There are many of good sources that can tell you a great deal about how to establish 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 solved that problem for you, but I have discovered what I think is the next best thing.
I sell my own digital and physical products, but a sizeable chunk of my income still comes from affiliate marketing, where I began. I use websites and blogs for all of my online business activities. 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. 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. Instead the links stand alone in a section that they call the author’s resource box, but which screams, “Commercial!” to our readers. The second big problem, maybe the biggest of all, is that the top ranking article directories all refuse to permit affiliate links even in those little boxes.
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.)
It would be wise for me to let the sales page of My Article Network persuade you on its own. 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?}
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