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Article marketing is a great way to increase your traffic, establish yourself as an expert in your field and gain publicity. Writing and distributing articles online really can do all of that for you. However, you’ll need to put together a short Article Marketing Strategy to do it right and keep track of everything. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when marketing with articles:

Article Marketing Strategy #1 Write Quality Articles
Don’t write articles just for the sake of building incoming links. Sure this is a great reason to write and distribute articles but you also want your article to work extra hard for you. By writing a quality article you can get those incoming links but also get other business owners to place your articles on their websites (even more incoming links – not to mention traffic).

And for the icing on the cake your article may get picked up and published by a large offline or online publication… wow talk about being in the spotlight then. Mediocre articles just won’t get you the same results. So if you’re going to spend the time writing and distributing articles, why not make your articles really work for you?

Article Marketing Strategy #2 – Be the Expert
When writing, see yourself as the expert. You chose this field and it’s your job to communicate your knowledge with your customers. Believe you’re the expert and let it show in your writing. Remember if you don’t class yourself as an expert in your field it’s unlikely anyone else will do it for you.

Article Marketing Strategy #3 – Write Author Bio’s that Sell
Many people may the mistake of writing the same mundane author bio “Eva Baker is the owner of a website called bestaffiliateniche.com and enjoys writing” – Don’t waste that valuable real estate at the end of your articles. If you’ve written a good article the reader will look at the author bio and if intrigued will click over to learn more.

Be precise and write a benefit oriented author bio, for example:

• To learn more about how to build websites that sell visit www.bestaffiliateniche.com or
• For a free PLR ebook that you can Brand With YOUR affiliate links, visit www.brandableplr.com
  See the difference? Concentrate on the benefit to the reader at all times.

Article Marketing Strategy #3 – Get Traffic to Your Article and Site
After you’ve done all that work writing, you’ll want to make sure your article gets noticed, and that it actually DOES send visitors to your site. You’ll want to submit your article to the top Article Directories, Social Networking Sites, as well as submitting your RSS feed to the top RSS Feed directories. You can do all these things yourself, or buy Article Submission Software that will do it for you. Just make sure you use an article submission software that submits to over 200 article directories quickly and easily. Meaning, all you do is write the article – the rest is done for you.

Click Here for the Best Article Submission Software.

As an affiliate you want to give as much value to your visitors as possible, you want to stand out in their minds as the person who really cares and has given them that little bit extra information and help they need. A great way to do this is by offering free eCourses to your customers.

For example, if you’re promoting a product on how to write an information product, you can offer a free 5-day eCourse, which gives your customers a few valuable tips on how to create an information product. This eCourse goes out to them over the course of 5 days and will, of course, contain an affiliate link under your signature line that will take your customers straight to that product you’re promoting.

The best part about offering a free eCourse is that it’s also a good way to build up your mailing list. You set up a simple one page website which gives a little information about your free eCourse, people submit their name and email address and you send them out their free course. They get good valuable information and hopefully will actually go on to purchase the product you’re promoting. You get another subscriber to communicate your offers to. It’s a Win/Win situation.

Can I really Write a Course to Promote Someone Else’s Product?

Of course you can! In some cases the person selling the product will make an eCourse available to affiliates. You can then use this eCourse in your mailings and promotions. If there isn’t a course available then go ahead and write one yourself. Now remember, the eCourse doesn’t need to be directly related to the product you’re promoting but just related to the information.

Using the example above, you’ll write an eCourse with tips on how to write an information product. You can tell people how to do research, how to write an outline, outsourcing options and so on – anything related to writing an information product. You don’t want to give out too much information because you do want them to go on and purchase the actual paid product, but you can give them some good tips without revealing exactly how to do it all.

And as mentioned already you’ll add your affiliate link to the bottom of this eCourse or when appropriate in the body of the email. You can simply say something like:

“Click Here to To Learn How to Easily Write Your First Information Product.

Once the 5-day course is finished you can follow-up with periodical emails and information related to writing an information product. As you can see offering your customers a free eCourse is another great way to stand out and increase your affiliate commissions.

