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Most beginning affiliate marketers are able to get a web site up, whether it’s on their own server or somewhere like Squidoo. What they seem less able to do is get some traffic to their offer. Affiliate article marketing is a great way to start driving traffic and start making some sales.

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.

After you’ve written your article and resource box the real work begins. Distribution. Getting your articles out onto the web is the whole reason for writing them. This distribution will gain you traffic, as well as backlinks, from your resource box, back to your site. For quick traffic submit your article to ezinearticles.com. Articles with well chosen keywords tend to rank well in google from this directory and can easily get your some quick traffic. Submitting to many directories will get your a lot of backlinks, but doing it by hand can be very time consuming. It’s a task where software is usually the best answer.

There are 3 basic types of submission software you can use. The first is semi automated. It will fill in some of the information for you at each directory. You have to be present and click through from directory to directory. It’s still time consuming, but it’s the cheapest option. The second is mass submission of the same article. This is a little more expensive but can be a good option. The third and best option is a service that will send out a unique version of your articles to each article directory. You can even make unique resource boxes so your keywords text in your links will be varied as well. This option is a little more expensive than the others, but the features available make it by far the best choice.

As you can see, affiliate article marketing is not really that complicated. What it is, is time consuming and at times quite boring. It is however, one of the best things you can do for your website and to help get traffic to your site. At some point you can always start hiring someone else to do the writing for you. There are people who are willing to write articles for a fee. You need to make sure your income will cover this before you start outsourcing your writing. At the beginning it’s best to put in the time and effort and just do it yourself.