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

Most beginning affiliate marketers are able to get a web site up, whether it’s on their own server or somewhere like Squidoo. What they seem less able to do is get some traffic to their offer. Affiliate article marketing is a great way to start driving traffic and start making some sales.

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.

There are lots of reasons why people choose not to use this easy and effective method of traffic generation. Whether you think you can’t write, or you just hate it doesn’t change the fact, that articles are one of the best ways to get traffic. To help you do the writing you can use an article template. Which is just an idea for how to write an article. For example, the traps and how to escape them template. Choose one trap that someone might fall into when dealing with your topic and then show them how to avoid it. For article marketing it might be writing a terrible resource box. Then I would tell them how to avoid that.

The resource box is actually the most important part of your article, well maybe second behind your title. The resource box is where you are allowed to have a couple links. These links can go to your website or your affiliate offer. Some directories do not allow direct linking to affiliate offers so read the TOS. What’s important here is how you write the links in your resource box. You must use your keywords as the anchor text of your links. You want people click on your keywords and NOT “click here” that does nothing for you. Each link that has keywords anchor text will help your positioning in the search engines as well as enticing readers to click through to your page.

After you’ve written your article and resource box the real work begins. Distribution. Getting your articles out onto the web is the whole reason for writing them. This distribution will gain you traffic, as well as backlinks, from your resource box, back to your site. For quick traffic submit your article to ezinearticles.com. Articles with well chosen keywords tend to rank well in google from this directory and can easily get your some quick traffic. Submitting to many directories will get your a lot of backlinks, but doing it by hand can be very time consuming. It’s a task where software is usually the best answer.

There are different types of software to accomplish this task. There are semi automated types of software, where you still have to be present, and hit buttons, but it will fill in the information for you as you go. There is also completely automated software. There are two main competitors in this area. One will send out the same version of your article, and the other creates unique versions of your article to send to each directory. The second is a little higher in price but the features of that service are well worth it.

Affiliate article marketing takes some time and effort but it’s really not that complicated. For the benefits your site will get it is so worth the time it takes to get it done. Affiliate article marketing will help increase your traffic as well as help building links to your site. This will help your site rank better in the search engines and that will lead to even more traffic.

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