It seems that I've been off the radar for a couple of days. At least within the WA community, so I figured I'd post another blog entry to collect my thoughts, if for no other reason. To get my visitors and network buddies up to speed...

When we last met, I had yet again experienced first page indexing on Google, but that experience was "bittersweet" as I recall describing it, because there had been no sales conversions. Unfortunately, there still have been no sales because of that listing. But FEAR NOT, for change is at hand because our young, handsome, and dashing hero, with his keen senses and problem solving skills immediately detected a potential flaw in his marketing execution. This flaw, or weakness, was the inability to use his bum marketing resources to effectively persuade visitors to his merchant site. Though broad flaw it may be, our hero has broken down this broad flaw into manageable, bite-sized pieces and is actively and successfully terminating each small obstacle in his way to marketing success!

How? Well, getting indexed, in and of itself, does not mean the content of the lens/article/blog entry/etc. translates well with a "live" person. It simply means that various aspects of your work was received by the infamous SPIDERS and fit together in the right way, on a popular site that made the SPIDERS feel that said work should naturally come before others. You see, getting indexed is the easy part. It takes little skill when you know how it works. The difficult part is turning those visitors into buyers. Convincing them that your product is the perfect match for them. 

I decided to take the steps to become an accredited article marketer, because article writing is my biggest challenge at this stage. With every campaign that I've started... or planned to start, it was always the articles that stumped me. The structure. The length. Relevancy. Content. Etc, etc. Well, just like any offline educational institution, I've been busting my a$$ the past couple of days with this accreditation course.   So far this is the most extensive and detailed illustration of the article writing process that I've come across. The bare knuckle specifics of not only writing articles, but articles that convert  is something that seems to be seriously lacking in the tutorials that I've come across so far. At least in comparison with the AM&SEO course.I'm only on lesson two, but I've learned a lot (always soaking up AM info like a sponge), and I know that article marketing mastery is within me. I can feel it. Watching this intuition slowly but surely manifest into reality and turning my weakness into strength drives me. So even if I have to fake it until I make it (which I will) I make the personal declaration that I AM AN ARTICLE MARKETING MASTER!