Step Two of Affiliate Marketing

May 28th, 2008

Step 2 of Affiliate Marketing (BUM style)

Before you attempt step 2, ensure that you have completed step 1, your landing page or hub is up and running, and should be getting some hits from search engines (you can check this in your stats).

Have you socially bookmarked your page? try using social marker. This does take some time.

Now that you have your landing page and you know how to socially bookmark.. It’s time to write your articles. Using bum marketing techniques, you will need to search for low competition keywords or phrases. Search for these using google, and put your keywords in inverted commas, as so:

“internet marketing lifestyle”

This search returns 7200 competition sites. If you write a seriously good article with the keywords sprinkled liberally throughout, you will probably end up on the first or second page. Better yet is to find a phrase with less than 500 competing sites.

In fact, you will notice that This Very Blog is #7 thanks to social bookmarking with propellor. Woot!

Anyways… find a keyphrase that has low competition, and that people are actually searching for use Gtrends to find how many people search for your phrase. It doesnt matter if only 10 people search per day, so long as the competition is low, you will get hits.

The idea here is not to write 30 articles for the same phrase, but to write 30 articles for 30 different phrases, relating to your niche. That way, each article will get 5-10 hits per day x 30 articles. Some of the articles will get more, some less.

Why articles?

Articles are free! free to write and free to host. The article directories have good PR so you can get ranked easily in the search engines. Use your articles as a way to pre-sell the affiliate product you are marketing

Some directories will not allow you to put direct links to affiliates in your articles, and you will need to link to your landing page, with others you can link direct to the product. Use this to your advantage with review-articles and comparisons etc.
Posting the articles

So far i have been using ezinearticles.com, hubpages and goarticles.com

Ezine articles is the biggest, with the highest PR, but it takes alot of time, and i have had a couple of articles rejected to random reasons, its taken a week to get 9 articles on ezinearticles, but it was instant to get 9 on goarticles.com

The hub page that i created was ranked pretty much instantly and has gotten a bunch of hits very quickly.

Use all of them. post 5 here, 5 there, 5 at the other place.

TASK 1

Write your first article. It doesnt need to be amazing. Find inspiration from magazines, websites, other articles and gtrends.

TASK 2

Post your first article on goarticles or hubpages. Use these for now because your article will go live instantly. Use this to check your links, how it looks etc.

TASK 3

Socially bookmark your article.

TASK 4

Repeat, using different article directories.

Too easy! Don’t make it hard.

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