Article writing is one of the best things you can do to drive targeted traffic to your affiliate website.
The main benefit is an article will establish you as an expert and a valued resource people will want to mention and link to. However article writing goes one step further than this because once you’ve written your article and submitted it to various article submission directories it soon begins spreading around the internet as people start using it in their websites, newsletters and magazines. Each time your name and the link to your website remains within your article.
One of the first articles I had published generated over 50,000 unique visits to my website in just a 24 hour period, that’s how powerful they can be if it’s picked up and published by the right website.
I’d like to give you a really simple yet highly effective 10 step formula to writing articles that just about anyone can follow and write compelling articles with.
Heres all you do…
Step 1. Select the theme of the product you’d like to promote, so for example if you’d like to write an article that promotes BigSellingNiches.com as an affiliate chose the theme of “niche marketing”.
Step 2: Visit GoArticles.com and type in the keyword phrase “niche marketing”. You’ll then get a list of articles about this subject.
Sep 3: Pick out a few of the articles that mention niche marketing in their titles, print them out and read through them, this is your research on the subject of niche marketing.
Step 4: Now write your own headline using this simple formula…
What you do is mention a number in your headline along with a benefit to the reader, in other words what will the reader get from reading the article… for example:
7 Steps To Niche Marketing Success
10 Ways To Boost Your Niche Marketing Profits
7 Secret Ways To Research Profitable Niches
Do you see what I mean, just follow this headline formula.
Step 5: The next thing to do is to write out a short introduction paragraph to what you’re showing people. This introduction leads people in to the article and introduces what it’s going to be all about.
Step 6: In this step write out what those steps, ways or secrets are. It could be you start with an sub-heading for each one followed by a short paragraph with more explanation.
Using the sub-heading for each of the steps, ways or secrets makes it easier for your article to be scanned by the eye and more appealing to read.
Keep the formating of your article so that it has lots of short paragraphs, doing this again makes your article easy to read. The way it works is the easier your article looks to read the more people are likely to want to read it.
Step 7: Avoid including your affiliate links within the article and keep links to other websites to a bare minimum. The reason for this is because articles that try to sell or pitch a product don’t get published, it’s as simple as that.
Another reason is too many links in your article will send people off to another website and not finish reading your article.
So how can you leverage your article for traffic? Simple read the next step.
Step 8: Write a “resource box”, “Bio” or “boiler plate” for your article. These are simply a short paragraph written in the third person about you, the author of the article. In your resource box you can include a link to your website which is how you get traffic to your website.
Your resouce box could say something like this:
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Your Name Here is the author of www.yournamereviews.com which gives you all the facts you need to know about how to profit from niche marketing.
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Step 9: Once you’ve written your article read it out aloud and ask someone else to proof read it for you. This is just to make sure it’s free from typo errors and it makes grammatical sense.
To help you write your article there’s a special technique you can use that helps you to write quicker and more freely. All you do is set up your word processor program ready for you to type into then turn off your computer screen.
By turning off your screen and writing your article you’re stopping yourself from editing what you’re saying as you write, this helps you become more creative. It doesn’t matter if you make loads of mistakes, just turn your computer screen back on again when you’re done and make all the edits you need to make.
Step 10: Submit your new article to these article directories…
http://GoArticles.com
http://Ezinearticles.com
http://www.ArticleCity.com
http://www.IdeaMarketers.com
http://www.eHow.com
http://www.ArticleDashBoard.com
http://www.Article99.com
http://www.ValuableContent.com
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