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There are plenty of places where we can learn about an affiliate marketing business, but there aren’t many places where you can find someone to do some of the hardest work for you.  Well, I haven’t quite fixed that problem for you, 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.  I use websites and blogs for all of my online business activities.  I rely quite heavily on search engine optimization (SEO) to secure traffic, but that is a long term strategy.  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.  Especially difficult are those times when I have to pass on a new affiliate opportunity because none of my websites are optimized to bring in targeted traffic for the product, so I face the age old question:  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 bring the visitors to my own site initially for an introduction to the product or, perhaps a comparison of competing products.  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 content syndication 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.  There are two major problems with the traditional approach to article marketing, especially for the affiliate marketer.  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.  Typically, the links are isolated below the article itself in a sort of no man’s land called the author’s box or the resource box.  Second, the major article directories do not allow affiliate links or even links to redirected pages or domains.

Finally, there is an article distribution service that solves those two problems and allows direct linking using our affiliate links which can be placed contextually within the article.  Yes, you will be able to join the affiliate program of the amazing My Article Network once you become a member of the service.

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.) 

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.  I joined it for the article distribution, but I became so enthused that I set up four new blogs to take advantage of the free content in some of my niches.  {(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?}

Article Marketing is an incredible way to make money in Internet Marketing. But recently, two big issues have surfaced that make it a lot harder to succeed than it used to be. Happily, Kamran Chowdhury’s New Article Marketing Revolution will blast you past both of them. This article addresses the second big reason it’s harder to make money in article marketing today, the increased sophistication of our competitors.

Back when I started in Article Marketing (2+ years ago) the formula for success was pretty easy: the more articles you wrote and posted at the top directories, the more money you would make. But those days are long gone. These days, you can write hundreds of articles and post them everywhere with little to show for it.

What’s the difference? Why don’t the old ways work anymore? The difference is that the most successful article marketers today use much more sophisticated techniques. We don’t post our articles and hope for the best..

This is why you need New Article Marketing Revolution. Kamran Chowdhury, a very successful article marketer in his own right, exposes a number of the sophisticated things he does to get his articles huge numbers of backlinks and visitors consistently. Much of what Chowdhury has to teach is stuff I’ve never seen despite my years in the business. And in case you’re wondering, this isn’t ivory tower theory either. I’ve tested some of what Kamran has to offer and am impressed with the positive results I’ve gotten.

If you would like to give your articles the benefit of the latest techniques that virtually guarantee your success, New Article Marketing Revolution is the guide to get. To learn more, CLICK HERE.

I’m a full time internet marketer who spends most of work day doing 3 things: Creating WordPress posts (which usually link to a high conversion product such as Vimax Pills), writing articles which link to those blog posts (using tools such as Unique Article Wizard), and listening to The Beatles (yes I have Beatlemania and yes I pre-ordered The Beatles remastered CDs as soon as they were available for pre-order.)

Of course, this article isn’t about the first and third activities, just the 2nd. Article marketing works wonders for search engine optimization, in fact it’s just about the only tool I use for building links now and I find it quite effective.

First of all you must to look past EZineArticles, too many people think that website the only place you should bother submitting articles to! I think that’s crazy. While I do use EZA myself, I do not rely on it. And it’s not the best as far as getting links goes since their articles are not picked up by other sites very often. Instead I mostly rely upon article distributon websites.

The key with article distribtion is that you significantly leverage your work. Instead of just getting an article up on one site, you can get your article up on many sites (even hundreds in some cases) and this means you can get links back on many sites with just one article!

If you know anything about SEO then you know the great importance of getting links on as many websites as you can, so I don’t think I need to explain why you would want these links back, I’m only trying to show you the power of submitting articles with article distribution services and why you should make it a major part of your link building approach.

I think you can have great results by submitting one or two articles a week if you are using one of the best article distribution services, and I definitely recommend that you use multiple services. The more services that you use and the more articles you submit, the better your results will be.

