Writing articles is easy - write yourself

I've decided to feed both of my current sites with articles. Just now I have written an article and submitted it to ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com and buzzle.com.

I consider for successful article marketing these top article directories are enough. Anyway, success in article campaigns depends not on the number of directories you've submitted your article into, but rather on how interesting and compelling your article is for

• target readers
• other webmasters that reprint your article

Easy to say - hard to do, right? No!

Write articles yourself! Do it until you are very successful affiliate making 5-number income monthly and you really have more efficient and profitable work to get busy with. The more you write yourself, the easier it will be for you to create quality rather than submit to 100 article directories and wait for SERPs to skyrocket. Quality - that's the clue to article marketing success.

I have the article that is still in top 10 in Google for a very competitie keywords, and it has almost 50% clickthrough to my main site. This is interesting content. It made me 3 sales through my affiliate link I also placed in the article. Not bad for just 1 article.

I still have no time to write more about real article marketng success. But I consider it as the easiest way to push your site in SERPs and to get sales of your product through affiliate links within article.

3 Moreniche sales in one day!

Just yesterday I wrote that I'm not satisfied with sales, and today is my birthday!

So what?

Morencihe presented me a great gift - I got up in the morning, turned on my comp and checked the Moreniche sales stats. And was amazed - 3 sales and 200$ more to my account! I went to ICQ to tell my friend about that and he told me that I made sale on Joebucks also (20$ comission). I'm his referral so he gets notified if I make sale.

Total Birthday's gift from my affiliate business - 220$ !!!

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My site is 16 days old - time to check rankings!

Ok my new site is 16 days old - I uploaded it on 29.08 (see New site launched post) and today is 13.09 so I decided to check my rankings in SEs for my main keywords.

First I went to Google and typed site:www.XXXXXX.com and found that Google indexed 29 of my pages - all my content pages are indexed successfully.

Then I picked my 3 long tail keywords (my main kws are inside long-tail) and found:

Google Yahoo MSN

natural weight loss pills reviews - 200 238 -

best natural weight loss pills reviews - 79 73 -

best natural weight loss pills - 312 555 -

It is too early to check my generic keywords, but I see pretty nice results. It took about 2 months to get at least 800 position for my long tail keywords for my first site.

If you passed that first battle, the hardest one, next battles will be easier.

Seems that MSN hasn't indexed my site yet, maybe it takes some more time to get indexed at MSN, but what I do care about is Google, and it seems Google appreciates my actions. Well baby, let's make friends! :) I need that top 10!

Sales on Moreniche

I made several more sales but I'm not satisfied with my results. Basically the affiliate business success is about bringing enough traffic to your site and convert that traffic. While I see traffic from 5 position in Google for very trafficable keyword, the other side - it's a broad term and broad terms need great presell.

It's all up to copywriting now. But my copywriting was just facts and lots of info, while value of the content is not only useful information, it is EMOTIONS, new resource that people get while reading your content. My text was not emotional, so I see pretty weak conversions now.

Dependance on sales

There's interesting psychological catch - after initial success and many sales I began to feel dependent on sales. If I see no sales today I feel embarrased and like I'm losing money. Imagine, you wake up in the morning and check your stats - and see a sale. In a day or two another sale - you work on and feel great because your actions are rewarded.

And today you wake up and see no sales, and ten days no sales... you feel you could get them, but there's nothing and it is like you lost some money.

Bad feeling, but that's business - I still haven't found a key to making steady sales. I still have only one site and another one on the road.

...But I have many ideas, I keep on reading lots of stuff on affiliate business. While workign full time, it is hard to do, but see that goal of 1000$ monthly? So there's no excuses!

Are you afraid of duplicate content?

The question of duplicate content is botherning minds of many affiliates especially those who promote sites via article marketing.

And the main question asked is "Should I rewrite article for every new article directory I distribute to?" We know of some horrible duplicate content filter that can throw your site away from SERPs for indefinite time... So what is the right answer - to use duplicate content or not to use it in our article marketing?

I have answered this question for myself a long time ago and I cannot tell I regret of my actions :)

But instead of long discussions I love precise experiments. And here's what I found recently on the subject.

Evidence

First, go to Google and type in how does real estate investing works. On 04.09.2007 I've seen such results.



