Article Promotion - Comparing Your Income Against The Articles You Compose

Many people use article marketing to promote their websites. Using articles for this purpose can demonstrate 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 revenue for your online efforts. If not, you are highly recommended to spend some time correlating revenue to article marketing.

While article marketing incorporates many factors such that an exact computation of advantages in revenue terms is difficult, we cannot run away from the fact that when it comes to profitability of any online business, we must reckon in terms of hard cash.

Here statistics play a big part in correlating revenue to articles and I wish to suggest a way that you can check your article marketing statistics.

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

Over a certain time of, say, 6 months, a writer of various articles can graph income derived from article writing with the "y" axis as Revenue and the "x" axis of the graph as the number of articles prepared, every time keeping the number of article sites 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 documentation on the graph to make a straight line that goes through nearly all these points on the graph where the line is represented by the equation y=mx+c

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

The constant "c" is the value at which the straight line intersects the "y" axis and this is the particular part which stems from the author and is a representation of his skills in authorship, his style of writing, his command of the language and factors that only the individual demonstrates.

By studying income obtained against number of articles submitted, keeping other factors unchanged, it will be possible to measure the quality of the author's writing and form a rough basis to forecast further income to the number of articles planned for submission, ignoring other factors such as keyword choice, 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 notice sudden trend changes, especially where performance drops.

He can then consider 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 include graphical analysis. When the charting is done manually the internet marketer notices sudden fluctuations or is able to plan what to alter 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 forecast profitability, no matter how rough the estimate. He has on his hands a set of statistics to use for more analysis, or in marketing terms "testing".