Friday, 8 January 2010

Energize Your Affiliate Marketing Home Business: Earn Extra Income With Articles

By Gene Jimenez

You can earn extra income and boost your affiliate marketing home business sales at no additional cost. Articles are a cheap and sure fire way to get laser targeted traffic to your links, whether to your own site or direct to an affiliate sales page. Here are three ways in which articles can be a tremendous help to you.

1. Are you the boss in your niche?

In any industry, there's a "Boss"--- someone who is recognized as the market leader, to whom others look up, and with whom everyone wants to do business.

In your niche, who is the boss? Is it you?

If not, articles can help you grow your reputation.

Build your brand, and get noticed by search engines and by others in your niche by writing and publishing good quality, helpful articles.

You become known as the "go-to" person in your niche. Not only does that get you the all important click, but it gets you an audience: people who read what you have to say, take you seriously, seek you out in the future, and spread the word about you.

You need to be the boss in your niche. There's no two ways about it. The future of your affiliate marketing home business is in the balance.

If you don't want to be the boss, don't you think someone else wants to?!

2. Don't be a weak link

The only reasons to post articles is to provide high quality, relevant information, and to carry your links. Your links can go to your own page, or directly to an affiliate sales page. Whichever way you like your links, the traffic which articles can bring you will help you earn extra income.

Good articles make your links worth more, and make them work harder.

Your link placed at the end of an article read by others who are passionate about your niche is far better placed to make you money than (say) your link placed in an ad on a Google search page.

The reason why is simple. You have created value by giving the reader worthwhile content.

If they have decided you know what you are talking about, they are likely to click.

If the reader sees little good in what you have written... you won't get the click.

So what do you have to do? Make your articles stand out. Come across as an "expert". That's what will work!

It will also lead to sales. Don't we all want that?

3. It's not just diamonds that are forever.

Articles placed on high traffic directories will stay on the net forever. A good article on a high traffic directory will actually get READ forever.

It can become practically immortal.

Suppose you could place a billboard at the side of a busy road advertising your product, and you knew it would never be taken down? Good articles are like that, getting you traffic as long as your links are active.

And, of course, that traffic is... free!

I think "free" pretty much sells itself!

Let's recap: You need to be using articles for your affiliate marketing home business. If you are, then do more of it. If not, why not? To really earn extra income, you've got to be writing and publishing regularly! Articles give you the sheen of authority-- you become the guy or gal others look to for expertise. Good articles get you fantastic traffic, and best of all, they stay up forever... and all at no cost!

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