Targeted Traffic & Affiliate Marketing – Getting Backlinks With Article Marketing

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Affiliate marketing success depends on driving enough targeted traffic to merchants’ sites through your affiliate marketing links. There are a number of ways to achieve this goal, and the more ways you can master the greater your chances for success in your own affiliate marketing business. One of the most successful ways to accomplish this is through article marketing.

For those just getting started, understand that this doesn’t refer to marketing articles online, but rather to using articles as part of your marketing mix. Since most people come online looking for information, providing that information through articles you’ve authored is a great way to get their attention – and done right can lead them to take the desired action by clicking through to the affiliate offers you’re promoting.

This is a two-step process; first you have to provide good, solid content that fills their needs, and then you have to distribute the articles in such a way as to be sure they can find your articles in the first place. To achieve the former, be sure that the articles you author are of interest mostly to the market you’re targeting, and that every single article provides useful information for them. Anyone can write fluff – distinguish yourself as an expert in your field by sticking to solid, helpful information that’s dead-on targeted to them.

Once you’ve started writing your articles you need to get them online where they can be found, that is you need to start your article marketing process. Article directories are the most common place for people to search for information, and generally have strong positioning in the major search engines. Make use of this relationship by only submitting your articles to the top few directories, and by being sure you’ve included links to your blogs and squeeze pages along with a call to action in your Author’s Resource Box at the end of each article.

Every time you have an article published at a major article directory you’ve created another backlink to your sites. This is important for two reasons – both because you can garner traffic directly from the readers at the directory and because the search engines just found another high-authority site that links to yours, which can boost your rankings in the search engine results pages (SERPs). And each boost there can help to bring more targeted traffic to your sites.

In addition, the best article directories also make the articles available to bloggers, webmasters and newsletter publishers who can use your articles as long as they leave your copyright and links intact and active. If you can author articles that get published via this system, you can end up generating a number of additional backlinks through those blogs and websites, and get direct traffic from the readers of those e-zines as well.

It’s also important to note that a myriad of affiliate marketing techniques, strategies and tricks have come and gone since the web was established in 1994, but providing good, solid content through article marketing has always been and will continue to be one of the darlings of the search engines – after all, their sole purpose is to make it easy for people to find the information they need, and you’re providing that information in your articles. As long as you’re writing unique, on-topic articles that genuinely provide helpful information you won’t need to worry about the next update in any search engine’s algorithm – they need the article directories as much as you need the targeted search engine traffic!

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New Video & Free Report – Build Traffic and Build Opt-In Lists

Here’s a new video for you from Internet marketing mentor Doug Champigny, showing how to build traffic and build opt-in lists using your affiliate marketing program:

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Affiliate Marketing Strategy: Choosing The Right Traffic Tools

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Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest ways to make money online, and the usual starting point for most work-at-home online businesses. Since the product, web site, sales copy and often even sample e-mails are already created by the merchant, affiliate marketing success simply involves sending enough targeted traffic through your affiliate link to the merchant’s site.

There are paid options to drive targeted traffic, such as the Pay-Per-Click ads you see in the major search engines, ads on web sites and blogs, and solo ads and sponsor ads in e-zines in the niche. But most people starting out with any work-at-home business need to conserve what little investment capital they have, and as such should focus on the myriad of free methods of generating targeted traffic.

The first concern is to decide which traffic tools are right for each affiliate promotion you’re doing. Look over the salespage and decide whether this product or service is short-lived, like a 7-day sale, or liable to be around a long time, like say a dog training guide. Is it a one-time sale, or can you earn recurring commissions as when promoting a monthly membership site or ongoing service?

If it’s short term, focus on the fast traffic generators like Twitter, your e-zine, your blog and social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon or Digg. You want targeted traffic that hits almost instantly, and don’t need to waste time using long-term traffic methods.

If it’s going to be around a while, start by using those same short-term methods to get sales started quickly, then hop over and do some articles, a Squidoo lens and a Google Knol. That gets you the quick traffic from the former, and then keeps some residual targeted traffic going to the page from the latter. If the conversions are good, keep up the short-term til results start to taper off, all the while adding to your long-term efforts. If results aren’t great, let your long-term efforts to date suffice and move on to the next product.

If you’re promoting an affiliate marketing opportunity that pays residual commissions, pull out all stops. Do all of the above, plus record & submit some podcasts, videos and press releases, do either a recorded interview with the site owner or a live teleseminar, use the recording in giveaways, do a few e-zine swaps and maybe even create some viral e-books on the topic to help promote your affiliate links.

In short, there are a lot of ways to drive targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing links for free – just be sure to use the right tools to match the potential returns, start off slow and if you see your affiliate commissions mounting, turn on the afterburners and maximize your return before moving on to your next affiliate marketing opportunity.

