Simple Article Marketing

Hey there guys and gals.
I was just going over a few of my other blogs and checking out the page impressions and what not. Nothing really interesting to report today. I guess I'll just continue with my affiliate lesson.
Once you have a product that you feel will sell you have a few options open to you. You can start an AdWords campaign, start a website or blog, write articles, put out press releases, spam the hell out of forums, email lists, and I'm sure any number other ways. Unfortunately most of these aren't free and since I want every single person in the world (who has access to the net) to be able to do this I won't be focusing on any of them but the free ones yet. I will go into all of them eventually because I think the best way to be able to make a decent living from all of this is to be constantly reinvesting in yourself (like any good entrepreneur should), but until you've made a couple sales I'm going to assume you have absolutely no money.

Now I'm going to lay out a very simple, though somewhat time consuming, way to guarantee a regular income without having to spend a dime. Pick your products from clickbank. Make sure they're good enough that you might consider buying them yourself. Then start writing articles about them. Lots of articles. I'm talking at least 3 articles a day for a month. They don't have to be great works of art just make sure they seem professional, sincere, and give a real value to the reader. Focus on giving the reader real information, and not just a bunch of arguments for why they should be clicking your link.
Now, you can either write for search engines or article directories. To write for a search engine you need to pick the right keywords, have the right density, have a good niche, and submit to only one directory. Its a lot more work but it may very well be worth it (I haven't tested this method against the other method yet so I'm not sure. If anyone knows which way is better feel free to let us all know) because you'll be getting traffic from Google and not a directory. It is possible to rank quite high on Google if you submit to the right directory (I'll go into this more later). The other option is simply writing the article and submitting it to as many directories as you can. Many directories don't get very much traffic, or don't allow affiliate links, so there's a couple kinks in this method too. All in all though, I'm pretty convinced that just about anyone with a couple extra hours a day, and the will to succeed, could pull this off in a month or two, especially with the sales and persuasion techniques I'll be teaching here.

I'll be posting directories, details about keywords, and adding incentives to your articles in another post. For now though, start looking around the net for affiliate forums, or money making forums, there's a lot of good ones out there.

Luke