Here's How To Article Market...Away From The Herd!

I've read many posts expressing how article marketing has become too competitive....Actually, it's not true at all! In fact, I will show you a way to article market that is unconventional - but highly effective!

As you know, most people like to promote Clickbank products in their articles. Still, a few sharp article marketers are earning a good income by promoting physical products with their article marketing.

Now, you're probably thinking "Yes, but if you article market physical products, you'll have to compete with Amazon and EBay on Google's first page!"

Ah! That's because you use the specfic product name in your article. Let me show a little twist that will really get your wheels turning.

Let's start with picking out a product. If you go to Amazon.com, you can pick any product category to get some greart keyword ideas. For this example, let's choose Television & Video.

You'll notice throughout the page several hyperlink phrases that in most cases will be excellent candidates for our keyword phrase (especially under the "Featured Categories").

So, looking at the Television & Video, I notice some interesting candidates....I'm going to go with "rear projection hdtv".

Now, I go to Google's Keyword Tool and search with this phrase to pinpoint some good candidates. Lots of phrases to work with....Let's go with "Samsung Rear Projection HDTV" which gets about 3,600 monthly searches. Not bad!

Let's check out the competition....I search "Samsung Rear Projection HDTV" on Google: 111,000 results (GASP!)

Fortunately, I know that a better indicator is the intitle search on Google so now I enter: intitle:"Samsung Rear Projection HDTV" and I see 376 results. This is a good sign!

Now let's check out the competition. I use SEOQuake to look at the stats of the top 10 on Google for this phrase. Top results are Page Rank 4 sites with under 30 backlinks.

Now I can submit an article to Ezinearticles (which by the way, has no articles with this phrase in the title at the time of this post!), keyword optimize the title and body, get backlinks, and put an Amazon affiliate link in my resource box.

In terms of article content, what I look to do is go to manufacturer's product page either on its own website or on Amazon. I will basically paraphrase the best features and benefits and create a short, but highly informative article.

If you don't have an Amazon affiliate link, sign up for one. It's easy and it will open up the possibilities of items for you to promote.

The only downside to all of this is that you will have smaller commissions since Amazon's commissions run between 4-6%. Still, if you set up your articles right, you will get more than enough views from your traffic to make up for this.

So if you want to article market away from the herd and see good results, try this out!