What is Affiliate Article Marketing and How Can it Help You?
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.
What exactly is affiliate article marketing? It is a process of writing articles. Articles that will inform your readers on the subject, as well as lead them to your main website or affiliate offer. These articles don’t have to be novels, 350 words is about right. The article I’m writing here is a perfect example of an affiliate article. This article is showing you how to get traffic to your website, which is exactly what my site www.nichesitepromo.com is all about. You can write about anything that is related, or you can tie in, to your site.
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 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.
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.