Many people try to make money by starting online businesses, but many have failed as fast as they started. The main reason why people fail in their online business is because failing to generate the required traffic. But many webmasters do not know that article directories could be the saver for their dying ambitions. There are many ways to start affiliate marketing, but anyone could start affiliate marketing without a website.

Anybody could start affiliate marketing without a website by using only article marketing. Choosing and joining one good marketable product/service affiliate program could easily take away the need to maintain a website, taking orders, managing deliveries and many more issues. The affiliate marketer only duty is to direct the traffic to the landing page using his/her affiliate link which is provided by the affiliate program.

The way to direct the visitors to the landing page is by placing one’s affiliate link in author’s bio section of an article. This is achieved by writing high quality articles related to the same topic as the affiliate program’s product/service. People who read these articles and interested to now more will follow the affiliate link and directed to the landing page which will persuade the reader concerning certain product/service further and potentially seal the deal. One need to understand that the traffic generated from this method is highly targeted visitor who has interest concerning the same topic as the affiliate product/service. Thus, chances of a closing a deal is much higher.

Many article directories does not allow authors to place any hyperlinks in the article body, but most will allow visitors to place a link at the author biography section. This is the section where you should place the affiliate link. Some article directories will not allow placing affiliate links in the author’s bio section, and in this case you need to direct the visitors to a website or blog page which elaborate further about the aspect that the article was written about, and direct them to your affiliate link from that page. You could create free blog at websites such as blogger.com.

Let’s do the math on how article marketing could potentially be a gold mine. Assume you wrote 10 articles and submitted them to 20 article directories. That means you have 200 places in the internet showing the articles, and if only 20% or 40 of these articles are read in a day, you have 40 highly targeted readers who could click the affiliate link. Assume only half of these readers click the link, you have 20 people who could be potential buyers. If the landing page has 5 percent conversion rate, then you have one sale a day.

Now multiplying the process for different affiliate products/services, you could be making few sales a day. In reality, the above scenario might not happen every day, but once you have done the ground work writing and submitting the articles, this business model is on auto pilot. You just wait for the affiliate commissions.