If you have chosen to become a strong affiliate marketer, then you are going to be doing a whole lot of writing. If you are like me, you never much liked writing in school, and your friends often laugh uncontrollably when you tell them that you are a published author! Well, it is just not as difficult as it once appeared.
In the field of affiliate marketing, you are basically taking someone else’s product, reviewing it, and then making a 400 to 500 word statement about that product. If you are a student of affiliate marketing, then you will be familiar with the heated controversy going on over the pros and cons of this form of marketing. Some people say that the big search engines no longer like affiliate marketers. They say that we get “slapped” way too often. The truth is that the big search engines (BSE’s) are not necessarily picking on you. As the technology grows and develops, they expect you to keep up.
What I am finding is that too many people still have not figured out that the only constant in this business is change. And change happens faster in the internet business than anywhere else that I am aware of. The joke in my office is that if you want to catch the BSE’s between changes, set your camera shutter speed to 6,000 and turn your motor drive on! At least one frame ought to show them standing still!
Assuming you have done your niche research well, and you have nailed down your long tail and short tail keywords, then you are going to need to write some articles about that niche and about the benefits of the position you plan to advocate for. This is where the toughest task of all comes in. Getting the words typed into a word processor is a simple task. The pain comes from proof reading. Most people are not aware that our minds are totally amazing. We have an innate ability to read right through mistakes as though they were not there. The sentence might say, “Bring you dog to the park.” Your mind sees “Bring your dog to the park.” One of the most common mistakes in typing is missing the “r” off “you” when typing the word “your”. You can read it 40 times and not see it.
This is where the power of the Macbook Pro comes in handy. When I type my text, I watch for the red underline so that I get the spelling right. When I am done, I highlight the entire text then right click and choose “Speech” – “Start Speaking”. My Macbook Pro reads the entire article to me. As I listen, I find mistakes thatI would have never found otherwise. I honestly don’t think I would have even bother to start writing unless I had purchased this Macbook Pro.
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