This is step #5 of How To Make $50 a Day Affiliate Marketing in Just One Month. In Step #1 we talked about signing up for an affiliate network. If you have not yet done that then you should sign up for Motive Interactive. Read Step #2 or read Step #3 or Step #4.

Step #5 – Sign Up For an Article Directory and Create a Killer Signature

When you are promoting your affiliate offer you will be doing this by using what is called ‘article marketing’ (aka Bum Marketing). You will be writing articles and publishing them to articles directory sites.

1. Sign Up For Article Directories

Firstly, sign up for these article directory sites. I recommend beginning with EzineArticles and then once you have published a good amount of articles on there you can go to GoArticles and create even more.

2. Create a Killer Signature Link

Secondly, and this is the important part, we need to create a killer signature. Your signature will appear at the bottom of all the posts that you submit to these websites. It needs to do its job of getting people to click on it and sign up for whatever it is you are offering.

Your signature link will link to the landing page you set up before. Your signature link will send people from your article, to your landing page and from your landing page they will go to the affiliate page. We are linking to a landing page because a lot of the article directories do not allow you to link directly to an affiliate website.

Have Something To Entice Readers With

In order to make a killer signature you need to have something to entice them with. Do they want to find out more information? Do they want to win a prize? What are you enticing your readers with to get them to click through?

Have a Specific Call To Action

You also need a specific call to action. People don’t automatically assume that if they click a link they will get whatever you are enticing them with. You need to tell them specifically. Say things like “Go to www.mywebsite.com to claim your prize” “Click Here to find out the secrets to ….”. By having a specific call to action more people will click through.

Make It Simple To Do

The harder it is for them to get to your site the less people will go. Make it super simple and super easy and you will get a lot more people.

Make It Catch Their Eye

Make it catch their eye. You want people to read your signature because if they never read it they will never click through. There are two ways you can get your signature to catch their eye

A. Make It Stand Out

By making your signature stand out (by using things such as colors or bold text) then you can catch people’s eye. Once you catch their eye you have more chance of them reading your signature and clicking through to your landing page. Its genius.

B. Make It Blend In

You can make it blend in so that it appear like it is part of the article. By doing this those who read your article all the way to the end will then read your signature. If your signature is good with an enticing call to action then it will do its job of converting people

Ok so by now you should have signed up for an affiliate marketing site such as Motive Interactive and you also should have found at least 5 products to promote and at least 30 keywords for each of those products. You should have also create a simple landing page on your own site, or on a free site such as blogger.com or wordpress.com and you should have signed up for Article Directories and created your killer signature link. Step #6 Tomorrow

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