Your article marketing strategy will prove to be useless if your article will not be accepted by the publishers who reviews what you have been submitting.

And to ensure the probability that your articles will be accepted, here are some important points to remember before you go into submissions.

1. Check and proof-read your own article. Some authors do not proof-read their articles because they find it takes a lot of time. But if you want your articles to be accepted quickly and easily, it is your duty to make help out the publisher. How do you do this?

The first thing you should do is to check and review you grammar and spelling more than once. You might have missed something when you checked the first time around but you will come upon it the second or third time.

It is also best if you have and know someone that will review it for you. Ask that person to look for anything that does not seem right. This would be from grammar to sentence formation. They are more likely to see mistakes that you have missed.

When writing articles, you get very familiar with the content that you will not anymore aware of mistakes committed.

It is very easy for writers to miss out obvious mistakes. Adding some familiarity into them does not help either. You will just commit more because of this. By having someone read article, this problem will be eliminated.

2. Your articles should have value. If you want free traffic for your site, articles are the best ways to do it. But keep in mind that they are not supposed to be an advertisement. That is why you are using them in the first place. Making your articles appear like one will make publishers delete them so fast you would not know what hit them.

Put yourself in the publishers’ shoes. Their primary concern is to look for some new, fresh and useful content to supply to their readers. For them, good articles are personal commentaries about the latest trend in the industry or reviews about a certain product.

Trying to include a link to your site is obviously advertising. The instant they see that, they dispose of them quickly without bothering to read that you have written a good content. All you efforts thrashed.

Try to go back to the time when you were just new in the article marketing business. You were hungry to get the freshest and the most valuable information. Your articles were all precious to you.

Every writer has the right to a resource box space at the end of each article. This will serve as your advertisement. And this is as far as you can go. Readers who have found your article interesting would surely want to go visit your site to get more information about you and what you are offering.

As small as they seem to be, resource boxes serve much greater purpose if you compare it with others that are promoting visibly and with obvious advertising mediums posted.

When writing your resource box, try to be as brief as you can. They do not have to be near as long as your article. Try to also limit the number of links you put into them. The standard resource box consist of only 4 to 5 lines.

3. Articles should be straight and up to the point. An article is written with one key point in mind and that is to be informational. Do not beat around the bush, be as clear as you possibly can. Keep in mind that your readers are of varying intellectual capacity. Not all can understand idioms or figures of speech.

It is said that an article that is appears to be boring to you may be clear and understandable to your readers. You should have a writing style that is not too difficult to follow. Nothing turns a reader off more than reading an article that seem to go on circles.

Creating a quality article can be easy. Just try to consider your content, your readers and the publishers and you are on your way to a fast and steady start to profits.

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The past few weeks have seen heavy buzz surrounding the upcoming launch of Brad Callen’s Affiliate Elite. Will it do any better for your marketing? I found out that it does more than just being an AdWords spying program. It also identifies profitable niches, reveals bestselling products and helps you locate and liaise with potential JV partners.

Essentially what Affiliate Elite does is:

1. Find profitable affiliate products to promote: The system makes sorting, organizing and filtering potential affiliate programs an absolute breeze. The program imports the latest ClickBank and PayDotCom affiliate programs daily, allow you to sort by keyword, date added, category, Clickbank ID and more. It also allows you to see trends and easily pinpoint which programs you will want to promote and which ones to avoid like the plague.

I can’t emphasize enough the speed at which AE is able to complete this task so you can make more income in a short amount of time.

2. Reverse Google Search: Enter the domain name of a website and AE will return, within seconds, the keywords, position rankings, ad title, ad body text, and destination landing page URL for each PPC ad on Google AdWords pointing to the website. This works for any website, not just those selling ClickBank or PayDotCom products services.

This gets you an instant and profitable keyword list for you to market the very same product and using the same, or improved, details as your competitors.

The resulting data in the displayed output will also contain organic listings, and of course keywords with SERPs positions etc. This is all very valuable information, which can also be sorted easily into ascending or descending order for research and analysis.

3. Analyze AdWords competition: You simply enter your list of keywords and let AE’s AdWords spy tool run on a scheduled basis, for as many days as you want and track which keywords are being bid on and which ones are not. It will then start to show you an extremely powerful list of words that are being used by the same companies for extended periods of time. These keywords are most certainly money-makers because advertisers do not like to waste money. The second best part is once you have identified which sites are using which words for extended periods of time, you simply go back to the reverse search and find all the words those sites are using and watch those as well. You will accumulate all the data you need to chart performance over a timeline and determine which of the ppc ads and keywords are profitable.

4. Find super affiliates: You can easily find affiliates who are already promoting similar products as to what you have and contact them to promote your product. You can also find all the products that any affiliate (such as a guru who mails you) is promoting and then using the reverse search, you can uncover everything (keywords, sales copy and ad copy) that they are using.

2 main drawbacks are that:

1) It is limited to working only with Clickbank and PayDotCom. Hopefully AE can include more affiliate networks in a future upgrade.

2) The price is likely out of reach for some people, especially when there is a recurring cost of $37 a month. It seems like AE has to query, crawl and update 4 billion web pages on a weekly basis and the cost will have to justify server load and performance.

All in all, Brad Callen is definitely not just another hyped-up product pimp (not like me) and he is bringing to your table a powerhouse application that custs your time and speed up your marketing effectiveness. Save your affiliate marketing performance with Affiliate Elite today!