Comments on: Bum Marketing, Does It Still Work?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:32:37 +0000

Hi,

I’m trying to post to SocialPoster however after submitting it just returns tot he same page again without any indication that it has submitted. Can anyone shed any light on this. Thanks.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:02:00 +0000

Please can you tell me the name of the company/individual as i would like to try your experiment and do not know where to get reasonable articles written.

Thanks.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:18:41 +0000

No related topics? No follow articles with conclusions?

I’d LOVE to hear how the experiment went.
C’mon, give us SOMETHING ;)

Alex has a good question imho – what CTR can we expect on our articles?
And what hit/read numbers can be considered OKish to persue?

From my point of view though, Alex’ 30% CTR seems pretty darn great.
My own articles (8 so far on EZA, not uber quality but not bad either) have had a CTR of about 12% and 1500 reads in one week’s time (~200-250 each).

‘d love to hear some testimonials from people who actually put some work into article/bum marketing and had at least some amount of success (or none)!

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:36:49 +0000

Hi Carl, I just read this great post. I came across Bum marketing method just one week ago and that is how I stumbled upon this website. When I thought of asking question I realized that this post is almost an year old. Anyway, let me ask this question anyway.

1) This bum marketing method revolves around posting articles to article directories. Out of this we are targeting basically the Article Views and the URL clicks which brings the visitor to our landing pages. In this scenario, what is one of the best click thru ratio (CTR) for an ezinearticle?

I have posted three articles in the last few days. All the articles were approved and published and it has the below statistics.

1) Article 1 – Views – 33 Clicks – 8 CTR (24%)
2) Article 2 – Views – 360 Clicks – 75 CTR (21%)
3) Article 3 – Views – 358 Clicks – 141 CTR (39%)

Overall Views – 751 Overall Clicks – 224 Overall CTR (30%)

I know it is a very less number of views for an analysis but it would be really great if the BUM Marketing veterans can tell me if this is below average, average, ok, great, or very good categories.

2) If any one of the BUM Marketing veterans can share their experience over the past one year (since this post is about an year ago) it will be really great for newbies like me.

Thanks in advance,

Ramesh.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:22:28 +0000

hi Carl,

thanks for great informative articles.may i know your ghost writer’s email, so i could ask him/her to write for me. thanks again

By: Mieke H.

Mieke H. — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:56:59 +0000

Hi Carl, just ‘bum’ped into this post. Really interesting.
I was going to try bum marketing before some gurus say it’s not worth it anymore.
However this post made me think twice about bump marketing.
So how is the result Carl?

By: Maik Jaeckle

Maik Jaeckle — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:13:34 +0000

Hello Carl,
a great posting about bum marketing. Everyone who wants to be successful on the Internet has to think about bum marketing.
I will follow your blog!
To your success
Maik Jaeckle

By: Jon Boyd Ann Arbor Exclusive Buyer's Agent

Jon Boyd Ann Arbor Exclusive Buyer's Agent — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:17:44 +0000

OK Carl,

Where are your results?

How did you do?

This was a really interesting post but there really isn’t much of a conclusion without hearing what happened.

Thanks!

By: Donald - internet money making

Donald - internet money making — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:21:59 +0000

Yes, the bum marketing market still works…i know because i was also using this method when i chanced upon carl’s web site just today!

Just to keep it short, most of the articles that i have written for my niche are at the top of google, page 1 for many of them, while a handful spilled over to page 2 of google.

For some of the articles, I dominated 2-3 results on google page 1 out of 10.

All these are bringing me few hundreds opt-in and sales for my promoting products every single month since I started doing this.

For those who have no extra $ to spend, or have not made any money online yet, this is a great and effective strategy to adopt!

Best wishes to all!

Donald
The SMART Infopreneur

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:37:48 +0000

Hey, Sounds great I have been doing bum marketing for about three weeks very intensely. I have two articles from ezine on first page of google and 5 US Free ads on first page. I have not made a sell yet. Can you help me? I feel like I do very good article writing and SEO, however don’t understand why I haven’t made a sell yet. Thanks for any input.