Posted on Wednesday, 13th August 2008 by Jeff
For those of you who don’t know what the Bum Marketing Method system is, you can get the information for FREE by visiting Travis’s website. Without giving you too much information ahead of time, the system basically tells you to write articles and to submit them to top article directories such as Ezine Articles. In the “resource box” at the bottom of the article you should include a link to a related affiliate program you’re trying to promote. When people read your article and scroll down to the bottom there’s a good chance they’ll view your affiliate link and click on it. If you’re lucky they’ll purchase the product or service you’re trying to promote and you’ll get paid a commission. So is this method as promising as it sounds? For the average article I’d have to say “No”. Now don’t get too carried away because I’m not finished yet! It seems that the average article I submitted to Ezine Articles gets about 25 clicks. Since most affiliate programs get an average of about 1 conversion for every 100 visitors you’d be lucky to get 1 conversion off a single article. So how do you increase your chances of making a commission per article? By writing about information that is sought after but written less about! Travis actually had an excellent tip about this in one of his emails. He stated that the more unique your article is the longer it will stay at the top of the search results in the article directory. This can easily get you 3 or 4 times as many clicks as you normally would. Other tips I can give you is to use tags (HTML link) for your affiliate link instead of of just typing in “http://www.youraffiliaelink.com” to automatically generate your link. Not only does this look unattractive but you’re also exposing that you’re promoting an affiliate program. If possible, purchase a relative domain name and forward or redirect the domain to your affiliate link. When writing your tags use a catchy phrase for your link so people’s eyes will move over to that. If you were trying to promote a dating affiliate program you could use something like: “Tired of overly priced dating websites that don’t deliver results? Find TRUE LOVE today”. This simple technique could easily double the amount of clicks you would have gotten if you were just using a regular link. As always, you should re-write your article and submit it to other top article directories for even better results. If you’re lucky some websites will use your article with your affiliate link as the source of the information which will generate you additional clicks and perhaps even a few sales!
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