AFF - Article Marketing in Nutshell - How Does Article Marketing Work?

Do you know exactly what is article marketing? do you know how does article marketing work? If no, then take few minutes to read this article and you will have answers on these questions.

What is article marketing in nutshell?

This is one of the most incredible strategies ever used with online advertising. It has proven to be the most cost-efficient and most effective strategy from many others.

The term itself shows you what this kind of marketing is about. Writing content-rich articles will help you to reach more people on the web and many authoritative free article summation sites will be glad to give you a space for submitting your article in front of many thousands of people.

Today Internet is most effective and easy way to reach for your customers and give them the word of information you want to publish. If you have never used this for your affiliate campaigns then you have lost a lot.

How does article marketing work?

Here is short guide to basics of bum marketing: article writing and submitting to directories.

Writing an Article

Lets assume that you already have chosen your niche and know which products to promote, the next step is to make a title research, this is extremely important and will be one of the most important factors of your success or failure.

Once you came up with good title, with long tail keywords and less competition, it is time to write the body. This is the place where you are giving some valuable information to the reader. This is not direct promotion of your affiliate product. Body should be about 300 - 500 words approximately.

The last part of article writing is resource box at the end of the body. Here you are letting know reader that if he/she has some problems that was addressed in the article and they found it interesting, there is a site where they can find great solution which will make their life easier.

So we already have nice unique article ready for submission to top directories.

Article Directories

Submission to top article directories is very useful strategy and is used very often by many affiliate marketers. The benefits are their high traffic, because master Google is very loyal with these directories and will be happy to show any content from this sites on its first pages. And that is where we want to be, right?

There some article directories that only except original unpublished articles, usually these are top sites where you really want to be. So first place submit your unique articles to these directories and after you are free to resubmit them to other 10-15 sites which allow already published articles to be submitted. Of coarse all your articles must have links to your site.

Now you can do the same procedure every time and gradually your site will get many backlinks and more traffic as well.

Hot Tip: as some Gurus might tell you to submit articles to hundreds of directories by using article submission tools, it is not always effective, as 90% of them are junk sites and backlinks from them will be useless. So spending money on this I would have avoided.

If you do not have your own site and are not using Squidoo or Hubpages for you landing page, you can skip all these troubles by using Domain Redirect strategy, you need to buy cheap domain, around 1$ and use it to redirect to merchants site. Thus you are shortening the way for your customer to your merchants sales page, but this is theme of other article.