To make money from affiliate marketing, you need to drive traffic to your affiliate product page. The first way that I learn to drive traffic to my affiliate product pages is by writing articles. Article marketing is one of the most efficient ways to drive quality traffic and it is free.

To drive traffic using article marketing, you will need to master how to write an article fast. The benchmark of writing one article is about 10 minutes. I know that for those of you who are not familiar with article writing, you may find that it is very hard to churn out an article within 10 minutes. Bu believe me, you can as long as you practice hard enough.

The key to churn out an article within 10 minutes is to just type. Yes, just type. Choose a good title with the keywords that you want to target, and start typing. Many people can’t churn out an article within 10 minutes because they spend too much time thinking on what to write. The key here is to just type whatever that comes into your mind relating to the title, and you can edit them later.

In each of the article that you write, you will need to tell the readers 3 things:

1. What is this article about?
2. Give them what they are looking for
3. Call to action to your site.

When you are promoting a particular affiliate product, the content of your article should highlight a problem that your affiliate product can solve. Then lead your readers to click on the affiliate link in your Author’s Resource box so that they will be able to access the information that they want.

You can either send them directly to your affiliate product pages or to websites that you owned that are related to what you are promoting. For those who are just starting out and have little money to invest in websites, you can try sending them directly to your affiliate product pages.

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Bum marketing is a term that is derived from a fellow warrior named Travis Sago, which is also popularly known as Article Marketing. He termed it as Bum marketing because anyone can start making money online by just writing articles to promote affiliate products, without the need of having any website. So any BUM can make money online if he or she starts writing and promoting.

Bum marketing is a technique of writing articles, Squidoo lens, or USFreeAds with keywords that are low competitive but high search volume, and making sure that those articles or ads are ranked on page 1 of Google for targeted search terms. Inside your articles, you will promote affiliate products and drive your readers directly to the merchants’ sales page. Some of the article directories like EzineArticles.com will not allow direct affiliate links to be placed inside your articles. So if you want to use bum marketing without landing page, you can consider using Squidoo, GoArticles.com or USFreeAds.

There are pros and cons for bum marketing without landing page. If you are new to internet marketing and do not want to spend money in the beginning, you can write keyword-rich articles and promote affiliate products directly. This method allows you to test out a particular market or product and gives you a feel about making money online. However, the biggest disadvantage of doing this is that you will fail to capture a lot of potential subscribers if you send all the traffic directly to your merchants’ sales page.

A better way of Bum marketing is to have your own landing or squeeze pages. At least these are your OWN sites. Apply the same Bum marketing techniques to drive tons of targeted traffic to your own sites. On your landing pages, capture their email addresses and names so that you can start building your list! In internet marketing, building list is an extremely important process. If you want to earn a substantial income from internet marketing, you need to build your own lists.

With your lists, you can promote related affiliate products to your subscribers. Just make sure that the affiliate products that you are endorsing are good so that you will not destroy your own affiliate reputation.

Now, let me share with you an extremely important point if you are into affiliate marketing. No matter what techniques you use to promote affiliate products, you MUST establish yourself as an expert. Only when you are a recognized expert in the niche that you are promoting, people will start to trust you and buy the products that you recommend. So always bear this in mind when you enter any niche.

If you are using article marketing to promote affiliate products, make sure that you are the TOP AUTHOR of EzineArticles.com for the niche that you are in.  And write consistently. Do not be complacent and stop writing when you see that some of your articles are getting you some sales. As long as you write and promote consistently, the bottom line of your affiliate income will always continue to grow.

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Are you currently making enough money with article marketing (bum marketing)? In this post, I will reveal some of the tips to maximize every dollars that can be earned from every article that you write…

Writing articles is one of the easiest way to make money online. You can use articles to drive tons of traffic to your squeeze page, increase the number of subscribers in your lists, or simply just make direct sales from your articles with BUM marketing techniques.

In this blog post, I will not be talking only about BUM marketing technique, but a general art of article marketing to give you insights of the big picture.

