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Affiliate Marketing Articles – Know The Rules!

Posted on July 2009

Affiliate Marketing is a a type of internet marketing where a business (or ‘merchant’) rewards others (‘registered affiliates’) by way of an ‘affiliate commission’ for each customer or sale resulting from the affiliates’ marketing efforts.

If you are writing for affiliate marketers, or are an affiliate marketer yourself, here are some tips on how to place and format links to ensure they are accepted by most article distribution sites:

Write quality articles that provide real information about the topic
Don’t include the ‘whole story’. You need to provide just enough information on the topic to encourage readers to click on your link to find out more!
Where Resource Boxes are used, make the information you include relevant to the article. Don’t use the same Resource Box over and again, unless it relates to the article.
Don’t put your life story in the Resource Box. Rather demonstrate that you have particular knowledge on the topic of the article.
Place affiliate links in the Resource Box if one is provided.

Ideally the author should own the linked redirected URL
Some directories require that links be to the primary domain (e.g. http://website-name.com), and disallow links like:
- http://subdomain.your-company-name.com/
- http://your-company-name.com/page.html
- http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html
- http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

There is no substitute for quality! If you cannot write a good article, get someone who can to do it for you!

Ask me how.

Internet Glossary of Terms: What the @%!* does THAT mean?

Posted on July 2009

Are you just beginning to get up close and personal with the internet? Is your interest a little more than using Google to search for what you need?

If your relationship with the internet now involves business, creating websites, earning money and internet marketing, then chances are you have come across internet-specific terms that leave you confused or frustrated. I know I did, and still do!

Well, it’s taken me a while to compile it, but I’ve created a glossary of terms called “What the @%!* does THAT mean” (named after a particularly time consuming search for the meaning of one of those (everyone knows what that means) words.

Simply add your details in the panel on the right, and you will be able to download this glossary of terms – no charge, my gift to my readers.

If you have any terms to add, I’d love to hear from you!

SEO Articles

Posted on July 2009

Internet marketers know that one of the most effective ways of driving targeted traffic to their sites is by employing article marketing strategies.

Search engines reward websites with good rankings if they contain quality, relevant and unique content. By additing original articles to your website, you satisfy this requirement.

Well-written articles can also be submitted to article directories for distribution. By crafting them to contain well-positioned keywords and with just enough information to create an interest in reading more, these articles can bring ‘warm’ clients to your website.

My articles are usually a minimum of 400 words in length, and rarely longer than 600 words. I prefer to work in blocks of 10 articles per topic, and offer a discount for this package.

Contact me for prices.

Blog Content

Posted on July 2009

Short blog posts are ideal for providing fresh content to your wordpress website. The great thing about blogs is that you can have a year’s supply written in advance and ’scheduled’ to publish once or twice a week – a real ’set and forget’ way of setting up a site. They are particularly good for ongoing affiliate marketing projects.

Blog posts can be as short or as long as you like, but I think they are most effective for affiliate marketing, when they are around 200 words in length. This gives you enough room to include some vital information about the product or services, just enough for the reader to want to read more and clicking a link to go to your sales page, squeeze page or affiliate site.

Ask me for prices!

Article Publishing

Posted on July 2009

In order to get the most exposure for your articles, it’s ideal to publish them to one of the free publishing services, like ezinearticles.com or articlealley.com. Well-crafted articles that are published in this way, with correct keyword placement, will reward you with great seach engine rankings.

Because they will contain links to your website, either in the body of the article or in the Resource Box, interested readers will click through to your site to learn more. The great thing about this is, because they have already demonstrated their interest by clicking on the link, they could be considered ‘warm’ prospects. Hold their interest with a great landing page, and a sale is that much closer.

Another advantage of publishing to these sites is that other website owners may use your article as well – often as new content for their sites. This is great, because they must take the whole article, links included – a great way to get more traffic to your site.

I am able to submit articles to these sites on your behalf, and also modify articles I’ve written so that they may be submitted to several different sites.

We can discuss putting a package together that includes writing articles, making variations, and submitting them to article publishing sites.

Article Distribution Service

Posted on July 2009

Would you like to make your articles go further? There are several ways to do this – and I can help you do it!

Articles without product names

The first is by using the type of article distribution service that will submit your article to many different free-publishing sites. There are few of these sites that don’t have rules regarding ‘duplicate content’. The reason is that each of these sites needs to maintain its integrity with the search engines and by publish articles that appear elsewhere, they dilute their value in the eyes of Google, Yahoo etc. As a consequence, they will be penalized with lower rankings in the search results, and they know that this is not good business.

These sites also have rules that prevent you from openly promoting any named product or service. You are able to write generally about the topic, but not recommend anything direc tly. They do, however, allow you to do this in a “Resource Box”, usually at the bottom of the article. Read the rest of this entry »

News & Events

Faster Approvals promised by ezinearticles.com

January 2010

Today the head honcho at ezinearticles.com, Chris Knight, announced that the free publishing site had really picked up its game and promised faster article approval ...

Public Domain and Copyright

January 2010

There is a wealth of free information in the public domain, mostly from government agencies, that can be used as the source of website content. ...

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