Affiliate Marketing

Write an Article around a Target Phrase

August 20, 2008

Well I seem to be on a roll here so might as well keep it going… Lets suppose we decide to write an article to promote an ebook about making money from photography. Lets just say its the ebook “Starting a Photography Business” which we got our affiliate link for from Clickbank. Now we could go and try to write an article entitled “Photography Business” but when I enter that phrase into Google with quote marks around it I get over 1.1million results – I’d say thats going to be hard to rank for , wouldn’t you? Now if...

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How to Pick Good Keywords for Article Marketing

August 19, 2008

Phew, long title for this little post. Notice I said how to pick good keywords for Article Marketing and not say eBay marketing? The approaches are entirely different! With eBay you can just put any keywords into your title that a searcher is likely to use when searching for what you are selling, even if those keywords are in random order. That is because eBay’s search engine is quite different to a SE like big G. With article marketing we want to target a specific phrase that a searcher is likely to type into a search engine. Not only...

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Using Article Directories and Sites for Traffic

August 16, 2008

If you’ve been following my last few posts on article writing you ‘ll already know about the potential for traffic from these types of sites, traffic that you can send to your own website or blog or straight to an affiliate link. You’ll see I named a few of the popular sites for doing this, with Ezine Articles being one of the biggest and most recommended. While those sites are not in any particular order I do tend to favour some more than others but this favouritism varies from user to user. Remember the reason we use them is...

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Article Marketing Continued…

August 13, 2008

In my earlier post I talked about the basics of article marketing, the concept of using articles you write to spread links to your site or affiliate link around the article directories. The purpose being to draw surfers from the article directories to your link and to spread some links around so that the search engines will notice them and take them into account when working out when to list your site in search engine results. You may also see a third benefit if your articles are well written. This happens when other site owners looking for content take...

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