Let me list down what are the things that you need to do when writing articles in order to start making money online:

1. Your article title must be able to entice people to click and read your article. The title is the most important element of an article. If your article title is boring, no one is going to click and read your article… and all your solid content will go down to the waste. You need to compete with so many other writers so it is very important for your article title to stand out from the rest. People like to read articles with titles such as: “How To Lose 5 Pounds of Weight in 2 Weeks?”, “Top 10 Secrets To Drive 1,000 Unique Visitors To Your Site - Guaranteed”, “How to Master Golf In 10 Days”, etc. Your title should give your readers what to expect even before they read the content.
2. Put the most important keywords in your article title. This is BUM marketing 101. You need to specifically choose the right key phrases and keywords, and place them in the title of your article. With the keyword-rich content, your article can rank in 1st page of Google which will bring very targeted readers to read your article. This is important as you need the right people to read your articles if you want a conversion (either a sale or opt-in).
3. Write solid content. Do not sell anything in your articles, or even in your Author’s Resource Box. The people who are reading your articles want solid information and content; they are not looking for a sales pitch. Your articles should provide information that can help solve their immediate problem tentatively. Entice them to find out more information from your site. You should include important key phrases and keywords that you wish to rank well on Google in your content.
4. Do not write a conclusion in your article. Uh? Is it not normal to conclude what you write in your article? NO! (at least not in article marketing). When you conclude your article, your readers might just NOT read your Author Resource Box at the end. Without them reading your resource box, you can’t lead them to your site. So, do not conclude your articles. Your Author Resource Box will act as the necessary conclusion for your article and lead them to your site to find out more.
5. Write a compelling Author Resource Box. Do not just write “Click here to find out more” in your resource box. The best resource box that I have seen is to post a question to your readers and ask them (call to action) to click on your link to find out the answer. An example will be: “Do you know that you can save up to 15% of electrical bill with this one simple energy saving technique? Find out now from the link below…” If you are trying to get more backlinks with article marketing, remember to include the keywords that you wish to optimize in your anchor text.
6. Submit your articles to popular article directories. For me, I only submit my articles to a few article directories such as EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com. It is NOT how many article directories that you submit to that matters. Submit your articles only to those directories that really matters.
7. Aim to get your articles into “Most Viewed EzineArticles in the Category (90 Days)”. If you scroll down to the bottom of every article in EzineArticles.com, you can get to see the top 15 most viewed articles in that particular category. Articles who get into this list is going to get tons of readers reading them as it usually means they are the best articles around. So when you write every article, make sure that you aim to get it in that list. To get into this list, the title is the most important factor. You need to write titles that will make people to click and read your articles without second thought!

All right, now you have the necessary tips to get started in article marketing. To succeed in article marketing, practice is the key. With consistent writing, it will be become a second nature for you. By then, you will be driving a lot of traffic and making money online.

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Google loves Squidoo. You can get a high ranking on Google with a well written Squidoo lens by placing important keywords that you wish to target within your lens. A Squidoo lens allows you to provide content to your reader, with pictures and other widgets to make it more interesting. So with content-driven Squidoo lens, how can you make sure that it gets onto page 1 of Google for keywords that you have targeted?

To make sure that your lens gets onto first page of Google, you need to insert your keywords at important places within a lens. First of all, your keyword should appear in the URL of your lens. This is an extremely important area and you cannot afford to not put your most important keyword here.

Next, you must make sure that your keywords appear in the titles within your lens. In your first paragraph, write content related to the product that you are promoting and do not forget to insert keywords within the content to make it relevant to Google. You should always bold your important keywords so that the spider from Google will give more importance to them.

As long as your content is well written and with keywords strategically placed, your lens is on the way to rank high on Google. However, work does not stop here. To ensure that your lens gets onto the first page of Google, you need to focus on your link popularity too.

What you can do is to visit other Squidoo lens that have content similar to your lens and write comments on them. Your comments should provide links back to your lens. You should also submit your lens to various social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit. If you want to generate even more back links, you can write articles about the topic written in your lens. For every article that you have written, place a link in the Author Resource Box and point back to your Squidoo lens. This will help to get more back links for your lens.

Once you have mastered on how to get your Squidoo lens to get into first page of Google, you will be able to drive tons of targeted traf