What are the best Traffic Sources To Make Money From Affiliate Marketing?

My guess is that a WSO on such a setup would not sell, because all of your questions have already been answered repeatedly by myself and collectively by other highly successful article syndicators. It's all right here on the WF for free. But if I were to do a WSO (which I have no inclination at all to mess around with product creation and its associated customer service headaches, whiners, complainers, lazy time-wasters, nefarious serial refunders, etc), it really would not be any different from the many posts and frequently recommended resources covering this topic.

The essence of article syndication as a marketing model in its own right is that articles can drive massive laser-targeted traffic directly to a conversion funnel. This is not rocket science. Processing of the resulting traffic varies widely by different marketers, just as it does with other forms of traffic generation.

Specifically in answer to your question regarding ROI of articles, the return is on access to the readership audiences of specialized publications, not from any immediate sales. I don't directly "sell" products nor are products even mentioned in any of my articles. The sales process really begins when these targeted audiences subscribe to my lists. Not appearing to initially promote or sell anything is a subtle but extremely powerful marketing strategy.

The concept is simple; you give before you take, and in this basic principle article syndication is no different than for example sig files in forum marketing or even giving away freebies in exchange for getting subscribers to your lists.

My syndicated articles provide information of value to my targeted readers. The non-salesy solutions within these articles drive traffic to my niche sites where additional valued content is offered. What happens is these readers start searching the niche site for more content relevant to their interests or specialty.

At this point, the big pay-off begins. These readers become web site visitors and encounter links to my sales pages, which strongly recommends products as solutions congruently with the solution-oriented tone of all my articles. By leveraging the advantage of an aura of authority conferred by these articles (particularly when these articles appear in highly regarded publications), sales conversions are high, as are subsequent opt-ins of buyers for additional email promotions and sales.

Significantly, I don't select "niches" per se; I target demographics where I can develop an affinity and establish relationships. For example, trade associations, industry, telecommunications providers, automotive, medical professionals, academia, churches, civic groups, etc. People are multi-dimensional, and have a wide variety of interests which can often be monetized with effective list segmentation. Here is an old link which shows how I "choose" niches: What's Your Niche?. (The major criteria is recurring profit potential and the number of high end affiliate products readily available.)

My company regularly sells Amazon and other affiliate products almost exclusively to contacts originated through article syndication, beginning with nominally-priced products (under $50) and progresses incrementally well into the 5-figure price range. As far as I know, all affiliates who reach this level of achievement begin by first building trust and consistently engage customers on a personal basis through some kind of an integrated communication system, including email and often extending into offline contact. Being a simple kind of a guy, this can be all summed up as nothing more than just good old-fashioned salesmanship. It's really not anything new.