This is what I tell my clients, regarding their marketing efforts. It’s always good to hear it myself so I can be reminded to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. Keep up the good work.

Peter George
The More Clients More Profits Coach

I recommend submitting up to 8 articles a month through an automatic article submission service like SubmitYOURArticle.com–that way you aren’t overloading the publishers (10 articles a week is a lot!), but you’re getting widespread distribution.

Usually it will take about 4 months before seeing significant results in traffic–this is due to the rate at which search engines re-evaluate their rankings due to incoming links. Usually search engines will re-evaluate every 3-4 months.

And then the idea is to consistently stick with the article marketing campaign over the lifetime of your website, building up a relationship with your readers and the publishers and establishing yourself as an expert in your niche (and of course building links and an increasing number of article views).

As for the product sales–it’s not a magic thing that happens, but rather is determined by:

1) your product

2) the quality of your articles

3) your faithfulness of your submissions

4) the quality of your resource box (which can lure readers back to your site)

5) How your present your product on your website

The idea of article marketing is to drive targeted traffic to a website, establish a connection with readers, build trust, and establish yourself as a trusted expert in your niche. Then when the traffic arrives at the website it’s up to you to close the sale (or continue building the relationship to get closer to closing the sale).

The key is to think in the long term rather than thinking you can submit gobs of articles in a short span of time and then reap the benefits.

For more information on this, check out these two posts:

How to sabotage your article marketing: Bombard Publishers With Articles

and

5 Things To Do Before You Start Article Marketing

I hope that helps a bit–remember that this is a long term article marketing tool, so consistency is key.

Hmmm, that could be something you could play with, but I would suggest linking back to the website you’re trying to drive traffic to as I don’t know that linking 2 articles to the first article in the resource box would drive traffic any faster. I would link to the site you’re trying to drive traffic to.

I hope that helps!

Would the traffic come any faster?

thanks Matty /my blog http://mattchip.blogspot.com