Article Promotion - Correlating Your Profitability With The Articles You Write

Article Promotion - Correlating Your Profitability With The Articles You Write

Article Promotion - Correlating Your Profitability With The Articles You Write


Many people use article marketing to publicize their websites. Utilizing articles in this way can establish your credentials to share knowledge to the broader internet community.

If you are involved in this promotion method have you ever stopped to consider to what extent this activity of article marketing is bringing in revenue for your online efforts. If not, you are highly recommended to spend some time correlating revenue to article marketing.

While article marketing includes many variables such that an exact computation of advantages in income terms is difficult, we cannot forget the fact that when it comes to profitability of any internet business, we must think in terms of dollars and cents.

Here statistics play a big part in comparing revenue to articles and I am about to propose a way that you can check your article marketing statistics.

Simple maths can help to project revenue to the quantity of articles we write, even though there are factors peculiar only to a particular author that are not common to any other author.

Over a period of time of, say, 6 months, a writer of several articles can graph income derived from article writing with the "y" axis as Revenue and the "x" axis of the graph as the number of articles prepared, every time keeping the number of article depositories to which the article was submitted at the same figure.

For example if you are marketing these articles to sites such as ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com, your revenue that goes to the "y" axis is the payout derived for the month from using just article marketing, and the "x" axis will be the number of articles submitted.

Over a period of 6 months, you will have enough data on the graph to make a straight line that goes through nearly all these points on the graph where the line is represented by the equation y=mx+c

The function of the regressed straight line will show that the revenue derived is a function of "m" which is the gradient of the line, and a constant "c".

The constant "c" is the value at which the straight line intersects the "y" axis and this is the particular part which stems from the author and is an indication of his talents in article writing, his craft of writing, his command of the language and factors that only the individual demonstrates.

By studying revenue obtained against number of articles submitted, keeping other factors unchanged, it will be possible to get an indication of the quality of the author's writing and form a rough basis to project further revenue to the number of articles scheduled for submission, ignoring other factors such as keyword choice, onsite and offsite search engine optimisation which are excluded from the study, and only on the basis of the individual's writing "flair" and talent as measured by the constant "c".

This is by no means exact; but recording statistics and charts like these is useful in helping the marketer become aware of sudden trend changes, particularly where performance falls.

He can then consider what has caused this change and take note of details that may be otherwise missed.

Many use software to record earnings, but most scripts do not incorporate graphical analysis. When the charting is done by hand the internet marketer notices sudden changes or is able to think about what to alter to bring in more revenue.

He can go deeper to ask this question: " Since the revenue is directly proportional to the slope of the revenue line, what factors will change the slope?".

Knowing these factors, he can vary them and test the changes.

By correlating revenue with articles written, the internet marketer can forecast profitability, no matter how rough the estimate. He has on his hands a set of statistics to use for further analysis, or in marketing terms "testing".

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