Affiliate marketing beginners often fail to understand the power of well written affiliate articles to build long term customer traffic.

1. Affiliate marketing beginners often fail to
understand the power of well written
affiliate articles to build long term customer
traffic
Affiliate marketing beginners often fail to understand the power of well written affiliate articles to build long term
customer traffic. This is a mystery to me, given that article marketing is easy, profitable... and FREE!
Here are five simple, dead easy, practically infallible steps to write simple articles that people will enjoy reading, and
that will get you traffic to your affiliate sales page.
What you will need:
 A text editor, such as Notepad. I use Note Tab because of its cool features, but Notepad is free, and will do the
job just fine.
 an "ideas bucket"-- article topics that you know people in your niche are interested in
your own top level domain name (see my bonus tip)
Step 1: Develop your ideas bucket
One of the simplest ways to get ideas for affiliate articles is to go to the top forums in your niche. There you will find
people asking questions... and you will find other people answering them. This is important. Finding a good question
and a good answer all in one spot is the basis for an article! Repeat this process until you have a dozen or so good
article topics.
It is critical that the affiliate marketing beginner understands that such a great source of free article material exists.
You can quickly build your expertise, and pump out two or three quick articles whenever you want.
Step 2: The tips format
Sketch out two or three articles, each around a common theme. Build the "skeleton" of each article as a series of
three to seven tips. We don't want our articles to end up too long. Around 500 words total will be fine for our purposes
in the end.

2. Step 3: Flesh out your tips
Now "fill in the blanks". Flesh out each tip in your article so it begins to flow logically and smoothly from point to point.
You are trying to take the reader in the direction of solving a problem, or answering a commonly asked question.
Step 4: Write a catchy intro and conclusion
Now "round out" each article with a short intro and a conclusion. Your intro introduces the topic. Try these sorts of
openings: "Has this ever happened to you?. "Did you ever wonder how...?" "Would you like to know how...?"
Your conclusion should emphasize the benefits of doing as you have suggested. Just as important, your conclusion
should point the reader towards your resource box, where they will find a link to... find out even more!
With this simple system, the affiliate marketing beginner can build strong, targeted customer traffic with
affiliate articles.
Step 5: Publish your affiliate articles to the top five or six article directories ONLY
Only publish to the best article directories. Dave Mason at masonworld.com maintains an evolving list of some 1000
plus article directories in order of traffic ranking. Go for no more than the top five or six. Not that many directories pull
much traffic anyway, and over-publishing will lead to problems with the search engines.
Bonus tip: Use a top level domain only. Good article directories will not allow you to place an affiliate link in your
resource box. Why? Their emphasis is on providing readers with good info, not providing affiliate resellers with a
sales platform. So, buy a domain name that is relevant to your niche. Your webhost may very well provide you with
tools to easily build a redirect from your top level domain to your affiliate link. Go Daddy is a case in point-- it takes
about a minute to set up a re-direct on their system. And there we have it: with this simple system, the affiliate
marketing beginner can build strong, targeted customer traffic with affiliate articles.
And now I invite you to start affiliate marketing today by going straight to: https://twrd.in/2WDrPP3