The Awe Inspiring Power Of Article Marketing

If you want to make money online, and all you have is internet access, but not a single dollar to spend on anything, you are in luck, because article marketing can be done for free. That is rather mind boggling, considering the fact that many article marketers have become six figure earners.


No domain or hosting or autoresponder fee or anything else is required to make money. You only need to learn the skills, and then put them into action and not ever give up. If you persist, there is really no way that you will not make money.


Have you heard of "bum marketing?" How about, the "bum method?" Those are just other terms for article marketing. (It is so basic, even a bum could learn it.)


If you are an affiliate marketer, bum marketing is the answer to your question regarding how to drive traffic to your replicated affiliate sites. If you have your own website, bum marketing can not only give you immediate traffic that could bring you sales right now, but it can increase the ranking that search engines assign to your website, which will bring you future traffic.


Bum marketing is great for establishing yourself as an authority figure, gaining credibility, and for branding yourself. It is the amazing power of search engines that makes all this possible.


There are two sides to search engine marketing. A free side and a paid side. A large part of the free side, is article marketing; and the paid side is, pay per click advertising. A good pay per click marketer is almost granted a license to mint gold. The problem with pay per click marketing is, it is easy to lose a lot of money with it.


People really have no business jumping into pay per click advertising with no experience. They would be better served, beginning on the free side, learning article marketing. It is the best training a marketer could ever get for learning the paid method.


Okay, how does article marketing work? The first thing to learn is called, keyword research. (A keyword is simply anything someone enters a search engine.) This research is surprisingly fun, easy and downright intriguing. It can get tedious at times, but overall it is fun, mining for gold keywords. It's all about finding keywords that give you a chance of landing on the first page of Google results.


Let's imagine that you sell shoes as an affiliate marketer. Your research tells you that these keywords can not help you get a first page listing; shoes, black shoes, black tennis shoes. But you do see that, red tennis shoes, might give you a chance at first page.


Next, you write articles with the words, Red Tennis Shoes, in the title as well as in the first paragraph, middle and closing paragraph. Each of your articles will have a link to your affiliate website. Then, you submit them to highly ranked article directories.


If lady luck smiled upon you (which is often what it takes), & your article marketing efforts get on the first page, (hopefully in the top half, ) then your article is going to get some readers, and some of them are going to click through to your affiliate website, & a fraction of those people will end up buying.