Make Affiliate Marketing Work For you: 3 Incredibly Simple Tips for the Affiliate Reseller
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Does affiliate marketing work for you? Whether it does or not, publishing good quality, informative articles will help you to promote your affiliate reseller links. The problem is getting good information about how exactly to that! A lot of information around the web can be rather vague. Here are three concrete steps you can take to make articles go to work for you.
by GeneJimenez


Does affiliate marketing work for you? Whether it does or not, publishing good quality, informative articles will help you to promote your affiliate reseller links. The problem is getting good information about how exactly to that! A lot of information around the web can be rather vague. Here are three concrete steps you can take to make articles go to work for you.

1. Write two articles

OK, this process starts by writing an article.

(Duh.)

No seriously, this is the hard part, at least for some of you. But trust me, the more you do it, the easier it gets.

The first articles you write might not be too terrific. In fact, they might be terrible.

But don't worry: the best article writers started out poorly, and just persisted.

Now, write another version of your article. Different words, but same message and same keywords. It takes two similar articles to do what is coming next.

Don't make a big deal of this. Just do a light re-write.

You're going to need two versions for publication. Search engines don't like to see the same thing over and over, so make them happy with this simple strategy.

You might think this already too much work.

It's up to you. Have you decided you really want to make affiliate marketing work for you? Your decision!

2. Now start at the top.

Start off by publishing in the top article directories. The reason you do this is for visibility. The five or six top article directories are high traffic sites. They are where your article will get noticed... and read.

An affiliate reseller has to live with plenty of competition. If you are not committed to getting your article read, believe me, your competitor is.

Ezinearticles (a.k.a. EZA) is the top article directory in the English language.

Don't question their status. They are elephantine in proportion to other directories. So... get your article there first.

Where else? Who else is among the top ranked group? No one answer to that, I am afraid--- ranking shifts over time. I'd join the top dozen or so and use the best ones at any given time. Publish version one here as well.

3. Now use the next directories in rank

You wrote another version of your article, right? Now let's use it.

Version two will be submitted to the next twenty highest ranked article sites. They won't be read much, because these sites don't see much traffic, but you will get valuable backlinks.

The search engines love two things: keywords and backlinks.

Good keywords get your articles to show up well in the top tier article directories.

Backlinks from low ranking directories get your website ranked by Google and other SE's because your articles are carrying links to your website.

Trust me: you want both.

Let's recap: Write version one of our article, then version two. Write as well as you can, and keep at your writing-- it will improve with practice. (An affiliate reseller can only expect success through persistence!) Version one goes to EZA and the next five or so top ranked directories. Version two goes to the next twenty lower ranking article sites. Repeat this process on a regular basis, at least weekly. This will really make affiliate marketing work for you, believe me. Sure, it's work, but well worth your time and effort.

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