Writing Articles For Affiliate Commissions And Moving Towards A Blog
If you are unfamiliar with how to make a website, and would like to try your luck with making money online then writing effective articles is a great way to begin. Articles that are properly written are easily picked up by the search engines when they are optimized for the keywords and phrases you want to be found for.
Affiliate marketers write articles as an additional way to not only draw traffic to their website, but also link to their affiliate products they want to promote for a commission. As you may know making money as an affiliate marketer is one of the easiest ways to make money Online with very little effort.
Being an affiliate simply means you promote other peoples products for a commission. Your job as an affiliate marketer is to drive traffic through your affiliate links to the product owners website. When your prospects click on your affiliate links; perhaps in your articles, and then make a purchase you are paid a commission from the total sale of that particular product that was just purchased.
Using articles to attract traffic from the search engines is a great way to get started and test to see how well the copy of your articles perform to get clicks. But how do you get clicks, and how can you get your article ranking in the Google search results to capture traffic?
After you have determined what your keyword phrase based on the products you want to promote in your article the next step is to write the article based around that keyword phrase. There are a few steps you should take to ensure your article is properly written and optimized and is very simple to do.
First. Make sure your keyword phrase is directly in the title of your article.
Second. Make sure in the first 50-100 words of your first paragraph you mention your keywords phrase a couple times. The reason for doing this is often search engines capture the first set of words from an article as a snippet, and this is what is going to show up in the search results.
Third sprinkle your keyword phrase throughout the article but not over doing it. A good rule of thumb is to have about 1% keyword density in your articles. This means for every 100 words your keyword phrase should show up once. If you have a 400 word article you should mention your keyword phrase 4 times etc.
Please keep in mind not all article directories will allow you to directly place affiliate links in your articles. It would be best to head over to blogger.com and learn how to set up a blogger blog. It is very simple. The blog will act as an additional place for you to place your articles based on your main keywords.
After enough optimized articles on your blog it will begin to rank in Google for your keyword phrase, and next thing you know you have website ranking in Google with your affiliate products making money Online.
