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If you are going to make money online, then niche affiliate marketing will be the best way for you. In fact, for over the years, affiliate marketing has created more millionaires than any other online money makers. This is because it works and it works wonder.

This is why so many people are diving right into affiliate marketing, because it is a proven strategy to make fast cash online. If you ever notice, most of the gurus out there are also leveraging on affiliate marketing to make them money. So why affiliate marketing is the best?

First, it is a nothing down money making system. Know this, to join an affiliate program cost you nothing. It only takes maybe 1 minute to generate that affiliate link of yours. This link is going to be worth millions to you because it is going to make you money. This shows that in niche affiliate marketing, you have nothing to lose. If there is any affiliate programs that require you money to join, just go for others which are free.

Second, because you are helping the affiliate merchant to promote their affiliate products, most of the time the merchant will get ready with all the training and support materials for you. Why? This is because they want you to make sales; both you and they are earning money at the same time. Therefore, even if you are a newbie in it, you will receive a lot of training materials from your affiliate merchant, which is a good thing.

Third, you don’t have to deal with website and product creation. I believe that most people do not know how to build a website or create their own product like an e-book. That is why most people stuck in the beginning. However, with the help of niche affiliate marketing, there is no need for you to headache over website and product creation, your affiliate merchant will do this for you. You just need to promote their product and make money from it.

Last but not least, everything can be automated. The best thing to make money online is that you can automate everything. Especially in niche affiliate marketing, once you have created a successful system, it can bring you continuous flow of incomes even when you are having vacation in the place you wanted to go the most. That is the beauty of internet marketing.

I believe that these are the 4 strong reasons why you should take part in niche affiliate marketing. Even if you don’t have any interest in it, just learn more about it so that you won’t be ‘outdated’.

Note: This post was contributed by Shawn Lim who runs http://www.easyautomaticprofits.com

Due to overwhelming success of my article marketing recently for one of my niche site, I decided to concentrate writing article for my other site www.toliveonline.com in this month in July. I already have about 8 articles done so far, and I am still working to produce the next 42 articles to reach my goal. Wow, it has been fun and tiring at the same time with all the work that has to be in to achieve this new target.

I have about 8 subtopics within my site, and I plan to do somewhere in the range of 6 articles for each subtopic. I believe it could be done, and should be a great project for July 2008. Article marketing is my main traffic generating method which I am using currently and I believe I am getting better in doing it. The last time I used different author names for my first 100 article success to protect my site niche, this time around I am going to use my real name as I am planning the articles for my main site.

Latest updates will come from time to time on the progress of article marketing.

I started a website in mid of April 2008, and I prefer not to talk about the niche of the site or reveal the site. This is because the success of the niche has been quite a story for me and I am still at a very early stage. I promise, in future I will definitely reveal the site and all of you could pay a visit. Until then, please bare with me.

This post is meant to help others to develop high quality traffic using article marketing. I tried out marketing this new site using only article marketing since I did not want to spend any money and furthermore as an experiment of effectiveness of article marketing. I wrote 100 articles and submitted it to 20 top article directories which I believe to be among the top. I lost the list of directories which I submitted in May 2008, but the list provided below has almost 80% of the directories I used to submit.

The effect of article marketing was not immediate, but it took about 2 months or so before I saw my site when from zero visitors to almost 500 hundreds a day. It was a big surprise for me and I was very please with the results. But it was lots of hard work to compressing such a mounting task of writing 100 articles and submitting all of them to 20 top article directories. Thats was 2000 submissions! And all of it was manual submissions!

My new site currently producing about USD10 a day in adsense revenue, and I think this is a great return. I am in the process duplicating this process again, and guest what I am doing… writing article for a new niche market. The best about article marketing is it is a traffic generator in autpilot mode. Once you have wrote the articles and submitted them to the top article directories, they will stay for years to come and provide you a constant source of traffic.

Below are the list of top article directories which I would recommend:

1. EzineArticles

2. GoArticles

3. Article Alley

4. ArticleDashboard

5. SearchWarp

6. ArticleCity

7. ArticleBase

8. Buzzle

9. Isnare

10. WebProNews

11. Content Desk

12. Site Reference

13. PubsACS

14. Web Source

15. Amazines

16. Excellent Guide

17. TheWhir

18. Submit Your Article

19. Directory Gold

20. Articles Factory

21. IdeaMarketers

Hope you could duplicate the article marketing technique and build a successful site.

Did you just had a blog with RSS feed? If yes, then you need to submit your blog RSS feed to as many rss directories to drive the masses! Yes, this will help you get the traffic which you need to help you blog become popular among readers.

For people who do not know what is rss, RSS means Rich Site Summary is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. In this way, if you like to get constant update from certain blogs or news site, you could subscribe to their rss feed.

If you plan to have you own rss feed, then you could always Feed Burner. Just pay a visit to the site, and you will get the information required to make you own rss feed. Once you have your own rss feed, submit the feed address to these sites below and start building traffic.

