Another way to get your traffic to your affiliate link is by writing and publishing articles online. It is free to do so and very easy once you get going. Here's the way it works. Google and the other search engines loves GoArticles and EzineArticles.com. Google places these sites on the first few pages of search results quickly.

Your goal is to appear on the front page of results when someone executes a search with Google. Publishing an article in GoArticle or EzineArticles is your ticket to appearing on the first page of search results. In fact, if you use headlines of three words and if those words in sequence do not have any competition, your article will come up first on Google immediately. Other more competitive niche will appear on Google search network months later.

Here are the two rules of thumb.

1. It's all about the keyword.

Writing an article on the niche keyword subject. Choose a keyword that has significant traffic but less competition. So your article will have an easier time getting to the top of the search engines. Use Google Keyword tool to determine your best keywords.

2. Promote your article

Once you have written your article, you must promote your article. You can do this by bookmarking it, or posting in forums with the article link as your signature.

All you need to do is to create one article to make money. That article needs to be on the first page of Google results for that keyword to make you money. Choose the perfect keyword before you write your article. Make sure your article features that keyword throughout the article body itself, which is called keyword rich. Use two-word anchor text at the bottom of the article or in the article resource box.

Now, those are the basics. Expert article marketers buy a domain name and build a website. Their landing page or index page is keyword rich, gives a clear path to the product and links to five or six articles within the site. So the relationship between the article and the landing page is attractive to Google.

You can, however, get far with the basics. But what the expert approach does is it enables you to get higher on the search engines faster and stay there for a longer period of time.

Remember, all you need is one article, one search query and you have a business right there. This is a different monster from posting classified ads or blogging. When you post a classified ad, you hope that you will make sales from the ad directly. When you do article marketing with GoArticles, your goal is search engine ranking instead of direct sales from the website you are posting on.

In addition to picking the right niche, your headline must be catch the attention of your reader, cause them to click on it and read your article. And your article must intrigue them and capture them, so that they click through your site and make a sale.