So, you have come to the realization that affiliate marketing is a massively growing industry, and you want to try to claim your fair share; But, what's the best way for you to get started? The first thing that comes to mind for a lot of people is Pay Per Click advertising (or "PPC" for short). PPC can be a good bet. It is fast, direct and can generate instant results, but is it for you? Well, some folks swear by it and some swear at it. It can bring in some very quick sales. It can also cost you a fortune and leave you disappointed with your results. Maybe you will decide to defer making a decision on thatidea for now. At least until you can calculate the financial risk. So, where does that leave you?
A good low-risk solution is article writing for Mooker.Com Article marketing is a business model where you become an instant expert on any topic that you can think of, and then you share your expertise of that topic with the whole world by publishing your story on Mooker, complete with hyperlinks back to your Internet properties including affiliate links which other directories simply do not allow. The advantages are clear. There is no investment on your part except for your time. Also, Mooker.Com is part of a chain of authority sites that gets its content indexed by Google very quickly. Material that you submit to Mooker today can possibly find its way into the Google search engine within a couple of hours. What this means for you is fast, free, relevant traffic that keeps coming in for as long as your article remains relevant to the Internet searchers.
Here are some tips that can quickly help put you on the road to affiliate marketing success using Mooker.Com:
1) Always bear in mind the attention span of the average web user.
2) Maintain a clean, simple writing style and alwaysremain aware of your word count when you are writing.
Also, consider typing out your article as a simple text document before you enter it into the publisher interface.By doing so you can take advantage of the spell check feature of your e-mail client and save yourself some timeby pastingthe textinto an e-mailthat yousendingto yourself. Be sure to click the spell check before you hit 'send'
3) The length of your articles should be about 400-600 words.
Research shows that folks that browse the Internet for information will come to your site not to feast, but to graze. So, keeping your information in succinct bite-sized chunks will greatly enhance the absorption power of your information.
If your word processor normally generates about 20 words per line then you can easily estimate the total number of words your article is by multiplying 20 by the number of lines you have written. 20 lines of text times 20 words per line is exactly 400. This by the way translates to about 3 or 4 paragraphs.
4) Consider Clickbank.
All in all, Clickbank products offer some of the highest payouts anywhere. Definitely consider it.
5) Use your Mooker.Com hyper linking privileges skillfully.
The embedded hyperlinks are your bread and butter. You can place up to two "back links" as they are called inside the author's bio box (sometimes known as "resource box") at the end of your article. Use your bio box back links to promote your general web properties. Then try to work into the body of your article a specific affiliate link where you can sell something. Do this in such a way that the text of your link "blends" well into the overall theme of the article itself. There is a real skill to this and those that do it well cash in big time. Try to study this practice as you see it in other articles you are reading. Think about it from the viewpoint of the actual user. When people search for something by typing-in certain key words, they would love to end up at a relevant place to learn about what they need precisely. They would like to get at it quickly and in an easy-to-grasp fashion. They mostly don't have the patience to go through irrelevant nonsense to fish out what they want. The bottom line, is that their attention span is limited, and they need guidance, and not cheap sales copy. Mooker.com is full of articles that display excellent use of cash generating affiliate links embedded within the article copy. Before you start to publish, study these and prosper.
6) Be aware that most article submission sites do frown upon the use of affiliate links directly in the articles. They feel that this works to cheapen the article. What they make you do is place a general link back to your website and from there you have to hope the user then finds your affiliate link. This kills sales. Mooker.Com does not do this to you so use this advantage wisely.
7) Be original. As you should already know, Google is very advanced in the area of technology. Gone are the days of the "copy and paste millionaire". Google is very adept at spotting duplicate content and as you can guess, they can, and will punish offenders by simplydeciding not to index their material. If search engines will not index your article then all the work you put into making it is an utter waste.
8) Find really good Affiliates that YOU happen to like, and work with them
9) Be observant. Did you notice how smoothly I inserted my own affilaite link into the content of this article? Making my payday link one of the line items in the piece is my idea of how to finesse it in! Go ahead, click it!
To sum it up, affiliate marketing can be your ticket to the big time. You do need a plan. Study the people who have come before you. Go out and research the affiliate programs that mesh well with your preferred topics and special knowledge. There are tons of them. If you see a certain product or service on any given webpage that you would truly like to promote, check the very bottom of the home page. Very often they publish an affiliate link right there for you to find!
Good luck, and much successto you.
About The Author:
This artice was written by Mark Soveign who owns and operates Wertheim Communications LLC and is a contributing writer to howto-investing.com