At present earning money through internet is very easy, and one such way is to become a professional Internet writer. An online writer just writes on a given specific article to the specified number of words given by the hirer. There is no risk involved in online writing, and payments are hundred percent real. It is not like the MLM business, in which people were interested a lot during initial stages and joined and finally ended up in a failure.

When you desire anything or you need to achieve anything, hard work and smartness are the two primary key factors, which you have to consider. Without these two factors you cannot succeed in achieving you desired thing. Especially to make money online through online writing as an online writer is very competitive and one has to work a lot hard and act smart to make the most from it.

Now lets us see some types of online money making ways which an online writer should follow to make his desire. There are a lot of ways to write articles online, but it is your duty to select a perfect way which suits you to make money. So try out some of the following things, which may help you to reach your goal.

Start your online writing career by writing articles to magazines and other sites, or maybe write for the purpose of article marketing. Else you can create your own freelancing site. Writing articles to a magazine or sites for money is referred to as freelance writing. You should start your writing career as a free lance writer only which will give you some experience. To become a freelance writer, surf through the internet for freelancing sites. There are many sites like getafreelancer, rentacoder, elance etc. Just fill in and register you under their site. They start earning money in an easy way.

If you are a professional writer or have a high profile of writing, then you can be employed as a permanent writer for the hirer who hired you. This type of paid writing mostly wont suit many people since they lag in experience and have a low professional profile. It is almost like freelance writing, except that it is a permanent work.

You can earn money by writing articles on your own blog. It you have a good set of readers for viewing your blog then it will surely fetch you a decent and reliable income. Even revenue sharing method can be employed to earn money.

From a list of several options it is your wish to select a good and suitable option for you to earn a good amount of money online. Just make a selection and start your career as an online writer and start earning money.

I make a lot of judgements in my online business, judging the output of others.  We all do that, I guess, although perhaps in different ways.  Even in our roles as consumers of business products, we judge the copy of a sales letter or a video before we buy a course or a new piece of software.  We assess what is good or ineffective when we do our competition analysis of the website design of others in our niche.  We also critique the writing of our writing team or those to whom we outsource article marketing.

I write all of my content about Internet marketing (including article marketing) myself.  However, I hire free-lance writers for most of the other niches in which we compete.  In addition, I average about two dozen unsolicited articles per day from other marketers who want me to publish them on my sites in some of those other niches.

I have learned from having wasted money.  I now use a select stable of writers who make up my writing team and whom I have trained to do my paid writing.  However, of the unsolicited articles…I reject a substantial majority even though they come to me as free content.

I thought that it might benefit other marketing writers to know why I am more likely than not to refuse to publish the articles that they send me.  Here are the most frequent reasons for my rejections:

*  The articles don’t make sense in English.  Any language, of course, is composed of its vocabulary and its grammar, and it is difficult to master both by taking a few years of apparently inadequate instruction.  It is certainly posssible that a writer may write brilliantly in her or his native language, but, without complete fluency in a second language, the writer will never be able to write effective marketing copy.  The writer (or the writer’s employer) needs to hire a native speaker of the language to edit (or even rewrite) the article.  After writing a first draft, have a writer who is truly fluent in your targeted language rewrite the copy. 

*  The articles are submitted in the wrong category.  I receive articles about subjects that simply make no sense for publication in a blog that has a theme such as the one to which the writer has submitted.  I have a business blog to which people submit suggested articles dealing with plasma televisions or planning your daughter’s wedding.  All the writers have to do is to put a business spin on their idea, somethat that could often be done with a little rewriting and an extra paragraph.  One could author an article about how to build a wedding planning business and cover many of the same topics as the article about planning a daughter’s wedding.  A web author could switch the things to look for in a plasma TV to the best features in a plasma monitor to be used in business video presentations.  Either of those, I might be happy to publish.

*  Many articles are the victims of poor spinning.  I have spun articles for many years, so I can usually recognize within a paragraph or two if an article has not been well prepared for spinning.  No website can get any benefit from a poorly spun article or from publishing duplicate content. 

Implicit in all of these reasons for rejection are the solutions to the problems.  Either follow proper writing, submission and spinning standards yourself, or hire a web article author who thoroughly understands the needs of Internet marketers.

