Experiments in Promotion #1
October 18th, 2007I’ve decided to start experimenting with promotion techniques that I have read from different blogs around the web. I will catalog and analyze my progress, and at the end of each experiment I will release a case study ebook. So for my first experiment I will be performing article marketing on an affiliate offer.
- I will find an offer through Copeac, Clickbank, or any other company that I can write about.
- I will create a mini-website around the offer with affiliate links
- I will write multiple articles around the offer-subject with links to my site or the the product itself
- I will submit these free articles to all the article directories that I can find
- I will submit to Craig’s list
This is a tentative outline. I’m not sure how many articles I will be writing, but I think at least a dozen. The article lengths will probably be around 400 words.
Any ideas / comments? I will keep you updated on my progess.
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By Alex R on Oct 18, 2007 | Reply
You may run out of ideas. Will you focus on multiple products, or certain categories of products?
By Nick on Oct 18, 2007 | Reply
Each experiment I do will focus on one or two specific products.
By Mike Pedersen Golf on Oct 18, 2007 | Reply
Looks like a good plan. Keep your fingers crossed and hope for increasing traffic to get those sales.
By Karen Zara on Oct 21, 2007 | Reply
If you want to avoid duplicate content issues, you should write different versions of each article. No need to submit to all article directories you can find; 10 or 20 good directories would be enough. At least, this is what other people who’ve tried this technique use to say.
Anyway, whatever you do, please report the results. :)
By Nick on Oct 21, 2007 | Reply
Yeah, I was thinking about making different versions of each article for each directory - just change the structure around some of whatnot. Downside is that that adds a fair amount of work.