• Feedster - RSS Search Engine
• RSS Network - Categorized RSS feeds and search engine
• Syndic8 - This is the place to come to find syndicated news feeds on a wide variety of topics.
• Lockergnome
• BlogSearchEngine.com - Simplicity in Blog Search
• Blogshares
• DayPop - Search 59000 News Sites, Weblogs and RSS feeds for Current Events and Breaking News
• Bloogz - is a search engine based on feed rss, a format that is appropriate for diffusion of contents on the Internet.
• Blogdigger - Blog search engine
• RSSFeeds.com
• BlogDex - The Weblog diffusion index
• blogarama - The Blog Directory
• BlogStreet - A great set of blog related tools.
• Blogwise - A new site bringing you a collection of categorised blogs from around the world.
• NewsKnowledge.com
• Blog Universe
• Yahoo RSS Feed Registration
• Moreover
• YellowBrix
• WeBlogAlot
• PubSub - reads more than 2 million syndicated feeds, matches messages to subscriptions and delivers messages to subscribers in real time.
• Headline Spot
• Ping-O-Matic
• MyWireService
• All Headline News
• Yenra
• BlogPulse
• EasyRSS
• BlogCatalog - The ultimate blog directory
• Rocket News - post your RSS feed
• Technorati - submit your RSS feed to be pinged
• Userland - submit rss feeds
• Postami - submit rss feeds
• 2RSS - submit rss and assign category (on bottom)
• NewsMob - submit rss news feeds
• RocketInfo - submit your rss content and feed
• Edu RSS - harvests only feeds dealing with educational technology and related issues. All feeds are reviewed before being added to the list.
• Sourceforge.net- submit News using XML
• Complete RSS - enter the url(s) of the feeds you wish to add to the directory.
• Feeds.com.br - add rss feeds
• GeneCast - RSS news feed submissions
• Memigo - submit a news link to memigo
• PubSub - PubSub reads more than 2 million syndicated feeds, matches messages to subscriptions and delivers messages to subscribers in real time.
• BulkFeeds - submit an rss feed
• Ping-O-Matic - rss feed submissions (pings site)
• Yenra - submit RSS news feed
• easyRSS - gives you a direct access to the content you are interested in.
• NewsXS - submit rss feeds
• FeedFarm - all submitted feeds are reviewed
• FastBuzz - submit feeds
• RSSFeeds - submit rss feeds
• Search4RSS - submit RSS feeds
• DeskFeeds - rss feed and blog submissions
• Terrar - rss feed submissions
• The Feed Spot - submit feeds
• StepNewz - submit rss news feeds
• RSS Verzeichnis- German feed submissions
• 4Guys from Rolla - submit feeds
• DevASP - add feed listing
• VisualBuilder.com - add feed listing
• FuzzySoftware - submit XML listings
• ASP Index - submit RSS feeds
• SourceForge - submit news feeds
• Feed Directory - submit RSS feeds in the feed directory.
• FeedBeagle - submit feeds (scroll down)
• FeedPlex - submit feeds
• Feeds4All - submit RSS feeds
• NewsFeedFinder - submit RSS feeds
• Plazoo - submit RSS feeds
• Newzfire - submit RSS feeds
• Feed24 - RSS feed submissions
• Shas3 - Submit RSS feeds select appropriate category
• RSS Feeds Directory - Submit RSS feeds select appropriate category
• FeedShark - submit RSS feeds automated submission helper
• Thomas Korte - automated feed submissions

Did you submitted to all the sites? Good!

When you start a site, you need to ask one thing within you first… should I have a static website or a blog or both. These two concepts between blog and static website are different approach and you should understand the concepts before you choose to use them.

A Static Website - is a website which has a content that does not change often or updated very often. You however could update it often if you want. A static website such as www.toliveonline.com has one way communication, and often the writer will be publishing his/her information or opinion and the readers could not communicate back to the writer such as writing back in comments. I believe this is very suitable for information base sites, where information is spoon feed to the readers and no response is expected from the readers.

A Blog on the other hand is much more dynamic. Readers expect the blog to be updated on regular basis and with new stuff. Some blogs are updated few times a day with new posts, and this makes readers to keep on coming back everyday. In today’s blogs, one could have pages within them to have static information. This is on of the advantages of blogs. It is a hybrid of website and a journal. Again, if you running a blog, but you do not intend to update it regular with latest post then it is not a very good idea. People tend to move away from blogs which are not updated often, and that’s bad news.

One also could have a website and a blog for certain niche. For example, this blog which you are reading and my main site www.toliveonline.com are related to each other. I have made my static website to have all the static information concerning online business and all my post concerning online business which is more dynamic in my blog. This is another way one could use website and blog together in maintaining their activity online.

Therefore, before you start anything online where you need to have a site, consider either you want it to be a blog or a website or both. This will help you in long run.