What we see here are two articles from ezinearticles.com, ezinearticles.com/?How-Does-Real-Estate-Investing-Work&id=452125 is #2 and ezinearticles.com/?How-Does-Real-Estate-Investing-Work?&id=678585 is #3

I'm interested in this article, note author's name and first paragraph.



But if we look further, we can see another article that is also in Google's top 10, with exactly the same title Real Estate :: How Does Real Estate Investing Work?
This article is hosted in ArticleBiz.com directory (www.articlebiz.com/article/82964-1-how-does-real-estate-investing-work/ - ) and is #5 in Google for our keywords. Nice, we see 3 different articles with the same title that have top positions in Google.

But are those articles different? ;)

Well, here's where the show begins! Remember my last picture? OK, let's open ArticleBiz.com article and see it:



We can see the same author and first paragraph looks like the same as first paragraph of ezinearticles.com article.

I decided to check how unique are these two articles and typed www.dupecop.com - service that allows to check uniqueness of 2 different pieces of text. I inserted article from ezinearticles directory and article from ArticleBiz directory. Here's the result:



Both articles are identical.

And the show is not over yet. If we take a look at these two sites in top 6 - www.dealfiles.com and www.transformit.net, we find that www.dealfiles.com belongs to the author of ezinearticles.com/?How-Does-Real-Estate-Investing-Work&id=452125, and www.transformit.net belongs to Nancy Spivey, author of our duplicate articles =)))

Both articles and the site are feeling great in top Google results! I could say - "Use it to your advantage", ...but the show is not over yet!

Finally, I took a look into that site that held top positions thanks to successful article "trick", and found guess what? -



I checked article from the site and articles from both directories and found they all were all identical.



Conclusion

As you see, this is not guessings but real situation. Duplicate content not only works, but helps the main site reach SERPs. It's up to you to decide how to use this situation ;) What do you think?

Welcome to Google AdWords

Today I decided to spend my 50$ on Google Adwords.

I created one ad group with info on weight loss product discount. 88 impressions 0 clicks yet. Average ad position is 4. Well nobody is interested in my ad, hm... Or nobody is seeing my ad?

Right now I created another ad group, increased my bid, placed the same keywords and made interesting trick which allows to get traffic to my site without spending money for ad clicks.

I wonder how my experiment goes... %) Will it work or not...

How about my new site?

Yesterday I created sitemap.xml file and submitted it to Google. Now Google indexed 7 pages from my site. The site also appeared in SERPs for my main keywords already, but far from even top 500.

Article rocks!

Oops! Today I've checked my clicks stats and found that my article is back in Google top 6 for very competitive keyword. This article is special! I would like to write a post about the power of PROPER article marketing, but I think I'll do it later... Stay tuned!

Earnings in August

Ok it's time to see my financial result for August with Moreniche.

I had 7 sales and earned 406.67$ totally.

Here's the stats:


Well, not bad but it could be better. Why that?

1. August is the last summer month large part of internet auditory is on vacations and so on. Some problems in USA appeared so we have total lowering of online sales.

2. I did my first site from scratch and knew nothing about making a good sales copy, so my copywriting was pretty bad, that affects conversions badly. But now the site is in Google top 10 for very competitive and trafficable keywords so I don't want to lose my hard-earned positions.

3. Don't forget I'm working full-time so I cannot spend much time on the whole thing. I can say it's a nice result for working just several hours a week.

But my current financial goal is making 1000$ from affiliate marketing, so there's still some work to do.

What's up with my second site?

I have several "sattelite" blogs that feed my site with links regularly and attract additional traffic that I try to drive to my main site and to product sites from banners. So I made several posts yesterday and placed links to a new site. Then I pinged blogs and had a cup of coffee =) Today I checked Google and found that it indexed 3 pages from my new site. Good result.

Third site ideas

Oh man, I'm so lazy! I didn't even started my third site. Now I'm just writing down fresh ideas how to improve conversions, site structure sketches and so on. I decided to pick custom Moreniche template for this site, though I would not recommend to use custom templates. This is just small test site on .info domain and I'm planning to get to top 10 for not competitive but not trafficable keywords.

Now what about you?

Are you just curious or want to start making money right now? ;)
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