, 25 or more.
Web site owners are starved for content. It helps their rankings in the search engines and that provides them with more traffic. You could find plenty of work by offering your writing service on forums. Another way to find clients would be to join freelance sites such as eLance.com or Guru.com for example.
Although the above method is a sure fire way to make money with your writing, there are even more profitable ways. You see, when you write an article and sell it you get paid once and that’s it. I like writing articles to promote affiliate products. This way you can get paid over and over again from each article that you write. To do this you would need to do some product research to determine the types of products people are already buying.
Next you would do keyword research to find out which keywords prospective buyers are typing in to the search engines. You would then write an article based on those keywords and submit that article to various article directories. These directories make your articles available to website owners, newsletter publishers and others who would use them as content. This, in turn, would drive traffic to your website or affiliate offers from a link within your article.
You will want to make sure that your articles are interesting and informative. This will make website and ezine owners more likely to publish them. Getting your articles published on high volume websites or by someone with a huge mailing list can drive hordes of traffic to your website or affiliate offer. It may sound a little complicated, but it is really simple after you do it once. Of course, it’s even easier if you have a plan to follow.
I’ve been using this method of writing to make money since 2005. It has helped me develop my basic Internet marketing skills and become a full-time internet marketer. So many people try to get into Internet marketing without learning the basics of writing and marketing first. Starting with article marketing is one of the best ways to learn and it’s free except for your time.
