The Article Marketing Experiment ($400/month with Clickbank)

damn dude
you come up with the most genius shit
i am still looking forward to trying yahoo answers one day when i have the time
now i have to add this to the list of things to do
lol

These are the kind of posts I like on your blog Stuart! Keep them coming.

Just curious, why do you have your articles at Ezinearticles etc. point to a USfreeads article? Why not just have the Ezinearticles article point at the affiliate link? I have never used USfreeads, so I am not sure what the advantage is. Thanks for the info!

What % commission did you make on the sales?

Awesome man! Keep up the good work!

Lol dude … stop copying others

Ur ideas are not original

Great stuff. You really produce some great articles. How many monthly searches are you looking for on you key phrases?

You’re quite the earner - even “silently” marketing to all of us by putting affiliate links in your own posts here. How about putting “(aff)” or something to highlight your otherwise-hidden in-article affiliate links?

Also, sorry if I’m being dense, but it sounds like you wrote 2 keyword articles for each topic and posed them all on USfreeads. Then wrote 1 review article for each topic and linked to the 2 related USfreeads in the authors box? I’m going to try my best to duplicate this in the next month. I need to get off my butt and see something through to completion for a change. Thanks!

Considering this blog’s target audience, I think we’re all savvy enough to know what Stuart is doing, but I wouldn’t hold it against him. He is, after all, taking time out of his day to write these articles and giving away tips that he could otherwise keep for himself.

I don’t really see what adding (aff) after the links would do except ruin the flow of the article.

Does it matter? If you go and sign up for something from a link on this site, what’s wrong with Stuart getting a little something in return?

Great post! This is my first time to your site, but this is going to be a must read for me now.

You can use affiliate links with most article directories.

I have never tried USfreeads, but hate the idea of building link equity for someone elses domain. You are extremely limited by USfreeads on design and tracking.

I still don’t understand it.
I don’t understand that sentence at all. You say that the articles in the article directories increase the rankings of USfreeads? I must understand wrong. Sorry, maybe because I am german.

And why must the USfreeads articles rank in the search engines? Ok, for direct traffic from the SEs but why you have to wait until they rank, before you post the articles to the article directories?

And what are that articles at USfreeads? Other articles as I have understand, right? Shorter ones? Not reviews?

Have you buyed and tested the products or are that fake reviews?

Thanks
Andy

This is a nice article you put together, I look forward to trying some of these techniques out.

Well in many ways Vincent might be right, though IANAL.

For instance have you read the Clickbank rules about disclosure recently?

There is a good reason why I include a disclosure statement at the bottom of every post and in my RSS feed.

Ever heard of bummarketing? (www.bummarketingmethod.com)

Thanks for a great blog!

Great info Stuart, I’m certainly going to give this a try! (with Squidoo instead of USfreeads though). Any specific reasons why you’ve choosen USfreeads instead of Squidoo in this example? (Do you Squidoo?)

Hi Stuart,

Great experiment. It´s indeed an exact copy of the bummarketing methode but I like the fact you included your sales and not everybody knows that site. It´s a great way to start making money online and like you said it´s rinse and repaet..and consistency is the hard part.

Keep up the great posts here,

Great work!!! Going to link to this post on my blog my readers will find it inspiring to say the least

Cool experiment! I think I will try it too.

By the way, totally don’t have an issue with (aff) thing. I think if you are in affiliate marketing writing about affiliate marketing, folks should be able to put 2 & 2 together.

Best regards,
Mark

It’s an awesome experiment for awesome results.

And yes, I am pretty sure that squidoo outrank USfreeads.

Ummm why don’t you state your source and let your readers know that you copied this idea word for word out of the Affiliate Project X ebook?

IT’s not an original idea at all. Great it works for you but give the original author credit, asshole.

Did he claim it was his own original idea?
Writing articles to get some quality backlinks is quite general and this + some variations like the Bummarketing method, have been around for years now. It’s so general that no one can’t really claim it as his/her own idea.
Anyway, I think it’s a great post nonetheless, as it’s always fun to read some success stories and to discover some slightly new variations & methods :).

Great method stuart. but does it work with every niche, or maybe only some niches?

Question: Is there a particular reason why you picked USfreeads? And any other article submission site you recommend?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but do you put your article in Squidoo? I noticed that USfreeads are mainly advertistment to products. The key concept is to create and “ad” on USfreeads and submit articles to articles to make your USfreeads “ad” rank well in SE. Where does Squidoo fall into all this?

*correction on reply,

“submit articles to article site….”

USfreeads doesn’t look very free anymore - at least they won’t let you put links in the free ads. Are you using one of the paid subscriptions?

How did you go about working the domain name on this experiment? Did you purchase a new domain, use an existing one, or just make a new sub-domain of an existing site?

Love the article and the blog in general.

This is some great information you have here, I would love to try this out But after posting the articles On USfreeads I get a little lost. I dont know how to promote it and get it indexed in google, and is that program Bookmarking Demon a lot easier/faster then only wire?

What do THOSE websites/programs do? I don’t know how to use them

Where did you learn this info from? Affiliate Project X?

If anyone can help me get through this or tell me what program they used to get this up and working I would GREATLY appreciate it.

As i am a 19 year old working in a weld shop with a bad back :scholeosis: … I work as a laborer for my uncle who is a complete a$$hole, I want to get out of their so badly. I will do whatever it takes to get this working.

thanks

This seems almost TOO easy! I am usually skeptical of things that are that easy. Also, I don’t think USfreeads is free anymore. So, I’ll give this a try.

