Article Marketing Made EASY!

Via affiliate links, selling ads on your site, selling products/services on your site, get them to subscribe to your newsletter and after you build a relationship with them sell products/services to them directly etc.

Look at how magazines or newspapers make money. The more readers that visit their site the more money they can make.

Affiliate marketing, marketing your own products, or running CPC ads such as Adsense. My personal choice is Adsense because, being in the military, if I have to deploy I can set it, forget it, and let my sites make money for me without me having to do anything until I get back.

Yes, if you have other use of your website that is not just for ads.

No, you will not earn anything without clicks or purchases.

No, don't post articles that look like $#!+ to your sites. Have better standards than that and your readers will thank you for it.

Traffic that doesn't click on a CPC ad or make a purchase may not earn you direct revenue, but they can provide indirect revenues. Once you build a site with enough daily traffic you can look into CPM advertisements for passive revenues whereby payment is provided for impressions rather than clicks. Obviously impressions pay a lot less, so you would need some good traffic.

Additionally, raw traffic boosts your site's overall value when negotiating with potential advertisers directly rather than going through third-party ad suppliers. It also increases a site's value should you wish to flip it down the road. And of course, traffic on a QUALITY site increases word-of-mouth value; people refer friends and family to quality websites all the time, and although the referrer may not have clicked or purchased from you, their recommended visitors may very well do so.

Traffic is power.

As for using poorly written syndicated articles, I wouldn't. Unless I'm building a junk site for pure SEO value, I prefer to make sure all my site's content is of value to visitors so that I get free links back to my site as well as referral traffic. SEO gimmicks are great short-term revenue boosts, but build a long-term quality site and you can sit back and collect passive income indefinitely.

If you see a junk article with some valid points, it's best to integrate those points into an article of your own making.

Jeffrey

You mean is it legal to edit your own article, or somebody else's? Yes to the first one, no to the second.

Interesting twist this took, with monetization of article marketing
becoming a central focus. Strangely enough, not many of the other
discussions have done this in more detail - almost as if everyone
*knows* all about THAT! Thanks, Mark, for giving it a refreshing
twist.

Article marketing can generate money from:

a. building your brand
b. driving you more traffic

Both matter, though some may aim for one over the other.

By writing and syndicating top class articles in your chosen niche,
you could quickly be known as a thought leader, domain expert and
technical specialist to the point where audiences and prospects seek
you out to learn more or to work with you.

By creating content that many people like enough to share with their
audiences, you'll attract more visitors to your website or resource
where various options are available to monetize them, as others in
this thread have pointed out.

What's great about effective article marketing is that you can get
BOTH benefits without compromising on either - without too much
difficulty.

Way back when I got started, I wrote articles and distributed them
EVERYWHERE. On forums. Discussion groups. Email lists. Directory
sites. Free ebooks. Guest posts. And later, when they appeared
on the scene, on blogs, document sharing sites, social networks
and other places.

It ranks among the smartest moves I (accidentally) made - because
even to this day, I get visitors and fans from articles I've
created in 1996 or so

All success
Dr.Mani

Jim's book came out almost at the exact time I created "Ezine Launch".
Mine focused on writing ezines, his was about more general article
writing. Shows which one is more relevant long term - mine has been
'out of print' for almost 5 years

All success
Dr.Mani

Considering that this can be done in around 15 minutes a day, the
simplest way to get the answers you seek is to do it for a week or
two and see if the results YOU get justify continuing - or not.

Testing beats asking someone else in issues like this

All success
Dr.Mani