Step 3: Affiliate Article Marketing

purpose: to build good anchor text backlinks to your site which improves your search engine results placement leading to more search traffic.

Affiliate article marketing

This is really no different than any other kind of article marketing. The main thing you need to know is when linking back to your site within your resource box you MUST use the proper anchor text. This means you must use your keywords to link to your site.

There are a couple different ways to do affiliate article marketing ~ you can and should submit your articles to ezinearticles.com You will be using ezinearticles for direct traffic as well as for anchor text backlinks. Ezinearticles.com is in good favor with google. If you have chosen your keywords well you may find your ezinearticles post on the front page of google. If this happens you will probably get some good traffic. That is if your author’s box is written well and makes people click through to your niche site.

A couple tips of what NOT to do when writing a reference box. Do not write

Joe Shmo is a leading expert on such and such go to his website for more information.

This will NOT work ~ I guarantee you.

You should know what the benefits of your product/service you are promoting are. Use those benefits to entice your reader to move to your site to get more information. Make them curious, make them laugh - that will get you the click.

Don’t make the same mistakes I did when I was [keyword anchor text link]. For 7 more tips guaranteed to make it all move a whole lot faster so you can get on with [keyword anchor text link] ASAP, be sure and grab my “saved-my-hiney-more-times-than-I-care-to-remember” list and save yourself a big fat headache.

You get the idea.

The second part of affiliate article marketing is submitting to many many article directories. This can be tedious and seriously boring ~ and that is why, unless you have a tool, most people won’t do it.

We have used many article submission tools in the past. We are currently using Unique Article Wizard and are very happy with the results we are getting using it. It has some special features that make it totally worth the price. It will not only submit your articles to directories, it will also submit your articles to blogs that have requested free content. (this is a super good thing) It also created unique versions of your article to send to each directory and blog. This gives you unique content spread all over the web with YOUR name on it. This will really bring you “expert” status on your topic.

Unique article wizard will also help you create varied resource boxes, so you can change your keywords and send out unique resource boxes with each of your articles as well. This gives you a distinct advantage because you will be creating varied links back to your site ~ all using your keywords as the anchor text. Google likes this very much. It’s not often that many different people create the exact same link back to a site, so having the varied anchor text makes it look more natural in the eyes of google ~ which is always a good thing. It will also give you the ability to link to different specific pages within your site ~ all from one article resource box.

How many articles you do will completely depend on how competitive your niche is. If you are in a low competition niche or using keywords with minimal competition you can start with a couple articles at EZA and a couple articles through Unique Article Wizard and you may find yourself at the top of the search engine listing. If you are in a more competitive niche you may find you need to send out more articles through unique article wizard to create enough links to get you to the top of the search engine results page.

If you don’t have unique article wizard you can certainly submit your articles by hand as well. Here’s a list of 50 article directories.