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About The Author

Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet marketing mentor, speaker and super-affiliate. For more on affiliate marketing read his Captain Affiliate Affiliate Marketing Training Blog. For more detailed information on 14 ways to drive free targeted traffic to your links, see Doug’s Top Traffic Tips training.

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Top 10 Proven Ways to Drive Targeted Traffic to Your Affiliate Marketing Site

©2008 Doug Champigny. All Rights Reserved.

Are you looking at Affiliate Marketing as one of your ways to make money online? Earn a part-time income working from home or even become a work-at-home guru? Making money online isn’t rocket science – there are existing systems that people are using very successfully to make money online every day, from a bit of help with the mortgage to Internet marketers making 5-figure, 6-figure, 7-figure incomes and more. One of the most powerful ways, and the simplest way to start making money online, is with Affiliate marketing.

When you’re involved in affiliate marketing, easily one of the most major concerns you’ll have to face is driving traffic to your site. And not just any traffic – you’ll need targeted traffic. Here are the top 10 proven ways you can drive quality traffic to your affiliate marketing site and increase your income-generating potential:

E-mail campaigns

Used carefully, e-mail campaigns can easily drive targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing site. This can be done by providing highly relevant and valuable information on the body of the message and then offering a link that will bring the recipients into your site.

You can do this two ways: one is by providing the full content in the e-mail message and then offering a link inviting the recipient to view more similar write-ups on your site. Another is by giving only a portion of the content and offering the rest on the affiliate site. A linked e-mail signature should also be included.

Articles

Informative and how-to articles, especially well-written ones, are proven traffic baits for affiliate marketing sites. Include links to similar or additional information within the content body that can only be read from your site and provide additional links on your signature.

Newsletters and e-zines

People love information, particularly those about subjects they are curious about or are involved in – which explains why targeted methods to drive traffic to affiliate marketing sites work best.

Offer e-newsletter and e-zine subscriptions, making sure that links bring recipients to your site. Use a separate landing page to handle the subscription process for your visitors’ convenience.

Blogs

Other than your affiliate marketing site, use a blog to get in touch with prospective customers and members. Blogs are considerably more personal and lighter in tone than most affiliate business sites and they can be a great source of information, news, advice and tips from you to your prospects. Include a link from your blog to your affiliate marketing site.

Social bookmarking sites

These sites are a rich source of targeted traffic that you can drive to your affiliate marketing site. Your market demographics are also easier to define so sending out invitations to potential leads and members is a lot easier.

Discussion forums and boards

By leaving useful and thought-provoking comments on discussion boards and forums, you encourage other members to react and send you a reply. You’ll be able to build a networking relationship from here. Make sure to sign with a link back to your affiliate marketing site.

Guest blogging

You could drive another blog’s captured traffic to your affiliate site by becoming a guest blogger. If you can write well and can offer unique and useful content, the site’s readership will find you interesting enough to follow you to your own site.

Allow bookmarks on your web pages

If you have content, you can drive traffic to your affiliate marketing site by allowing your readers to bookmark certain pages. This will help promote those pages and your website to other people who might be interested in the same subjects.

Host a contest

Locate your target market and then promote a contest through ads or e-mails. All details must be found on your affiliate marketing website so you can drive traffic there. Registration must also be performed on one of your landing pages. Just make sure to offer prizes that visitors who will be coming in will find useful.

Freebies!

There’s nothing like a nice gift to drive targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing site. It’s easy to implement and can be relatively cheap. Furthermore, you offer these visitors an incentive to sign up for whatever campaign it is you’re promoting.

As you can see from the list above, there is not much cash investment required to run a successful traffic campaign for your affiliate marketing site – after all, affiliate marketing is all about making money online, not spending more of it! Keep a close eye on your affiliate commissions and your affiliate marketing bottom line and you should be fine once you’ve put driving targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing site at the top of your daily to do list!

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Super-Affiliate Doug Champigny is an Internet marketing author, mentor and speaker, and a noted Web 2.0 Targeted Traffic Expert, having given a speach on the subject to Internet marketers and affiliate marketers at the Internet Marketing SuperConference in Las Vegas. Doug also runs the Team Champigny Affiliate Force, a breeding ground for tomorrow’s top affiliate marketing superstars!

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Double Your Targeted Traffic From Article Marketing!

©2008 Doug Champigny. All Rights Reserved.

Article marketing has just been taken up a notch, thanks to one new innovative article marketing resource. Now you can get targeted traffic from article marketing without ever writing or submitting articles, or potentially DOUBLE the targeted traffic you get from your article marketing activities online – and make money online while doing it!

