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Why are so many affiliate marketers working part-time? Because they’re too busy to build enough traffic to all their websites. With more quality traffic they could realize an overall better income from affiliate marketing. No matter what you hear to the contrary. It takes TIME to generate the traffic you need. And there are several reasons why.

The truth and the reality of getting targeted traffic is that you don’t know what kind of keywords you want to target until you’ve done some testing to see which keywords are most profitable. The smart marketer will focus on the profitable keywords and end up working less and achieving more. So if a sales page tells you they will deliver thousands of targeted visitors in a few days, think again. You had better do some testing to see which keywords are profitable.

Most marketers create a list of keywords to target. Then they start creating and publishing site content wrapped around their generated keywords list as a focal point for their site. When they use this approach (relying on a keyword list to guide what your site should be about) then each post will include one or more of those keywords. Yet, experienced marketers focus on ranking well for the more profitable keywords first. It takes time to discover which keywords those are.

There are 2 ways to discover your profitable keywords and one is free and the other one costs money. The free methods requires installing tracking software on your site to see which keyword searches that brought people to your site ended up converting into sales. The paid method involves using pay-per-click advertising to quickly determine which keywords are most profitable.

One method that I have observed is affiliates who dive into a new niche market and set up some pay-per-click advertising to quickly find out what the profitable keywords are. After a few hundred dollars of advertising these marketers know for sure which keywords are most profitable,then they start building site content focusing on those keywords. This also can tell you how much traffic to expect from searches for those keywords. If you set up your pay-per-click advertising to display every time the word is searched, that is one view you will see in your AdWords statistics. That way you’ll know how much realistic traffic to expect from Google.

There is another less complex way to get traffic to your site. It is powerful and combines the power of pay-per-click traffic and writing tons of on site content for high rankings. That is article marketing. Article marketing will bring in immediate traffic and it will help you with linkbuilding for your site. That helps you achieve high rankings for your sites. How exactly is article marketing a combination of PPC traffic and natural, organic traffic?

Well, when you write an article and get it syndicated to thousands of sites using Unique Article Wizard, you will see an immediate traffic surge for a few days or weeks just form one article. Depending on what your article was about and what the anchor text your hyperlink-ed article was, you now are starting to see what keywords are converting well. Until the time comes when your sites are ranking well for those terms, people will be finding your syndicated articles on other people’s sites and on article directories right away and that’s how article syndication is almost just as good as having your sites all ranking well for your profitable keywords. Article marketing is the most effective way to discover profitable keywords for free by getting immediate targeted traffic and having article syndication build up your site’s rankings.

The Unique Article Wizard newsletter that Daniel McGonagle puts out will help you discover how to make money before, during and after you’ve submitted your articles.