Direct Linking - Article Marketing

So I've been doing some research lately on article marketing. I'm keen to utilize my keyword research techniques to slap up some articles and hopefully draw some *quick* sales from these low competition keywords.


I've read that it is a must to have a landing page, of some kind, of your own to make the most money from article marketing. This yields list building, extra promotion, and various other things. HOWEVER, my question is:

Is this the right route to go when targeting SMALL SMALL niches (1,000- searches monthly)?

Think about it... Sure, a Wordpress site doesn't take long to set up, but to get all your plugins activated, theme-ready, content created (large amount of time), SEO optimized (again, lots of time, even with the right plugins), and even more, you could have 3-5 more articles submitted. So it comes down to having 1 article with one self-owned landing page, OR, 3+ articles that have a .info pointing to a ClickBank landing page. Quantity is a HUGE factor in many things in Internet Marketing... so why do people ALWAYS suggest the website creation instead?

Heck, the ClickBank Vendor spent the time/money creating an awesome landing page, why not utilize theirs, instead of making your own!?


Also, let's not forget the domain cost factor when creating new websites for each article. That's an added $10 for every article (because I will only be writing one article per affiliate product because of my small niches).

Does anyone here suggest using Blogger blogs for these self-owned landing pages?

Thanks for any advice, it's much appreciated.