In fact, the basic idea of article marketing is very easy to understand. You will write some articles related to the affiliate products you are promoting or the niche of your web site. You will put the urls of your site in the resource box of the article and submit the article to some free article directories. Of course you may also use some article distribution services if you do not want to submit your articles to the directories manually.

You may think that it is so easy to promote your website or affiliate products with articles. However, you have to be careful when you are creating your resource box. In most cases article directories will not accept affiliate links in the resource box. To this end you will need to create your own website so that you can link to your site from your article. This is also one of the reasons you should have your own affiliate sites.

Unless you are only care about the link popularity of your website, you have to be careful when you are creating your site. In fact, your main concern should be driving traffic to your site. Let us assume that your article is perfect and the readers are eager to follow the links to your site. In this case you will have to make your site good enough so that the probability of conversion will increase.

As a matter of fact you are trying to create a landing page. You should put a link in the article to your landing page. In your landing page, you will pre-sell the visitors so that they will be inclined to purchase. Of course you will also need to encourage your visitors to click on the affiliate links to the merchant site.

You may also put a link to your subscription page in the article. You may probably know it is very important for you to create your own list if you want to be successful in affiliate marketing. To this end you can direct the readers of the article to your subscription page so that you will have chances to promote by sending messages to them.

There is a huge potential associated with article marketing when affiliate sales is concerned. You should try to test new ideas so that you will be able to create your own article marketing tactics.