Consider the traditional article marketing model: You write an article, submit it to the article directories (also known as article repositories), and gain targeted traffic in return as people click the links in the Author’s Info box at the end of your article, right? Well here’s how this new article directory improves on that model…

What if you had one or two links embeded right in the content that led back to your site? Obviously this improves your article marketing response, as people are more likely to click embedded links in your article than the one at the bottom in your bio box.

And what if every article you submitted earned you credits toward banner advertising on that same article directory? Suddenly you have more exposure, links on additional pages back to your site, or even a chance to turn your article marketing into affiliate marketing AND targeted traffic generation, by linking your articles back to your own site and the banners to affiliate links, or vice versa.

To top it off, you also earn credits for each person you refer to the site who joins – refer a few article marketing junkies and your article marketing efforts are suddenly paying off big time!

Another plus, as if any more were needed, is that the site pays you a commission on any purchases made by people you refer to the site too. So now even if you never submit an article, by joining the new article marketing directory and acting as an affiliate, you’re earning banner credits and affiliate commissions – making money from article marketing without ever submitting an article! But obviously you’ll want to submit articles here too, since they can be spidered by the search engines and bring in more potential revenue, and because you can use your links in and under the articles to drive more targeted traffic to your affiliate links, blog and e-zine opt-in pages.

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Power Tip For Affiliate Marketing: Many affiliate marketing opportunities provide you with blog posts and/or sample e-mails to send out to your lists or post on your blogs. Put your article marketing affiliate efforts on fast-forward by rewriting those samples into articles and submitting them as new articles – if you keep the curiosity factor and presell techniques without retaining the ‘pitchy’ feel, your click-through rate, and thus your potential income, will skyrocket with little effort.
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When all is said and done, this new affiliate marketing resource can help boost the targeted traffic from your article marketing efforts and your affiliate commissions from your affiliate marketing efforts connected to the site. So get signed up now this great new article marketing resource, the AffSphere Article Directory, and start driving more targeted traffic and affiliate commissions your way today! Don’t give up on your traditional article marketing activities, just add this site into your list of article directories to submit your articles to – and power up your article marketing with very little effort!

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Yesterday on my Internet Marketing Blog I told you about the 20 products with Master Resell Rights available for just 10 bucks from Denise Hall & Kathe Lucas – did you download yours yet? Better hurry – that page comes down in less than a week… And I pointed out the fantastic training package, the Resell Rights Bootcamp, where you can learn all about handling Master Resell Rights products. If you missed either of those, be sure to grab them now.

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Now, whether you’ve built your own site, put up a blog, used the Master Resell Rights products above, put up your niche sites from the Niche PLR Membership Site or built sites using the 100 PLR articles from Easy Articles Pro one thing is true – you need to put some time and effort into getting targeted traffic to your sites and blogs.

That was the topic of my onstage presentation at Carl Galletti’s Internet Marketing SuperConference in Las Vegas last week – how to get more targeted traffic from the Web 2.0 sites. Tied in with those sites you have to have your SEO down pat too, since the effect of many of them rely on positioning your links in the search engines to draw more targeted traffic.

If you were on the targeted traffic teleseminar, at the SuperConference, or have read any of my FIVE books on the subject in the bundle at our Massive Traffic Bootcamp, you already know I’m considered one of the web’s top experts in driving targeted traffic to sites and blogs. With over 120 sites online in the Team Champigny network, I had to become an expert to survive…

So when I tell you my friend Ross Goldberg has come out with an amazing update to his Traffic Manifesto that is a must-have, you know I’m not kidding around. In fact, for what little he’s charging, the videos should be an upsell, not part of the product at Traffic Manifesto 2.0.

What’s important to YOU right now is how complete this great training manual is – Ross details 79 different ways to get more targeted traffic to your sites, so you know there’s at least a few that fit your style, that you can add to your efforts to get more targeted traffic & boost your sales and profits.

Ross Goldberg & Teri Champigny at JVAlert

Best of all, what you learn from this package will continue to reap rewards for you from every site or blog you launch, since the same rules apply to each site you promote – yet you can make back your investment with one or two extra sales on just one of those sites!

You put in the effort to get your sites and/or blogs online – don’t leave them twisting in the wind on a lonely server, eating into your budget while not producing results. Get over to Ross Goldberg’s Traffic Manifesto 2 right now and learn to make more from every site you put online!

Empowering YOU & Helping You Make 2008 GREAT…

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P.S. – If you get involved in affiliate marketing, then learning 79 different ways to drive more targeted traffic to your affiliate links is a must – you’d be wise not to let this one get by you! Be sure to download Ross’ great 132-page guide and start boosting your numbers today – it’s available for instant download from Ross Goldberg’s site right now!

