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30 Articles In 30 Days – New Article Marketing Experiment

February 5th, 2009  |  by Court  |  Published in Link Building  |  52 Comments

As promised, I have prepared a new article marketing experiment. If you missed my last one you can read about it by following these links:

This time around, I’m going to be using a site that isn’t very established in fact as of right now the site has never made me a dime. It gets trace amounts of traffic, nothing to be super proud of:

The all-time highest day of traffic on this site was 17 unique visitors – most of which came through direct traffic. The record for search traffic on this site was a whopping 4 visitors on January 15th.

Here are a few more details about this site:

The whole point here is to see how well we can increase traffic on a site that isn’t established. This experiment is going to be a little trickier because the site doesn’t have many links right now. When I did the first experiment the site I was working with had a LOT more links. This site barely has any.

What I’m going to do to compensate is trickle the articles out very slowly. When you submit through Unique Article Wizard you can tell it how many submissions you want it to do each day. For this experiment, I’m going to add an article every day for 30 days straight, but I’m only going to let the service do 10 submissions per day, per article. By the end of the experiment UAW will be doing 300 submissions per day because each day one more article will be added. UAW has about 1200 sites to submit to in the categories I’ll be working with so it’s going to take about 4 months for all of the articles to go out.

In the spirit of honesty I should tell you that I’m not really sure what’s going to happen with this experiment. Frankly this is a lot of links to add to a site that doesn’t have much link structure. I’ve never been afraid to try new things and I’m certainly not afraid to lose as long as I learn something. The risk in submitting this many articles is that the site gets sandboxed. I don’t think that’s going to happen, but it could. Even if that happens it will be back a few months later so I’m not super worried. Sometimes you have to wait to get the results you’re working for and this isn’t going to hurt the long term potential of the site, even if it does get boxed now.

If You’re Not Willing To Risk, You Don’t Deserve To Win

If past experience tells me anything, there will be some comments that tell me that this isn’t a good idea. They will say that the quality of the article links is low and/or that this is for sure too many links, too fast. The truth is that I could never have gotten to where I’m at without trying this kind of thing. I honestly don’t believe anything I read until I’ve tried it out.

I know that many of you are sitting on sites just like this one. Your site has been around for a few months, gets small or no traffic, and you’re not sure what to do with it. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding why people are so afraid to act. Think about it; if this blows up what have I lost? Not a dang thing – this site doesn’t make money anyway. I guess it will cost me some time but I would much rather spend time doing something like this than reading MMO blogs all day.

If this experiment implodes, I’ll learn something that doesn’t work and will have about a 90% chance that the site comes back in a few months. If it works, I’ll have a nice traffic increase now and will be able to make some money.

Results – 30 Articles In 30 Days

January 29th, 2009  |  by Court  |  Published in For Beginners, Link Building, SEO  |  84 Comments

Last month I started a unique experiment called 30 Articles In 30 Days. I basically took a site that was already making some money and submitted 30 articles to a bunch of sites by using Unique Article Wizard (You can read my full review here: Unique Article Wizard Review). That experiment is now officially over and I’m ready to post the results.

As I said when I started the experiment, this site I worked with made $561in the month prior to the experiment. To be honest, I didn’t get all 30 articles in before the time was up and fell two short – 28 articles went in before the end date and I stopped there so I wouldn’t mess up the results after the experiment was over. I just ran a report on that channel in Adsense, and here’s the amount for the last month:

$1043.81

Here’s a screen shot for those of you that enjoy seeing the proof (I know, I know – it’s small text):

In case you’re wondering what the huge black box is, Google doesn’t allow us to show information such as the CTR and eCPM and would probably kill my account if I did, so I have to cover that up.

$1043 isn’t a huge amount of money, but in this case the site showed an 86% gain in one month. The coolest thing about that is that it should keep cranking out more money this month, next month, and hopefully for a lot more months. It might be tough to duplicate an 86% gain for one more month, but I think I can probably add another $500 or so in income this month – only time will tell.

I know that a lot of people are going to ask about the details of how I used the articles. I’m going to give you some of that here because I know that it will probably be interesting for some, at least I hope it will be.

