Article marketing is one of the best ways to promote your affiliate products. Lots of affiliate marketers use article marketing to bring thousands of visitors to their affiliate link or website, while other newbie affiliates can’t understand why they get only a few views for their article. Creating articles is not just to write them down. If you want your articles to make you money than you have to write them in a unique way so they will attract visitors, and visitors will convert into sales.
When you write an article, you must consider a few aspects:
1. What people want to find in your article?
2. What people need from your article?
3. What are the keywords you want to target?
4. Are those keywords targeted enough?
5. Will those keywords make you money?
Let’s find out more about every one of them:
1. What people want to find in your article?
When people are looking for information about any kind of subject, they are looking for an answer. They want to know more about something new they have heard, or something they already know and want to explore more. When you write your article you have to think as the article reader and see if your article is answering the question that people who read it want to know, that can be made easily, just look at your article title and see if the question is answered in the article body, articles are build as “question” and “answer” so be sure to check that your article body really brings the answer to your article title, that simple!
2. What people need from your article?
What people need from your article is a simple question, they need information, not just information but useful information, they want to expand their knowledge about something, and you need to provide them with the best information you can give so that they will feel that you are an expert in the niche/subject you are writing about, what we want from an article is visitors, and visitors that get professional information will definitely drop by to the link in your resource box to find out more.
3. What are the keywords you want to target?
When you write your article, you want to promote a product for a few keywords, so that it can be shown for those keywords when people are searching the article directory or Google, as you know, your article will be indexed by Google after a short time, so your plan is to find out what are the keywords people look for in the article directory and what are the keywords people will search on Google, if you target both of them, and your keywords can match the same phrase, bingo!
4. Are those keywords targeted enough?
Choosing targeted keywords is very important when you write an article, if you chose keywords that are not targeted, don’t expect to get to much visitors, and if you don’t know how to do it, I will show you don’t worry, if you do know then you can skip this step, but I suggest you to read it anyway, maybe you’ll learn a few new things.
Open http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
This is a keyword suggestion tool from wordtracker, wordtracker is a great way to explore keywords, don’t worry, we can use the free version, if you want to get the pro version it will be a smart decision.
Now type in the search box the main/general keyword you are targeting, let’s say you are promoting a diet/fat loss product, in this case you will type “fat loss”.
You can see that wordtracker gives you your main/general keyword with sub keywords that people search for, you need to find the best keywords with most searches, but at the same time you need to find the less competition on Google for that keyword/s.
So open http://www.google.com and type your desired keyword into the search box.
I like to choose keywords that have less than 300,000 results because I know I can make it with my article to the first page of Google, and I like the competition so why not?
If you are a newbie for article marketing, I suggest you to pick keywords that have less than 100,000, you can start from there.
Another trick I use to know if I can rank with my article on Google is to look on the first pages of the results, if I see a youtube video on the first page, I know the competition will be more easy that if I see a youtube video on the third page, youtube is a very popular site that rank for 1000’s of 1000’s of keywords, and it has a pagerank that a regular page just can’t beat, so why even bother?
6. Will those keywords make you money?
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