You can use blogs and article submission sites to promote your merchants product. You can write blogs and articles with links that go directly to your merchants product or you can have blogs and articles that link straight to your website.
There are many article submission sites which I have listed below. Make sure that when you submit these articles that they are a good length (500 - 1000 words). Submit the same article to as many article submission sites as you can, but always submit to ezinearticles.com first. They are the most stringent article site and will deny your article is already on another article site. When you insert your affiliate link at the bottom of the article, you do not want it to be a long ugly affiliate link. so use www.tinyurl.com to shorten it up a little bit. Also, article submission sites don’t really like affiliate links, so you can put another link that is mainly a no sale site and then change it once the article is approved. shhhh….
Here is the list of article sites.
www.goarticles.com
www.article-hut.com
www.articlebase.com
www.1888articles.com
www.ezinearticles.com
www.articlecity.com
www.a1articles.com
www.ideamarketers.com
www.searchwarp.com
www.isnare.com
www.amazines.com
www.articledepot.co.uk
www.articledashboard.com
www.easyarticles.com
www.articlebin.com
www.articlebeach.com
www.articlehub.com
www.articlegarden.com
www.articlesphere.com
www.articlealley.com
www.articlesfactory.com
www.articlewise.com
www.articlegeek.com
Make sure you follow their guidelines and change the title of your article for each article site you submit to.
If you don’t have the time, you can use article submitter software. Instant Article Submitter
is one of the best out there.
Blogs are similar to articles. You write about something related to your product and at the bottom, you include your link. You can write blogs on blogger.com, wordpress.com, and Squidoo.com are among the most popular.
With Blogs, you do want to write about things you know and you can literally write about anything! If you go through a blogging service like Blogger.com, make sure that you do not try and sell something with every blog you write. The site admin will recognize your site as spammy and they will do something about it. Visitors will also view your blog as spammy and they won’t trust you.
You do not want your blog to look like everyones else, so try and change up the template of the blog (you can learn how to do that on the blogging website).
To get your blog popular you can use blog traffic exchangers like www.blogexplosion.com, www.blogmad.net, and www.blogsoldiers.com. The best time to use the blog traffic exchangers is after you post a blog with an affiliate link in it because this affiliate link article will be at the top of your blog (what people will see).
When writing articles and/or blogs, it is very important to always use unique content. Always write your own articles and blogs or edit them greatly (75%). Search engines, article sites, and blogging sites recognize duplicate content. Unique content will get you more visits. Also, you do not want to copy someone elses work because it is copyrighted.
Another way to advertise besides articles and blogs is USFreeADS. It is like using an article submission site, but it is slightly different. It is like a classified ad.
You can also try and use press release websites to create a buzz about your merchants product as well. There are a few good ones. www.PRLeap.com, www.PR.com, www.newswiretoday.com, www.freepressrelease.co.uk, www.prweb.com, and www.betanews.com.
Another method of getting your link out there is using forums. Find a forum related to your product and post there. Get to know the people, get involved, and include your link at the bottom of each post.
We have covered a lot of information on articles and blogs, but there are still many other ways to advertise your merchants product. You can use Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which I have covered in another section on this website (toolbar to the left of the page), or link building (also covered in another section), or submitting to directories (YES, also covered in another section!). There are also tons of other ways to advertise. You can use viral videos, off line classified ads, myspace, youtube, or even your own personal business card with your website written on it.
I’m sure you are ready to start advertising, but make sure that when you do try and attempt one of the methods described above that you really go at it 100% and really stick with it. Do not just half hazardly attempt each one of these just a little bit, because you will not get anywhere. Do not be overwhelmed. Master one thing at a time