A lot of bloggers and people involved in the Internet Marketing niche don’t know a lot about Article Marketing. But this is one of the easiest and best ways to make money online through affiliate marketing. I am going to outline the basics of article marketing and how you can make money from it.
You Find An Affiliate Offer
First you need to find an affiliate offer you want to promote. There are a variety of affiliate networks out there that you can work with. For beginners I recommend Motive Interactive because they have a really easy user interface and a lot of the offers are simple email submits so you can convert people easily. You don’t have to sell anything they just have to enter their email.
You Find Your Keywords
Now that you have your product you need to find keywords to attract people to that product. Try and get in the mindset of the customer and think like they would think. What would they type into google to find the offer you have? A lot of traffic is not good if you don’t get any conversions so you need to use keywords to attract people with the right mindset.
You Write Articles Based On Those Keywords
You then need to write articles based on those keywords. When it comes to SEO for these articles you need to remember 3 major things.
- Put the keyword phrase in the title
This is the most important thing. If you want to rank well then you need to put your keyword phrase in the title. Fail to do this and you will lose a lot of money.
- Put the keyword phrase in the first sentence/paragraph
The next most important thing is placing the keyword phrase in the first sentence (or first paragraph if it won’t work in the first sentence). This tells the search engines that your article is focusing on that keyword phrase. This will rank you higher
- Put the keyword phrase in bold
Put your keyword phrase in bold ONCE throughout the article. This will help highlight it to the search engines.
You Submit Your Articles To Free Article Directories
Now that you have your articles written you need to submit them to free article directories. The best article directory is EzineArticles and then after that GoArticles is the next best. Only submit each individual article to ONE directory. Don’t submit it to many. Write new articles for each individual directory.
The reason we are submitting our articles to EzineArticles instead of our own blog is that EzineArticles has a Page Rank of 7 so it makes it really easy to get ranked well in Google. So unless your blog has a page rank of 7 or higher stick with the Article Directories. You will get ranked higher, get more hits and more conversions, which is how you will make your money.
People Click on Your Signature and Conversions Make Your Money
When you submit an article to an Article Directory you get to place a ’signature’ at the bottom of your article. I wrote about Writing Signatures To Make Money here so check that out if you need help writing your signature.
Basically people will visit your article, read it and then read your signature. Hopefully they will click on the link in your signature and sign up for your offer. If they do you make money.
This is a simple yet effective way to make money. It has no start up cost as you can write the articles and submit them for free and it can bring in a lot of income every month. You work once and you reap the rewards for months to come.
If you really want to earn a lot of money from this then I suggest you outsource your article writing. Get others to write your articles and pay them for it it. Then you can churn out more articles and make more money in the long run.
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January 11th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Hello Ryan, great informative post on article marketing. I recently wrote a similar post on how to do article marketing over at my blog that you should check out.
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January 11th, 2009 at 12:57 am
You’ve written a spot on article once again. Although I know a bit about article marketing, this a very good recap for me. Thanks.
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January 11th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Excellent recap of and explanation on an already popular topic. Good SEO and keyword targeting for articles is definitely a key.
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January 11th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Hi Ryan
That was one excellent post and very well directed towards the advantages of article marketing in building affiliate commissions. Since content forms a big part of the online marketing industry, thats precisely why I offer content creation service that is targeted to achieve sales/leads for your business. Article marketing can be a tedious task unless outsourced and thats where my organization comes forward to your help.
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January 11th, 2009 at 7:42 am
To achieve sales for business sounds very actual for the time of being.
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January 11th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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January 11th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
nice guide, as always good info
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January 11th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
KW research is my nemesis, but I’ll get it eventually.
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January 11th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Its as old as an adage. Yet its really still effective today if done properly. But its nor my favorite way to do affiliate marketing…
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January 12th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Heard about motive interactive on many blogs . Although I am not interested in more of affiliate marketing I’ll try it.
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January 12th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Good post. Did learn quite a few things. I already do some of the tings you have talked about here
Dennis,
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January 12th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Very few people know about Affilate marketing, let alone article marketing so this is a good intro. I think a good point you made is that people need to only submit it to one directory. Way too many people try and submit an article to several places. This results in duplicate content, and being rejected by all of them. Nice article.
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January 12th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I may be wrong, but duplicate content is for content on the same domain ? At least thats what Jason seemed to think over at .
I agree though, article marketing is a good method of converting.
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January 13th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Nice post Ryan. This is a nice article for anyone who is new to article writing.
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January 13th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Is this still effective today ? Since there’s a lot social bookmark and social networking site are available today
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January 13th, 2009 at 4:24 am
What an excellent post; through this I learnt a lot about how keywords are to be used in an article for optimum effect. Thanks.
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January 13th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Brilliant article. I especially like that you point out an affiliate network for beginners to try out. It sometimes feels like there’re so many out there, and it can be confusing for a beginner to figure out which one would be good to start with.
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January 13th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I can’t emphasise enough just how much article submission, and keyword optimisation of the titles of articles, can affect traffic in general for your site, not necessarily just from an affiliate point of view!
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January 13th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Hi Ryan,
Very good post. It’s all about keywords and the positioning. Some article directories do not allow too high density for your keywords so it’s good not to go overboard.
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January 14th, 2009 at 4:50 am
This is the second place I’ve seen ezine mentioned. I’m really going to have to check it out as it’s often easy to create articles, it’s just a matter of getting them seen!
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January 14th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Another good post for Article Marketing again. This will surely help especially the use of the “signature” for more exposure.
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January 14th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I love article marketing and like so many things that are good for me I don’t do enough of.
My favorite site to submit my articles to is EzineArticles.
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January 16th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I am sure that Bum (Article) Marketing can sure make me some more moolah!
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January 17th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Interesting, Ryan. I found it interesting, but what’s the point these days of spending the time and effort to write and submit just one article to hundreds of article directories when google won’t count the backlinks from all of them. What works now if you really want to get the best results from writing and submitting articles to hundreds of article directories is to use the power of article spinning.
Note that I am not talking about just spinning trash content, but taking the time and effort to do article spinning right – and of course by using the right article spinning tool. If done right, you will get much more results, in terms of backlinks and even traffic, than just submitting one SAME article to the hundreds of article directories.
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January 19th, 2009 at 6:01 am
These are some great tips about article marketing. I’ve just started my journey with internet marketing, and writing articles has brought my site a lot of traffic and a few sales already.
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January 19th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Hey Great Article man!
You explained the principle really well and made it apparant that it is easy for beginners to apply the technique. I know that article marketing is a great marketing tool and one that is viral; however, you made me look at it in a new light, i.e. finding an affiliate product which doesn’t require people to pay at first sight!
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January 21st, 2009 at 3:31 am
Keywords are the key. Put effort into this and use them correctly.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I like the fact that all one has to do to make money is to entice readers to ’sign up to an offer’ without paying cash first. This is a good model and suits the bum marketing strategy explained!
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January 26th, 2009 at 2:39 am
[...] Article Marketing for Money – Ryan has been posting in Jason’s absence and he’s been doing a pretty damn good job. If you don’t have money to spend on affiliate marketing then article marketing is another good way of doing it. This article is pretty straightforward but definitely worth a read if you’re trying to get into some bum marketing. [...]
January 28th, 2009 at 1:39 am
i think we can submit article in social bookmarking sites.
it is more effective.
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January 28th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
This is a great post and very informative. Article writing is a great way to get conversions and to make money
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