Part of My Affiliate Marketing Problem Is Fixed
There are many places where we can read about an affiliate marketing business. Unfortunately, it is much harder to find someone to do the actual difficult work for you. Well, I may not have found that elusive source of free labor, but I have discovered what I think is the next best thing.
I do affiliate marketing, although I also sell my own information products and physical products. My online business is made up of a number of traditional sites and blogs. I am a firm supporter–make that “enthusiast”–of SEO for traffic generation, but that is a long term process; good search results take time to build. For some of my affiliate marketing, I have tried PPC, but rarely have I had success over the long haul.
So, for me, as for all Internet marketers, traffic is a very challenging part of my business. Especially difficult are those times when I have to pass on a new affiliate opportunity because none of my websites are optimized to bring in targeted traffic for the product, so I face the age old question: How do I get the visitors to the vendor’s site with my embedded affiliate link?
My approach to directing traffic to the vendor’s site is just like many other affiliate marketers, I bring the visitors to my own site initially for an introduction to the product or, perhaps a comparison of competing products. Then I just hope that I have been sufficiently convincing to get them to click the link that directs them to the vendor’s site so that I have some small chance of earning my commission. I would like to make that process a bit less involved and take the prospects to the vendors a little more efficiently.
I use article marketing extensively for all of my sites. I employ that strategy primarily for its SEO value but also for the direct visitors that are sent my way. However, especially for an affiliate marketer, there are two major problems with traditional article marketing. The first of those problems is that the top tier directories that publish and distribute articles do not allow links within the body of the article, contextual linking. Instead the links stand alone in a section that they call the author’s resource box, but which screams, “Commercial!” to our readers. Second, the major article directories do not allow affiliate links or even links to redirected pages or domains.
At last there is a content syndication service thall allows both contextual linking and inclusion of direct affiliate links. Yes, you will be able to join the affiliate program of the amazing My Article Network once you become a member of the service.
My Article Network is something of a cooperative that brings site owners (publishers) together with article marketers. (That link will let you know what I have to say about it on one of my sites.) It’s another of those Callen projects that most of us who hang around online business for any period of time have come to know so well.
Since I am writing to and for the benefit of affiliate marketers, I’ll cut short the presell message and let sales page of My Article Network speak for itself. I’ve been using it for less than two months, and I am a complete convert to the system. I joined it for the article distribution, but I became so enthused that I set up four new blogs to take advantage of the free content in some of my niches. {(Go ahead. Click the link, you know you want to.)(Do it! You know you want to click the link. Come on…don’t you think I deserve it?}
