Article marketing is nothing new. But applied to affiliate marketing it is the easiest way to make money online. And best of all, you can do it without spending a dime using only free tools available online.

This is all you will need:

- A free keyword research tool
- A free text editor
- A free Clickbank account
- A free Blogger account

Do a quick search on your favorite search engine and you will find these free tools very easily.

Quick cash blue print:

1 - Keyword research:

Using your keyword research tool, search for low competition keywords. Those are keywords that have at least 300 searches a month and that have less than 5000 competing pages in Google (when entered between quotation marks like this “keyword”). Try to find 5 to 10 good keywords related to the same topic.

The idea is to focus on keywords for which you can get a first page ranking in Google, Msn and Yahoo.

Hint: If you have no idea of which market to target, start by checking popular phrases like: how to, purchase, get rid of, help, cure, tips, etc.

2 - Find a digital product to promote

Go to Clickbank.com and find a product related to your topic. Choose one that pays at least $15 to $20. Generate your affiliate link and write it down or save it in a text file on your computer.

3 - Article writing:

Write an informative article (approximately 400 words) focused on each of your keywords. Put your keyword in the title and in the first and last paragraph of your article. Also sprinkle it throughout your copy. You can also throw in a few other keywords related to your topic. This will help you rank well.

Most important, write a great bio box that will make people want to learn more and click on the link to your blog. Put your keyword in your bio box as an anchor text link to your blog.

4 – Set up your blog.

More and more article directories will not let you put your affiliate link in your bio box. So your blog is going to be your landing page. The idea here is to put up a simple blog that will presell (not sell) your product and make people click on your Clickbank affiliate link to go to the sales page.

Hint: set up a blog for every product you promote and give it a keyword-focused name.

5 – Submit your articles to article directories.

You will need to find article directories with a PR of 5 or more. These are the ones Google likes and it will help you get a first page ranking in the search engines and drive tons of free traffic to your blog.

Post one article a day on each article directory and do not post the exact same article to more than one directory.

Hint: Your best choice is Ezinearticles.com. You will need good quality articles, but it is the most powerful directory online. Alternatively you can use Goarticles.com.

6 – Rinse and repeat!

Article marketing is a game of numbers. The more articles your submit, the more money you will earn. But every product is not going to be a winner. Some will do well, some will not. So test a new product every week putting up 5 to 10 focused articles each time.

That is all there is to it. This may seem to good to be true, but it really does work. Off course it will take a couple of weeks for money to start rolling in on a regular basis but the magic of this method is that once you write a money making article it will generate residual income for months and maybe even years — without ever costing you a single dime.

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Yeah sure! You’ve had enough of Blogging 101’s and other Blogging for Noobs reads. You already know what blog platform to choose, how often to post, what blog accessories or plug-ins to integrate to your blog, and what niche exactly you would like to talk about. You’re about to start blogging away. Actually, you have already started posting your pillar articles for your niche blog.

But you feel that there’s something missing. You want to learn from an expert what those dozens of PDF e-books on blogging can’t teach you. So, yeah, you want to know more about the blogging gurus that can help walk you through a more fulfilling blogging experience. Then, hear ye, here are some of the most talk of the town, er blogosphere, pros of blogging in their most celebrated fields: Continue Reading »
Blogging Gurus Every Aspiring Blogger Should Learn From

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From online diaries to business promotional tools blogs have come a long way. As an online marketing device, corporate blogging has established itself as one of the norms.

However, if you’re talking about viral marketing, a blog does not have to be a corporate blog to qualify as an excellent candidate in pursuing this promotional method. Even personal blogs may have a pulsating viral marketing potential.

So, how do you actually make your blog a viral marketing vehicle? If you are a popular marketing guru you won’t have to lift a finger. Many other bloggers will surely link to just about any of the posts you publish as long as you have a following. Now if you’re just an average blogger who hasn’t carved yourself a name yet, how do you make viral marketing possible with your blog?

Here’s a set of how-to tips to make your blog, word-of-mouth-friendly: Continue Reading »
Using Blogs as a Form of Viral Marketing

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A web log, or more commonly known as a blog, used to be just an online journal where most teenagers and voyeurs take note of their daily misfits and whatnots. Now, it has become one of the most powerful marketing devices that is taking online marketing to new levels. Thanks to its easy-to-use and update-able interface, it has become the favourite of many.

If you’d like to keep your blog a secret, it’s your call and adding an RSS feed button or link to it is not necessary. But if you are one of the many marketers who are dying to promote their blogs, then an RSS feed button will suit your blog very well.

By the way, what is an RSS, you might ask? RSS usually stands for “really simple syndication” but it could also stand for “rich site summary” or just about any other thing that geeks can think of.

But the very essence of RSS is to provide busy readers a method to grab info from a blog or a website in an XML or Atom form. With RSS feeds, readers can passively know if a website or blog, whose feed they grabbed, has just been updated or not. When new info pops up from their RSS feed reader or aggregator, the application that aggregates and allows people to read the RSS feeds which convey the updated info from a blog or website, that signals that a blog has just been posted with fresh content.

How do you put an RSS button on your site or just about any form of RSS feed that readers can capture just in case they want to read more from your blog without having to visit your blog any time they wish to? There are plugins that you can use, just visit the Wordpress site and search for plugins.

You can also pay a visit to RSS feed sites such as Feed Burner or Feed Blitz and see the instructions on how to get your blog’s feed burned and presented in an easy to subscribe to form.

Usually, the steps include typing in your blog’s URL on a certain feed burning box. Then, you will be prompted to choose what URL you would like to use when presenting your RSS feed. After a few seconds, the Feed site that provided your blog with an RSS feed form will confirm that you can give out that chosen URL as your blog’s RSS feed URL.

To facilitate your blog’s RSS feed presentation to readers, all you have to do is tweak your blog’s template or theme and include the codes that the RSS feed site provided for your blog’s RSS URL. Feed Burner has this orange chicklet form of feed link. Others have colored (usually orange) rectangular buttons with XML or RSS on them.

Most plugins that you can get incorporate a number of these RSS feeds,  it’s just a matter of uploading this via ftp to your site and activate the plugin.

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