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What is Affiliate Article Marketing and How Can it Help You?

April 6th, 2009

Affiliate article marketing can be the answer most new affiliate marketers are looking for in answer to the question “how do I get traffic to my site?”. It seems getting a site up and running is not the hard part, getting eyes on the page is.

Affiliate article marketing is basically the same as Bum Marketing, which you may have heard of. It is a cheap and effective way to drive traffic. You simply write a short article of about 300 -350 words about a topic related to the site you want people to go to. This article is a great example. I want to get traffic to my site www.nichesitepromo.com which is all about promoting a new site. Affiliate article marketing is a piece of that, so it’s a perfect topic for an article.

One of the most cited excuses for not using affiliate article marketing is “I can’t write”. I have yet to meet anyone who just can’t write. If you feel you are one of those people, chances are you just don’t know what to write. That’s where an article template might come in handy. There are many different templates you can use. One is “the golden rule” template. It is simply putting together a list of rules related to your topic. The title is simply The Golden Rule of . . . it’s good to put a number in there which increases perceived value. So for this article it might be The 5 Golden Rules of Affiliate Article Marketing ~ you think people who are interested in writing articles would read that? I do.

The title may be the most important element in the article, but when it comes to affiliate marketing, it’s your resource box. The resource box is the space below the article where you get to lead the reader somewhere else with a couple of links. These links when done correctly will also help you gain a better standing on the search engine results page. You must make sure your links are using your keywords as the anchor text. You do not want people clicking on the words, my website, my blog or click here. That will not help you at all. For this article I would make my link the words affiliate article marketing. Those would be the words underlined that people click on to go to the site I’m leading them to.

Once you have your articles and resource boxes written you have to distribute those articles to article directories. There are tons and tons of article directories available to use. The best of which is Ezinearticles.com. They are in good favor with Google and you will find if you have chosen good keywords you articles at EZA will often times make their way to the top of google on their own. You want to submit an original version of your article to ezinearticles.com. You can use a different version of your article to submit to the rest of the directories. Using software for this part is the best way to go, otherwise it is just too time consuming.

When it comes to submission software you have basically 3 choices. You have the cheapest option which you have to be present and clicking through directories. It will fill in the information about your article, but it is still very time consuming. The second is a service that is hands off for you. It will mass submit your article to all the directories, using the same version of your article. The third option is also completely hands off for you, but it will send out a unique version of the article to each directory. This is by far the best option.

As you can see, affiliate article marketing is not really that complicated. What it is, is time consuming and at times quite boring. It is however, one of the best things you can do for your website and to help get traffic to your site. At some point you can always start hiring someone else to do the writing for you. There are people who are willing to write articles for a fee. You need to make sure your income will cover this before you start outsourcing your writing. At the beginning it’s best to put in the time and effort and just do it yourself.