Hi Bob,

Love the series on article marketing. I have a few questions.

1. I am writing articles/scripts and then creating videos and articles together.
In the process of picking a title, I have used the process you described.
When I try a title like "unhealthy relationships" or "abusive relationships" I get great results according to the 3 step criteria you mentioned. As soon as I add some variation, say "how to avoid an unhealthy relationship" the results plummet. I see no problem with these two word titles working fine for my videos, but do you think they will be acceptable to the article sites, or do they need to be more descriptive, such as "what to do if you're in an abusive relationship?"

2. My articles/scripts for video, are around 450 words per article/script. Will there be a substantial drop off of the article sites I can get accepted on if I don't increase the length to 750-800 words like you suggest?

3. What do the pros do? I am commiting the next several months to doing plenty of articles/videos. What sort of monthly volume do the pros produce in articles?
Perhaps a better question is...if I were to produce 30 articles/videos a month for the next 3 or 4 months, should that generate a bit of traffic or does it take a while for the traffic to build? 30 per month is very reasonable for me to produce, I'm not over extending myself with that goal.

4. Assuming a person follows the steps you've laid out in your video series, is the primary reason for a person not getting a good increase in traffic simply due to a lack of volume of articles/videos being written or produced?

Hi Chris:

Here are my thoughts.

1. Change your title to "Unhealthy Relationships: How To Avoid Them" and see what happens. You want to use your primary keywords first.
2. My feeling is Yes. Sites like EzineArticles.com requests articles in the sub-500 word range because this fits their model. If you want a bigger distribution, I would encourage you to raise the word count to 750-800. The only way to really know for sure is to test it. Each site is different and so is each article category.
3. This depends on what you're trying to accomplish? Most article sites will not accept more than 2 articles per week from a single author.
4. The three reasons people would not see an increase in traffic would have to do with.
Writing a very poor author block.
Not writing enough articles
Not writing compelling articles
Not writing solid article titles.

Hope this helps.

Aloha, Bob Sommers

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