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How to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing Articles

Posted by sarah on Monday, December 8th, 2008

How to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing Articles

Article marketing isn’t just about writing articles and having them published. In the end, your main goal is to be able to monetize them, either directly or indirectly. So how can you earn something from your articles? Here’s how:

1. You can sell affiliate products.

One of the obvious ways to monetize your articles is by selling popular affiliate products. In this case, you can write your articles in such a way that they showcase the product’s features and benefits, enticing your reader to click through to your affiliate link. Typically, this money-making model makes use of the resource box – an addition to articles posted on popular article directories that allows you to add information about yourself and a link to your website.

2. You can earn Adsense revenue.

It’s actually possible to earn money through Google Adsense without even setting up your own website. There are a number of article directories and article submission websites that will not only publish your articles, but will also help you earn money through the ads that are displayed together with your articles. On the other hand, why not set up your own blog where you can post your articles as you write them? This way, you’ll earn money directly through ads on your site, instead of sharing the revenue from another person’s site.

3. You can compile them all together and sell them as an ebook.

Rather than deleting your old articles or putting them into an archive, you can compile all of them and create your own ebook. There are three benefits to doing this. First, you can earn money by selling the e-book itself. In addition, you can sell space inside your e-book to advertisers, or clued links to relevant affiliate products. Finally, you can use the ebook to drive customers to your website, which you’ve monetized with additional advertisements or affiliate products.

4. You can build your own mailing list.

A mailing list can be a great way to boost your internet business. After all, if someone has gone out of their way to sign up for your mailing list, you can be pretty sure they’ll be interested in any future promotions you send out. The articles you write can do double-duty by populating your newsletter and driving traffic from a blog or article directory.

5. You can turn your articles into PLR content.

Basically, PLR stands for private label rights, which means that you sell the rights to your articles to someone else. As the author of the PLR content, you specify which rights you’re selling – for example, you can specify whether or not the new owner can make changes, claim the work as their own or turn around and sell it to others. This is especially effective if you have a large number of articles sitting around on your hard drive, and you want to earn something from them instead of sending them off to the digital recycle bin.

6. You can boost your traffic and search engine ranking.

Submitting your affiliate marketing articles to well-ranked sites – such as article directories – will also help you earn inbound links and increased traffic for your website. Over time, your sites position on the search engines will improve, making it easier for your customers to find your business in search engines and directories.

 

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