Getting Best Out of BUM Marketing

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Getting Best Out of BUM Marketing

People use bum marketing (or article marketing) for various reasons. Some of them use it to bring traffic to their website, which they monetize through adsense. Some of them use it to drive traffic to the site which they plan to sell soon (flipping websites). Some use it to advertise products from clickbank or from other affiliate networks.

I have tried bum marketing in various niche markets like gizmos, electronics, apparels, ebooks, softwares, medical products, and many others as well.

But bum marketing has worked best for me on the medical products. Specially those medical products, about which, people don’t prefer to discuss with their family/friends. For these type of products, they do their research online. Bum marketing at ezinearticles.com or other similar places are good places to present the product reviews for people to tell them which product actually works and which does not. If you are actually helping them in decision making, you will also make the money.

I have used article marketing for Amazon, eBay (through BANS), Clickbank, LECash and MarketHealth. Out of these last two worked the best.

I use a combination of squidoo lenses, hub pages, knol (recently added) and article directories to promote the product. I submit my articles to only 5 directories which I consider the best. Its just a do-it-and-forget-it process.

Have any of you use bum marketing for some specific product? How is it going? Please share.

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Jim Karter on August 20th 2008 in Earning Money, Internet Marketing, Traffic Generation

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59 Responses to “Getting Best Out of BUM Marketing”

condo responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 3:25 am #

why do we call it Bum marketing? it means make up some article for a product?
japanese massage lover responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 9:30 am #

What’s your general advice for this.I find that ezinearticle article rank really well for some time and after that the feel down 30 position lower.

Also i am interested to know how much articles are you doing to promote a product ?

Thanks.
japanese massage lover responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 9:32 am #

Jimm you have wrong link for MarketHealth … it goes to clickbank
Neeraj responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 9:33 am #

Do you submit the same article to all those 5 directories ?
Jim responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 10:03 am #

What are the 5 directories you use?
Forex Robot Reviews responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 1:36 pm #

I have been using ezine for a few weeks now and submitted 10 articles. The first 9 were approved no problem, now the 10th has been rejected twice!

Doubt I will get Platinum status now! Not happy.

I use knol, hubpages too.

Jim
Zak Show responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 2:50 pm #

I use hubpages too.
Jim Karter responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 7:53 pm #

@condo, I am not sure why its called bum marketing. But yes, its like creating some articles and linking them to your website (or page) which recommends/reviews/sells a product.

@JML, I normally do 1 squidoo, 1 hub, 1 knol and 3 article-directory articles in one round for each product I promote. After seeing how it performs, I keep repeating those rounds.

@Neeraj, Those 5 articles to each directory would be unique but would be on very similar lines.
AdSense Land responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 10:10 pm #

Submitting articles to article-directories works very well for monetizing through AdSense. Best one I have found in terms of conversion (to clicks) is ezinearticles.com
Sophie responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 10:19 pm #

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the post. Good stuff. Which 5 article directories are you using that you feel are the best? I think I will start using Squidoo and Hubpages more myself as time permits.

Sophie
Jim Karter responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 10:58 pm #

I use following directories:

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlesbase.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.articlewheel.com

There are some others too.
Sheena responded on 21 Aug 2008 at 12:28 am #

Hey Jim,

Could you please advise me on whether i should place the same article i will be putting on the article directories on my blog as well?

Should i change them and then put them on?

Or should i just write separate material for article directories?
Carol responded on 21 Aug 2008 at 4:51 am #

I have only tried http://www.ezinearticles.com. Will try to the rest four.
medicalvideos responded on 21 Aug 2008 at 6:49 am #

thank you jim for the article and for the directories i will try them
Allyn responded on 21 Aug 2008 at 11:36 am #

I have a subscription to an article marketing site. I paid a one time fee of $250 and I can sumbit articles to about 20 directories (including ezine) using that. I love it!

However, I was using this tool only for the backlinks to my site to build authority, and never thought about making my links to affiliates!
Brilliant!

I also use the squidoo and hubpage idea and I also add in a blogsot and spread the feed from that all over the internet too!

