Yes, it really is! Article marketing is one of the many ways to drive targetted traffic to your website, blog or niche site. It’s really amazing to see how much traffic a well written and keyword rich article can generate in a very short time. And I think I know what I’m talking about since I’m currently using article marketing to drive traffic to my new niche websites…and it works!

Over the last days I published several new articles on EZA to promote my new niche sites. Some days ago I already made 2 new sales from the traffic I got and $33 went to my Clickbank account. And the best thing, I’ve only submitted 10 articles to EZA so far! Unfortunately I can’t submit any new ones right now because my account is under review and the people there will decide wether they upgrade it to a premium one or not (this descission process is normal after submitting 10 articles).

My articles have generated around 336 views so far with 62 clicks on the URLs in my article’s resource box, those URLs that point to my niche sites where I make the sales. That’s a CTR (Click Through Rate) of over 18% and I wouldn’t call that bad!

If I become a premium member on EZA (which means I can submit unlimited articles which also get reviewed faster), I’ll fully concentrate on submitting new articles for sure. Since I know that article marketing really works, I’ll also think about outsourcing the writing work because I’ll most probably make the money back from my affiliate sales (and I’m not the most talented writer anyway). I already found quality content writers that charge only $3 per 500 words and are able to write several hundreds of articles per month.

More infos about my article marketing progress will follow soon, hopefully when I also have a premium Ezinearticles account, hehe…

See you,
Querblogger

This post is about the benefits of using Squidoo as a great tool to make money, drive traffic and to show other people that you’re an expert in a certain niche. Because I’ve already written some of those so called lenses by myself, I want to share my thoughts about it.

Squidoo is a web project launched and founded by Seth Godin in October 2005. Basically it offers you to write and publish single webpages, so called lenses, that may deal about different things you like and/or want to promote. You can think about Squidoo like a bloghost, with the exception that your blog will be more like a static webpage that you only update from time to time.

Creating a Squidoo lens is relatively easy. After choosing the right name for your lens (it will be part of your URL, e.g. Squidoo.com/YourLensName) you can immediately start filling it with content. A lens consists of different modules like a text module or a questbook for example. You can add as many different modules as you want, there’s no limit in possibilities. Each module should be filled with content, e.g. in a text module you should write down the text that belongs to your lens’ theme. After adding all necessary modules, text, images and other stuff you like, you have to publish your lens and it will immediately go live and starts receiving traffic.

The best thing about a Squidoo lens is the fact that you’re allowed to place links (including affiliate links) right within your lens’ content. You can add as many as you want and use them to either drive traffic to your websites/blogs or to directly generate affiliate sales for example. Because Squidoo is very popular, frequently visited from many people around the world and new lenses are indexed extremely fast, it’s a perfect marketing tool! When choosing the right keywords to target and with good content, it’s quite possible to make some nice affiliate sales and money.

Squidoo also features a revenue sharing model, meaning that each lens you’ve published may bring you also a share of all the advertising revenues it has generated. Those revenue comes from ads shown next to your lens and also from Amazon widgets if you want to use them in your lens. If you have a popular lens with lots of traffic, then you may see some bucks from that revenue sharing alone. You can also donate your earnings to different charities if you will.

So far I’ve only written and published 4 lenses, but I’m amazed about how well they perform and help me in making some extra money. Especially my lens about NeoBux brings several new referrals each day and it is listed in the top 10 for the same keyword. Squidoo lenses are definitely worth your time if you want to get some extra traffic or money. You can use them to create a small piece of online real estate that you can use to establish your online business, be it lenses about products you promote or useful articles that will show others that you’re an expert in your field. Squidoo is a nice and free way to increase your online exposure to potential buyers, readers, whatever you like. Simply give it a try and start creating your first lens right now, it’s easy!

Bye bye,
Querblogger

This info comes a bit late, but anyway, I´m happy to tell you that my first sponsored post from PayPerPost got approved. I made $20 (as every new member will get for the first post) and I´m really happy with it.

But it wasn´t that easy to get my approval. Actually the post got rejected before. I got a mail saying that the PPP team had to reject my submitted post because I´ve already written another sponsored one just before. The preceding article was about Pay-Per-Play and it wasn´t a sponsored one.

So I wrote a kindly mail to the PPP support and got a response within hours. They apologized for accidentaly rejecting my post and approved it later. I just want to mention that here, because the support is really great, friendly people and fast responses!

Bye,
Querblogger

As you may have already heared about, it is possible to earn some nice extra cash from sponsored posts or reviews. You simply write about a companies product or website and get paid for that article anywhere from $5 to $500 (if you have a really great and popular blog I´ve already written about 3 nice programs that pay you for writing sponsored posts and reviews. Feel free to get some more info there.

So today I´ve joined 3 programs, PayPerPost, ReviewMe and Blogitive. Actually my blog is now over three month old and I´m therefore able to submit it for approval on those sites (those three month are minimum requirements), so I thought “why not?” and submitted it. At the moment I´m waiting for approval and I hope that my blog won´t be rejected.

I´m also hoping to see my earnings increasing, I´ve only two and a half month left to reach my goal in earning $100. It would be nice if get some tasks within the next weeks! If I get approved on PayPerPost I´ll immediately get my first task worth $20, that´s quaranteed!

But I will also warn you! If you like to join the above mentioned programs to earn some money from sponsored blogging, feel free to do so, but keep in mind that Google doesn´t like blogs with sponsored posts. I´ve heared from different bloggers that got penalized with a reduced PageRank. So please don´t say I haven´t warned you!

I´ll keep you informed, maybe you´ll see my first sponsored post soon?! (sorry, the second one, I´ve already done one for Blogsvertise)

Have a nice day,
Querblogger

In one post some days ago I mentioned that I published my first article on Helium. The articles deals about some facts and features about the new Google Phone. Today I checked how my article performed so far, I got $0.10 within 4 days only for that one article. Compared to other sites where you can submit your writings for monetizing, it isn´t bad at all, it´s nearly two times more than what I earn on Triond for example (compared to one published article). This is mainly because Helium is much more popular than Triond and therefore generates more traffic to each article published there. More traffic means more ad revenues that you´ll get paid. Yes, I know, 10 Cents doesn´t sound too good, but you must notice that I only published one article so far.

I will investigate Helium further while writing more articles there, then I can do some comparisons to Triond. If it turns out that I can make more money on Helium I´ll probably drop writing for Triond.

Btw, you may have noticed my first sponsored post (the last one)? My account on Blogsvertise got approved today and I´m now in Probation status, meaning my blog is still a bit too “young” to receive full payments for sponsored posts. But I still get $2.00 for each task I complete. When my blog becomes “older” I´ve the chance to resubmit it for a new approval (the blog must be at least 60 days old and regulary updated), than I´ll receive up to $15 for each review I post here. I hope those sponsored posts aren´t too annoying, I´ll do my best to give you quality information anyway.

Happy Surfing (on the Web
Querblogger

Update: I just earned $2.00 from my last review as it got approved by the Blogsvertise admin!