subject: Article Marketing For Affiliates: Make Money Online And Increase Your Page Rank And Traffic [print this page] Article Marketing For Affiliates: Make Money Online And Increase Your Page Rank And Traffic
Article marketing is the most affordable approach to promote a website, much more effective than advertising. When performed right, articles will stay on the web for years and will be copied by others for publication. It is the technology of choice for Internet marketers and especially great for affiliate marketing, in combination with a website (in order to have landing pages).Here are the mostcritical rules:1. Your articles should be informative and valuable to your readers; refrain from a "sales approach" 2. Check that there are no grammar and spelling errors and ensure the article is well structured (logically built up). 3. Submit the articles in many variants -by changing text and using synonyms- to major article sites 4. Be creative to find different angles around your subject in order to publish many articles each month. 5. Carefully evaluate your keywords for demand (volume) and competition; Google's free keyword tool helps here. 6. Use keywords in the title, summary and body text of the article. Ensure they are as compatible and relevant as possible with keywords, title and body text on your website's landing pages. In turn your landing pages must also be compatible and relevant to your affiliate partners. 7. Before you start writing articles, make a planning with angles, objectives and keywords. This will tell you which changes may be best to make to your website. After writing articles let a colleague or friend proof read critically, especially with respect to the value of the article. Poor articles are at times refused, not copied by third parties and removed after prolonged lack of traffic. Sound articles are taken up by many publishers, copied often (even without you being aware) and stay on the Internet for a very long time.When you do it correct you can't have a better SEO and marketing tool than article marketing promotion. Thanks to the one-way links to your website your Page Rank will go up thus improving your search position. Additionally, the articles generate traffic, so the knife cuts at both ends! And, rather than with advertising, this is a lasting result and much, much cheaper.Now we get to the point on getting all these benefits PLUS receiving affiliate income. Remember, your website should have the same topics and keywords (on the landing pages) as your affiliate programs. Do not take one landing page for more than one affilate program so you can use the most optimal keywords in the URL.Let us assume your affiliate partner sells food supplements, one of the most rewarding affiliate niches. Your article should discuss a directly related field, such as health or dieting and then you build up to the conclusion that your affiliate's product is the solution. The link to the landing page is in author's bio.Only give the link to your landing page that in turn will show the affiliate link. Ensure that the last line of your article and the first line of the resource box read as one. This way you make the perfect connection between the resource box and your article but this is not noticeable for the readers, when done well.After that you can add your bio and link to your home page or another related page. That way is how you can get the best of both worlds.Finally, there is the question on how to submit your articles. There are a small number of major article sites who support all subjects, and many hundreds of smaller ones, most of them serving niches. There are many websites that offer the service to automatically submit articles to dozens or more article websites. There is however a Big But: The search engines recognize duplicate content and automatically refrain from assigning Page Rank for those duplicates and also do not list duplicates in the search results.The traditional solution for this problem is to write variants of paragraphs by changing the grammar and/or use synonyms, maintaining the same quality as the base article, but seen as different by the search engines. I spent countless rainy Sundays to create variants of articles and manually submitted them.
