Thursday, November 27, 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.

A lot of webmasters will just put the links provide but the merchants in the articles and think that they have done the job. Yet you should never do that. You will not be able to make money if you just try to include the affiliate links in the articles.

Article directories do no allow affiliate links. Yes it is true that there may be some directories which will accept this links in the articles. However, the biggest directories just do not allow them. As a result, they will not accept your articles if you put the affiliate links in the articles.

You may wonder what the marketers do if you are not allowed to put the affiliate links in the articles. As suggested by most affiliate coach or experts, you will be creating your own affiliate site. To this end you can put the link of your affiliate site in the articles you submit.

This goes back to the question of what kind of affiliate site you should create. The most popular kind of site is of course content sites. This means that you will create articles about your niche and put them into your site. Of course you will be promoting the products in your site.

You may also consider starting a web or business directory. This is because visitors will usually find this kind of directory useful and this will help to generate more traffic to your site. You will need to create a business directory which is related to your niche.

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.

Another plus of article marketing is that it will also help in the SEO of your site. This is mainly related to the external optimization of the site. You can build more back links to your site by putting the links of your site in the articles.

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