In order to be successful in affiliate marketing, you need to get targeted traffic to your websites. There are many ways of getting traffic to your site, but one of the most effective ways is article marketing. One of the big reasons article marketing is so effective is because it provides content, or information. When people go to Google and do a search, they are looking for information. What's more informative than a well written article?

Let's talk about how you can use article marketing to drive a ton of free traffic to your websites...

If you did a random search on Google for a particular affiliate product, or anything at all for that matter, you would most likely find an article listed in the top 10 results. Google and other search engine directories want to provide their clients with fresh, quality, unique content. In other words, search engines love articles. There are a few things you can do with your articles to easily get them reanked of the first page of Google for long tail keyword phrases.

The first thing you need to do is your keyword research. What you're looking for here is keywords or phrases that are searched for at least 600 - 1000 times per month, with less then 10,000 competition. It doesn't have to be those exact numbers, just somewhere around there. You can do this by putting your keyword in parentheses when typing it into Google. This will give you the exact competition. Once you have your keywords, it's time to start creating your articles.

You want to write one article for each keyword you are tyring to rank for. First thing you need to do is create a title using your keyword phrase. Remember that if you do this correctly, your article will be getting ranked in the search engines so you want to make sure you create a title that is going to make people want to read your article. When writing your article, you want to make sure you use your keyword phrase in the first sentence, or at least in the first paragraph.

As far as the body, I try to add the keyword phrase once every paragraph, or ever other paragraph. I don't think that's too important. As long as your article sounds natural you should be ok. When you get to the end of your article, you want to make certian you use your keyword prase in the last paragraph. Now it's time to add your anchor text (link to your site). Typically this is when you add your resource box, but that's not always the best thing to do.

At the end of every article you write, you have the opportunity to add a link back to your website. Normally, this is referred to as a resource box or an author bio where you can write something about you and direct someone to your site. The best way to utalize this is to make your links natural. So in your closing paragraph you should make your keyword prase a clickable link that goes back to your website. This way it looks natural and you should get a better CTR.

Article marketing is one of the fasted free methods of getting targeted traffic to your websites. There are many affiliate marketing businesses that are completely built from this one traffic generation method alone. Of course I do not recommend that, but that just shows you the power of article marketing.