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Old 02-11-2008, 06:25 PM
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Hi everyone! Been monitoring this sight for awhile now...LOVE IT!!! My first post!
I have had an affiliate account now for little over a year. I dont think I'm doing too bad. Right now I have made around $5000. But I know I have greater potential I just need more traffic! I average around 50 hits on my links a day.

Been getting alot of pointers here...seems like submitting articles is a must. I am writing several up as we speak. This may be a stupid question But... I know I want to give information and such within the article...
Do I want to convey in my articles to visit my personel site itself via my website link or do I just insert my affiliate link itself within my article. What do I do?
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Also any other info anyone can give me I would greatly appriciate it!
I'm really starting to get into this as far as devoting ALOT more time to it!
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Old 02-11-2008, 07:18 PM
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I can only tell you what I'm doing. I find several affiliates from one subject, and then post related articles on that subject, and link to each affiliate somewhere in the article. I've found it's best to use something like "Learn More Here" or just highlight and link a phrase in a sentence. Don't make it look spammy. I have flagged lots of articles that have the affiliate link just slammed in there several times in the article. Also, don't make the article a review of the product. For instance, if the product is a book on making legitimate money online, you could do an article on how so many scams are out there, blah, blah, blah, then tell how you found this really great program that isn't a scam, so you're going to share it with other folks who don't want to get scammed. That's just an example, because it's been done a million times already.

With my articles, I use some of my affiliate links like sponsor links, with pictures and announcements of sales, etc. in the side frame. That seems to look a lot less like affiliate links, and brings more clicks. People are more likely to click on a "sponsor" link than an affiliate link.

As long as your articles are well researched, and contain valuable information, you shouldn't have a problem with being flagged or reported on any site.
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Old 02-11-2008, 07:56 PM
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So basically just slightly mention my merchant where it fits in on my articles. Sort of like "Oh, btw I found this blah,blah,blah. Correct?
So pretty much all the time I have links straight to my merchant in my articles. Never any other situation as far as using my site links?
Also my merchant offers me text links and small pic links, what do you find more success?
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Old 02-11-2008, 08:00 PM
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forgot...another thing, whats a good word count on an article? Are long ones better than short ones. When I enter them into directories what are they looking for as far as length? I mean if I can get something informative across to the reader I'm ok right.
Thanks so much
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Text links convert better than banners.

I don't do any article marketing but somehow I got the impression some of them don't want affiliate links in the article. Maybe I'm wrong. The few articles I read I typically just see an about the article paragraph at the end of the article which goes to the affiliate site and they do the selling on their own site.

If you do add affiliate links in the article I would assume the more natural sounding the better.

Example: "Many arthritis sufferers say MSM provides noticeable relief
and is lower cost than other arthritis nutritional supplements."

You don't have to say click here to learn more if the product is highly relevant. The key is to make it sound so compelling, without sounding like you are selling, that people just naturally want to click through.

So just read the TOS for each article site. I assume each site also has an FAQ that answers the question of article length.
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Old 02-12-2008, 03:42 AM
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Jeff,

You have to be sure and read the rules at the directories you submit articles to. Some like ezinearticles.com do not allow affiliate links at all. You can have a link to your website in the resource box. Links are only allowed in the body if they are part of the article, such as, "according to dr expert in the new england journal of medicine...... " then link to the article.

GoArticles.com allows affiliiate links in the resource box. If you have a premium account at usfreeads.com you can post articles with affiliate links and also use graphics.

Travis Sago has built his business around article marketing. He calls he strategy the BumMarketingMethod you can get a mini-course from him at his website BumMarketingMethod.com, no charge except for name and email address.

Hope this helps some.
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Old 02-12-2008, 08:16 PM
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I have just finished writing 3 different articles.. Same topic just reworded entirely different. If I submit all 3 at the same time to each directory will that send up a red flag? in other words will the owner see this and reject my articles? If so how do I get them out? Should I stick to just one?
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Old 02-12-2008, 08:20 PM
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500-700 words is the recommended count. In fact ezinearticles has a minimum requirement of 500. Other directories have different requirements. If you shoot for 500 you are safe.
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I have just finished writing 3 different articles.. Same topic just reworded entirely different. If I submit all 3 at the same time to each directory will that send up a red flag? in other words will the owner see this and reject my articles? If so how do I get them out? Should I stick to just one?
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Ezinearticles.com actually recommends submitting more than 1 article at a time. But if it is basically the same article just rewritten it would be better to submit each one to a separate directory. 1 to ezinearticles, 1 to goarticles and one to searchwarp or ideamarketers.
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Old 02-13-2008, 05:07 PM
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Ok...I have my articles completed!
Question on submitting. I saw the top 50 article directories to submit to here @ this forum. But I came across other sites like this one in particular called Article dashboard...any comments?
I signed up but before I entered anything I started to think is this the best way to expose my articles? I mean whats the best way? I'm worried that I will be submitting multiple (copies) of my articles to the same place!
What the best way??
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