Article Marketing has always been my favorite way to advertise affiliate programs. Since I love to write, this was a natural for me. When you bought a pay-per-click ad, on the other hand, you drove traffic to the website for as long as you were paying for the ad. But with Article Marketing, once your article was out there, it stayed out there and continued to send traffic to the website. I wrote reviews and gave good content and used the Resource Box to send people to my affiliate link, so that they would hopefully make a purchase and I would receive my affiliate commission. This worked for me.

But along the way, things changed. More often than not, article directories, especially the better ones, refused to allow affiliate links in the Resource Box. They wanted you to send people to your own website and promote the product from there. Oh, no! Another roadblock for the non-techie. I didnt know how to set up my own website and things looked bleak!

Luckily, I discovered Simple Money Machines. This was a point and click website that even I could set up. No HTML, no FTP, no learning curve. Traffic tracking and split testing was included and you could even put audio on your site. An autoresponder was included so I began to build a list as well. And thats when I really began to build a business. I began to set up a site for each affiliate product that I was promoting and all was well.