Many Internet Marketers are using articles to market their online businesses. Many more are seeing these benefits and swinging away from the older, more traditional methods. Article marketing is definitely the best way to establish an online presence, get known and get recognized by the search engines.

Do It Yourself Web Design.

When you are trying to make money through promoting articles and affiliate links, you will need a good, simple, and easy to navigate website to put them on. There are two ways that you can accomplish this: you can try to do it yourself, if you have any web design skills, or you can hire someone else to do it for you.

Doing it yourself, unless you were a pro to begin with, can be very difficult for those who are technically challenged. You will need to read many tutorials and it may take some time to get it right. You could also risk having a site that looks poorly constructed. It is also important for visitors and search engines that your site is easy to navigate, which may be a problem if you do not know what you are doing.

First impressions count and you rally need to make a good first impression, if you hope to win your visitors over and make them customers. How can they regard you as an expert, if your site looks amateurish?

Building your own “Do It Yourself” website can be tiresome, but if you accomplish your goal, think how much you will have learnt and how many “how to” articles you could write on the subject!

The Best Place to Place Affiliate Links on Your Website.

Where you place your affiliate links on your website can really make a difference on how many clicks you end up getting and since every click means a potential sale, this is an important aspect of internet marketing.

Research has shown that the most effective affiliate links are text links. Yes, plain text links. Not big flashy banner ads, like most affiliate website pages are filled with.

What happens is, you write a great article, or have one created, about the product, or something related to the product and then you simply stick the link into your text. This allows interested readers to see the link, as they are reading and they click on it, while still absorbed in the subject.

Of course, your article and your link have to work effectively together, to make this happen. A bad article and an unrelated link to an unknown product are not likely to make the profits roll in.

So, the next time you are out to choose an affiliate link, try placing a relevant link in a great article that is well optimized for search engines and see how it works out for you.

Even without all the other methods of article marketing and submission to numerous directories, this is one simple method of using articles to earn money from sales. Place new, authoritative articles regularly to your website, or blog and with the subtle inclusion of a link, you will start seeing sales!

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Derek Robson is a South African Internet marketer. He has a vision of empowering all fellow South Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. For daily postings and articles, on Internet marketing, South African online business, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, the law of attraction, rugby and other general topics, visit Derek at: http://dersalsites.com/southafricanbusiness/  

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