The very basic application of article marketing is direct marketing in which you write an article that will have link to direct visitors to your affiliate link thus when they decide to buy, you will be entitle to get the commission (as I mentioned on my previous post, it normally about 50% to 75% from the product price). That is the short description of this strategy.

I will discuss about article marketing using ezinearticles.com to post our articles. Ezine Articles (EzineArticles.com) is the most respected articles directory, it have a very high page rank, and Google really love Ezine Articles, therefore it is very common to see articles on the ezine articles listed on the first page of Google search engine.

You have to register to become a member of Ezine Articles, it’s free, and you can have several accounts and several pen name. Use ezine articles wisely because your articles will be reviewed by real people on ezine articles, you have to follow their guide lines and rules such as maximum keywords density 1%, no links or advertising links and materials inside the article body etc. You don’t have to be worry about all of this, because it’s really easy to follow, and they also provide guide on this matter.

The things that you need before you start your article marketing campaign :

1. Domain and Web Hosting :

Ezine articles do not allow affiliate link even in the resource box, therefore you have to own your hosting and domain. It’s very recommended to have your own hosting and domain, this will also very important and needed for your further more advance internet marketing activities, I do not recommend free hosting it will give you headache instead of profits.

For web hosting I highly recommend hostgator, they provide excellent services and their support is 24/7, directly accessible using their online support system. Their online support staff are very knowlegable and always welcome to assist even the very basic questions.

I recommend their “baby plan” webhosting service, which will provide you with unlimited domains, unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. I still use this baby plan up until now, and it is more than enough to host my websites, blogs and all other internet marketing activities. the price is $7.95 per month  (depend on your payment scheme). That is the first capital you have to invest in this business and you can host hundreds of domains with this price.

To know more about hostgator web hosting plan, visit hostgator official site

Because ezine articles do not allow affiliate link in your articles and resource box, you have to buy domain for each affiliate product that you sell, it’s quite cheap, I recommend .info domain from godaddy (the price is about mor or less $1 for each domain). After you have your own domain for your product, you can place merchants website inside it (really easy), I will provide the script to do this job, it’s simple but very effective. Therefore if someone visit YOURDOMAIN.info for specific product, they will be presented with the merchants site with our affiliate link automatically embed.

2. Niches and Keywords Research :

You have to choose which niche product you want to sell (I have wrote the short guidelines about this on my previous post/part 1), and do the keywords research for that particular niche. To do the proper and effective keywords research, just follow the guidelines on my free e-book “Keywords Research Bible”, you can download that free e book.

After you have your keywords lists, you are ready to get visitors to your articles and start getting the comission (Money).

On the next post, I will go further about how to easily write articles even though you know nothing about the topics, and also how to make your articles “visible” by implementing some SEO inside your articles.