The Bum Marketing Method
Someone I met on the forum at eWealth got me somewhat interested in his ‘Bum Marketing Method”. Travis, the creator, noticed that most of the best conversions come from extremely specialized phrases and searches which have relatively low competition. Anyways, he came up with the idea that if you could place an article related to the phrase you were targeting, it would typically end up near the top of the search results, due to the low competition. This article would get roughly the same CTR as an adwords ad on the same page, but it would be free.
Well, I tried it, and we will see how well this method works. I created an article, and uploaded it to goarticles.com. Within the next few days, it should hopefully become visible within Google’s index by Monday. Then I will be curious to see how much traffic/sales etc. I get through it. The phrase I targetted had 31 results. This is great, because on Wordtracker it shows that the phrase gets 100-200 searched per day. Yee-haw! If I can get 50-60 of those? I’m laughing… even if I get only 10 clicks per day, that is 1 sale per month. If I can make about 30 other articles this way, well, that seems like a health y affiliate income. Plus, the articles don’t expire, so the profits only increase!
Wow - I like that… I hope my optimism is justified. Travis has released his method as a free e-course which you can take. I would definately recommend going through it - it’s alot more detailed and in-depth than the little that I have written here. Without any more ado, here is a like to the Bum Marketing Method!
Wow…Great post…you have a talent for writing and should do awesome as a “bum”!
Remember that there is not really a “time frame” when your articles will hit Google…within a week is exceptional…2 weeks to 3 weeks is normal…and I have had many get picked up after the 3rd week…and of course some are duds and never make it…boo!
But when you are writing consistently…rather it is one article a day…or one article a week is really key…then you have new articles hitting Google consistently…then the sales start to come in…
There is a lot you will learn after that…you will find that articles on “certain” topics generate the most sales…those are the “hot” topics or niches…and you will search out more related topics to write on…and get more sales…
Then…if you are like me…you will say dang…that niche is hot…and start putting up ppc campaigns…what is REALLY SWEET…is that you will have researched and written so many articles on the topic…that you know it inside out…and know what that niche really wants…
Which…IMO…is why most adwords affiliates fail…they are NOT promoting a “hot” niche…and if they are…they do not know it “well enough”….
So there are many great things to come…
Thanks again for the great blog post!
Travis
PS…I am working on an update to the course…I hope it will blow you away…I am going to show you a simple way to come up with tons of low competition keywords with lots and lots of searches…I have helped some “bums” in the past…and they were tweeeeked when I showed them this…and they couldn’t believe how easy it was…
very nice, and his method truely works for those wanting to try it. I have tried it myself.