Things You Must Know:

If you are going to use article marketing as your main advertising force, there are a couple things you need to know to get started. Let's briefly look at a couple of these to get you going:

1.) EzineArticles.Com (EZA):

While there are many online article submitting directories that will showcase the articles you write, none is more important (in my personal opinion) than EZA. This is one of the few article submission directories that actually "hand review" the articles you write. This is done by real human beings. That being the case, Google views EZA as a reputable source of information and if your article gets published here, you have a very likely chance of getting placed on Google's front page of search results. Being on page one = people seeing you and your products.

Action Step:

Sign up for an EZA account. You are allowed to submit 10 articles for review at a time. It can take a few days to a few weeks for them to review your article. Exercise patience and wait for the submission to go through. This is your main target site for article submission.

2.) You Need A Website:

To effectively write articles for EZA, you are going to need a website, and I will recommend two places to use. EZA does not allow you to post links to your affiliate products in your articles. You must post a link to your website which has another article about the affiliate product you are selling. But fear not! You don't need any experience at all to have a website. Welcome to the world of WordPress.com and/or Blogger.com

Action Step:

Go to either Blogger.com or Wordpress.com and sign up for a FREE website. Yes, it's totally free. We will use Blogger.com because it is a fully functional website/blog out of the box all ready for you to post your articles in! It is also SEO friendly. This means you need no experience whatsoever to put up your website and write articles. So go sign up for a free account.

Alternate Action Step:

If you can't figure out Wordpress or Blogger, I suggest you use a site called "Squidoo.Com". They offer you a free "mini site" or webpage about the item you wish to sell. If you would like to go this route, please view my tutorial on getting set up with a Squidoo account.

3.) Use Clickbank:

ClickBank.com is a great little website that offers you products to sell. There are merchants here and affiliates. You will be the affiliate. You then browse through merchant products and find something you want to sell, then write articles about it with links in the articles to the products. Couldn't be easier!

Action Step:

Go sign up for a free ClickBank account. This will allow you to sell products for merchants. Clickbank takes care of all your needs concerning payments, customer service, and monitoring hits and traffic on the products you advertise. So nice!

Summary:

Get yourself signed up for these 3 items and proceed to the next page...