AL
andrew responded on 21 Aug 2008 at 5:19 pm #

Thanks for the info Jim.
I really should start my article marketing too.
Murkel responded on 22 Aug 2008 at 3:04 pm #

Like Sheena asked earlier.
What is your response?
SynArticles responded on 22 Aug 2008 at 7:13 pm #

Hi Jim,

What kind of content you put on squidoo, hub page? are they similar to content which you submit to article directory and then link from squidoo to your website?
Toga responded on 26 Aug 2008 at 7:09 am #

Thanks Jim, this is very informative for me
Loren responded on 27 Aug 2008 at 7:58 am #

Hey Jim, What % of your income is generated from bum marketing? I ask because from my personal experience, although bum marketing DOES make money, it seems smaller compared to other avenues of generating internet revenue.

Thanks!
Forex Robot Reviews responded on 28 Aug 2008 at 1:54 pm #

I have just noticed that Knol checks for copies of the articles elsewhere, it then displays them next to the article. Don’t really like that as I am lazy and just copy my articles across the different directories.

jim
SEO Tricks responded on 29 Aug 2008 at 4:29 am #

Thanks Jim, Even I am using hubpages.. Nice info.
Mayank responded on 30 Aug 2008 at 5:53 am #

Great post Jim.

Also, could u plz tell if article on article directory is to be same as article on site or does it need to be changed/modified/rewritten.

Thanks and great post.
danny responded on 01 Sep 2008 at 7:00 am #

Great site Jim and some inspiring words!

I have a question, can we contact you to ask you questions? if so whats the mail?

i wanted to know what wordpress blog template you use? and did you design it yourself?
Web Freak responded on 01 Sep 2008 at 8:25 pm #

BUM Marketing name looks so funny, btw JIM how come your blogs just a PR2, last time I saw was PR4
Gossip responded on 01 Sep 2008 at 10:14 pm #

hubpages, I know that, tried before.
SEO Tricks responded on 02 Sep 2008 at 1:06 am #

Thanks Jim,
I am even thinking to start off my article marketing.
Website Design responded on 02 Sep 2008 at 7:46 am #

I like the “BUM” term used here. Lol! When it’s done right, posting articles that have great keywords in it’s content that corresponds great with adsense, it can be a huge success. People need to do keyword resaerch first.
Zak Show responded on 02 Sep 2008 at 5:58 pm #

Where are you Jim? Missing your posts!
Carol responded on 02 Sep 2008 at 6:24 pm #

I just realized too that your last post was almost 2 weeks ago…Waiting for your new post Jim.
Forex Robot Reviews responded on 03 Sep 2008 at 1:14 pm #

Jim, are you still there?

Haven’t seen any earnings posts for a while, have you given up on that. It was always inspiring to see your progress.

J
Everton Soccer responded on 05 Sep 2008 at 11:04 am #

Bum marketing is the best. Ezine is my favorite publisher, because not only do you get traffic from the links, but they pass a lot of link juice.
Peacecrusader responded on 05 Sep 2008 at 11:22 pm #

Jim or anybody who knows him.The earnings which jim posts are for this paticular blog or does he has a chain of blogs & websites.Early feedback would be appreciated.
hyundai blog responded on 06 Sep 2008 at 5:20 am #

He runs about 200 blogs/websites and that amount of money comes from all of them.
daniel responded on 07 Sep 2008 at 1:31 am #

I think Jim’s got a lot of out of office projects going on at the moment…

Its a hard time for investors right now, i just lost $20,000 from the Thai Collapse.

Imagine how many poor people i could have helped with that.

sob!
Forex Robot Reviews responded on 09 Sep 2008 at 2:14 pm #

Times are very hard for me in the Internet Marketing World.

Where is Jim, this post was 3 weeks ago!

P.S. The Porsche still motivates everytime I visit!

Jim
Sheena responded on 09 Sep 2008 at 5:41 pm #

@Forex Robot Reviews
Very true. That Porsche is a beacon for Jim’s perseverance.

@Mayank
Asked a similar question.