Post your blog at http://www.blogskinny.com and get readers.

Fair and simple affiliate program for name-brand electronics (or host your own store): http://www.miserlymonkey.com

Stuart you a full of it. What is ‘IT’, well in this case ‘IT’ is a good thing because you are full of the greatest ideas, thanks

I started marketing almost 6 years ago but only got my feet wet before I had the heart attack the put my life on hold for the following three years. In that time things have changed and now that I am starting to get back on my feet I seem to have a brand new learning curve.

I really appreciate it when marketers like yourself are willing to share your thoughts and explain them.

Keep up the great job as I enjoy it when you type…

You never said whether your earnings increased in may. Did they?

Hi Stuart,

Love to see an update on this and know what your earnings for april and may were. Just curious if it continues

Very interesting approach, nice ideas and well explained. Also, had never heard of the USfreeads site before so kudos to you.

Ok, I think I get it…in newbie terms! So when you write your article..you put your click bank user id/link in there for the product you are selling? So if you cant put a link what if you just say go to my website “my site” and hopefully they will give it a dot com extension. then on your home page you can have a link to that article/product..hmmm I think I would turn a lot of people away…20 step process the way I would do it…yes, I know I’m a newbie…just wondering??

As far as I know, ezinearticles won’t allow you to link directly to affiliates anymore. I don’t think that you can link to USfreeads either. Squidoo’s probably ok to link to.

Can we see your ezine review and your us free ads article.Please. Thanks

I didn’t have any problems linking to Clickbank from my USfreeads pages.

Still, it doesn’t really work since my pages have a problem getting indexed.

It has now been more than a week and only 3 of my pages have been indexed - and that’s at the worst rankings I have ever seen

Stuart, great bit of insight in this posting, thank you.

I have one question on it though, since I haven’t used USfreeads in a long while and think I may be missing something from your posting, but are you actually posting review articles as classified ads there?

If so, I’m sure they could rank well in SERPs but am surprised that they would generate much response/action from USfreeads traffic.

Thanks again

Mostly through social bookmarking. Do you have some nice promotion recommendations?

Stuart this is a great post!

Please clear up the confusion of using USfreeads.

Do you have any examples or links that you can direct us to? Do you just post a normal affiliate ad or the article itself?

Thanks!

Jordan

USfreeads do not allow affiliate links.

USfreeads do not allow affiliate links.

only in certain categories i believe, if not please do prove me wrong. I have been using them for years.

But does ezinearticles allow usfreead links ?

One thing you need to be aware of when you become a Clickbank affiliate is the sales threshold before gettting paid.

They only pay affiliate commission when you have made 5 sales, one of which has to by a customer paying with Mastercard

Thanks for the heads up - I’m finding it hard to find any real blog tutorial on making money with third party systems like Clickbank, but I hope that this article is the start of further tutorials on Clickbank.

Great tips, but does any one know of any other free bookmarking tools besides OnlyWire? OnlyWire doesn’t seem to work at all and I’m a little skeptical of Bookmarking Demon. I’m afraid I’ll pay all the money just to find out that it is crappy like OnlyWire. If I was certain it’d work, I’d buy it.

okay, i think i figured out some of the questions. for all those lazy people that did not want to do there homework. I went to the free ads site looked for zune and prestoe, it is a review ad but the beauty is in the fact that the link is cloaked so free ads accepts the link. oh and using a squeeze page is how you get around the affiliate link rejection that or right an article that links to a blog or something then links to your affiliate site. i choose the link cloaker

I really appreciate it when marketers like yourself are willing to share your thoughts and explain them.

All in all … pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
Goes to show that if you put in effort, there are always rewards at the end of it.

I am still curious if you purchased the products and if not, how do you write the article?

You can use USfreeads to sell affiliate products! Here is what it says on their website about this:

“If you’re advertising a website or are affiliate advertising:
If you’re not selling something directly, you can link to a website complete with your referral ID if you need to, and use your ad to tell people about the service so they can click the link to sign up or get more info by visiting the website.”

Stuart,

Did you cloak your Clickbank links?

Thanks,
Howdy

Thanks for the post - as an affiliate noob, this has given me some ideas to run with!

I would have used some free or paid PR releases instead of article marketing to do that but what you did was sheer proof that anybody can make free money online. This is what Bum Marketing is all about. Keep it up!

Hi Stuart. I like the sound of trying US Freeads this way. I have just got a question about the articles…

I take it you do 2 articles for each product?

Is the one thats submitted to US Freeads different to the article directory one.

Also I tried joining US Freeads a bit back and I’m sure I could not place a live url without paying a small charge?

Thanks

Hi Stuart,

I have a doubt. When you say that one has to write articles in USFA, do you mean normal information articles on the general subject of the product, say, around 300 words?

Does this sort of general purpose articles go well with the concept of USFA where normally ads are given out?

Product review articles are one thing that you say and that is fine.

Could you please clarify the above point?

Thanks
Raj

Why did you submit ti usfeeds first. Don’t you get faster index in Google with ezinearticles.com?

Cheers!

Just in case there are any non Americans interested in this. USfreadds won’t allow accounts for anyone outside the US. So us brits and australians and south africans and Irish and…. are just stuffed as far as this marketing method is concerned. You don’t have to use the freeads of course for any lateral thinker that is.

I just registered for a premium USfreeads account and I am from the UK? In the country drop down box, United Kingdom was there

Cheers for the post