Earning Extra Money Online With Article Marketing

A while back I bought a course on writing articles for article marketing.  I'm pretty good at writing, so why would I want to do that?  Because being good at writing is not the same as being good at earning money online with article marketing.  I found that out the hard way.

The hard way, by the way, was me writing articles that few people read.

Let me amend that. The hard way was me spending tons of time to write an article that few people read, an article that got few to no people to visit the site I recommended.

Turns out psychology is important here. Buyer psychology. You can't tell a fat bride-bride-to-be she's fat even though she's online looking for a way to lose 30 LBs in the next 5 weeks so she could fit in that size 18 wedding dressed she chose a year and 2,000 Boston creme donuts ago.

Then there's the little tricks you can use to get them to start moving their eyes down the page, towards your bio, where you have them links you put too much hoping into.

And, of course, the bio.

So, I bought. And learned. And the first thing I did was to write a Squidoo lens to promote that course, it was so good.

Here's the link to that lens. It's a fine lens, especially since I put some nice photos there.

Of course, maybe it's not my lens, how would you know, right? But it's still a fine lens.

By now you surely know I know a good lens when I see one.

http://www.squidoo.com/earning-money-online-with-article-marketing

You Can Make Money Online With Article Marketing

Article marketing is a funny thing.  You can write great articles, from a readability point of view, that no one reads, because you messed up the title.  It can be #1 on Google for your chosen keyword, and you don't get one, not one, person to read.

Found that the hard way, with a hard to manipulate keyword: remortgage bad. Can't have a great title with that. And without a great title you don't have readers. Without readers, you don't have article marketing.

So far, forum marketing, not article marketing is making me the most money.  But recently I got me a program (course?) to teach myself proper article writing for proper article marketing.

It's an awesome program, works for me, it's got my article marketing where it's earning money online for me.

I conquered Vietnam

It's 8 degrees Farenheit today.  I took my daughter to school.  We were late.  I got busy on the computer.  She did not get ready for school because her dress has a bow that ties in the back.  She can't tie it so she waited till I was ready.  She really couldn't put on her shoes or comb her hair or wash her face till the bow was tied.

She had a dream but she will not tell me except that it was good.  The first dream she told me about was about the Smurfs, the blue little people.  She told me she fell in love with one of them.  I quote: "I don't know how it happend.  But it did."  She was almost 4 at the time. 

She's told me some of her dreams since then but lately she stopped.  Tells me she doesn't know why she's not telling me the details, she just doesn't feel like sharing.  She only tells me that they were good and they still involve cartoon characters, usually princesses.

I haven't had a dream since I dreamt that I conquered Vietnam.  Actually, the dream was about me on a parade with people fawning over me, because I had conquered Vietnam.  I woke up feeling like a billion dollars.

In the dream I had before that one, I had saved Einstein and his wife from some thugs.  In my dream he was old, looking like he looks in that famous photo of his, was living in Chicago, had not yet discovered relativity.  I, therefore, did humanity a big favor.

Anyway, I made a change to the last article I mentioned, so EzineArticles.com has not published it yet. 
My lenses are slowly but surely moving up in ranks.  Still, Google has not found them.

My two published articles have been viewed 150 times.  I wonder if 'viewed' means 'read.'  They were mailed 8 times.  In the beginning the article about the two things to watch out when you buy a tv was read a lot more than the 3 Techniques That Can Turn Anyone Into A Perpetual Aspiring Writer.  Now they're about even with the 3 Techniques having been read slightly fewer times. 

They were also emailed 8 times.  Someone tweeted about 3 Techniques.  "Interesting" and gave the link.

Sent another article to EzineArticle

It's called "The Secret of Success. Truly. Cross My Heart Too".  Like  the other article on writing 3 Techniques That Can Turn Anyone Into A Perpetual Aspiring Writer -- Advice From A Master PAW (here's the link: http://ezinearticles.com/?3-Techniques-That-Can-Turn-Anyone-Into-a-Perpetual-Aspiring-Writer---Advice-From-a-Master-PAW&id=3589318), it's got little to do with tvs but still I am trying to get back links to my squidoo lenses on tvs, so I put it in shopping.  Let's see what happens.  Expected result: not much.

Oh, yeah.  Since EzineArticles.com did not publish "The Secret of Success.  Truly.  Cross My Heart Too" I don't have a link to it yet.  Stay tuned.

Results

First, I wrote a couple of articles and sent them to EzineArticles.com, Bukisa.com., and ArticleBase.com.  They all accepted them.  I'm told I was naive to expect otherwise.  So now I have 2 situations where I have the same article in 3 places.  "3 Techniques That Can Turn Anyone Into A Perpetual Aspiring Writer-Advice From a Master PAW" got picked up several times.  Not everybody is giving me credit.  One of the places took it, changed it, mangled it.  I think they had a computer replace words here and there with synonyms.  It was beautiful, if I say so myself, it's incoherent on their site, if I say so myself. 

I reread it, found several errors, mispellings.  Next time I will have to proofread the proofread version.

Since it seems every ezine I send something to accepts it, I need to send out an article to only one ezine(unless I rewrite it).  I plan to write 2, one for EzineArticles.com, since I got so many hits from there, and one to another, random (the goal is to link from many sites to my lenses). 

The reuslts of the articles, there were 7 visits from EzineArticles.com to my lenses, 3 from Bookisa.com, one from the site that copied my article and mangled it.

I looked at the Squidoo ratings for my lenses every evening.  And they changed a lot. 

Samsung lens

date          overall rank         Shopping rank                visits             activity 

01/18         875,250            67,367                             1                 facebook, digg, blog, ping, edited lens
01/19         176,095            67,367                             3                 blog, ping, articles, edited lens
01/20         119,380            16,135                             3                 blog, ping, articles, edited lens
01/21         119,389            16,135                             4                 edited lens, articles, ping   
01/22          55,100             16,135                             1                 none
01/23

The first lens I did is ranked 44,227th overall, and 7,655th in Shopping.  I created it on 4 days before the Samsung lens.  I diged my lens in digg.com.  I sent emails to all my firiends and family members asked them to look at my lenses, maybe bookmark them.  Not one did. 

So, I am going to create a lens in which I cover what I did and my ranking.  It will create another link ot my lenses and give people an idea of how to move fast up in the ranks.

What do you think?