I was asked today for advice on what kind of URL to link to when submitting an article to ezinearticles.com.
Normally the preferred approach, when people are practicing “Bum Marketing” tactics, is to link to an affiliate merchant. But ezinearticles guards against that, so you have to generally link to your own landing page, where you review the merchant, do a presell, and then link to the merchant.
So in effect you’ve done two presells, asking for the visitor to click twice, to get to where you want them to end up.
The question was whether linking to an article on a blog would be good, and here was my answer:
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing ideas, internet marketing ideas wikidotYes, linking to a blog is one way to accomplish that. Be sure the article in your blog is different than the one you publish to ezinearticles, so as to give the visitor more or different information.
Or here’s an idea off the top of my head. Think about setting up a wiki here:
http://www.wikidot.comThere you’ll be able to put up any number of articles of your own. Your ezinearticles resource box could say something like “If you like this article, I’ve got lots more for your at http://yourkeyword.wikidot.com ” or whatever, and there you can have your own little article directory where you can have affiliate links and offers.
I’ve recently become very excited about the wiki possibility, I’ve started this one here:
http://earn1kaday.wikidot.comand it was very easy to do. I’ve set permissions so that only members of my wiki can make entries, and only the owner of a page can edit it. I’ve also set it so that only people that were invited and have a special password can become a member, and at this point only members of earn1kaday.com were invited to become members to that wiki.
But, it will be ranked in the search engines, should be ranked well in fact, and anyone can read any page.
I intend to claim a lot more wikis in the weeks and months ahead, and it will be a large part of my strategy in 2008.
Why would it be better than setting up a full site? Well, I don’t have to buy a domain name. I suspect that Google will give it extra love. The functionality is incredibly easy, no need to FTP anything for example. You write a few paragraphs and your page is immediately up and visible.
