Effective Affiliate Marketing Using Articles
By Christopher Kyalo
Every day thousands of people join programs and yet every day thousands more get discouraged and give up trying to make money from their programs.
Still, thousands others wait for their generous checks from all sorts of programs and laugh all the way to the bank, every month. I make good money from an program using articles as the main part of my marketing strategy.
But what is more is that there are plenty of other guys out there doing the same, although some of them use more expensive methods than free articles. For example, recently I personally saw a monthly check for $15,000 shown to me by a friend involved in a leading marketing program.
So what is the difference between the frustrated and the successful?
The difference is that the top earners have an marketing system for generating a constant supply of leads or traffic to the web sites they represent. In contrast, the ones who do not make any money do not have any system. They often just sit back and wait for things to happen. Sorry folks the hype is just not true. You have to put in some effort!
In this first article in a series, we will deal with 3 key factors one needs to address to launch a successful marketing strategy using articles that can work for virtually any program.
1) You must know what works and what doesn’t.
The problem with most programs is that you will not be able to know where your traffic is coming from. Online that is a disaster. It is like flying an aircraft blind. Sooner or later you will crush.
A good solution is to start a blog with an identical topic to your program. Use a good site meter to carefully monitor the traffic you are receiving. You can then easily refer the people who visit your blog to your site. To make your blog even more interesting you can carry Google Adsense pay per click ads. This way you can have some income even as you build up your program. Use the articles that you are posting elsewhere on your blog.
While generating revenue from your blog, do not lose sight of your main objective which is to monitor what articles posted at which web sites are bringing in the most traffic. You can then use this information to constantly improve on the volume of traffic headed to your program site.
This is yet another reason why it is so important to select an program based on a subject that you are personally interested in. Maybe closely linked to a hobby you really love. Only then will you have the enthusiasm to constantly come up with various new ideas to market your program and have the passion required to regularly test and improve and also enjoy doing so.
See my other articles on how to write effective articles and where to post them.
2) Write consistently
Some people will briefly post a few articles and then throw in the towel. What a waste. Not only do they lose the benefits of the viral effect all good articles enjoy on the net (of getting posted and reposted all over the place.) but they will also end up wasting
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