Affiliate Marketing - The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing Using Articles

By Mary Gallivan

Article marketing is quite simply one of the cheapest and most effective of all affiliate marketing strategies.

What is article marketing exactly? It involves submitting original, high quality articles to well known article directories. Some directories include ezinearticles, isnare, articlecity and many others. Many article sites like these ones are looked upon positively by Google and other search engines. So it is possible for your submitted article to receive a high search engine ranking. Because you use a link back to your website in the article resource box, people reading the article on the directory site can click through to your website.

It is also possible for other webmasters to use your submitted articles on their website, but they must include the link back to your site. This is an ingenious way to gain backlinks!

So how else can affiliate marketing using articles benefit your website?

Become an expert
If you submit a high number of quality articles to a directory then you are going to be seen as an expert on that topic. Writing of any form seems to invoke a level of respect so use this to your advantage. Submitting just one article per week to an article directory will have you listed as writing over 50 articles on that niche topic within one year. People are going to believe that you really know what you are talking about and they will be inclined to visit your site to find out more.

More Website Visitors
As mentioned, submitting articles can bring many visitors to your website. There is no need to pay for advertising when article submissions are free. You can use your resource box to make visiting your site more enticing to readers. Tell them about the free e-book you are giving away or the competition you are running. This will make them very likely click through to your site.

Improve Search Engine Ranking
Because of the possible backlinks you'll receive from people who publish your articles on their site, your site can race up the search engine rankings. There are not many other free methods of SEO that work as well as article marketing.

Pre-sell Products
If you are using article submissions to talk about products then you can pre-sell the reader simply by pointing out the benefits and offering product reviews. By the time they reach your site they may already have made a decision to buy the product.

Article marketing is an excellent method of gaining traffic and improving your website rankings. The ultimate result is that you will receive more affiliate sales and earn more money.

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