I basically have ten pages on the site I used that are set up reasonably well to target specific keywords. I already taught you how to do that here: How To Target A Keyword With A Post Page. The 28 articles that I submitted were used specifically to promote those ten pages (one of them happens to be the home page of the site).

The home page made $371.06 and the other ten pages made 99% of the rest of the $1043. It was pretty interesting to watch because the home page has always made most of the money for this site but this month the post pages easily passed it up and the reality is that the homepage didn’t really improve that much – it’s up from $298.98 in the previous month.

I know that people are going to start asking about how many links I pointed here and how many I pointed there. The truth is that I probably pointed too many at the home page. This page is already somewhat established so there wasn’t that much room there to improve. If I had pointed more of the links at the post pages I would have seen a lot more improvement. You do know that I used 28 articles and promoted 11 pages so the math shouldn’t be that difficult for you.

Each one of the post pages that I promoted with this experiment has a specific topic and keyword phrase(s) that the page is trying to get ranked for. The topics fall under the same industry as the topic, but are slightly different than the homepage. I’m not going to give you the absolute details, but here’s an example so that you can see what I mean:

Example: Let’s say that the site itself is about cell phones (it isn’t) and the home page is built about the topic ‘free cell phones’. The ten posts are about similar but related topics like, cheap cell phones, pink cell phones, funny cell phones, new cell phones, best cell phones, good pda cell phones, big screen cell phones, old people cell phones, used cell phones, and cell phones for women.

I used UAW to submit articles about these topics and used them to link back to my post pages. This obviously strengthened those ten post pages quite a bit and also got them some referral traffic.

There’s actually still a lot of upside here because not a single one of these post pages is currently ranked #1 in fact most of them rank between #6 and #20 for their respective keyword phrases. Once I move up more there will obviously be a lot more traffic there. Additionally, I can add more keyword targeted posts to the site and strengthen those pages over the next few months.

I’m definitely not done working with this site but for now I’m going to call this experiment closed and a fantastic success. A gain that is that large, that fast is phenomenal.

I’ve had some people ask me about doing a related experiment on a newer site so I’m going to work that out in my mind and let you guys in on it once I have it mapped out. Let me know if you have any questions!!

30 Articles In 30 Days – Mid Month Update

January 8th, 2009  |  by Court  |  Published in Link Building  |  26 Comments

As most of you know, I’m doing an article marketing experiment on one of my sites. The idea is to submit 30 articles in 30 days using Unique Article Wizard. If you want to read the original post about the experiment, you can read it here: 30 Articles In 30 Days.

I’ve had a few people request a mid-month update and I thought that was a brilliant idea. So far the experiment is going very well. If you read the original post, you know that the site I’m doing this experiment on had made $561 in the 30 days before I started.

So far, I have submitted 14 articles (I know, I’m 2 behind right now) and those articles are getting submitted as we speak. If you have UAW you know that you can choose how quickly your articles get submitted – I have mine set to do 50 submissions per day. The categories I’m submitting to have a total of over 1,200 sites so the process is going to take 24 days for each submission to complete. Even though there is still a lot of submitting that’s going to be done (and 16 more articles to submit), I’m already getting results that are very positive.

In the last 7 days, I have made a total of $169.64 on that site. If this pace continues, I’m going to make $751 on the site this month. That total includes New Year’s Day, and the site made basically nothing that day for obvious reasons. The cool thing is that I’m not even half way done with the experiment and since the articles I put in are still being submitted, a pretty small percentage of the benefit has come through.

Since I know that people are going to ask if I did anything else to promote this site, I’m just going to answer that question now, I haven’t. It’s been over a month and a half since I did anything else to this site so that work was already priced in to the $561 in earnings.

Update: Mark and I have made an advanced UAW screencast for anyone that has purchased the service through our affiliate link. I walk you on-screen through how to use the service, what you can do with it, and how we go about getting the most out of our submissions. If you have purchased UAW through us and would like the video, email me your name and when you signed up for the service at court[at]courtneytuttle[dot]com. I’ll send you a link that you can use to download the video!

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