Article Marketing for Affiliates - Huge Free Resource

[Linda Buquet]

Here's an entire Magazine Full of Tips about article marketing for affiliates.
All the info is FREE so take advantage of it and go grab your copy today.

The Affiliate Classroom Magazine March issue is available and it's all about writing and using articles as a free marketing tool for your affiliate marketing business.

In the first article, "Clever Ways to Find Topics and Write Perfect Money-Making Articles," you'll find out the best way to select topics for articles. Plus you'll learn the web's best kept secrets about what information should be included in your resource box & where those all-important links should be directed.

Before starting to write your articles, it helps save time and effort if you know in advance what type of article you should be writing. In "The Basics of Article Writing" you'll find out when an informative article is needed, vs. an article that pre-sells your affiliate products.

Of course your articles need to send your readers to a web site or landing page - preferably your own. In the guest article on choosing the right domain name, a keyword research expert explains how to find out if all the best domain names are already taken. You'll also learn what to do to capture the domain name that best fits your affiliate marketing plans.

Lastly, there's the article on Submitting to Article Directories. You'll learn lots of tips, and find out what the big article directories are, why they are top-ranked, and why you should definitely include them in your article distribution cycle.

Whether you’re an aspiring super affiliate, a top earner, or a part-time affiliate looking to make a little extra each month, this issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine has plenty of networking ideas to help you improve your affiliate business. It’s a free PDF publication, so just go here to download it directly (no email address required):

[Linda Buquet]

Here's another good post about article marketing I just added.

Creative Article Marketing for Product-Based Affiliate

[winningratings]

Article Marketing is another free, if extremely time consuming, method of bringing free traffic to your website

There are lots of people that will tell you that article marketing is a very effective method of advertising your website through "info marketing" i.e. posting useful information and then hoping that someone will click on the link in your bio box

However in my experience article marketing in nowhere near as effective as it used to be - at least not on the article directory websites

This is for one very good reason

You see what people used to do is to create adsense websites, where they thought they could earn alot of money just by getting people to click on the google ads on their website

To do this they went to the article websites, downloaded as many articles as they could find on their theme, and then incorporated the content onto their website

But then google got wise to what was happening - thousands and thousands of duplicate websites were springing up all over the place, all with the same articles plastered all over. Some people even sold packages of 100 websites ready made as "adsense websites" - so you can imagine how many times the same articles appeared on different websites

So google starting banning duplicate websites from their database - and the same thing goes with articles. People found the websites disappearing from the index and their traffic disappeared with it

Not to be undone the adsense website owners knew that they had to make their content appear unique, even if it was the same article as on other sites. This meant changing the article in some way or adding in RSS feeds in the middle of article text etc. But many of the article websites don't allow you to change the articles in any way - so that was duplicated articles up in smoke!

The adsense website owners found a new trick - don't bother with copyright protected articles - intead use PLR article content, which can be freely changed, editied, added to etc without any problem. So many of the successful adsense websites now ignore articles on the article websites alltogether, and instead use PLR articles which they can change anyway they choose. In fact if you are thinking of having an adsense type website for the google revenue, then its a really good idea to shun completely the article directories for your content and instead use 100% PLR material

Now you might think that thousands of people taking your articles and putting them onto their website, will work for you, but I would say think again. Most of the instances of those articles will be either banned for being duplicates or listed so low in the index that no one will ever see them. Thats not to say that some people wont use your content on their websites, they will, but its a question of what going to be the most effective

What I would suggest is to take the article writing side of your marketing strategy to a different level. You will find you will get many more reads of your articles if you put them onto your social networking site as a blog post - and best of all why not do video articles instead of posting your material onto article directories. In other words take a keyword phrase and then create a short video on where you talk about or have moving content on that theme. You videos will work alot better than any article sites, and you can have more visible advertising such as your website address etc displaying as the video runs - there is no more effective method than this

[fitnfree]

Great points, winningratings...I wish people would stop trying to take the easy way out with those awful sites where you're greeted with a ton of Google ads and if you look really hard, you may find content peppered in somewhere - and it's exasperating when you discover that content came from one of your own sites or your ezine.