Affiliate article marketing can be the answer most new affiliate marketers are looking for in answer to the question „how do I get traffic to my site?“. It seems getting a site up and running is not the hard part, getting eyes on the page is.

Affiliate article marketing is basically the same as Bum Marketing, which you may have heard of. It is a cheap and effective way to drive traffic. You simply write a short article of about 300 -350 words about a topic related to the site you want people to go to. This article is a great example. I want to get traffic to my site www.nichesitepromo.com which is all about promoting a new site. Affiliate article marketing is a piece of that, so it’s a perfect topic for an article.

There are lots of reasons why people choose not to use this easy and effective method of traffic generation. Whether you think you can’t write, or you just hate it doesn’t change the fact, that articles are one of the best ways to get traffic. To help you do the writing you can use an article template. Which is just an idea for how to write an article. For example, the traps and how to escape them template. Choose one trap that someone might fall into when dealing with your topic and then show them how to avoid it. For article marketing it might be writing a terrible resource box. Then I would tell them how to avoid that.

Once you have your article written the most important piece comes into play, that is your resource box. Your resource box is a space at the bottom of your article where you can place 2 links to your website or product. You want to use these links to their fullest. You want to make sure the words people click on for your link are your keywords. So you want people to click on the words ‚affiliate article marketing‘ and NOT ‚click here‘. This is called anchor text, and not only can it help drive traffic to your site, but it counts as a backlink to your site and will help your rankings in the search engines. Improving your search engine ranking will help you get more search traffic, which is the best kind of traffic for an affiliate marketer.

Once you have your articles and resource boxes written you have to distribute those articles to article directories. There are tons and tons of article directories available to use. The best of which is Ezinearticles.com. They are in good favor with Google and you will find if you have chosen good keywords you articles at EZA will often times make their way to the top of google on their own. You want to submit an original version of your article to ezinearticles.com. You can use a different version of your article to submit to the rest of the directories. Using software for this part is the best way to go, otherwise it is just too time consuming.

There are 3 basic types of submission software you can use. The first is semi automated. It will fill in some of the information for you at each directory. You have to be present and click through from directory to directory. It’s still time consuming, but it’s the cheapest option. The second is mass submission of the same article. This is a little more expensive but can be a good option. The third and best option is a service that will send out a unique version of your articles to each article directory. You can even make unique resource boxes so your keywords text in your links will be varied as well. This option is a little more expensive than the others, but the features available make it by far the best choice.

As you can see, affiliate article marketing is not really that complicated. What it is, is time consuming and at times quite boring. It is however, one of the best things you can do for your website and to help get traffic to your site. At some point you can always start hiring someone else to do the writing for you. There are people who are willing to write articles for a fee. You need to make sure your income will cover this before you start outsourcing your writing. At the beginning it’s best to put in the time and effort and just do it yourself.