Hi Susanne,

I’m a little confused:-) I thought the reason for the redirected domain was so that you could use it in the article resource box. It’s not really an affiliate link, right? So, I”m confused why you can’t use this strategy with ezinearticles?

I use this strategy mainly for info products simply because the commission percentage is usually much higher than physical products. It should work just as well for things from CJ or Linshare as well. Just make sure it will be worth the effort. I would look for either higher priced items that will give you a nice commission or go for high volume.

Here’s some simple math to help you decide if it’s worth your effort to promote a particular item.
Start with your keyword research and compile a list of keywords that would be good candidates for writing articles, squidoo pages, hub pages etc. around. I try to come up with at least 30 or so keyphrases for this part.

Make a note of how many searches per month each keyphrase gets (using google’s keyword tool) and add all of them up. Take about 10 percent of that as an estimate of the amount of traffic you will get if you can get most of your articles to rank well. Then figure that you may convert about 1% of them into buyers. Take that number and multiply it by the average commission. Then decide if it’s worth your time to write and rank those 30+ articles.

Susanne

Great Stuff – this is exactly what I was looking for right now.

Quick question – does this strategy work better with Info type products (i.e. Clickbank) – or can it work with any type of affiliate program (I use Commission Junction and LinkShare more than Clickbank).

Thanks!

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