What Article Marketing Website Allows Affiliate Links?

There is one powerful article marketing website that will allow you to put in affiliate links when you’re submitting an article. That site is GoArticles. Some of you may have tried to submit articles there only to have them rejected.

A rejection usually comes because the terms of service weren’t followed to the letter. When you’re submitting articles to any website, always read the rules first. Some sites take shorter articles and a 250 word article would pass muster but most are at least 300 words or longer. Don’t use blatant promotion. In GoArticles, authors have to put links to their products or services in the bio area rather than the article.

EzineArticles doesn’t allow affiliate links, but they do allow you to purchase a dot info domain for about $0.89 that you can use in your articles to redirect to an affiliate website, which is a good way to get traffic.

But there are also other highly visible directories that allow affiliate links as long as you put them in the right place and you don’t go over the limited number of links allowed. Don’t shy away from using the resource box at the bottom of your article for your affiliate links.

When an article marketing website such as Ubscure.com lets you place links in your resource box, make sure you know how to use that privilege to your advantage. Submit a high quality, helpful article and check it for spelling and grammar.

The reason that many sites don’t let authors put affiliate links directly in the article is that directories let other websites use the content you post. They personally don’t care if you’re promoting stuff – but other sites might.

Now if you’re wondering why this rule of ‘affiliate links in resource box only’ is important, it’s because it makes the content more desirable for other sites to share your valuable information.

You want your information shared because it helps build both your reputation and the amount of traffic that you get. These sites are there for you to use, but only as far as you’ll use them wisely. Don’t just take – give something to the site as well. Make sure your article is worthy.

You can also put together a good quality article and submit them on a document sharing site. While they’re not technically an article marketing website, they serve the same purpose and you’re allowed to use affiliate links. The only drawback is that if your article is clearly self promoting and the article offers no real value, it will be deleted from the site and you won’t be allowed to post anymore.

Does Article Marketing Have Any Drawbacks?

One question those unsure about promoting businesses often ask is, “Does article marketing have any drawbacks?” and the answer is yes. There are always cons for pros and negatives for positives. There are never any perfect systems to use. However, you can make it nearly perfect for you if you know how to maximize the potential you have for article marketing.

Some of the drawbacks are that it’s not instantaneous like Pay Per Click marketing. You won’t see results that fast. Sometimes, you might get articles put up and wonder if anyone’s paying attention.

It takes more patience to get the content right. Giving customers pertinent information takes time and if you’re already in a time crunch, you’re going to feel the pressure in that area. If you’re unsure if you’re capable of writing decent articles, then you’ll have to hire a ghostwriter, which will cost you.

Then when the articles are done, if you’re submitting to article directories, it’s up to the editors to decide if the article passes their line of acceptability. Plus, you don’t want to submit one article and be done.

You have to submit regular entries – not only to the directories, but on other sites like Squidoo, Hub Pages and Google Knol. All of that takes effort. While it will pay off in the long run, sometimes it can try your patience to have to wait for results.

To be effective using this method, you have to be consistent. You also need to practice the art of giving in order to get. Give the potential customers who read your article something worth reading.

Give them a reason to want to know more. But do it carefully. Readers know when they’re being pressured and they can smell a ‘buy now’ set up. So make it worth their time.

When you get to the end of your article, tell them you’d like to give them more information (and maybe a free email tip, some advice, a report, or whatever) but because the articles have a word limit, they can click on your page link to learn more. If the article is written in a way that leaves them interested, hungry to learn or you’ve offered a potential solution to a problem, they will click through to your website.

Does article marketing work for everyone? Yes, it does – but it’s just a tool like anything else in business. It’s how you pick it up, how you hammer it, how you nail it in, and how you use the saw that gets the results.