Bum marketing pays

Bum marketing (article marketing) has become extremely popular these days for many good reasons. It's just a form of article marketing, and that's been around for years, but it's caught fire in recent years.

Bum marketing is free, easy, fun and extremely effective. And as a bonus, the long-term results, for your free "advertising" are also an awesome bonus. I still make money from articles I wrote long ago and forgot about! This is a huge benefit of article marketing, or bum marketing. Paid advertising only lasts as long as you pay for it, but with a few good bum marketing tips and article marketing strategies, your articles will stay alive on the Net for years and continue making money for you.

Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can make money with bum marketing. Just learn a few bum marketing tips, a little article marketing strategy, and get busy. All it takes is learning a few tricks and techniques, a little self-discipline and motivation. If you don't have a computer you can actually build a business from a computer at the library!

Truth be told, bum marketing is pretty darned easy. Once you learn the basics, you'll see it's not rocket science. Not only do you spend zero money for webhosting, but you also don't have to spend time building websites. This saves tons of time.

Bum marketing is essentially a form of "niche marketing". The way this work is using search engine optimization, which means you get a high ranking in Google searches. You join an affiliate program, find a product you think will sell well, then write articles that include your affiliate link. You also include keywords that you think will give you good placement in the search results. This takes a little research but it's actually extremely easy to get high placement on a Google search page. You just need a few good bum marketing tips to figure this out.

What you would do is research keywords, with free research tools, that get a decent amount of searches per day, but that don't have too many results, say under 50,000. Then you go to Clickbank or another affiliate program and find a product to sell that matches the keyword phrase you picked. Make sure it's a product that's in demand!

Then you would write a brief 300 to 600 word article and include the keyword or keyword phrase in your title and a few times in the body of the article. At the end of it you also include a link to your affiliate product. Then you submit it to popular article directories like Ezinearticles.com and GoArticles.com. Then amazing things happen. If you do it right, Google will index the your article and include it within the top results for the keyword phrase you selected. When this happens people click on your article through Google and some of them will click on your affiliate link and buy your product.

With a few good bum marketing tips and strategies, or article marketing tips and strategies, it won't take long for you to get a feel for making money from writing articles, using affiliate marketing to fatten your bank account.