AllstarPLR.com… open for business!

Woo hoo!

AllstarPLR is up and ready to go.  Please check it out and let me know what you think.  www.allstarplr.com   I’m a little brain-dead from loading up the shopping cart and doing little nitpicky things so if you find something that needs correcting, let me know!

I’ve got several niches covered and more on the way.  Please tell me your needs and I’ll see if I can cover them.

=> If you want to buy the blogging, pet, or lawn care bundles, I’m offering a discount on the Warrior Forum:  www.allstarplr.com/wso1

And again, you can sign up to be notified of new bundles and when you do you’ll get a couple of helpful goodies. [See descriptions in last post]

I look forward to your feedback.

New PLR Article Site Hits A Snag…

Just a quick note to let you know where I am with my upcoming PLR article website.  It’s done!  It’s all ready to go! … except there’s this little issue with not being able to use my new shopping cart because my server isn’t saving my cookies correctly.

So, if you want to have a peek at it you can:  www.allstarplr.com  You just can’t buy yet.

If you want to sign up to be on the notification list, you can do that now.  When you sign up you’ll get my pdf about all the ways you can use PLR articles, called Profit With PLR.  At last count there are 51 ways to use PLR in the pdf.   Let me know if you have one I’m missing and I’ll add it to the ebook.  You will also get Mike Ambrosio’s ebook, PLR Cash Machines.  Mike is a fount of knowledgeable marketing info.  IMHO, Mike rocks.

I plan to add more article bundles on a consistent basis so stay tuned or get on the list www.allstarplr.com

Thanks,
Peggy

Interpreting Your Article Marketing Stats

You’ve probably heard just about every internet marketer say “test, test, test everything.”  Well, I was just thinking about approaches to article marketing and the whole testing thing.  Do we write article after article, throw them out there, and hope something good will happen?  Are we taking the time to analyze our stats? Are we testing our articles?

 I confess I don’t always take the time to completely test or analyze what I’ve got but when I do, here’s what I try to look at:

I write articles on various niche subjects.  Which subjects get the most hits?  Why?  Are they the subjects I tend to be more interested in and thus write articles with more passion?  Are they the niches that I make the most money on in affiliate products or AdSense?  Are they just more popular niches or have the more pressing problems?  Was it because they were timely (season or holiday related)?

I primarily submit my articles to Ezine Articles and a few other article directories that relate more to a specific niche, like LadyPens.  The stats I look at are Ezine’s stats and my websites’ stats.

Another thing I look at is which categories get the most hits.  There are times when my article could fit in 2 or 3 different categories but I have to choose one.  Instead of playing pin the tail on the donkey, I look at the resultant article hits and website hits I get according to the category I submitted the article to.  Hope that makes sense.

While I’m talking about categories, I would like to say that if there is a main category, such as “Health and Fitness” I will submit to that rather than a subcategory under it.  I believe more people start their reading in the general category and don’t go much further.

Ezine Articles gives you stats that tell you how often your article has been read on their site, how often it has been downloaded, and how often your bio link has been clicked on, but that’s just a start.  You don’t know how many times it’s been copied and pasted onto another website.  There are 2 ways I check on this.

1.  I use Google and Yahoo to see where my article is being published by putting my title or an original sentence from the article in quotes and searching.  It’s pretty cool to see your article on legitimate sites (with your bio intact) across the Internet.  After I’m done feeling all important and branded, I analyze which articles are being picked up the most.

2.  I check my website stats for the hits from other websites.  One of my first articles was picked up by a well-trafficked site and I got 500-600 hits from that site.  I check out these sites and sometimes leave a big juicy comment as a “thank you.”  Also, when I look at the sites I think about why they might have chosen my article and how I can work future articles into something that could benefit me and them again.

I don’t have the time or desire to get too anal about it, but I do think it’s important to look at these things and ask why.  This is especially true when you’re just getting started with article marketing.

From there the logical thing is to test.   I test article titles,  keywords, article length,  bios,  landing page (squeeze page vs. blog vs. website vs. sales page), and which article directories get me the most traffic.  As I tweak things, is my AdSense revenue going up?  Are my conversions on the mark?  Is my opt-in list increasing in size?

The reason to analyze your stats and test everything with article marketing is because when all is said and done, you’re in this to make money.  

Some people would rather go the quantity route and write tons of articles and not bother to analyze what works because they know the more they write, the more chance they have of some of them hitting the mark.  I’ve not tried it, but I’ve heard it can work.  Personally, I would rather write fewer articles that are written with a formula that proves successful for me. 

I’d love to hear what’s working for you and what your testing has shown.  Leave your comments!