Article Marketing - Comparing Your Profits Against The Articles You Compose


Many people use article marketing to publicize their websites. Utilizing articles in this way can afford proof of your credentials to share skills 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 income for your online efforts. If not, you are highly recommended to spend some time correlating revenue to article marketing.

While article marketing includes many factors such that an exact calculation of benefits in financial terms is difficult, we cannot ignore the fact that when it comes to profitability of any online business, we must reckon in terms of pounds and pennies.

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

Simple calculations can help to project revenue to the number of articles we write, even though there are factors specific only to a specific author that are not common to any other author.

Over a certain time of, for example, 6 months, a writer of different articles can graph receipts derived from article writing with the "y" axis as Revenue and the "x" axis of the graph as the quantity of articles prepared, every time keeping the number of article depositories to which the article was sent at a constant 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 solely article marketing, and the "x" axis will be the number of articles submitted.

Over a time-span of 6 months, you will have sufficient details on the graph to form a straight line that goes through nearly all the points on the graph where the line is represented by the equation y=mx+c

The function of the regressed straight line will denote that the income derived is a function of "m" which is the slope of the line, and a constant "c".

The constant "c" is the value where the straight line intersects the "y" axis and this is the particular part which stems from the author and is a representation of his talents in article writing, his style of writing, his command of the language and other factors that only the individual possesses.

By studying income obtained against number of articles submitted, keeping other factors unchanged, it will be possible to determine the quality of the author's writing and form a rough basis to forecast further revenue to the number of articles planned for submission, ignoring other factors such as keyword selection, onsite and offsite search engine optimisation which are not included in the study, and only on the basis of the individual's writing "flair" and abilities 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 identify sudden trend changes, particularly where performance falls.

He can then study what has caused this deviation 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 manually the internet marketer notices sudden fluctuations or is able to plan what to change to derive 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 project 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".