Why writing articles as an affiliate gives you the edge.
As an affiliate marketer one of the easiest and quickest ways to drive traffic to your sites is by writing articles.
There's something about articles that gives you a slight edge on your competition, who just stick up an adwords add, and drive traffic straight to the merchants site.
A good quality article with give the reader benefits, great information, and a damn god reason for them to click through to your site to learn more.
It also gives you a good chance to build a common bond, and rapport with your reader, who by the end of reading your quality article will begin to get to know, like and trust you.
Never make a direct pitch in an article, give benefits, and give information, as that is what most people are searching for - quality information.
Here are 3 good tips to getting a good response from your article.
1. Uncover a problem that the reader or group of readers have.
2. Give them a part solution to the problem, something they can put into action straight away.
3. Let them know the full answer to their problem is awaiting them at your site, and give them a damn good reason to click through to it.
Give, give, give, and you will receive. This is a universal law that cannot be broken whether you believe it or not.
Here's some information you can use to put together a high quality affiliate marketing article.
1. Never send prospects directly to the merchant's website.
2. always try to collect names and email addresses with a squeeze page
3. Try to offer reviews of affiliate products so that you are acting as trusted impartial friend.
And finally take action and move forward, remember an ounce of action is worth a tone of thought - just do it.
