$2902.94 Made In One Day On ClickBank With Article Writing! $3,343 .01 For The Week and How I Did it With Traffic X, SEO Trackbacks, & Some Dusty Old Piece of Software most of you probably already own!

The power of article writing always amazes me! I’ve been doing article writing for a few years now and writing articles never stops being a consistent, reliable, and effective income stream for me.

I’ve been doing online marketing since 1997. During that time I’ve used many methods to make money online.  Trendy money making tactics, email marketing, automated money making programs, automated website content generators for adsense among  other affiliate offers, black hat methods, white hat methods, grey methods, PPC, insurance leads, loan leads, leads for everything, etc.,etc.,etc. You name it,  the list goes on and on. Many failures, and many that were just amazing! However, none really stay around that long. It gets saturated and money becomes harder to make. I’m sure there are other methods that stay around a longtime for others, but I’m sure it will be hard to even torture those secrets out of people using those methods! LOL.  Technology changes in a blink of an eye. The Internet moves and flows, there’s always something new in marketing trends, and sadly money making methods online consistently and constantly have to be changed. I can excuse PPC and email marketing from this list of methods that get old, saturated, and ineffective, but the one with the longest staying power for me is article writing.

I even admit that my own programs that automate money making, like Movie Article Maker, have a shelf life. When Movie Article Maker first came out it was making me $250 a day easily, and other clients were having $100+ days easily. I made a program a few years ago that made automated articles for Ebay. I sold it to 5 luckily clients, including Keith, and few other members of this blog. We were making $300 to $800 a day with a click of a button. It was sad to see that kind of automated money die! But it is what it is!

But article writing sticks! Competition & saturation? Yes, but most of the readers of my blog have Traffic X or SEO Trackbacks available to them to rank their articles!  Article writing is not automated and it takes much more work and dedication, but for me, it’s worth the money!

This last week I put Traffic X and SEO Trackbacks to an ultimate test to make money off the Superbowl and came out out on top with $2902.94.  Last year, I made $5K+ in one day off the Superbowl, but this years competition was mean! With competing pages in the 20 to 68 millions!

90 Orders on Superbowl Day!

Need proof? You can check out the pictures on the left of my clickbank account that I have dedicated to my “event” article writing endeavours .

You can click on the image to view a larger version of it.

Note the date, 02-07-2010, Superbowl Sunday, with a total of 90 sales! I probably would have made more too! I was away for 3 hours and when I came back my affiliate offer’s site was down from so much traffic, and stayed down until the middle of the game. I had to change offers numerous times after that because other “Satellite to PC” affiliate programs were going up and down from the mass amounts of traffic being sent to them by me and others.

I also made orders even before the Superbowl. Making my total for this clickbank  period $3,343.01.

Most of the money came from 3 hubpage articles and the rest of the money was made with 3 of my own domains.

Notice the sales on the 7th! $2902.41

You can check out my horrible writing style of these money making pages below:

Hubpages:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Watch-the-Super-Bowl-Online-Live

http://hubpages.com/hub/Watch-The-SuperBowl-Online

http://hubpages.com/hub/Watch-The-SuperBowl-Online-If-You-Have-No-TV

For the whole week I made $3,343.01 from Superbowl articles.

My Own Domains:

http://watch-the-superbowl-online.com
http://watch-the-superbowl-online.com
http://watch-superbowl-xliii-online.com

Notice my article writing style is not the greatest, so you really don’t have to be a professional writer to make money writing articles.

How was the competition? Very crazy this year, and I know many clients of Traffic X and SEO Trackbacks were doing Superbowl articles. The competition was in the double digit millions and articles were changing rank every few hours because so many pages being indexed in a short amount of time  for this damn Superbowl.

How did my rankings fare in Google, Yahoo, and Bing?

For Google I ranked for the keyword phrase "Watch The SuperBowl Online".

Rankings For Google

For Google I ranked one of my hubpages at #3 for the keyword phrase “Watch the Superbowl Online”. I’m not sure how many other keywords I was ranked for as I only tracked 2 keyword phrases I was shooting for, which were “Watch The SuperBowl Online” and “Watch the Super Bowl Online”.

You can see a larger picture by clicking the image to the left.My ranked site is outlined in red.

Notice the competition for the keyword phrase on Google. LOL. 24,000,000+

Rankings For Yahoo

For Yahoo I ranked with multiple keyword phrases. “Watch the Superbowl Online” and “Watch The Super Bowl Online”. I may have ranked for more keywords but this is what I was aiming for. I also ranked multiple pages for Yahoo.

For “Watch the Superbowl Online” I ranked pages at #2,#7,and #8 on Yahoo.

You can see a larger picture for Yahoo also on the left. My sites are outlined in red.

If you notice, the competition on Yahoo for that keyword was 44,000,000+!

On Yahoo I ranked multiple pages for "Watch The SuperBowl Online".

