Affiliate Marketing Systems - Writing Articles Designed for Boatloads of Traffic! - By: Ben A Holmes

Many people are looking for ways to help out the budget in these tight financial times, and end up searching on the internet for ways to make some extra spending money. Writing articles for to drive traffic to your affiliate offers is one of the really great ways that you can dramatically improve your finances without having a rich relative die and leave you in his will.

Articles you write should be targeted to specific long-tail key phrases if you want them to appear on the first few pages of Google – and should target long-tail key phrases that are popular enough to drive a reasonable amount of traffic, yet non-competitive enough to end up on the first page or two of Google.

This is a delicate balance, but can easily be achieved if you know how to go about it. Using Google’s keyword tool can find the keyword phrases you would like – and will also tell you how many searches are conducted for that phrase every month. Selecting good phrases that have at least 100 searches every day will be the most profitable. Simply doing a search on that phrase will divulge how many different websites show up for that long-tail keyword phrase – and anything less than 1 million is worth targeting. If you can find phrases that have less than 1,000 competing webpages, yet has over 100 searches every day – you’ve struck oil.

Now – here’s a trick that you'll not often see – if you want to observe how many websites are optimizing their website for your selected long-tail keyword phrase, simply type intitle:"keyword phrase" – but be careful – Google will disclose to you something like this:

Results 1-10 of about 1,880 for intitle:"affiliate marketing system"

But if you are on the ball, you’ll go to the bottom of the web page, and click over to the last web page… where you’ll get a much more truthful reported answer – and often it will be drastically different… here’s the findings for the same search listed above:

Results 121-128 of 128 for intitle:"affiliate marketing system"

Rather a huge difference, wouldn’t you say? So be particular – if you don’t try out the final page, you may ignore a completely good long-tail keyword phrase that you were led to think has too much competition.

Writing articles to drive traffic to the affiliate product of your choice should result in sales of up to 3% or more. For every 100 visitors you send to a sales page, you ought to be able to pick up 3 sales. If you end up with less than a three percent sales rate – you’ve chosen the wrong affiliate program to sell, or your keywords are poorly chosen.

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Ben Holmes has fun helping beginning Internet Marketers to learn the many different Online Business Models that you can make extra cash with. Without awareness of the different business models, you'll waste time & energy chasing too many money earning methods. Pick up a free ebook on How to Make Money Online

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