Charlie's Affiliate Marketing Journey

As the first full week of October comes to close and I have to ask myself how I could us outsourcing in my article marketing quest.  I spend some time this week searching the Internet for article writing services.

If you’ve been reading my posts here you remember that I outsourced the writing of about 100 articles on water purification in September.  I put an ad on rent a coder contracted with the writer for two dollars per 400 word article. But I got back was between 300 and 350 words that made little or no sense. And of course after trying to work this out with the author I just gave up and chaked it up to a lesson learned.

But even though the articles aren’t in any shape to be posted they do provide some research for each of the topics. So I’m just taking them one at a time using the data in them and rewriting them to be useful.

But since I have such a great love for writing articles, not. I’m not letting this experience cause me to quit looking for outsourcing help.  I’m just basically looking for someone to write for me that I can just take the article and able to posted directly to e-zines without me having to change it at all.

So I recently found an outsourcer on digital point forum. He charges a penny a word and guarantees US writers 100% perfect spelling and grammar.

So I ordered 20 articles from him and recently got them back. Well I must say they’re better quality articles then I got before and are well researched but they still had a number of grammatical errors in them.  So I contacted the author and he’s going to go through them again and fix all the errors.

I really hope he comes through so I can use them again in my quest for a ghostwriter, I’ll let you know how it turns out.

Now for a quick wrap up on the week,  I did get five more articles posted this week and made some adsense income and have another sale at xtend-life.

So through October 11 I have just about doubled my income from September, while still not much money but were going in the right direction.

Here’s wishing everybody a good week and more sales and you had the week before.

9/22 was my last post and I was looking forward to getting some more articles posted,  well  I did that,  not many, at least at ezinesaritcles.com.

I’ve submitted 6 articles to ezinesarticles.  But more importantly for me is I’ve finally got a plan in place beyond ezines.

I started thinking about what others had said in the Affiliate Article Writing forum about other directories to add your articles to.  It seems that articlesbase.com is making a run at ezines and many people in the Affiliate Article Writing program are having great luck with it.

So after each article is approved at ezines I’ll be posting a version of it at articlesbase.   But that is just a small change to my process.

Since I control my pre-sale site, I added a blog to it and I’m posting my ezinearticles on it with a back link,  seems back links can’t hurt so why not.

I’m also doing an experiment with other sites and back linking.  My goal is to get get some link love to my ezine and articlesbase pages without a bunch of work.  I’ll let you know how it goes, and the particulars soon.

And lastly I put together a spreadsheet that tracks clicks to the product sites vs sales.  There is some interesting data there that I’ll post when I get a free moment.

OK, well it’s going to be a wild week again,  I’m heading to the east coast for a couple of days but I hope to keep writing on this trip.

I’ll post a september summary post on the 1st, so there is still a couple of day to catch a sale or two.

Cheers,