Friday, June 6, 2008

Getting The Edge On, With Affiliate Marketing Techniques

By Andy Michaels

You can make money on the internet with no start up costs. Maybe big internet companies would like to convince you otherwise and scoff if you said you did. Your secret is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is the best way to market yourself independently free of cost. You could try your hand at some paid marketing after a while, there are some that are pretty cheap to use. But for now, dedication, hard work, and commitment are all you need to invest. Patience to wait for the money to come rolling in is definitely a key component, but it too will come soon!

Competing against other lucrative forms of income and advertising, affiliate marketing is increasingly becoming today?s how-to for cold hard cash. At the same time, there are many types of affiliate marketing programs on the market competing against each other. What is affiliate marketing? Simply, affiliate marketing is the new wave in advertising where you get paid to advertise for them by placing ads for their websites and products on your webpage or within your articles. The compensation structure is usually well paid and nearly all of them are free to join. You simply sign up, incorporate the variety of advertising offered into your website or company articles, comply with your terms of service, and let the cash start rolling in.

What you are provided with is a piece of HTML code that, when linked to from a visitor to your site, takes the visitor to the company?s website, and tracks the link to you. You get compensated for delivering traffic of potential customers, and even more, if they actually buy something. This code could be in the form of a word link, side bar content, even full page ads.

Traffic is what affiliate marketing is all about. The more traffic you can drive to the merchant's site, the more sales there will be; and the more commissions you will earn for yourself. Article marketing is one of the top methods of driving traffic, and can be done for free! A lot of affiliate marketers use articles as their primary way of getting traffic.

For example, let?s hypothetically imagine that you sell an e-book, ?Affiliate Marketing- How to Strike it Rich in the Internet Gold Mine.? And your book contains all the tricks and tips from Mr. IStruckMillions in internet marketing. And lets also say that you book is not only a best seller, but also has actually caused all its readers to achieve wealth through its implementation. The only problem is that you do not have a website. Well, this isn?t really a problem anymore. You see, YOU can use article marketing to boost sales and generate income.

You can begin your article marketing strategy by writing a few 500 words articles giving a few tidbits of information from you book. You make your articles conversational, inviting, and like a letter from a good friend or mentor. Your articles have some good substance that actual does help your readers earn more money too. What you do now is end the articles letting your audience know that with your book, they can explode into the affiliate marketing game. You make sure they can back-link to your website for more information. When they get there, they decide to go ahead and buy the book so that they too can get the insider secrets. You get a commission for the sale. And this process repeats its self, even exponentiates itself, over time.

All of the promotional articles that you write you submit to one of several busy article directories on the Internet. The search engines regularly index these article directories and when they do, your articles become naturally indexed into the search engine directories. When someone is looking through the search engine for information about affiliate marketing, they find your articles. This is the nuts and bolts of the article marketing method that affiliate marketers use to make a lot of money.

Affiliate marketing and article marketing go hand in hand. Rarely will you see one without the other. It is one surefire way to make money with the Internet. It is an ongoing process that is a numbers game. The more compelling your articles are, the more traffic will be generated. The more traffic, the more visitors to your company's site. The more visitors that convert to sales, the richer you become.

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