In the beginning stages of any affiliate’s online life when your knowledge about internet and affiliate marketing is still pretty vague… you seem to always come across these blogs or informational sites telling you about the best ways of making money online. Everything from PPC, driving traffic with AdWords, using paid advertising to promote a product to doing paid reviews etc. But most of these methods to start making money you actually need to spend some money to make money, now this can be pretty dangerous for newbie affiliates. While I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do it, you just have to be careful to who you listen to and make sure you do some homework on the preferred method.
Now, there is one method in particular that I personally used back in the day when starting off online. It’s free and if done correctly and persistent - it could really make your worth while. This method has been around for ages and tons of internet marketers have used it to great success. The method I’m talking about is called Bum Marketing AKA Article Marketing.
So What exactly is Bum Marketing?
Well it’s a real easy concept, where you write a bunch of relevant and keyword rich articles on your specific niche. You then take those articles and submit it to EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com… Continue the process by doing it over and over each time broadening your reach inside the niche gaining more and more views within these article directories.
The more popular your articles becomes the higher it will move up in the search listings seeing that EzineArticles is extremely powerful and absolutely loved by Google. The higher your rankings both inside and out of EzineArticles - The more traffic you’ll receive - equaling more clicks and eventually more sales.
The ultimate secret to succeeding with bum marketing is to dictate. Dictate and dominate every possible search term (targeted keywords inside a niche) for your specific product or service. Make sure to especially target the long tail keywords in your niche, the ones with lower search results as well as low competition. Go ahead and write articles for every unique keyword.
So why should you use bum marketing?
- You can start off with a zero to very low budget.
- No advanced computer skills or techniques are required.
- If done correctly and diligently the rewards are SUPER.
- You can start whenever, like right now.
Why shouldn’t you use bum marketing?
- It takes a fair bit of time when writing it yourself.
- Article marketing could sometimes be topic and niche dependent.
My solution to - "Why shouldn’t you use bum marketing?"
- It takes a fair bit of time etc. Well that’s unfortunately how it works if you don’t have the money to outsource your article you’ll have to pay with time. The same goes if you have some money to spend on getting 10 or 15 decent articles written by a professional writer. Which by the way can be really easy to acquire online and would probably cost you $30 - $45 for the whole batch.
- Article marketing could sometimes be topic and niche dependent. What I meant by that is you can clearly see some articles in EzineArticles.com with low views being submitted years ago. These guys are failing with one of two things. Their article doesn’t target good related keywords meaning that it won’t ever show up in the search results or no one searches for that term, or they are marketing to a dead niche, meaning they are going through all the effort to write about something which very few to no people are interested in. So make sure to know and use the keywords you wish to target and rank for before submitting your article. By doing just a couple of minutes of research you’ll turn your time spent into money for sure.
Seeing that you now pretty much know what bum marketing is, it’s time to go to work. I’ve provided below a "Free Option" or plan for you to use to start a Bum Marketing Campaign.
The Free Option:
1. Find a profitable niche and product to promote.
2. Do keyword research on your niche. Try targeting less searched with less competition to use in your articles - Free by using freekeywords.wordtracker.com
3. Use Squidoo.com to setup a pre-sell page for your Affiliate Promotion - Also free!
4. Write 10 - 15 articles related to your product niche.
5. Now go ahead and submit your articles to EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com .
6. Bookmark using Scribd.com
7. Finish off by creating Squidoo pages for extra traffic and backlinks linking to your articles - Also free!
What do YOU think?
“I’ve used this technique with great success, do you want to learn more about bum marketing techniques? If yes, then comment and let me know and I'll let it rip!”
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Contributor's Note
This content comes from the AffiliateTeachings.com training program's blog.
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