A case study on the traffic-building power of article writing (update 2).
November 23, 2006
I'll keep this post short and sweet. The bottom line is that my free dog training mini course has made its first sale and has just under 100 people on the mailing list.
I decided to stick with the free mini course after seeing that it made a sale, so I haven't tested sending traffic directly to the site. I am testing that with other sites, though, and as always will let you know how it goes.
Here are the stats:
November 8 (one week in)
| Page Views | Signups | Sales |
| 68 | 25 | 0 |
| In Google? | In Yahoo? | In MSN? |
| Yes | No | No |
| Google Backlinks | Yahoo Backlinks | MSN Backlinks |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
November 15 (two weeks in)
| Page Views | Signups | Sales |
| 224 | 74 | 0 |
| In Google? | In Yahoo? | In MSN? |
| Yes | No | No |
| Google Backlinks | Yahoo Backlinks | MSN Backlinks |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
November 23 (three weeks in)
| Page Views | Signups | Sales |
| 279 | 98 | 1 |
| In Google? | In Yahoo? | In MSN? |
| Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Google Backlinks | Yahoo Backlinks | MSN Backlinks |
| 0 | 2 | 5 |
As you can see, the site has finally been indexed by Yahoo and MSN and has a few backlinks from the article sites and a few other sites that have used one of the articles.
I'll make my final post on this subject next week, which will make this case study's duration be one month. Hopefully more sales will start coming in by then.
Either way though, having a profitable site in 3 weeks without spending a dime on advertising and doing zero SEO is a very good thing! It's easy to write articles (or have them written) and distribute them, and it's clear that doing so brings in traffic fast.
Comments
22 Responses to “A case study on the traffic-building power of article writing (update 2).”
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Jonathan Leger has been earning his living online full-time since the fall of 2004. He regularly posts advice about search engine optimization (his current passion), AdSense and Internet Marketing. 
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Hi Jon
Great news Jon. I cant wait for the pro version to come out. Again anything you produce amazes me. Keep these products coming mate
Webseo
Hi Jon
This is great! very quick indexing in the Search Engines.
Articles writing is one of the more under rated Free SEO tools. I look at your Instant articles wizard Pro videos today! I can't wait to hear more about it.
Anteek
Well done!
You're one sale ahead of me ;>) but I'm still writing.
Dog training seems to be a hot topic at the moment, I'm a little surprised at how many folks seem interested in it. I wonder if something similar for kids would work?
Regards
Mike Pepper
Hi Jonathan
Congrats on the sale … looking forward to seeing the final week's results …
Cheers
Nick
Good result for seeminglu little input,my Super 8 to DVD site has backlinks from blogs, forums and guestbooks and I am working on articles as your results show they are worth the effort, pity I can't write that well though I am trying.
Cheers
Jon
Hi Jonathan.
My name is Brett Kruger from Melbourne Australia. I have watched your video and I must say, it's one of the most amazing pieces of software I have ever seen. (I have seen & used hundreds.)
It's just that I was truly shocked at the simplicity, yet awesome power of your software, I felt obliged to drop you a line.
It is on my "to buy list".
(Please note: this is not a brown nose job for a freebie either).
I just believe in giving credit where it's due. That's all.
I'm just your average guy from Australia trying to make a better life = for my family that's all.
To be honest, it will be a privilege to pay for your software.
I believe that many people will miss the true potential of a system such as yours.
(I bought the Content Website Wizard from David Watson & to be honest, yours is a far superior product.) Don't get me wrong. David is an absolute gentleman and WCW is a great product. That is… if you know what to write!!!
To be honest, it's not a patch on what you are offering at a much lesser price. If I hadn't shelled out so much over the last few months, your software would already be in my arsenal.
My wife is really scrutinising the cc bills.
I hope your home extensions are going well….
Kind Regards
Brett.
Congratulations Jonathan and thank you very much for the sharing your case study. More sales to you.
Glenn
These are excellent results and it just goes to show how powerful article writing and publishing can be. Imagine what can be achieved by writing and publishing just one article a day!
Hi Jonathan,
Good show!
Can't wait for next report!
Best
Curt E
Firstly, congrats with the sale Jonathan!
Secondly, a question. When you say "zero SEO" what do you mean? i mean, isn't writing articles and distributing them a form of SEO? i am asking because i am interested in finding out how you normally do your SEO.
Much appreciated in advance.
Arman
PS - Happy Thanks Giving!
Thanks for the updates Jon. I look forward to continued education, with you as one of my mentors.
Mark
Very very encouraging to those of us who are still
"struggling". I'm reviewing your process and checking to see if I need to change what I am doing.
Thanks so much for sharing - the numbers and all!
alex
Hi Jonathan
Congratulations and much continued success. You have earned your success. And a big thank you from all the great help you have given me and the internet community.
I will be upgrading in the article software soon. The internet journey for me has been frustrating and at times it feels like I've been hitting a brick wall. However, I hope to see the light very soon.
Take care Jonathan and all best.
Judy
Very inspiring Jon!
I recently had my first successful article on Ezinearticles.com. It only had a link back to my IM blog though.
Seeing your success in this little experiment has made me decided to go into a niche as well and use article-marketing to promote it.
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Kang
Jonathan,
I'm please to see some figures for a change and I am grateful that you have done this exercise, but I wonder if you are an expert in dog training? If not, how do you keep your customers satisfied in the long term?
Cheers …
Richard
Way To Go! You are one of my mentors and I can say that your products are exceptional!
Chris Peterson
Wow, Three weeks! I'll be checking back to learn more about your process. I'm interested in "Low Seo" type article marketing. Great Blog!
Thanks for sharing this, it's very encouraging.
Hi Jonathan,
Sounds like your strategy is working. So out of your signups so far, your getting about a 1% conversion. So, do you have any plans or thoughts about testing/tweaking to increase your conversion rate? Also, do you think you will write more articles on dog training now that this site seems to be gaining momentum?
Rob
Hi Jonathan,
I can already see the potential power in writing these Artcles with regards to getting free traffic
keep up the good work-thanks!
wow!!…..nice article=)
well done
Will today be the updated numbers?