| Many stay at home moms get involved with affiliate | | | | Flixya (revenue sharing site) |
| marketing because it is the least expensive and one of | | | | Howhub (revenue sharing site) |
| the quickest ways to start making money online. It | | | | Your articles don't have to be long. 300-400 words will |
| costs absolutely zero to be an affiliate marketer. You | | | | do just fine. Make sure you have a compelling title. If |
| don't need a website, you don't need a domain name, | | | | the title isn't interesting then people won't read the |
| and you don't need anything other than someone | | | | article which means you won't get any traffic or sales. |
| else's product and some dedication. | | | | Make sure your article has a good keyword density. |
| Many stay at home moms sign up for a few affiliate | | | | This is how people will find your article when they use |
| networks and then get lost in the shuffle of trying to | | | | search engines such as Google or when they search |
| figure exactly what to do next. | | | | on the article directory site. |
| There are many methods you can use to promote | | | | Once you finish writing your article you will have a box |
| your affiliate products that won't cost you a dime and | | | | that is called the resource box. This is where you will |
| none of which require you to have your own website. | | | | put your affiliate links and any other information about |
| Here are 4 you can start using today. | | | | the product you are promoting. |
| Join Forums and discussion groups | | | | The great thing about articles is that they stay in the |
| Do a quick Google search and find a few forums that | | | | archives of these directories forever so you can still |
| are related to the product you will be promoting. Find at | | | | be getting sales from your articles years after you |
| least 2 or 3 that have a high page rank and register | | | | have written them. Doesn't get any better than that. |
| with them. Once you register set up your signature line | | | | Linkreferral |
| which is where you will put your name and affiliate | | | | Linkreferral is a free traffic exchange site. You have |
| links. After you do that it is time to get active. Start | | | | to participate on a regular basis in order to get a |
| posting questions, comments and answers to other | | | | decent amount of traffic. Here is how it works. You |
| member's questions. Don't promote your products in | | | | have to visit 30 sites in the network a day, comment |
| the body of your posts. Simply write a valuable | | | | on 5 of them, favorite 1 of them and make a post in |
| informative response and people will read your | | | | the forums. Once you have done that you will receive |
| signature line and more than likely visit your site. | | | | 30-60 unique visitors to your site a day. Not bad for |
| The more active you are the better. Try to visit the | | | | about 30-40 minutes worth of work. |
| forums a few times a week. Once people see that | | | | Create a squidoo page |
| you are a valuable contributor they will start to trust | | | | It is true that you do not need your own personal |
| you. Once you build trust you will begin to attract | | | | website in order to promote affiliate products. The |
| visitors to your affiliate links. The more visitors you get | | | | problem is that not all article directories will let you send |
| the more likely you are to get sales. | | | | their visitors to an affiliate website. Ezinearticles is one |
| Writing Articles | | | | of them. Ezinearticles gets A LOT of traffic so it |
| This is probably the best way to generate a ton of | | | | would be a great idea to submit articles to their site. To |
| targeted traffic to your affiliate products. If you write | | | | make sure your articles get published and to get |
| good informative articles you will get a decent amount | | | | around the fact that you can't send visitors directly to |
| of traffic to your site. Submit each article you write to | | | | an affiliate website you can simply set up a squidoo |
| several different directories. I personally submit my | | | | page. |
| articles to 7 different directories. | | | | Squidoo is a very high ranking site. Put together a good |
| EzineArticles | | | | squidoo page by posting articles (the same ones you |
| Ideamarketers | | | | post in the article directories) and other information |
| Articledashboard | | | | about the product you are promoting. From there you |
| Affsphere | | | | can send them to your affiliate site. |
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