As a beginning affiliate marketer, you may have built yourself a website, whether it’s a squidoo lens or a whole self hosted review site. Either way you may be asking yourself now, “where are all people”. Getting traffic seems to be a basic problem many beginners face. One of the best ways to manage this problem is to do some affiliate article marketing.

Affiliate article marketing is basically the same as Bum Marketing, which you may have heard of. It is a cheap and effective way to drive traffic. You simply write a short article of about 300 -350 words about a topic related to the site you want people to go to. This article is a great example. I want to get traffic to my site www.nichesitepromo.com which is all about promoting a new site. Affiliate article marketing is a piece of that, so it’s a perfect topic for an article.

There are lots of reasons why people choose not to use this easy and effective method of traffic generation. Whether you think you can’t write, or you just hate it doesn’t change the fact, that articles are one of the best ways to get traffic. To help you do the writing you can use an article template. Which is just an idea for how to write an article. For example, the traps and how to escape them template. Choose one trap that someone might fall into when dealing with your topic and then show them how to avoid it. For article marketing it might be writing a terrible resource box. Then I would tell them how to avoid that.

The title may be the most important element in the article, but when it comes to affiliate marketing, it’s your resource box. The resource box is the space below the article where you get to lead the reader somewhere else with a couple of links. These links when done correctly will also help you gain a better standing on the search engine results page. You must make sure your links are using your keywords as the anchor text. You do not want people clicking on the words, my website, my blog or click here. That will not help you at all. For this article I would make my link the words affiliate article marketing. Those would be the words underlined that people click on to go to the site I’m leading them to.

Once you’ve written your articles it’s time for distribution. You have a wide range of choices for distribution. You can put your articles on a blog, or send them out to article directories. Both of these suggestions are good ones, and you should probably do both. The best article directory at this time is ezinearticles.com. They will publish you article and if you’ve chosen good keywords you may find your article at the top of google quite quickly. This will get you some good traffic to your site. You also want to submit your articles to multiple directories to gain more backlinks, from your resource box, to your site. There are tons of directories and submitting by hand can take forever, this is a task best left to software.

There are different types of software to accomplish this task. There are semi automated types of software, where you still have to be present, and hit buttons, but it will fill in the information for you as you go. There is also completely automated software. There are two main competitors in this area. One will send out the same version of your article, and the other creates unique versions of your article to send to each directory. The second is a little higher in price but the features of that service are well worth it.

Affiliate article marketing takes some time and effort but it’s really not that complicated. For the benefits your site will get it is so worth the time it takes to get it done. Affiliate article marketing will help increase your traffic as well as help building links to your site. This will help your site rank better in the search engines and that will lead to even more traffic.

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