The second keyword phrase I ranked for on Yahoo was “Watch the Super Bowl Online”. I ranked #1,#2,#3,#4,and #5! Wooo Hooo Yahoo!

The competition for this keyword was a whooping 68,000,000+!

Rankings For Bing

For Bing I took spots #6 and #7 for “Watch the SuperBowl Online”. The competition was at 17,000,000.

I also ranked 1 page at #8 for “Watch the Super Bowl Online”. The competition was only at 2,000,000.

So, as you can see using Traffic X & SEO Trackbacks is still very powerful for article writing!

So did I have anything special that I did?  There is only one special thing I did this year because of the competition, but my pages got ranked on the first pages of these search engines by using Traffic X and SEO Trackbacks. I had to do just one thing to make it stick on the first page because so many pages were being indexed and rankings were jumping around all across the board. I know many pages that were getting indexed and ranked were from users of both my programs, Traffic X & SEO Trackbacks. So I had to do one special thing which made my rankings stop bouncing back and forth in a competition for these rankings,  that was awfully brutal, especially when you are trying to rank highest for one particular day of the year.

I mean, this one particular day, I had to make sure I ranked. If it was some review article I wrote that I had all the time in the world to rank,  just using Traffic X and SEO Trackbacks would be fine. I would not have to worry about rankings that bounce because so many pages are getting indexed in a short time!

I will tell you about the one thing I did differently this year a little later in this article.

Bing results were not as good but it still brought in money!

First let me share with you the simple things I did with Traffic X  and SEO Trackbacks.

There was nothing I did special with Traffic X and SEO Trackbacks.  But here is my settings and what I did.

Traffic X Suite 2

For Traffic X I simply put all my links into a anchor link file with the anchor link text as Watch the Superbowl Online. Loaded into Traffic X’s Movie Article Maker V2.

I ran 2 instances of Movie Article Maker 2 and posted my links for 2 days. Each MAM2 had about 5K blogs in them.

I ran this about a week before the Superbowl.

Yes, the articles I posted my links to were totally irrelevant and it worked just fine. It also works just fine with review articles that I write.

I am telling you exactly what works for me. I know some people use Traffic X Multiplier and try to post relevant articles to their mu blog accounts with there links that are relevant to the article. I’m sure it works, but hey, posting irrelevant articles with my Superbowl links worked fine too. Look at the proof.

Bing results for the keyword phrase "Watch the Super Bowl Online".

SEO Trackbacks

During the same time I was posting backlinks with Movie Article Maker 2, I posted backlinks to trackback pages with SEO Trackbacks.

I put all my anchor links into SEO Trackbacks Poster and anchor text as Watch the SuperBowl Online. Same as I put into Movie Article Maker 2.

I had about 45K unique trackbacks loaded in poster.

I set my poster to only post 150 to 200 backlinks per anchor link I had.

I used the default comment file that comes with SEO Trackbacks and ran it.

That was it!

ETA On Pages Getting Indexing & Ranked!

As this kind of article writing has to be timed and ranked precisely on the frontpage of search engines on a certain day, it makes for a challenge.  So, I have an estimated time on how fast pages index and rank using SEO Trackbacks and Traffic X.

This will also give you an estimated time when indexing and ranking any other kind of articles with SEO Trackbacks & Traffic X.

I am honestly only familiar with the estimated time for 3 types of sites right now as I only use these sites primarily. =( I can give you estimated times of indexing and ranking for hubpages, blogger blogs, and your own wordpress blogs you  host yourself. I guess with new FTC rules, I have to say I cannot guarantee this ETA time for all users of Traffic X and SEO Trackbacks, lol, but it works like clockwork for me.

I know, I know, I should be writing to more places, I have heard of members ranking and indexing well with Youtube videos, Squidoo, Associated Content, among many other Web 2.0 sites using SEO Trackbacks & Traffic X.

I have just always used hubpages, blogger, and my own sites because they have always worked for me. For event articles like the Superbowl articles, I really love using hubpages because they index and rank fast!

Indexing Hubpages with Traffic X & SEO Trackbacks:

Google - Hubpages will index and rank overnight to 1 w eek.  At first, ranked hubpages will bounce around from the first page to pages down the line, but will eventually rank and stick as little as a week!

Yahoo – Takes about 1-2 weeks to index and rank at yahoo. But once it does, it usually is stuck there for a while!

Bing (Formerly MSN) - Takes about 2 weeks to a Month to rank hubpages on Bing.

Indexing Blogger Blogs with Traffic X & SEO Trackbacks:

Google - Anywhere from 1 week to 2 weeks.  Very odd,  when I get my bloggers ranked they usually don’t bounce around like hubpages do when they are rank.

Yahoo - 1 to 2 weeks to get it indexed and ranked.