Being an affiliate marketer can be a tough business.  We need to know a lot more than we thought when we first entered the field.  The learning curve is too steep for some, and many simply drop out.

The most frequent difficulty among failed affiliate marketing enterprises is buying magical, secret strategies and not implementing them to test if they actually work.  Some are no more than buyers; they don’t even read the books or watch the videos they buy.  I hope that you are among those who will remain dedicated over the long haul, consistently updating your knowledge base and actually applying what you learn by taking action.  If not, please just stop reading, because you’ll simply waste money, and your business will fail, regardless.  I’m sorry for being so blunt.

There are two resources for affiliate marketers that I include in my recommendations.  One has to do with using a marketing approach using blog entries, not just your blogs and websites but the blogs of many other businesses.  The system is called My Article Network.  Here I’m going to focus upon one use to which an affiliate marketer can put it, although the prior link in this paragraph will deliver you to a lengthier description of how the entire system works and may benefit you.

If you use the traditional method of article marketing, you write articles and submit those articles to article directories.  With that method, your links are limited to the author’s resource box, usually published at the end of the article.  In the new method of article marketing, you can use the much more effective contextual linking, that is placing your links directly within the content of the article, where they are far more likely to deliver targeted traffic to your vendor’s site.  Most of the major article directories will not allow you to use affiliate links in your own resource box.  With this system, affiliate links are permitted.  You can get a feel for the whole process by visiting the site for this unique article marketing approach that will pre-spin your article so that unique versions are distributed to websites and blogs within your niche from their membership of over 10,000 websites.

The other resource is a complete educational system set up exclusively for affiliate marketers who are owners of various size businesses as well as those preparing for a career in affiliate management.  This is a completely revamped reissue of Anik Singal’s famous AffiliateClassroom.  Singal earned recognition as one of the young entrepreneurs of 2008 by Business Week, a top publication.  Singal has spent the last two years totally remaking this ground breaking program.  I strongly urge you to sign up for the complete information before all the spaces are taken.  No joke, this will fill very quickly.

If you see simply a squeeze page, that means that the course has not yet opened.  Fill it out to receive updated information, as it is being launched very soon.  If it has already sold out when you arrive, check for a waiting list, and sign up if one becomes available.  Good luck!

Anticipating a question that I would ask, yes, both of these have affiliate programs, but you can’t use your own affiliate links to purchase either membership.  You must sign up for both prior to gaining access to the affiliate programs.

Internet article marketing is one of the major sources of money earning methods which is gaining popularity now a day. It makes money by increasing the web traffic at your site, which in turn increases your sales. Marketing is not a single strategy which most of the people think of. But it is multi dimensional and has a lot of things to be followed to survive in the internet article marketing. Some of the steps that should be followed necessarily for good internet article marketing are shown here.

The AIDA model is one of the important models of marketing and every marketer should implement this model to have a better sales. To have a lot of used to your site this model should be implemented for sure. The abbreviation of the AIDA modes is attention, internet, desire and action. Follow the key points for effective marketing of your articles.

Marketing, including all Internet marketing has seven P’s that has to be included. In the seven P’s first four are well known and familiar to us, they are product, price, promotion and place. But article writing should include three more P’s in addition to the first four for its effectiveness in internet. The additional P’s are position, preference and people.

Internet article marketing should implement the three Q’s for enriching your articles in internet. The three Q’s of marketing basically stands for quality, quantity and quality. The first two Q’s are very much common to all products where as the third one is very much important for article writing. It is the quality of your prospects and expertise within the key area of your plan.

Always try to respect the business owners. Business owners today don’t have much time to spend to unworthy things. So utilize their time effectively and try to satisfy them with your article. Work on your article for giving an appealing appearance and necessary information in quick time.

You should not get satisfied with your present level of writing. Your writing skill should be honed regularly to improve your standard of writing. A very much skilled writer would have their experience as a speaker, as a business coacher and as a consultant. In internet article marketing, the writing skill of a writer plays an important role as everything depends on his writing.

