How To Write An Affiliate Marketing Article In Four Easy Steps
If you haven’t heard the news yet, writing articles and submitting them to directories, blogs, newsletters, and/or for you own website content is a mighty powerful way to advertise.
A few articles each week can go along way in delivering traffic for a long time to come. Some of the articles I wrote 5 years ago are still directing a flow of traffic and I don’t have to do any new advertising.
The problem with article marketing is that you actually have to write the articles. Yes, you could outsource the writing (a decision I do support), but you can also do it yourself. How?
Good writing can be done pretty quickly if you can put your article writing into a neat, organized system. I tend to hesitate when I see the word system to describe anything that takes creativity. The creative process usually thrives amongst chaos. However, in the case of writing articles quickly, a little system doesn’t hurt. We could even call it something like, “How to write and affiliate marketing article in four easy steps”??
Step 1 To Article Writing
Start with a title. Sometimes this is a difficult process but if you begin with a simple starting point you can pretty much come up with something rather quickly. Start with something like…
“How to…”
“7 Simple Steps to…”
“Eight reasons why…”
“Solve (whatever problem) with these 10 solutions!”
We could list a lot of different things, but the key here is to keep it simple. If you only have a few to choose from you don’t have to sit and get brain freeze just from the options.
Step 2 To Article Writing
Sit down and brainstorm whatever number of points you want to make in your article. For example, for this post I sat down and quickly wrote out the four steps. Once that was done, I had most of the article completed. I just have to flesh it out. Like I’m doing now. If you’re writing an article on credit repair (hopefully you know something about it), you should be able to list some points rather quickly.
Step 3 To Article Writing
Come up with a beginning paragraph or opening sentence. This will probably take the most time as it is important that you start out on a good note. A good opening will help to keep the reader going through your article. A bad one just sends them to another article.
That doesn’t mean that it needs to be all that hard either. Think about what problem you’re trying to solve. What are you trying to show? Is your article about something that happened to you? Can you relate a story of your own at the beginning? Use this type of information to start the article.
Most people will begin reading an article if it starts off personal, relates to them about a problem they are having, or talks about something they want to know more about.
Step 4 To Article Writing
Get to writing. You’ve got most of the work done. The title is done. You have your points you want to make. You even have the opening paragraph. Now all you have to do is put information with each point – or step, or solution, or how-to – and you’ve to yourself an article.
Remember, writing for online content doesn’t need to be 1000 words articles. 400 to 500 words are great bite size pieces that most people will take the time to read. You’re not out for any type of journalistic awards, you just want traffic.
