Internet Marketing Articles: Selling Affiliate Products Using Articles

By Author: Karl Stadler
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As an affiliate marketer entering the online market your main focus should not be on sales, or selling. This might sound very strange but fact of the matter is to sell any products you need traffic, and that is where your focus should be.

Fact is many people seem to think this is the way it works. So after a few weeks that the site has been up and maybe a few link exchanges later there are still no sales. In the meantime you have paid for hosting; a keyword research tool maybe even bought a search engine optimization product all adding up to a few hundred dollars.

With a return on investment of zero after two months of slogging along the idea of making money online seems to be a pipe dream, nothing more than unrealistic expectations, and at this point you either try something new, which again will cost money, or you just give up and remain content with your day job.

Fact is, there are ways and means for you to make money online. It just takes much more dedication and work to make it a reality and does not constitute only fifteen minutes of work per day. What you put in is what you will get out. If there ...
... were free rides we would all be rich by now.

Making money selling affiliate products using a method known as internet article marketing is a proven method of generating income online. Many have done it before and many more will do it in the future. It requires a structured and planned approach to your marketing efforts and you need to have the right information at your fingertips to succeed.

It does not happen overnight and you will not be filthy rich by the end of the week either, but you could have earned your first thousand dollars online after the first month provided of course you followed the correct methods that have proven to be successful.

Writing articles is not difficult and with a little effort and practice anyone can do it. Many articles are written for informational purposes only and do not require a structured approach. On the other hand when you are writing articles promoting the products you are selling the dynamics of the article changes. There are certain elements that you have to take into consideration before writing the article and it needs to keep the readers attention right to the end. That of course is where your resource box is and the link to the sales page of the affiliate product you are promoting.

The first step to promoting products using articles is to determine which product you are going to promote. You need to do this long before you write the first word of your article. The product you decide on should be based a set of criteria to ensure you will not be wasting your time.

From here you go on to selecting the keywords for the article based on the product you are promoting. This is then followed with some keyword research to find the best possible keyword you could rank for in the search engines and that does get traffic.

Once you have these elements in place it is time to write the article. You can just write the article, and generate a few sales if any, or construct your article taking all the little nuances and subtleties into account making the article great and getting the readers to click on your link.