You might already have a good knowledge on SEO but what I’m going to tell you in this post is the single method that most of the affiliate bloggers use to get their blog posts to rank in the front page of search engines, get hundreds of visitors and make huge profits.
Search engine visitors are the best quality visitors you can get according to most people. I believe in that too when it comes to affiliate blogging. You can get search engine traffic by using PPC (Pay Per Click). But if you know or have the time to work on ranking well with your blog posts in the search engine, you are going to save money.
There are many other sources for traffic like social media, blog commenting etc. But the visitors that come from these sources don’t buy in most cases. As an affiliate blogger, you want to sell (recommend, as I call it) to your visitors. For selling your products or affiliate products, search engine traffic is the best.
So what is the method I’m talking about?
You are right (are you?). It is Article Marketing.
I have written previously about article marketing as a source for getting traffic to your blog. Article marketing has one more advantage. The posts or pages that you link to, using the author bio will improve its ranking in search engines. Let me tell you how you can get the best out of article marketing.
Firstly, article marketing is a method in which you write articles and submit to article directories. By doing so, you are giving rights to other publishers and mailing list owners to use your article. At the end of the article, you will have an author bio. In this space, you will enter information about you or the product and give a link to the blog post using your main keyword as the anchor text. When they publish it, they will be sending traffic to your blog posts.
How this will help SEO?
When they publish it, they are linking to your blog post using the keyword you want to rank. As a result, you will get a lot of backlinks to the blog post for your main keyword. When you publish it in the article directory, it will count as a back link too. Some article directories like Ezine Articles will boost the blog post’s ranking by many times in search.
There is one another reason to use article directories. The articles that you submit will also tend to rank in the search engines. Articles in article directories like Ezine Articles rank well in search engines. See the picture above. For ‘blogging to the bank 2 review” search in google, there are 2 (3 and 4) results from Ezine Articles.This means you get traffic from the article you write, from other publishers and from search engines directly.
Have you used article marketing before? Did you get good results? Please share your views in the comments.
Great post i recently started article marketing and i am just about starting to see some results.
Thanks for the tip! I have not used it before, but I am going to go give it a try.
I have created and published a number of logo design articles through article directories and agree that they are a good way of promoting your site as long as you have an article that people will want to read and you have the time to create the article and submit it to an article site. Thanks for sharing the excellent advice Ramkarthik.
I completely agree – I've got excellent SEO results with promoting one of my sites through article marketing. I've never had great success when it comes to receiving visitors though… would be interested to hear if anyone has?
I have a bit mixed results. I mean it gives you a small boost but in the long run i don't notice very much. It is good when starting a new start to promote it at start.
article marketing is one of the things I plan to get a lot more heavily into come the new year.
I tried article marketing last year and became an expert writer at EA, but the effect was not that good to me. I guess this is because I lack experience and strategies. Now, I am reading a lot of useful posts that may help me and I must say that I am learning here.
Thanks!
Completely agree – ezine articles has been a great source of traffic for me as well as delivering much-needed back links.
I have yet to use squidoo but plan to publish some content there too to drive more traffic and backlinks.
One can't really deny the help that article writing and marketing offers. What's good about article marketing is it gives you people who are already interested in you and what you have to offer at some point. In others words, targeted traffic. But then again, you can't rely on article marketing alone to make it big online. There are other things you can add or do aside from article marketing. Still, article marketing is a huge help.