How To Boost Your Affiliate Sales With Free Articles

How To Boost Your Affiliate Sales With Free Articles
By
Michael Southon

Free Articles continue to be one of the most effective ways of
quickly generating traffic and sales, without paying for
advertising.

But how can you use free articles to promote an affiliate link?
Putting your affiliate link in your Resource Box is not going
to work, for a number of reasons:

people can easily remove your affiliate ID and just visit the
main website of the affiliate program (you get no commission)

an affiliate link makes you look like just another beginner,
instead of an expert with something unique to offer

So how do you use articles to promote affiliate products? Here
are some strategies:

Turn your website into a `Marketing Resources Directory`

On your website display book covers and provide brief reviews
for a range of eBooks or software that deal with web marketing.

You could divide your directory into categories: Web Marketing
(general), Affiliate Programs, Search Engine Positioning,
Email Marketing, Copywriting, Ezine Publishing, etc.

In your Resource Box at the bottom of your article you could
say: John Doe shows webmasters how to succeed in online
business. Visit his collection of marketing resources at:
http://www.yourdomain.com (http://www.yourdomain.com)

Write a Free Report

Write a free report on web marketing and turn it into an exe
format free eBook.

Your free report might have 5 or 6 chapters, each chapter
dealing with a different aspect of web marketing (Affiliate
Programs, Search Engine Positioning, Email Marketing,
Copywriting, Ezine Publishing etc).

In each chapter you would include recommendations (and your
affiliate link) for eBooks or software that deal with that
topic.

Your Resource Box could say: John Doe shows webmasters how to
succeed in online business. Download his free report, `Web
Marketing In 5 Easy Steps`: http://www.yourdomain.com/
free_report.html (http://www.yourdomain.com/free_report.html)

Customize the affiliate links in Free eBooks

Most web marketers produce free or trial versions of their
eBooks, and in many cases the order links in these free eBooks
can be customized with your affiliate link.

You could build a directory of these free eBooks, each
customized with your affiliate link.

The Resource Box at the bottom of your article might read: John
Doe shows webmasters how to succeed in online business. Visit
his collection of free eBooks today: http://www.yourdomain.com
(http://www.yourdomain.com)

Use your Resource Box to get new subscribers to your Newsletter
and then promote your affiliate programs in your Newsletter.

This is the strategy most people use. But promoting your
affiliate links in a weekly Newsletter is a subtle art - the
best way to learn is to join the Newsletters of marketers who
specialize in this and study their techniques.

(c) 2002 by Michael Southon

Written by Gian Luigi Ruggeri © 2001 - All rights reserved
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