Bing - 3 weeks to  a Month OR Never! I have luck getting on Bing with blogger blogs every now and then, but they don’t stick very long, and sometimes never rank at all! Wonder if Bing does not like Google’s Blogger?! =)

Indexing My Own WordPress Sites with SEO Trackbacks & Traffic X (.COM & .NET DOMAINS USED IN DOMAIN NAME):

Google - Just like hubpages it usually takes overnight to 1 week to get indexed. Also just like hubpages it bounces around a lot when it initially ranks. After a week it pretty much sticks.

Yahoo - takes about 1 to 2 weeks.

Bing - Damn, Bing again, very slow! Takes me about a 3 weeks to a month to get my own blogs indexed and ranked there. The good thing is once my sites rank on Bing they stay there for a very, very, long time.

Exercising Your Article Writing And Make Some Money!

So what can you do with this information? Let me see….I’ll give you a few hints on events coming up….”Watch Daytona 500 Online”,  “Watch (Some Kind Of Basketball) Game Online” (fill in the blanks), and “Watch (Some Team Vs. Some Team) Online. I can’t guarantee that all games will produce the nice amount of money that Superbowl does in a day because much more people watch the Superbowl. But hey, a couple hundred dollars here and there for a few measly written articles, its worth it right? It also adds UP!

You may have a chance with Dayton still yet this year if you do hubpages. I don’t have time to write any this year on Daytona, but last year made me $1K+ on it!

So What Is The Special Thing You Did This Year For SuperBowl? You Know That Dusty Old Software You Were Talking About In The Beginning of This Article.

I looked to Social Book Marking sites for this year’s SuperBowl because I was competing not only against clients that were using the same software I was, like Traffic X and SEO Trackbacks, but I was also competing with millions of other pages that were being indexed through the week!

I took out a program I haven’t used in years! I think most of you own this one…..it’s BookMarkingDemon…..and I super charged it! I had not used the program for so long that I had lost my license email and had to email them for it back!

How the heck did I super charge BookMarking Demon and bring it back to life? Take a look at the picture below and see if you can find what I did? Hint: Red Outlined Box!

Yes, thats right! 1228 BookMarking Sites!

I found these bookmarking sites to add to BookMarking Demon with a new software I’m developing and testing. It will find hundreds of bookmarking sites I can add to my BMD to super charge that puppy. I’m not sure if I will be releasing this one yet, but if I do, I’ll let you know.

How Can I Super Charge My BookMarking Demon Software?

You first have to search for PHPDug, Pligg, or Scuttle/ScuttlePlus sites on a search engine. For Google I use the following search queries:

PHPDug Bookmarking Sites Search Query:
“Powered by PHPDug” intext:Signup

Notice there are over 200K sites on there. Many of them, Bookmarking Sites, you can use in BMD!

Pligg Bookmarking Sites Search Query:
“powered by pligg” intext:Register

When i search this, there are over 2 million sites. Again, many of them you can use in BMD!

ScuttlePlus Bookmarking Sites Search Query:
“Social bookmarking by ScuttlePlus” intext:Register

Searching this brings over 900K sites that are a great potential for bookmarking your articles and sites on!

You will then simply saves the urls of these bookmarking sites you find in a text file to add later to BMD.

Adding The Bookmarking Sites In BMD

In BMD you will go to the BookMarking Sites Tab and press the Add Scuttle/Pligg/PhpDug button. (The red outlined button in the picture below.) This will open up a box where you can copy and paste the bookmarking sites you found into. You then press the OK button and BookMarking Demon will crawl each url to find the site’s join page. =)

Adding your own bookmarking sites to BMD.

You get enough bookmarking sites and you will definitely have an edge over you competition!

A Few Down Sides To Adding Your Own BookMarking Sites To BMD

Adding your own bookmarking sites to BMD is very powerful, but with every good news, there usually is bad news too. LOL.

First off, it will probably take you a very long time to collect these sites,unless you are very dedicated and don’t mind spending hours collecting the sites! You will also find that many bookmarking sites won’t load into BookMarking Demon. This is because many sites don’t allow sign ups of new bookmarking accounts.  I noticed that even sites that were working just fine, and allowed new sign ups, BookMarking Demon has some kind of bug and won’t add them!

So you are going to need a lot of bookmarking sites to load into BMD! I mean in the thousands!

Secondly, you will have to enter a lot of CAPTCHAS when you sign up for these sites. Many of the booking marking sites have no CAPTCHAS when signing up, but many do. I spent nearly two hours signing up for all my new accounts and activating them from my emails. Of course you could skip the sites that have CAPTCHAs for sign ups but I didn’t. I wanted to get as many bookmarking sites working on my list.

If you don’t mind these few downsides, and want to super charge your BMD, then do it! My personal opinion on it, it’s very worth while! I mean really, you only need to do it once, maybe twice.

In conclusion, I hope this article gives you some OOmmmpphhhh to write articles! I really works, and is worth your time and hard work. It will pay off! Most of you already have the tools to stomp the competition out!

Cheers,

Chad