All of us in this niche of the world would dearly like to become successful in the competitive world of affiliate marketing. Wanting to be somewhere, though, isn´t the same as getting there, most of the time it takes an effort of some kind to realize your wishes.

How to become a successful affiliate marketer depends entirely on your own commitment, all the tools and assistance are available at WEALTHY AFFILIATE. There are countless merchants, all around the globe, eager to have you promote their products.

When someone, somewhere, reads your promotion and it leads to a purchase of whatever is being offered, you get a percentage of the sale, from the merchant. For the merchant, this means advertising at no cost unless there is a sale, when there is a sale the merchant profits, you profit and, presumably, the customer is happy.

The role of WEALTHY AFFILIATES in your journey to increased income, is to support you with the tools and expertise to make this goal attainable. Starting with spare time only. Let´s take a look at some of these resources.

Your campaigns could be in article marketing, email marketing or pay-per-click marketing. There is an affiliate training course for each of these methods. Here we will consider the article marketing course.

First, you will need to write a relevant article for the product you are promoting. At WA you have access to lots of tools for that, one is called Rapid Writer. Rapid Writer is software that is partly a word processor, in addition you use it to manage promotional campaigns, count words, check spelling etc. It also has a feature that generate articles from one that you have completed. And it calculates the density of keywords in your article.

KEYWORDS. That´s the key word. Keywords are the bait you use to lure the search engines to take notice of your article. And search engines are fussy. Therefore the Keyword Research Tools,where you can generate keyword phrases from different keywords, where you can check words or phrases against competition on the internet and where you build keyword lists to use in your articles or other promotions. You will, of course, have a keyword research guide at your disposal, also free tools for seo (search engine optimizing).

When written, your article needs to be published. There are many places to do that, and they are somewhat different. Some publish your article with your links to the merchant being promoted, others prohibit linking to anything but your own site. All tend to pour their own advertisements around your article, some with no relevance to your promotion, others a direct competition. Then they may tell you your composition is rather thin, will get no exposure. Nothing more. But, cheer up. At WA there is a publisher that is very conservative in sneaking in ads, and it evaluates your efforts and , if needed, tells you how to do it better.

All this behind you, rest your sore fingers and numbing brain and wait for the money pouring in. Then start all over again .