Affiliate Marketing Strategy Using Article Marketing

Article marketing is a great way to make more money from your affiliate endeavors.

The hardest part of affiliate marketing is getting people to click on your link and actually buy the product. If the person never buys the product, neither you nor Liz makes any money.

The key to article marketing is writing articles to inform your readers about a topic that your target group would be interested in learning more about. Something that relates to the product you’re trying to promote. Thus, when they get to the end of the article, you need to provide them with a link to find out more information in your resource box.

By no means at all do you want to sell in your articles. That is not the purpose of writing an article and it’s a fast way to get them to go unread. Not to mention, the chances of them getting accepted into article directories is very slim to none.

So, how do you make more affiliate money from article marketing? The following are some easy ways that you can make the most out of your articles to get more money from your affiliate links.

Write About What You Know
The main idea of article marketing is for you to become an expert in your field. You want to be the “to go to guy” when it comes to your niche. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s going to come out loud and clear in your articles.

Use a Catchy Title
Your title should catch the attention of your readers. If it doesn’t no one is going to click on your article which means no one will see your affiliate link either.

Don’t Use Big Words
Most affiliate products want to appeal to the average person. For this reason you don’t want to fill your articles with lots of big words that no one can understand. Your articles should flow nicely, in plain language. Otherwise, you’ll get a click alright – not the kind of click you want though. You’ll get a quick click away from your article. Your goal is not to make your reader feel stupid.

Include a Link to Your Website
In the resource box. Like I said above, you’re not supposed to be selling in your article. You are supposed to be informing the reader and creating a need for the reader to learn more. Then when they get to the end of the article, they will be looking for your resource box. Do not put a link inside the article content itself.

Submit Your Article To Multiple Article Directories
Keep a list of article directories handy. Submit your articles to several directories and keep an eye on which ones seem to do you the most good. You do not need to submit to every single directory available. If you can find any directories that focus on your niche specifically – make sure you jump on those first.

Guest Writing
The more quality articles you write, the more you will find some folks will use many of your articles on their site. I found this rather quickly. If I wrote a bunch of articles about one specific niche, some website owners/newsletter authors would grab every single article about that particular topic. If you find someone who does this, contact them privately and see if you can write articles for them on a regular basis – exclusive articles for them only. You can also keep an eye out for anyone searching for blog contributors or website writers that are in the same niche as you.

Keep At It
Article marketing is not something that you do and then just forget about it. If you want to make more money from your affiliate links then you need to do this on a daily basis. Keep writing more articles on the product and repeat these same steps to make even more money. Make room on your marketing calendar for article marketing on a regular basis.

One really cool thing for you to keep in mind about article marketing is the fact that I’m still making affiliate money on articles I’ve written 6 years ago!

Now go write those money making articles!!