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There are plenty of good sources that can tell you a great deal about how to establish an affiliate marketing business.  Unfortunately, it is much harder to find someone to do the actual difficult work for you.  Well, I may not have found that elusive source of free labor, but I know that I have unearthed what is probably nearly as good.

I do affiliate marketing, although I also sell my own information products and physical products.  My online business is made up of a number of traditional sites and blogs.  I am a firm supporter–make that “enthusiast”–of SEO for traffic generation, but that is a long term process; good search results take time to build.  In some cases, I have used PPC for affiliate products with success, but more often I am lucky to break even. 

So, for me, as for all Internet marketers, traffic is a very challenging part of my business.  It is particularly difficult for those times when I discover a new affiliate product but for which none of my sites are well optimized.  How do I send my traffic to the vendor’s site?

My approach to directing traffic to the vendor’s site is just like many other affiliate marketers, I take them first to my own site, where I ply my skills of subtle persuasion.  Then I just hope that I have been sufficiently convincing to get them to click the link that directs them to the vendor’s site so that I have some small chance of earning my commission.  I would like to make that process a bit less involved and take the prospects to the vendors a little more efficiently.

I use article marketing extensively for all of my sites.  While I get some traffic directly from the articles, my primary reason for article marketing is its SEO value, which is considerable.  However, especially for an affiliate marketer, there are two major problems with traditional article marketing.  The first of those problems is that the top tier directories that publish and distribute articles do not allow links within the body of the article, contextual linking.  Instead the links stand alone in a section that they call the author’s resource box, but which screams, “Commercial!” to our readers.  Second, the major article directories do not allow affiliate links or even links to redirected pages or domains.

At last there is a content syndication service thall allows both contextual linking and inclusion of direct affiliate links.  It’s called My Article Network–and, yes, once you are a member, you can join its affiliate program.

My Article Network is something of a cooperative that brings site owners (publishers) together with article marketers.  (That link will let you know what I have to say about it on one of my sites.)  It’s another of those Callen projects that most of us who hang around online business for any period of time have come to know so well.

Since I am writing for affiliate marketers, I’ll cut short the presell message and let sales page of My Article Network speak for itself.  I’ve been using it for less than two months, and I am a complete convert to the system.  In fact, I even set up four new niche blogs to make use of the free content that my colleagues provide.  {(Go ahead.  Click the link, you know you want to.)(Do it!  You know you want to click the link.  Come on…don’t you think I deserve it?}

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I am sure you have heard some of the online business success stories on the internet. The problem is there are many many more that do not succeed. Of the thousands of business enterprises that are launched every day only a handful will succeed.

Do you think becoming a success is just luck? Not really. It takes good business sense. It is important to have the eagerness to succeed, the determination to learn, and the willingness to invest in a lot of hard work and some money.

Without traffic to your online business all your effort is wasted. You can not sell products without customers. In the internet world traffic is the walk in customer. The more traffic you have the more sales you make.

Like any business not everyone that goes in will buy. The greater the number of visitors that come in to browse your merchandise, the greater number of people will buy your products. It’s as simple as that.

Even if you only get a small percentage of buyers from your visitors, you can still make a good profit. Many big companies generate tens of thousands of visitors a day. When ten to fifteen percent actually buys, it is enough to provide them with good business.

Many success stories get their traffic from paying others. Advertising is the key. Although there are many ways to advertise for free, they do not generate the same volume and quality of traffic. More traffic means more sales.

Search engines have become the most popular sites that people go to for info and products. It is easy to understand why people pay to get their sites high in the search engines. You have a great chance visitors will go to your site if your site’s link shows up high on the search results page.

I have been using Unique Article Wizard and article marketing to promote my sites. Unique Article Wizard is an article submission service. Article marketing has become a very popular and affordable way to advertise any type of online business. My sites are at the top of the search engines and I am getting a steady stream of targeted traffic.

Advertising your business is like paying for your traffic. This may not sound like a great idea at first, but the results will tell a different story.

Unique Article Wizard helps you create hundreds of unique versions of your article and submits it to thousands of directories for you automatically.Google loves this and will give you credit for all of the backlinks. Can you imagine what this will do for your search engine ranking?? Don’t reprint this exact article. Instead, reprint a free unique content version of this same article.

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You may know by now that Article Marketing is an extremely effective method of getting traffic to your site. Also, the more back links you have from these articles, the higher your page rank. The most difficult part is getting people to read your articles.

One of the most important components of your article is the title. Your Title needs to be able to catch people’s attention and draw them in to read your articles. Also, your title should be unique, so that you can search it in the Web Pages, to see how many times it appears.

When creating your author names, it is important to create your author as an expert in a certain field as opposed to a free lance writer. It you choose to write articles on different topics and categories, I suggest you use different author names for each subject.

Do you really want to use your own name? Many people do…and many people don’t. It’s really a matter of personal preference.

When creating your articles, there a few things to consider in respect to content. To avoid duplicate content, you can manually write different versions of the same article and submit them manually. Or you can use tools that will generate 100’s of different articles for you and even submit them.

The author box is also an extremely useful area to use to your advantage. You will get the best results if you place two links in your author’s box, one to your homepage, and the other to the page you wish the readers to go to.

Where creating the link text, it’s important to use words that relate to your site. For example, instead of using the words “click here”, you may want to use “Internet marketing” or “dog breeds” whichever keywords that pertain to your site.

If you choose to do article marketing, be sure to submit more than just one article. The more links you have coming back to your site, the better. One article per day should be good, however, try to do at least 2 – 4 per week.

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