Effective affiliate marketing using articles

This marketing technique is so simple but very effective and has so many advantages.

Articles can get you alot of traffic from search engines, get you backlinks from sites that use your articles for content on their site, they can help build your optin lists and obviously sell whatever it is you are promoting.

Now, although this is a simple technique you can just throw a half baked article together and expect it work miracles, it needs to be good quality, you can’t expect webmasters to put your article on their site if it’s of no use to their visitiors.

Your articles need to be at least 500 words, some places where you will submit your articles will not accept articles less than 500 words.

The article title is very important! The title needs to interesting enough to get people to read further but it also needs to contain the keywords you are targeting, for example, lets say for instance your website is about dog training, your article title would be something like “The top ten dog training mistakes”. I will go more into keyword research in a later post.

Do not write a glorified advert! Articles must be of good quality with useful content, not adverts. I wouldn’t put any affiliate links in the body of your articles either as some sites won’t accept them, some site will allow it but I would rather get accepted everywhere I submit not just in a few places.

At the end of your article is where you put the “about you” information, this is where you can promote your website, you only have 4 or 5 lines of text to do this in so make it appealing, offer some freebie or limited offer etc.

In an earlier post (Buying affiliate hosting and domain names ) I said how important it was to have your own domain, well this is one of those times you will wish you had one, as when people get to the end of your article and see the “about you” box what do you think will look more professional, an ugly affiliate link or your own domain? Guess which one will get the most clicks?

Think you can’t write an article? Yes you can, it’s easy, all you need to do is come up with a good title with your keywords in it, write an introduction about what your article is about, then write a few paragraphs about your chosen subject and finally write a summary about what they have just read.

If you can’t think of anything to write about or don’t know enough about the subject you want to write about, get on over to ezinearticles.com and search for articles related to your chosen keywords and then rewrite them in your own words, do not copy!!