Basic Steps of Affiliate Article Marketing

By Jackie Lee

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.

A lot of people say they just can't write, or they don't know what to write. This can be a challenge, but there are some good article templates available that can help you out. An article template is just an idea on how to write an article. An example is the 3 tips template. This is where you give your reader three tips to help them with your topic. So for this article I might write three tips to successful affiliate article marketing.

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've written your articles it's time for distribution. You have a wide range of choices for distribution. You can put your articles on a blog, or send them out to article directories. Both of these suggestions are good ones, and you should probably do both. The best article directory at this time is ezinearticles.com. They will publish you article and if you've chosen good keywords you may find your article at the top of google quite quickly. This will get you some good traffic to your site. You also want to submit your articles to multiple directories to gain more backlinks, from your resource box, to your site. There are tons of directories and submitting by hand can take forever, this is a task best left to software.

There are 3 basic types of submission software you can use. The first is semi automated. It will fill in some of the information for you at each directory. You have to be present and click through from directory to directory. It's still time consuming, but it's the cheapest option. The second is mass submission of the same article. This is a little more expensive but can be a good option. The third and best option is a service that will send out a unique version of your articles to each article directory. You can even make unique resource boxes so your keywords text in your links will be varied as well. This option is a little more expensive than the others, but the features available make it by far the best choice.

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.

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