Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Article Marketing - Boost Affiliate Sales

By Anson Hall

It is very common for webmasters to utilize articles as a way to promote their affiliate sites. This method is usually called article marketing. There are tons of free article directory out there and a webmaster or affiliate marketer can easily submit their free articles to these free directories.

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.

Most article directories do not allow authors to put affiliate links in the articles. Even if you are allowed to do so, the readers may just remove your affiliate id when before they click the links. You will not be able to make money if the affiliate id is removed.

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.

So the question here is what kind of contents your website should contain. One of the ways is to make your website an informative content site. For this kind of site, you will be writing informative articles related to the products you promote.

Another way is to make your website a web directory. For example, if you are promoting some loan products, you may create a web directory which link to different institutes that provide loan products.

You may also consider writing a free ebook. You will be put the link of the ebook in the articles. Of course you will try to promote the affiliate products using the ebook.

Because you will be putting links to your sites in your articles, you will be able to get back links from the articles. As a result, it will also help to boost the Page Rank of your site.

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