If you are writing an article and doing some article marketing for affiliate programs, do you put your affiliate link on your article you submit to directories? Or you link back to your website and let your website have the affiliate link? Example: You got 3 articles for article marketing, promoting 1 affiliate program. Do you create a website, put these 3 articles in your website with the affiliate link and some monetize it with adsense. Then submit those articles to directories linking back to your website. OR Submit those articles straight to article directories with the affiliate links in them. Skipping the website creation. OR Create website, put those articles and monetize. Submit articles to directories linking back to BOTH your website and affiliate link. Which method works better? This questions goes into reverse psychological mentality of those people searching for solutions. Will they be closed if they go straight to the affiliate website? or it would be better to go through a middle man? Both ways seems to have their own advantages to me. But I'm more towards the making a website method. Well done SEO will dominate long term traffic for my website. What are your choice and opinions?
If the directory you submit to allows you to include aff links, its best to include the aff link in the submission to the directory.
Most directories not allow affiliate links, and people also hate it. Its better to create a website, there you put good review then lead them to affiliate link. Best way to get sales in affiliate marketing is, Help people to get quality product. They will say Thanks to you, bcz they already searching for it and come to your site, They read your experience and review on it, and they get more interested to buy it. To create website can also help you build email list. That will help you later to get more sales. Thanks.
Have to agree with John here, the article marketing is there as a link building exercise people run these sites with your content and although they may allow a link in exchange for free content directly profiting off of their traffic is asking a lot. The same as if you build other links on your site people will still find you through google then its up to you to convert it to a sale!
A site like Ezinearticles does not accept affiliate links. One way to avoid that is to buy your own domain name and have it redirect them to the affiliate link. Generally the more traffic you can send to the affiliate offer the better. Directing them to your own website might cause them not to even click on the offer. Unless you create some sort of capture page to continue to email them about the offer and other offers, then I'd recommend just sending them to the affiliate offer. Most affiliate offers have their own capture pages intergrated, which is great because you'll get the commission when they decide to buy.
You never want to link straight to your affiliate link. What happens the day the affiliate program stops working? Nothing... Your links are dead, months of work and your income stream is dead. The best thing to do, beyond a review site is an opt-in page. People who do not get the opt-in will certainly not buy either (usually) so you are not really losing customers like people think. You can also send them more offers in the future. When you link to a review site they only have that 1 shot opportunity to buy. - Chris
I am in the same boat i have a website that i built and been fixing working on ( never been the best programmer) and have it decent. Im on first page for my keywords now and have about 20 articals that i have posted throughout the article bases ( couple ezine, couple sqeeewzez, most hubpages) I have them all linking back to my website that reviews computer type of product. I get little traffic unless i start doing twitter and yahoo answers. Also no traffic like 5-10 a month from my articles. I was wondering should i post the same article i wrote on hupages squidoo goarticles my website and where ever else i can find to post em and have them all like back to my website? I have made 90 bucks so far but only through physical sales through contacting local businesses.
Most articles get distributed to low PR pages regardless of their quality. I'm curious to hear from people how many unique articles people have to put out or spun versions of an article before they start to get traction.
This is a great point - don't forget to utilize your costumers for referrals, they are genuine and often the best. They typically won't go for percent commissions, but a few bucks here or there perks them right up. You won't get a lot of sales through them, but I still find it very helpful