Affiliate Marketing - Product Promotion by Writing

By Tim Redman

Lots of people join the affiliate marketing community everyday, hoping to make a living out of their efforts to promote someone else's products. However, most affiliate marketers fall at the first hurdle. Why? Well they go off and spend money they cannot afford on advertising, be it PPC (Pay-Per-Click) or banner placement.

What they don't understand is they can get high placements in a search engine for the webpage by using the power of article writing.

Article writing is a fantastic tool for getting your website higher in the ranks of a search engine. Simply because you must submit your articles to an article directory such as ezinearticles.com or articlemound.com and because the search engines love the fresh content that these directories have to offer, you have a better chance of moving up the search engines.

By writing about the products that you are selling, you are identifying a niche, writing about a niche is important as it will gain momentum within a search engine quickly. Two main points about writing though are:-

* Keep the content of you article relevant to your product or service. Don't write about skiing if your product or service is about pet care!

* Make sure your content is original. Don't bother going out and paying some website for PLR content. This stuff has been circulating the internet for years and crops up all over the place. Search engines will penalise you for this. Make sure the content is your own.

One of the major benefits of article writing is that it can be done on the cheap. In fact in most cases it can be done without spending a penny. You just have to put a little bit of effort into it.

There is only one slight problem with article writing for product promotion. It can take a little bit of time. A lot of new affiliate marketers are looking for a get rich quick system. Article writing isn't for them; however, they will often find they will be penniless by the time they have invested heavily in advertising, PPC, etc.

Article writing is a steady course that will give results; in fact you will probably see a rise in website traffic after your article is approved into a directory. Just keep writing articles around your products and after time, you will definitely see an increase in sales.

Tim Redman is a successful Internet Marketer with experience of working from home and generating an income that sustains his lifestyle. He writes numerous articles on various topics around Internet marketing and search engine optimization. He currently writes articles for http://www.ArticleMound.com

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