$1k Blog

I’m not sure if it was sickness-induced delirium or Steve’s Online Cashcow blog, but in spite of my earlier claim that I will be spending most of the day playing Oblivion and generally feeling sorry about myself, today ended up being fairly productive in terms of bum marketing. I’ve written and submitted three articles, with the fourth one in works as we speak.

Some observations:

• ArticleDashboard takes just 1 day to approve your articles, compared to EZA’s 7
• Though none of them have been indexed by Google yet, they have already been downloaded about 60 times (total stats for ArticleDashboard and GoArticles). I’m not sure if this is because they spent some time on the front page immediately after their approval or if people are actively searching article directories for the keyphrase in question
• Out of 60 downloads, I only got one lead to my site, which is somewhat disappointing - I am experimenting with placing my site URL in <b> tags to make it stand out more (it really isn’t noticeable because of the color scheme at ArticleDashboard and GoArticles)

So far, I’m rather enjoying article marketing - I’m not yet following Andrew Hansen’s guide step-by-step, but instead combining some of its elements (in particular, his unique spin on picking the niche) to hopefully create a money-making powerhouse online.

It also looks like the upcoming one-month challenge will focus on residual rather than manual income. I saw Steve hit a total of $450 a month within just 12 days; now let’s see if I can hit $1,000 a month online in residual income! This isn’t yet an official statement of intentions (I’ll post one tomorrow), but it sure seems like bum marketing will be the order of the day for the next month or so.