If you want to use PLR eBooks to help you write your eCourse, you’ll find almost niche covered at: www.BrandablePLR.com

I had something horrifying – and something good happen to me recently. Here’s the good news/bad news. One day I decided to check my stats for all the web sites I own. I’m not normally a stat checker since I hate numbers, but it was recommended so I did it. Anyway, on one of my sites I noticed that there were quite a few people who were ending up with a 404 error page message.

I looked around to see if I could find out who where they were coming from so I could fix the bad link. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find out why these people weren’t finding my page. Then I checked on what they saw when they got the 404 error page message.

Now here’s the bad news – they got the usual Note: You have reached a page that is not available, blah blah blah. . . no links to my site, no redirection, no place for them to go except somewhere else!

To say I was horrified would be an understatement. No wonder I was only making $50/month on the site. And, actually, I was happy with that because I wasn’t doing anything to promote the site. It was just running and trying to make money!

Now the good news is that after I put up the custom 404 error page message, I almost immediately made another $300.00 – and I did NOTHING else! WOW, from $50 to $300 a month because I took the time to do a 5-minute custom 404 error page message.

Here’s how to make a simple custom 404 Error page ; you should do this IMMEDIATELY if you don’t already have a custom 404 error page message:

If you use XSite Pro (which I highly recommend) to build your site, you can make a “notfound” page and copy the coding to into the 404 error page space (see below). This is nice because your custom 404 error page message will have your site header included and look exactly like your site.

If you just want to do the simple five minute cPanel trick, go into your cPanel and find the Error Pages icon (in the Advanced Section).

Click on the Icon and it will take you to a listing of the various error pages.

Click on the 404 (not found) page and enter a simple redirect code. I redirected mine directly to the merchant through my affiliate link, my code looks like this (actual affiliate link & merchant has been removed to protect the niche).

<p></p>
<p><a href=”http://myaffiliatelink” target=”_blank”>Click Here to Learn More about My Merchant’s name!</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

So now, when visitors land on my custom 404 error message page, they click the link and are sent directly the Merchant’s page. And, since my keywords are highly targeted, they get to buy what they were looking for. It’s all good! I’m soooo glad I decided to check my stats!

Do it now – before you forget!

I just read an interesting post from Ros Gardner on how to make money with Resale Rights products. She says:

“You can actually make more money in some cases by buying a resale rights license to a product and then reselling it to other people. Because you are selling the product directly, you become the product merchant and are entitled to 100% of the profits.”

Read the process she used to make over $12,000 in one month with a simple $30.00 resell rights product she bought.

It’s so simple, it really blew me away!

Then, if you need your own resale rights products, you’ll find Brandable eBooks, as well as eBooks with master resale rights and/or private label rights (PLR) ebooks here:

www.brandableplr.com

Register at the site and get your first brandable ebook free! It’s a great place to find resale rights ebooks, and the price is right – most of them are between $2.00 and $10.00!

The internet offers great opportunities for prospective entrepreneurs – the newest one being Facebook Advertising. If you want to make extra cash, but you don’t want to quit your current job, then the internet is the place that you will want to go to. Online businesses are continuing to boom today and two businesses that many people are now making a lot of money from is internet marketing and affiliate marketing. Download the rest of the report Here: FaceBook Quick Tips

Here, you don’t really need to have the product to sell. You will be marketing for other people who have the product or service. You make money advertising their offers.

Affiliate marketing may seem easy but it’s really not. Even if you are experienced as a marketer on the real world, you will see that affiliate marketing is a new kind of marketing that will need new skills and new strategies.

If you are new to internet marketing, then you might want to know about Facebook advertising. Unlike any other types of internet marketing, Facebook marketing is a lot easier but is as effective.

Basically, Facebook is a social networking website. Today, this particular website is now one of the most popular in the world. In fact, there are over 60 million subscribers and is continuing to grow very rapidly. With this kind of traffic, you know that this website is definitely the place to market in.

The next question that you may ask is how marketing in Facebook any different from other types of internet marketing. Basically, Facebook marketing is also internet marketing. But in Facebook, you will already have the traffic you want. Also, you have the tools necessary for you to market your website as well as the products or services your affiliate is trying to sell.

