Article Marketing

Ever heard of Article Marketing, or perhaps "Bum Marketing"? Well, if you haven't, it is going to be something you hear about a lot at Wealthy Affiliate. There are many Wealthy Affiliate members creating full-time income streams by writing free articles and posting them on the Internet.

The great thing about article marketing is the fact that it is free. If you can write, or are interested in writing, you can make a ton of money online using article marketing techniques. Best of all it won't cost you anything but some of your free time.

We have dedicated a full category to article marketing below, and we suggest you read this before continuing with the Penny Pincher Guide. The Article Marketing category will help you learn everything you need to know about creating and earning revenue from articles online and covers topics that are beginner, intermediate and advanced!

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Alright, now that you have read all about article marketing, we are going to expand on the techniques and give you some great examples as to how you can actually monetize an article to make you money .

The first thing you need to do is to understand the difference between a "low competition" search phrase and a "high competition" one. As you know, there are billions of pages within Google (and Yahoo/MSN for that matter).

To be as efficient as possible, we recommend that you focus on search terms that have fewer than 5,000 results in the search engines. To determine this, you should type the phrase match keyword into Google (this is so that only pages with your entire search phrase are returned).

Here is an example:

"money" yields 605,000,000 search results
"make money" yields 48,400,000 search results
"make money online" yields 1,400,000 search results
"make money selling online" yields 834 search results

As you can see, the more relevant and longer the search term becomes, the less competition and the easier it will be to get your article listed in the search engines. Since there is little competition, the chances of you getting a good positioning (probably on the first page) within the search results are very good.

Whether you direct link, or link to your website within the article, you will ultimately achieve traffic and sales!

The key to becoming a successful article marketer is to write on a regular basis. Do not write ONE article and think that you have done your job! Spend time researching industries and try to write at least a couple of articles per week (1-2 day is ideal). In no time, you will have many pages showing up within the search results, and an abundance of free traffic. Article marketing is a great way to build up your Internet marketing skills and earn money in the process.