The result of your marketing should be measured. Any successful marketing will begin and end with a result for the work done. Internet article marketing is a continuous online improvement process, so try to embrace it. It is like, the more you write, better you think and better you think the more you write. Internet article marketing is thus a proven strategy for increasing sales through web traffic of your site.

Affiliate marketing is often a difficult business.  We need to know a lot more than we thought when we first entered the field.  And the learning curve can be so steep that many simply give up.

The most frequent difficulty among failed or failing affiliate marketing enterprises is buying magical, secret strategies and not implementing them to see if they actually work.  Some are no more than buyers; they don’t even read the books or watch the videos they buy.  I hope that you are among those who will stay committed over the long haul, consistently improving your knowledge base and actually applying what you learn by taking action.  If not, please just stop reading, because you’ll simply waste money, and your business will fail, regardless.

There are two resources for affiliate marketers that I include in my recommendations.  One has to do with using a marketing approach using blog entries, not just your blogs and websites but the blogs of many other businesses.  This system is a very useful membership site called My Article Network.  I have described the way it works elsewhere (see that link).  Here, I am going to describe one way that it can be used creatively by an affiliate marketer.

If you use the traditional method of article marketing, you write articles and submit those articles to article directories.  With that method, your links are limited to the author’s resource box, usually published at the end of the article.  With this new system, you can put up to three links directly into the article itself.  Contextual links are much more effective.  Furthermore, the top article directories (those with the most traffic, which are most likely to show up in the search engine directories) will not allow you to place a direct affiliate link into even the resource box.  However, this new, vastly improved approach allow you to use affiliate links that will go directly to the vendor, without having to send your traffic to your own site as a costly intermediate step.  You can check it out for yourself by visiting this remarkable article marketing system that directly submits unique versions of your articles to blogs and websites in your niche from its list of over 10,000 sites anxious to receive content.

My other major recommendation is a complete learning system for affiliate marketing.  It is a brand new version of Anik Singal’s well received Affiliate Classroom.  Singal earned recognition as one of the young entrepreneurs of 2008 by Business Week, a top publication.  Singal has spent the last two years totally remaking this ground breaking program.  I strongly urge you to sign up for the complete information before all the spaces are taken.  No joke, this will fill very quickly.

If you see simply a squeeze page, that means that the course has not yet opened.  Fill it out to receive updated information, as it is being launched very soon.  If it has already sold out when you arrive, check for a waiting list, and sign up if one becomes available.  Good luck!

Anticipating a question that I would ask, yes, both of these have affiliate programs, but you can’t use your own affiliate links to purchase either membership.  You must sign up for both prior to gaining access to the affiliate programs.

There are certain sets of skills and knowledge that are a part of any job to be completed properly.  This applies to writing for article marketing as well as any profession.

In another article I’ll offer some of the specific skill sets involved in professional article writing.  I want to concentrate this article, in fairly broad terms, on the necessary knowledge sets.

At the heart of the purpose of article marketing is search engine optimization (SEO).  I’m sure you realize that SEO is a very complex field in its own write, and it changes frequently as the search engines are continually refining their algorithms to try to deliver ever improving results for users.  However, we can keep the list of SEO variables that apply specifically to a writer to a manageably short list.

Keyword Use: Sometimes one hears very specific recommendation about, for example, how often a keyword should be used in an article.  One person might say, “You must use your keyword between 5% and 8% of the time.”  However, there is no consistent statistical evidence that gives us any magic percentate.  With a broad stroke, I can offer some basic guidelines, but do not consider them rules that must be followed in every situation.  1) It is helpful for the keyword, or at least part of a long tail key phrase, to be included in the article title.  2)  It is best if the keyword appears in the first paragraph of the article.  The second paragraph is the deepest into the article you should go before the keyword or key phrase should make its first appearance in the article’s body.  3) You should avoid using any keyword more that ten percent of the time in the article. 4) You should not ever try to use an article to search engine optimize for more than three variations of a keyword.