(If you’re interested in Facebook Advertising, you can download the rest of this report free here – nothing required, it’s a direct link to the PDF – it was just too long to post it all.)

FaceBook Quick Tips

Have you ever thought about setting up a classified ad site?  The only reason I ask is that I’ve had an idea for a niche classified site for a long time, but figured that after I hired a Virtual Worker to have it coded, I would be broke! So I put it on the back burner for almost a year.

Then my brother decided to set up something similar, so I went looking for software for him.  Much to my surprise, I found inexpensive classified ad software already developed! It’s affiliate friendly out of the box, with areas available for Adsense Ads and Affiliate Banners.

So, maybe you’ve heard of this before, maybe not.  But if you’ve put your dreams on hold for any reason, do some searching and see what’s available and already packaged.  I’m THRILLED that I don’t have to re-invent the wheel here – and I’ll have my niche classified ad site up and running by the end of the week!

 If you’re thinking about a classified ad site, I’ve researched about ten different classified ad softwares and this is the one I chose and would highly recommend:

Best Classified Ad Software

If you’ve never thought about it before, never mind.  I just get overly excited sometimes when I discover something that lets me move on with an opportunity I thought was out of reach.

I just finished a press release advertising a new site I just set up.  I’ve only had to do press release writing one other time, and got so frustrated that I just hired someone to do it.  But since I had one completed already, I just used the same template and it went pretty fast. Then I went to try to discover press release distribution companies.  The two main Press release distribution companies out there are:

PRWeb
WebWire

PRWeb charges $80 for a simple release, and up to $200 if you want your links to be active.  WebWire is better, charging $20 per submission.

Press release writing is a new tool I am planning to use to get backlinks to my site, but I’m not sure I want to pay $20 or more every time I want to roll out a new site.  That’s why I searched around a little to see if there was a cheaper press release distribution option.

That’s when I found this great software that blew away having to pay every time I wanted to send a press release.   This software not doesn’t just submit to one site, it submits to hundreds of sites at the same time.  There are also other important backlinking features included, such as:

• Effortlessly flooding your website with more backlinks — 100s, if you use it effectively.
• Get any page you want visited by the major search engine spiders (including Google) in 3 days or less!
• Gain significantly higher search engine rankings in 7 days!
• Enjoy up to thousands of targeted visitors (from your unique content) pouring into any website you want (this alone could equal a nice affiliate pay-check).

I have to admit, I’m tired of writing and spinning articles for backlinks.  That’s why I was pleasantly surprised with this software, and why I’m recommending it to you today. You can get hundreds of backlinks at the push of the button with the Press Equalizer Software.

As the owner of more than a few affiliate marketing web sites, I’m often asked about affiliate networks and the best networks to become a part of.  I’m going to give you my two favorites below, but first, I’ll explain what an affiliate network is, and what you should be checking out before making your final decision.

An affiliate network is a large site that sponsors a variety of merchants that have affiliate offerings.  This is helpful because not only are all of the merchants in one place, you will get ONE combined check from the affiliate network, instead of smaller, individual checks from each merchant.

When selecting a network to become part of, one of the most important things you should look for is the minimum amount of sales needed before you get paid.  Some networks pay for each sale regardless of the amount, some set minimum commission amounts of $50 – $500 and up before they will send payment out. If you are a member of too many networks, it might take a while to get to the minimum and get paid.  That’s why you should start with just a few at first.

As you can imagine, unless you’re already a super affiliate, you’ll want to start with the affiliate network that has the lowest minimum payout threshold – and it wouldn’t hurt if they paid your PayPal fees either!

Affiliate Networks who have all that to offer are sometimes hard to find, but here are the two I recommend:

MyHelpHub – for sales made through this great affiliate network – they pay ALL your PayPal fees – forever. This is the only affiliate network that I’m aware of that does this.  If you know of others, feel free to comment below. They also have very low minimums before payment is made, and in fact, I’ve received payments for as little as $3.00 from them! 

