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I was thinking about how internet marketing changes over the years, from the days when it was as easy as magic to rank in google and make tons of money by posting some keyword rich content online. Today the game has changed a lot and what worked in the past is hard to be duplicated for today’s web.

If you go to Alexa.com and choose to see traffic information about facebook.com you will see that it has tripled it’s traffic in 2009, and it’s growing even more. this large number of visitors is so huge that today everybody is trying to market to them somehow.

So, with this continuous change of the internet, you have to know what works now in order to make money from your affiliate marketing business. here are some points you need to be aware of to make money in 2010:

1. Don’t choose the make money online niche as a start, as it’s the hardest niche to get into today, in addition to the growing competition, people are smart in this niche, they know what Adsense is and they will not click on it, they know what affiliate link is, and will not use it or will use their own to buy what you are promoting. On the other hand the Make money online market is very small compared to some huge low competition niches like weight loss, and working out.
2. Don’t limit yourself to one method of promotion, although search engine optimization is my favorite way of driving traffic, I get so much more traffic applying some non SEO techniques. Building a list is something that will change  the way you look at affiliate marketing forever, using social media and youtube is great and effective ways too.
3. Look for low hanging fruit, if you start a website today, it’s very important not to try to rank for hard keywords, even if you are not using SEO don’t go into high competition sources of traffic. You need to make longer research that will always result in discovering some sources of traffic to be used.
4. Competition Is not always bad, although I told you to avoid high competition, competition in a niche simply means that there is a big number of people who are making money from promoting products that relate to that niche. You need to dig into what those people are making and come with a better or similar system.

The last point is very important one, you can always make use of what your competitors are doing. Internet marketing is a continuous process of researching and testing.

Many people use article marketing in promoting their affiliate links, however if you go and post one article to all those so called quality article directories, there is a big chance that you will not see any traffic neither a sale from it. Well the secret is in the details, and here are some important points you need to keep in mind if you want to use this effective method of promotion:

1. Optimize your article: you need to use the title, description, and article body in a way to rank for some long tail keywords in SE, always write your article with Search Engine keywords in mind.
2. Give good content: the secret to make the reader click on your link on any article is to make him think you know what he/she  is looking for, so if you give some good information in the article you can easily make him click your link for more.
3. Don’t waste your visitor: people who click on your link they want more information, I suggest (and this works like magic with most niches) you send them to a squeeze page and give them something free in return.
4. Link  to your article: I always link to my articles from external sites, article directories like ezinearticles.com are strong websites, however many people are competing to make their article rank on it. So you need to do more than just posting an article to it, with some incoming links to your article you can easily rank high.