Sunday, August 30, 2009

How to Make Money with Article Marketing

By Damon Neal

Making money through online marketing is never as easy as it sounds and there are many ways to fail. Internet guru's talk about Adwords and pay-per-click, but the fact is that this can cost you a lot of money and usually your profits won't pay for the advertising. I have tried this and, after a long trial and error period, I found a way to get free advertising for any product that I'm trying to sell.

If you really want to make money online, you need a plan that is proven to work. Making money on the internet isn't rocket science, lots of people have profitable internet businesses and you can too. The secret is free advertising. The way you get that is through article marketing. Article marketing consists of writing articles, like this one, that are posted for free on the article directories. When someone clicks on the link, they come to your sales page and you get potential customer for free. Making this work requires two things - time and consistent effort. In other words a business plan.

Once you make a plan, you have to stick to it.

Beginning today you will:

* Find a product you want to promote on the internet. Perhaps you can use an affiliate marketing site to search for the product.

* Find the keywords that are used when people are looking for your product

* Write 5 different reports about your chosen product. The report should be approximately 250- 600 words in length. Alternatively you can snatch an already written article from an article directory and re-write it using your own words. Article "spinning" software can help you with this.

* Register with 5 article directories such as ezine, articlecity, goarticle, etc and post a different version of your article on each one. Make sure to use the relevant key words both in the article and in the articles title.

* Repeat tomorrow.

* After you have posted 25 articles on that product, get another idea to market and repeat the process.

Depending on your speed, you can write and post an article in about 30 - 50 minutes so getting 5 articles a day posted online should take you less than 5 hours. The payoff is the articles never go away. People read them and other people post them on their website. If anyone has an interest in finding out more, they click through to your sales page. Free traffic, that's the ticket to internet profits.

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