Content Duplication: Make certain that your articles are sufficiently different from each other, if you are assigned to write more that one article for the same keyword or short keyword list.  Otherwise search engines may see them as the same content.  When that occurs, one one of the articles will remain in the search engine’s index.  When a search engine considers two articles to be the same, it will only index one of the articles.  At first, the search engine may list multiple identical content, however over time the search robots will classify the duplicate content as redundant and stop indexing all but one of the versions.  At a website, dupecop.com, there is a free tool available that will compare up to four articles to score the uniqueness of each against the others.  They also sell a version of the same software that can check up to twenty five articles at a time, as long as they are in .txt format.

A good article marketing writer should also be familiar with a concept called article spinning and useful article marketing software, in addition to being mindful of SEO guidelines.  Article spinning is nothing more than providing alternative words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs throughout the original article.  The function of the software is to randomly select from the available alternatives.  While the process of preparing an article for spinning is quite time consuming, it is a highly effective way of generating unique versions of the same article.  In the end, it is faster than writing more articles from scratch.

I have some actual data to share, but first let me provide a little context with you.  Seven weeks ago I joined an content distribution service.  While I don’t actually know the guy that designed this remarkable tool for online marketers, it seems to me as if I do, because I have bought so many of his products and joined enough of his membership services to have paid for a good part of his car.  [He should at least offer me a ride in it

Due to my many prior experiences with this boy genius (well, he’s not really that young), I was confident that the service would accomplish for me what it promised: An innovative way of distributing my articles.  Like any Internet marketer, I could always use more traffic, and is there anyone who isn’t on the look-out for a way to add external links pointed toward our virtual real estate?  My primary approach for achieving both of these goals is distributing content to article directories.

This service has some advantages over traditional submission to article directories, though.  For example, I can now put my links directly into the body of the article rather than assigning them to a resource box.  That’s something that most article directories don’t allow, but I know that it is more effective for both traffic generation and for search engine optimization.  Second, the articles go directly to websites for publication, sites that are in my niche or a closely related niche.  Once again, great for traffic and SEO.  Third, since some of my business involves affiliate marketing, with this service I can put an affiliate link directly in the article, if I want–another thing that the article directories don’t allow.  Fourth, the distribution system has a built in article spinner, so that the version of the article that each website publishes can be unique.

After almost fifty days, I thought that I would check to see what I had accomplished so far.  Here are just a few of the highlights of my experience with My Article Network.

Now the articles trickle out to the sites, so those I’ve put into the system so far are all at different points in their publication schedule.  I have submitted 58 well spun article.  Unique versions of those articles now appear on over 1900 pages on the web.  I am allowed to insert up to three links in each article, but I vary the number of links, so my conservative best guess is that my sites singled out for promotion through this system have received somewhere in excess of four thousand links.  Of course many of those are so new that they haven’t been picked up by the search engines, yet.  In other words, a lot of the work that I’ve put into this distribution already will reach the maximum benefit months down the road.

I started a new site in a very competitive niche about three months ago, and I have directed the links from more than half of my articles toward that site’s promotion.  Alexa couldn’t even find that site when I first joined this system, and now it has climbed in the Alexa rankings more than two million positions.  In fact, it gets more traffic than some of my sites that have been around for quite a while.  Indeed on the oldest site that I ever built (that I still own), has received no attention from me in months, but I entered nine articles into this system and that site’s Alexa ranking has improved by more than 120,000 positions.  I can’t attribute that traffic growth to anything other than those nine articles–and the system that distributed them.

Okay, if you like those numbers, take a look at this.  I didn’t even think of tracking the results of this program until six days ago–yeah, I know, I’m a slouch).  During that six day period, the eight sites that I have promoted using this distribution network have risen in Alexa a cumulative total of over five million positions.  I realize that Alexa is not the finest measure of progress, but I still think that’s a very strong indication of getting my money’s worth and then some.

I actually became so excited by the whole process that I have subsequently created four new blogs to join the over 10,000 websites that are eager publishers for the content that we writer-marketers provide.

I strongly suggest that you become a member of My Article Network.  Yes, you affiliate marketers out there, you can become an affiliate–after you join the article distribution service.