I received a comment on this topics and thought I would address it.  I may not have been clear in how to promote those affiliate products using Ezinearticles.com, so this post will explain how to do it.

And by the way, this is a way that anyone can start making money online.  You don’t have to have experience with affiliate marketing but just understand a few key concepts.

Why Choose Ezine Articles for affiliate marketing?

Before I give you the steps to take to start making money with articles let me explain a little about Ezinearticles.  I highly recommend this article directory above the others because first of all it ranks much higher in the search engines.  There are literally 1,000s of article directories out there and most of them are complete junk and your article will get NO visibility at all and you would be wasting your time to submit anything to them.  And secondly, Ezine is very reputable.  They do not accept spammy or poorly written articles and they have human reviewers go over each article before it is submitted into the database.

Anyone Can Write and Make Money with Articles:

Now before you get scared and think that you articles could never be good enough, let me say that it is a good thing that they are picky about their articles.  You want this.  This lets you stand out from the crowd and gives the articles that ARE accepted even more credibility in you readers eyes.

Now you don’t have to be an “A” student in grammar and English to have articles accepted.  I mean, they accept MY articles for crying out loud!  You simply don’t want to make egregious in your writing.  Just use a conversation style and you will be fine.  Also, they absolutely detest spam (as most of us do), so you don’t want to write articles that sound like commercials or ads on TV.  Just write about something you have some knowledge about and use the link in the resource box to drive some traffic to your affiliate site.

Now, Ezine does not allow affiliate links… Gasp… oh no!  What do we do now?  Well, it’s ok.  I actually like the fact they don’t allow affiliate links because this keeps some spammers who are ignorant out of the game.

Here are some ways you can get around the “no affiliate links” rule Ezine has laid down:

• Buy a domain and set up a redirect TO your affiliate link (very easy to do). You can also turn on cloaking so your domain name will appear in the URL of the site it takes them to as well.  This is in my opnion the best option, even if it costs 10 bucks for a domain.
• You can also set up a Squidoo lens talking about your affiliate product.  Write a review of this item and put several links on your Squidoo page, and just use the Squidoo url in the resource box.
• Use Blogger to set up a free blogging page but use it to talk about your affiliate product further in depth and put a link from there to that product.
• Use USfreeads as a review page and point your link to them.
• Or you can always link to another one of your Ezinearticles that already has a well written resource box and points to one of the above.

There are many more possabilities for monetizing your articles but these are just a few ways.  I like the redirect method the best because it takes fewer clicks for the consumer to get to the page where they will have the option to buy the product.  The fewer the hoops they have to jump through the more sales you will get.

If you choose the right keywords in your article title and in your content you can get a lot of targetted traffic and make a decent income.  You can find blog posts about keyword research by doing a search on my blog.  Right nowm article marketing drives about 20% of the traffic to all of my sites, so even if I was deindexed from Google I would get a decent amount of traffic still.

Feel free to ask any questions or leave any comments on article marketing and bum marketing in the comments below.

Here is a great guide to Making Money with Ezinearticles that is worth checking out!

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