Saturday, November 29, 2008

Article Marketing - Boost Affiliate Sales

By Anson Hall

A lot of webmasters are using article marketing to promote their websites. In fact, you will have a chance to increase your affiliate revenue by submitting free articles to article directories. In fact, it is one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your sites.

Of course the most direct way to promote affiliate products using article marketing is to put the affiliate link in the articles. However, this will not work! Here are the reasons why it will not really work.

The first thing you need to understand is that people can remove your affiliate id easily. The article directories may also remove your affiliate id since they do not want authors sell affiliate products directly in their directories. How can you make money online if your affiliate id is removed?

As a result, you will try to put the link of your website in the articles instead of putting the affiliate links in them. This is practiced by most affiliate marketers who use article marketing.

The next question you may probably ask is what the contents of the affiliate site should are. The answer is that you will be developing a content site. You will be putting contents such as informative articles and latest news in your niche.

A business directory can also be a good choice. You may be trying to promote products related to wedding. And you will then create a business directory which contains the information of various wedding vendors.

On the other hand, you can also create a free report. You will be creating a free report related to the affiliate products you promote. And the you will link to your free report from the articles.

One last thing is that, there are some other advantages of article marketing. The links in the articles are actually back links to your sites. As a result, you can also treat article marketing part of your link building campaign. - 16928

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