If you have made the decision to start a career in Affiliate Marketing, or are studying an Affiliate Marketing course, you may be aware that one of the best ways of promoting the product or service that you have chosen is through Article Marketing. By submitting quality articles to reputable publishing sites on a regular basis, the chances of people reading them, clicking on your link and making a purchase will increase greatly.

People will only read your articles if they are interesting, written clearly and well laid out, with plenty of content relating to the products you are promoting. Before writing your article take time to properly research the subject. Look at other articles on the same subject, this will give you a few ideas on how to structure your own article. Make sure that you don’t plagiarise other peoples’ articles, as this is unethical, and if picked up by the Article Publishers will result in them refusing to publish yours.

The first paragraph of your article is generally used as an executive summary, or ‘teaser’, and will show up in any searches that your article appears in. Make sure that this paragraph gets straight to the point and that it will get the reader interested enough to read the rest of the article. Also, ensure that you include the main keyword that you want to be picked up by search engines. This will give your article a much better chance of getting noticed.

A competent Affiliate Marketing course will mention that your article should consist of 400/550 words. If you make it too short people may feel it does not contain enough information on the subject. If it’s too long, they could lose interest before they get to the ‘Resource Box’ which, as far as you are concerned, is the most important part of the article.

The ‘Resource Box’ is where you can add your link through to the website promoting, or selling, the product. Keep it brief but interesting enough to make the reader want to click through and purchase the product – or at least view it.

The other point that you will be asked for when submitting your article for publication is a list of ‘keywords’. These will help in your articles being found more easily. You’ll need to identify keywords likely to be used in relation to the product you are promoting. Again, if you are following a reputable Affiliate Marketing course, you will be taught how to identify the keywords that your customers use to find your products.