@daniel
Jim is a hard-working guy; wouldn’t be surprised, but then the time for a follow up to the eChemotherapy study should be coming in a day or two now as the last one was on 11 Aug 2008.
Carol responded on 09 Sep 2008 at 9:51 pm #

Right, Jim is very busy guy. What I like from this blog is once Jim back from long absence, he usually write lot of great things he get from his last business experience.
interview questions responded on 15 Sep 2008 at 2:44 am #

I sure Jim will be back shortly. Worth the wait many of his blogs post tell a lot more than most other bloggers.
Niz responded on 15 Sep 2008 at 6:55 pm #

@condo It is called bum marketing because it is for “lazy bum” marketers who don’t want to go through any pains of building/maintaining the website and yet earn easy money. Who doesn’t though?
Reader of this blog (obviously) responded on 15 Sep 2008 at 10:19 pm #

Still waiting for the chase study follow up.
He (Jim) must be very busy. I hope he has had time to work with the case study. It would be awesome to see improvement in earnings.
Ruby Web responded on 17 Sep 2008 at 6:41 am #

What have you been up to lately? you haven’t posted in quite a while.
Seebux.com responded on 17 Sep 2008 at 7:33 pm #

I thing ezinearticles.com is good enough. they site is so easy to be indexed by google and for a couple of keywords, we can beat them in SE if we sent article through ezinearticle. thx
CodecMoney responded on 18 Sep 2008 at 4:13 am #

Thanks for the post. Good stuff. Which 5 article directories are you using that you feel are the best? I think I will start using Squidoo and Hubpages more myself as time permits.
Aditya responded on 18 Sep 2008 at 9:41 am #

Thanks for the post. good job. soon i’ll start using squidoo.
BLOGGING TIPS responded on 18 Sep 2008 at 10:50 am #

good posts thanks for sharing. its was very useful
Forex Robot Reviews responded on 19 Sep 2008 at 12:38 am #

ezinearticles is the fans favourite, but it can be very hard for marketeers to get platinum status. I submitted 9 top articles and then the 10th got flagged, meaning I go onto basic plus.

The key is do not get flagged if you want platinum!
Zak Show responded on 19 Sep 2008 at 4:46 pm #

You shouldn’t rely only on ezine !
Drift responded on 20 Sep 2008 at 9:49 am #

Thanks nice info about BUM maketing.. I try the 5 directies..
Forex Robot Reviews responded on 21 Sep 2008 at 8:40 am #

@ Zak

I agree, there are lots of good places already mentioned where you don’t have to go through the same PITA rules as ezine like hubpages etc
Chad responded on 21 Sep 2008 at 4:28 pm #

Hello Jim, I enjoy your blog I guess you have been busy as I have not seen any new posts lately, Hopefully something soon with an update on your e-chemotherapy site woulde be great.
ZK@WebTrafficROI responded on 24 Sep 2008 at 12:35 pm #

BUM Marketing works well with clickbank and some cost per lead programs
articlesubmission responded on 02 Oct 2008 at 4:32 am #

Hi Jim, really article marketing makes good profit for affilite marketers, also for adsense if the article has lot of information, visitors reads articles and if they satisfies then they wl redirect to there site.
Games responded on 02 Oct 2008 at 5:42 am #

Nice article…. I follow most of the articles here… It help me alot to improve my blog
Dhirender yadav responded on 04 Oct 2008 at 5:10 am #

Rightly said games, I do also follow most of the things mentioned here and it has really helped me a lot. I have achieved a google PR 3 in 3-4 months and the alexa rank in in 800K and soon i am sure i will be in Top 200K.
Lowongan Kerja Terbaru responded on 04 Oct 2008 at 6:09 am #

Never tried BUM marketing before.. I will try it soon… thanks for sharing this info
smasra.com responded on 13 Oct 2008 at 7:17 pm #

thank but where are you ?
why no more posts ?
Money While You Sleep responded on 04 Nov 2008 at 10:09 pm #

It was my understanding that it was called BUM marketing because it doesn’t cost anything to submit articles, whereas PPC costs money. Therefore it’s a way to “bum some traffic” i.e. get it for free.
braveurl.com responded on 11 Nov 2008 at 8:09 pm #

I think the best article directory 4 me is enzinearticle, but one problem for me is they always denied my articles, they said my article is not fully grammared..