Article Marketing is a fantastic tool!  Yes, it is a tool and perhaps one of the greatest internet tools we have at our disposal.

For some people, article marketing is their total internet business.  They write articles and publish them to take traffic to an affiliate product.

Today, these people are slowly being forced into expansion of their business by more and more limitation on the use of affiliate links in the author resource box.

Where to expand to?

Squidoo is probably the most popular media for expansion.  You create you squidoo page as a landing page for your affiliate product, include a number of opportunities for people to click through to the affiliate program and presto, your business has expanded.

A second solution is to get your own web hosting and domain name.  Now you can create a landing page that drives your article marketing traffic to your chosen affiliate product.

Article Marketing can drive traffic to any location you want and for any purpose you choose.  You can use articles to drive traffic to a website, landing page, squidoo lens or a blog.

Beyond the elements that make a successful highly read article there is another key element that needed for Article Marketing Success:  Control over the URL your articles direct traffic to.  If you have ever used a direct link to an affiliate product you probably have learned this one the hard way.

If you do not have control of the landing page you can lose your effort.  The affiliate product is no longer viable and all your links for dozens of articles that have been published in dozens of site, are worthless, end of story, start over.

If you have control of the URL, then you can change the product to a viable product and your resource links can continue working for you for years.

Take control of your Article Marketing

Till next time this is the Marketing Hobo saying - Be in control at all times!

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Anyone that uses Article Marketing is always on the look out for new places to publish their articles. Today while browsing around I found a new article directory. I signed up for a free account after looking through the site for only a couple of minutes.

Mr. John Frierson, the website owner, “Our goal is to become a leader in the world of online publishing. We provide syndication services to website owners, ezine publishers and more. We understand that the perceptive visitor is looking for well-written articles on a variety of related subjects, we figured that the best way to do this is through our article directory.

It’s a fact that good content is crucial to online success. Articles Of Information.com is a central location for submitting and promoting articles, in addition to being the key to a powerful resource for website owners and ezine/newsletter publishers who are searching for excellent content to share with others. when you submit articles to Articles Of Information.com, your articles are picked up by other websites, featured in newsletters, and sent out in ezines exploding your website traffic, sales, and newsletter options.”

If you are looking for another directory to publish articles on or are looking for content for a website, I suggest you check out Articles of Information today.

For more information visit http://www.ArticlesOfInformation.com

Till next time this is the Marketing Hobo saying: Stay warm and stay safe.

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Article Marketing is perhaps the easiest way to begin and is possibly the most fool proof way, to begin online marketing. this does not mean it is easy and that is a lesson that is often learned the hard way.

Probably every one accepts that the hardest part of Article Marketing is how to write a number of articles on a niche topic. Today I want to share with you, my system for an easy (easier) way to write multiple articles on a given niche topic and that is the power of 4 equals 5.

No, before you ask, I did not fail math. I know that 4 times 1 equals 4.

First: I want you to decide on a topic you would like to write about, it does not really matter what topic you choose.

Second: I want you to list the four most important things about that topic. You can write this in a few different ways:

=> The four things you need to…
=> Four mistakes not to make …
=> Four ways to increase …You get the idea!

Now you have a niche topic and the four most important items about that niche topic.

Here comes the insight into the power of 4 equals 5

Write your article about the four most important things and then write one article on each of those four topics.

You now have five articles about your niche topic: 4 equals 5

Do not get hung up on the number 4 this could just as easily be the top 10 reasons or needs. If you use the top 10 things, then you could follow this up writing 10 articles about your niche topic.

Now instead of needing to research 4 or 10 different Articles, you only need to research one topic and you will produce a number of different articles.

Hope this helps you with your article marketing

Until next time this is the Article Marketing Hobo saying stay well and stay safe.

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When I was little I heard the story about the goose that laid the golden egg, you probably did also.  I do not know if it was because of that story or because of some deep seated emotional quirk, but I seem to be caught up searching for that goose.

Now my life is about Article Marketing of affiliate products or aka Affiliate Marketing, seem fitting that I should re-write that goose story to fit my own life and title it “Affiliate Marketing and the Golden Key”.

Searching for that Golden Key fills too much of my day, going from one idea to another, one marketing method to another, and one way of publishing articles to another.  I realize this is not the best idea, it does fill a need in me and I have learned with time to study ideas, not buy into them.  I have learned to look below the surface and find if there is some little flake of gold that I can try.

Well today I found a Golden key, ok perhaps it really is brass or bronze but it shines like gold.  I hear hundreds of marketing Guru’s say go to clickbank to find your affiliate product to promote … so far so good

Now when you get to clickbank you go to the section on marketing and select the topic you want to market about. Again … no problem.

Hear it comes - the winds that blow many directions.  Select a popular product to promote because you know its selling.  What the?  If its already so popular, how much competition are you going to be up against?  I bet a lot more than you really want to compete with.

The new guy comes along and wants to add a new spin to an old idea so this “born again Guru”  tell you to sort by gravity and select a program that falls between 20 and 40 and you will have a lot less competition.  Yep, right there still is hundreds if not thousands of people promoting that product.

The Golden Key:  How about selecting a product that has 0 gravity … that few people have seen, heard about or promote.  How about giving yourself a real fighting chance to be the first?

Is this the Affiliate Marketing Golden Key or perhaps just a shiny key made from bronze.

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Article Marketing authors may be finding it hard to place their affiliate links in the resource box for published articles. I found a simple free answer to this problem.

Don’t get me wrong, I sure do not feel that I am some sort of Marketing Genius that discovers places no one has gone before. Most of the time, when I discover a new thing, I assume that I am just slow and everyone else already knows about it. I also realize there are new people everyday entering the world of Article Marketing and these people may not have discovered something I have, so I try to share it.

The “No Secret” system is a free blog site on Blogger.com. Here are the steps you will be putting together for this.

1. Locate your affiliate product that you want to promote
2. Write a great review of the product
3. Write 5 to 10 articles on the topic your affiliate product is for
4. Get a free Blog on Blogger.com

After you sign up for your free blogger account you will be ready to create your blog. You will need to do a few things.

1. Name your blog
2. Create a blog address

You should use the name of your blog as the address. Example:

Blog Name: “Widget Reviews”
address: “widgetreviews”

you will click the next button and go to the choose template page. You can choose any template you wish.

Congratulations! Your blog has been created. Start posting … go ahead and click the arrow. Notice at the top of the page the tab “Template” click on that.

You are now on a page that allows you to make changes to the template structure. In the side column you will see some elements that allow you to edit. click the edit and then you will get a pop up. At the bottom of the pop up window, you can click remove page element. You do not want any elements to display for this page, so eliminate all of them you can and then click save.

Go to the top of the page and click on the post tab. You will be taken to a window where you post and here you will post your “Review of the Affiliate Program”. Check the finished post for errors and when satisfied click the publish post button.

You have now completed a web page dedicated to your affiliate product. Go ahead and publish the article you wrote earlier with your new blog site address in the resource box

If you would like to see an example of a completed page for this purpose click  here 

You can use the blog address in the resource box of any additional articles you write for this affiliate product.

If you have any questions “Please ask in the comments sections”

I hope this is helpful

Till next time this is the The Marketing Hobo saying keep well

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