My second favorite is MarketHealth.  If you’ve ever been to an Affiliate Summit or Affiliate Convention you probably have one of their nice bags.  They have a $20 minimum before payment is made, and since the payout on most products is over $30.00, it’s not hard to make the minimum.  They offer many of the best-selling health and beauty products on the market today.

Both of these networks are two-tier. This means you will not only make money on the sales you make, but if someone that you’ve sent to the site signs up to become an affiliate marketer of the product, you will also get 5% commission on their sales!

So you could get paid twice for one referral to an affiliate network.  That’s working smarter, NOT harder!

Article marketing is one of the best affiliate marketing methods available for use today. And if you know the right resources, it’s cheap, and easier than you think to do a little SEO article marketing at the same time!

You should always write articles with SEO article marketing in mind. With blogs, posts sometimes fall off the front page in hours, but articles remain visible for days or weeks on websites. Website owners download and post them, and if you’ve put your article on an article directory, your resource box stays with your article. This provides a valuable backlink to your web site!

But you can’t just write one article and call it good. The more articles you have out there, the more opportunities you have for success as your articles are downloaded and reproduced on other people’s sites.

If you can write (or have written) articles and post them in article directories or repositories, you also have the opportunity to get your articles downloaded and posted on websites or downloaded and included in ezine publications.

These articles provide several opportunities for you:

1. Reproduced articles are free advertising! Your resource box is included in each reproduction and in that resource box there is a link to your website. The article itself, if it is well written, is the best advertising you can get paid or free.

2. Reproduced articles help establish you as an expert in your niche market or field. As the author and the holder of the copyright on a well written and informative article, you will become known as the expert in your niche.

3. PageRank improvement is another side effect of SEO article writing that is valuable. Each time your article is downloaded and reproduced another link is on the Internet for the search engine spiders to count. PageRank improvement will bring a lot more traffic to your website.

As you can see, article writing helps you in many ways, but it can be very time consuming. That being said, here are two resources I use consistently to help me get the most out of each article I write.

Cleck here for a really good PLR site you should check out. They do excellent SEO article writing, as well as offer full PLR eBooks:

And, in order to get the most out of your article, and get it added automatically to other websites, article directories and blogs, check out the Content Spooler.

We are all feeling the pinches of the recession on our finances. That’s why the idea of making money online is getting more attractive. One of the first things many people hear about when they look to make part-time extra money is affiliate marketing. Unfortunately, there is so much information out there it overwhelms most people at first, but the basic concept is fairly simple.

You are simply marketing a product for a merchant! Well, maybe it’s really not so simple, but you’ll soon find out that market research is the best affiliate marketing step in the process; and proper research is what brings in profits!

If you follow the zero friction marketing method, the first step is to research the markets YOU are interested in. In fact, you should also research niches that you have purchased from in the past.

What you’re doing in this step is finding out what visitors are looking for. This is also the essence of “keyword research” taught in the zero friction marketing method – finding the actual words or phrases people type into search engines to find answers to their problems. DO NOT SKIP this step! If you do not do your research, you will go through much more trial and error before you start making money.

By finding and using keywords that consumers are actively entering into the search engines, you will be able to help your websites and landing pages rank higher, generating a nonstop flood of organic (aka free!), targeted traffic.

Keyword research is not really a difficult task. Here is the process you should go through for each affiliate niche you want to investigate:

Start with the Google Keyword Tool, which can be found by searching for “Google keyword tool external,” and enter in a keyword or phrase that identifies the product or niche that you are interested in promoting as an affiliate.

Click on “get keyword ideas” to generate a list of keywords. Then gauge the competitiveness of the market by looking at the number of times people are searching for your main keywords per month.

Find a market with existing demand that also has existing competition and products readily available, but not so competitive that ranking highly is next to impossible.

The most important thing when doing affiliate marketing research is find a product that has interested buyers for your chosen niche product. Since you are doing affiliate marketing, your costs for entering a market are not very high, but it’s still a good idea to take time in the beginning to do niche research to avoid wasting your time with products that nobody wants.

To help you eliminate trial and error and for more information on best affiliate marketing research and keyword research, particularly as it applies to CPA, check out ths newly-released Zero Friction Marketing course.