Article Marketing and my awesome findings
Posted 8th July 2009 by Kimberly Reddington, tagged article marketing, article submission, ezinearticles, testing the market, learning the market, test your product
I just wanted to share with everyone how much I am really getting out of writing articles and submitting them to online directories. I primarily submit to ezinearticles.com. The website is amazing.
I have to say that one quarter of my traffic comes from articles that I have submitted to websites. 1/3 of the people who sign up for my newsletter comes from those same articles. Even though I was unable to submit articles during the month of June, I still received traffic and newsletter signups from the articles that I already had in the directories from previous months.
The more articles that I publish, the more I establish myself as an expert. But aside from all the great marketing I am receiving from the articles, I wanted to mention some other benefits I am getting. These are benefits that I didn't original perceive when I started writing articles. They are benefits I am thinking of as I go through the process of building my business.
Whenever I write an article, the website keeps track of how many times the article was viewed, how many times someone clicked on my profile from my article and how many times someone clicked to my website from the article.
I love tracking these statistics. I wrote a few articles as an experiment. I wanted to see which ones would be more popular. I wanted to create a new product and these articles were a small test to find out which products might be more popular.
Based on the number of views I received I found out by a landslide which product to start with first. I also have an idea of which articles people thought were better than others. I assume that if they like what they read, they would click to my site for more. So the articles that had more website clicks are higher on my list.
The other benefit I find from writing articles is that once a month ezinearticles.com sends me a summary of my top performing articles and the top keywords that were used by people who found the articles. I am using these top keywords and phrases to help my better form my product and the title. I can get a better understanding of the market by reviewing these.
What will you be able to accomplish with your articles?
3 comments so far...
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Giazz on 22nd July 2009
I would suggest everyone test different sites. Submit 5 or so to each one and see which sites bring the most traffic and/or sales. Stick with the ones that work the best.
Gia, have you signed up for my twice monthly ezine? It contains articles full of content. I could dedicate some to article writing tips.
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Kimberly Reddington on 21st July 2009
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Giazz on 8th July 2009