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Article Marketing for Affiliates - The 5 Immutable Laws of Going Viral With Your Articles

Are you an affiliate who wants to use article marketing to drive serious traffic and sales? Read on to discover how to make your articles to go viral.

There are certain articles that offer quality and useful information to the reader but because of certain reasons, end up getting little traffic for an affiliate site. Yet there are other articles that do not offer as much useful information but will end up going viral, driving huge traffic and sales to an affiliate site because of certain reasons.

What does it mean for your articles to go viral?

When your articles go viral, it simply means that tens of thousands of ezine publishers are using your articles in their newsletters to feed their database with quality information. Some of these publishers have a huge database of readers running into 100,000 or even more. Now imagine the kind of traffic and sales that you will get if just one of your articles is published in just 10 of these newsletters.

Let us look at the 5 unchangeable laws of getting your articles to go viral when posted at article directories. It is a very good idea to see what these 5 laws are because tens of thousands of visitors and dollars are being left on the table by many affiliates every day because their articles don't follow these laws.

1) Do not think short term of your articles by including links in the article body

If there is anything that ezine publishers hate the most, it is the inclusion of a link or links in the body of an article.

Here is my piece of advice: If you want your article to be published in a database newsletter of many readers, stay away from including any single link in the body of your article. Save any link you might have for the end of the article.

2) Resource box must not be more than 5 per cent of the article with not more than 2 links

Yes, that is right. Your resource box which is where you get to include links to your affiliate site should not be more than 5 per cent of your entire article. In other words don't use the end of your article to say a millions things about yourself. Go straight to the point of what you have to offer. Also you should not include more than 2 links to your affiliate site at the end of each article. Preferably, make it just one link.

3) Your article must be less than or equal to 600 words

Even if you article offers the greatest information in your niche (which is never possible because no one can write that kind of article), it will never get the kind of viral effect that will drive your web hit counter crazy if it is too long.

Personally I think that any article above 600 words is too long. But some say that the a 700 word article is also appropriate. However, your article must also not be too short. A 300 words article is OK to be on the safer side.

4) Genuine quality article that the reader will find terribly useful and easy to read

Put yourself in the same shoes with ezine publishers. Would you want to publish articles that are not original or does not offer useful information to people? I bet you wouldn't want to do such a thing. Make your article as original as possible and offer useful information by using your article to solve a problem.

One other thing is to make each article you write as easy to read as possible. To do this, simply write your article using subheadings or numbered lists.

5) Have a large article inventory for your unique expertise in your niche

Imagine someone who has written 100 quality articles about basket ball and another person with just 20 quality articles about the same topic. Who would you vouch for as the expert? Of course the one with 100 quality articles.

And you have to do the same with your own unique area of expertise. If you are promoting an affiliate program about wedding dresses, write a lot of articles about wedding dresses and the different types available at the affiliate program that you are promoting. The more the articles you have, the more the number of people that will publish your articles.

This article marketing for affiliates information is very crucial. It will determine your success or failure.

Do you have any other techniques for getting articles to go viral? Leave a comment below to share them with us.

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