The Two Waves Of Article Writing Profits
Every article marketing campaign will boost your visitor count in two ways. In the short term you can expect a small and temporary boost as each article makes its way through the directory. It appears on the home page for a brief period, then continues to be found as a “new” article for up to a few days after that. In a week the views will have slowed to a trickle, so ends the first wave of profits.
Fast forward about 45 days. The search engines have done their thing and indexed the articles. They are no longer new, but recent. Some articles will get high rankings on common search terms and will give you a flood of search traffic. Others will only get a few searches a month, but they add up.
Many people will try to target some of the terms with their articles. But a check of the search terms used to find my main site shows that the top 7 rankings or better in Google for my main four search terms is only getting me 10% of my search engine visitors a month. My site is found by nearly 1200 different search terms each month. Most of them I never imagined anyone would type in. Trying to target the same keywords as everyone else will probably result in a losing effort.
I went back to my records and checked some articles from two years ago on my initial article writing venture of 10 (poorly targeted) articles. That was my rookie year with article writing and I made all the mistakes a rookie can make. The range of reads was from a low of 288 to a high of 1,907. The overall average is around 600 views per article for the 2 year period, on a total of ten articles. They were published on average 22 times each, but only received a combined total of 66 clicks to the site! Out of about 6,000 reads.
Those are pathetic stats even for a rookie. My lack of knowledge on how to get clicks from those articles cost me over 1200 visitors to my site during that time. Now, those visitors would have netted me 25 sales. That doesn’t sound like much, but if I had written 100 articles instead of only 10, with the same poor results that becomes 250 sales. Thats about $6,200 lost.
I bring that up to show you that even a pathetic campaign like my first one of ten articles will result in a lot of reads over a couple of years. Way more than you will see during the initial burst of the first week when the article is new. This is the second wave of profits.
The original 10 articles have turned into 220 pages, with links to my site. My rankings have certainly benefited and I am sure I get a few visitors from those links. But the fact is, if left unchanged, I will still not get very many visitors from them because they didn’t get clicks from the article site.
There are two waves of article marketing profits. You can be sure that if an article is getting poor results in the initial wave, it will get the same poor results from the second wave of the search engines as well. You have to get people to click the link or your article marketing efforts will not result in sales from anywhere.
If an article is not getting many views compared to the others, go back and change the title. If it is getting a lot of reads and no clicks, change the offer you are making in the bio box.
Now let me show you how to get the clicks
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