Helping you succeed… DC.

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What one factor is common to every successful Internet business? Targeted Traffic. Every article you will find about making money from your web site or making your company successful online will always include the importance of generating targeted traffic – and lots of it!

So, as every successful Internet marketer, affiliate marketer, niche marketer or profitable blogger knows, targeted traffic is the most essential asset to a successful internet-based business company. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and you have your web site support well taken care of, it’s time to focus on generating targeted website traffic.

If you already have a site and you feel you’re not getting all the targeted traffic you should be getting, then its time to put more time, effort and money into boosting your targeted traffic. If you are in a highly competitive business arena, you should always be a step ahead of your competition… so increasing your targeted traffic flow should have been done starting yesterday.

Timing is everything. But when it comes to generating site or blog traffic, you should always be on your toes and be a day ahead of everyone else in your industry. Never think of today or tomorrow as the starting point for building traffic, it should have been started yesterday – or last week, more likely.

To help you generate tons of targeted traffic to your sites & blogs, here are some seven surefire ways to increase your targeted traffic almost immediately:

1) Invest in good advertising on the search engines

Google’s Adwords and Yahoo’s Overture provide great advertising programs that are very effective and can deliver great targeted traffic. While some will shy away from spending money to increase their traffic, it is imperative to using advertising to boost website traffic.

2) Trade Links with other sites & Blogs

More targeted traffic is the usual result for both partners when you trade links on your sites, or add each other to your blogrolls. First you benefit directly from each other’s existing web traffic, and you also benefit by having another links to your site for the search engines to spider. And the more closely related the topics of your sites or blogs, the more targeted the traffic you receive will be.

3) Use Viral Marketing

Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product little or no outlay on your part. Simply produce or aquire a downloadable resource others will value and make it available from your site or blog. BE SURE to let the people who download it know that they can pass it along all they want – encourage them to, in fact. Every time they hand it out or have it downloaded, your links are being put in front of others who might otherwise never have known you existed. For more on building traffic virally, visit Jeff Dedrick’s Viral E-Book Explosion.

4) Search out and use targeted keywords and tightly-targeted keyword phrases for your site’s or blog’s content

Find the keywords being searched for most in your field, and the ‘long-tail’ keyword phrases most used – then write your content with those keywords in mind. If you aren’t able to write keyword-laden content to attract targeted traffic from the major search engines, it’s wise to hire a good copywriter to do that for you. While it IS very expensive to get great copy written, the extra targeted traffic you attract should definitely make up for it before long, and leave you sitting pretty from that point forward.

5) Write & Submit Articles that draw targeted traffic to your sites & blogs

Create even more great content relative to your topic, and submit it to the article directories and any sites in your niche that accept article submissions. Putting your website or blog link in the author’s Resource box both boosts your visibility with the search engines and drives in more targeted traffic from the directories themselves. Another win-win, with you on both sides!

6) Join forums and form online communities

Forums and online communities help boost targeted traffic in tremendous ways. First, your signature file usually has links to your sites, so the more helpful and active you are there the greater number of links to your sites, and the higher the volume of targeted traffic directly from the community to – you guessed it – YOUR sites and blogs. Secondly, that’s more links on other sites for the search engines to find, giving you a better chance of being indexed, and of ranking higher in those engines that use such criteria. And if you ARE truly knowledgeable in your field and give of yourself generously in the forums, you’ll quickly brand yourself as an expert, everyone’s ‘friend in the biz’ as it were, and not only generate more traffic but increase your sales conversions as well!

7) Last, but far from least, BUILD YOUR OPT-IN LISTS!

Opt-in e-mail lists for e-courses or e-zines are A MUST for successful Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, niche marketing or power blogging – and by far the best way to drive targeted traffic back to your online properties again and again. DO NOT expect to be truly successful at boosting your targeted traffic and your online profits unless you start, maintain and constantly build your own in-house opt-in mailing lists!

There are other ways to build targeted traffic, and infinite refinements on the list above – a blog like this one is just one example. But start with the 7 Traffic Building Tips here for now, then read more about targeted traffic generation and maybe even invest in my Top Traffic Tips Bootcamp. It’s time to boost your traffic, your sales and your profits online!

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Doug Champigny is a well-known Traffic Master with over 100 websites and a number of blogs under his control, including the Top Traffic Tips Blog and the Top Traffic Tips Bootcamp. Doug has also authored numerous e-books on increasing traffic for Internet, niche and affiliate marketing. Be sure to bookmark his sites for the latest in targeted traffic generation to bring a flood of traffic to your web sites and blogs.
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