My name is Matthew Bredel and as of March, 2007, I am a full-time, work-at-home internet marketer.
For close to 10 years, I worked for a defense company which was an OK job, but I was so uninspired in life and frankly, I needed some more money. That is when I first discovered internet marketing! Now I admit that I didn't start making thousands in my first couple of months (in fact, I lost my shirt!), but I finally saw the "internet light"...
I never was a big advocate for article marketing and most of my article writing effort has revolved around my SEO (search engine optimization) strategies. That recently changed when I started to look at some analytics stats on a niche website of mine.
Here’s the story…About a year ago I wanted to conduct an SEO test [...]
I never was a big advocate for article marketing and most of my article writing effort has revolved around my SEO (search engine optimization) strategies. That recently changed when I started to look at some analytics stats on a niche website of mine.
Here’s the story…About a year ago I wanted to conduct an SEO test by creating a niche website that will be entirely focused on using article submissions to earn myself search engine rankings. Me (and a couple of my writers) wrote 2 articles per week (plus a related landing page) and we then submitted the articles to about 8 different article submission sites (that included places like ezinearticles, goarticles, ideamarketers, etc.).
The task was pretty basic, but we did focus on good keyword rich titles, selective anchor text and proper linking strategy. And sure enough, in about 3 months I found my site all over the search engines for targeted terms. In fact, I was receiving approximately 300 uniques per day just from organic traffic from Google. AWESOME! I proved my point (and made some affiliate cash, too).
But then about a month ago, I noticed my traffic slow down to about 100-200 uniques per day.
Welcome Google Sandbox.
And to be honest, it really did not surprise me since my SEO efforts were quite 1-dimensional (and in a few months, I am sure it will return). But the interesting thing was that the site was STILL getting traffic. But from where?
Well, places like Yahoo, MSN and Ask are pretty forgiving when it comes to SEO and I was still getting a good amount of traffic from them. The interesting thing was that over 20% of my current traffic was coming directly for article websites.
That is an additional 700 visitors over the past few weeks. (And since I convert at about 1.5% and $20 per sale, that is an additional $210…pure profit!). That is awesome!
And don’t forget the impact that this has on SEO. Just a couple of months prior, my traffic sources looked like:
Here you can see a whole lot of Google organic traffic (as well as the other three major search engines). Also note here that Buzzle was sending a lot of traffic (another article submission website!).
The moral of this story is that writing articles and submitted them to a dozen or so article submission sites CAN make a huge impact on your online business.
cheers…matt
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November 16th, 2009 at 1:12 am