When we did a post on the benefits of niche social media sites, we talked about how industry-specific sites can actually be more useful than World Wide Web monsters like Digg or del.icio.us, because the audience is more select and made up of your target customers. Affiliate marketing article directory AffSphere is beneficial in a similar way. It’s article marketing directed at affiliate marketers for the purpose of boosting affiliate marketing business. You get the basic returns of article marketing – exposure, backlinks, traffic – plus the industry advantages, like including your affiliate links in the article, getting credits for advertising with each submission, and connecting with AdSense accounts.

You Get More Links per Article

Each article directory site has its own rules, but most are pretty similar on the issue of links: keep the two links to your product and your site in the resource box. AffSphere is different. You’re allowed up to three affiliate links in the article body, and another two in the resource box. So instead of just linking to your website and your product once, you can link to your site or product up to five times.

More links, more opportunities for conversion, more traffic and more backlinks!

Advertise for Free!

You can make your article marketing effort pay for advertising.

Every time you submit an article to AffSphere, you earn credits, and you can turn those credits into ads on the site. You can upload an affiliate banner ad, and exchange your credits for ad impressions. You can also put your credits towards running your AdSense ads on the site.

Remember, Quality Counts

Because the site works with Google, the standards are high. Articles are reviewed by people – not just scanned by machine, so good, original content is key. And even though they’re being reviewed by people, all articles are approved (or not) within 48 hours. You can find the editorial guidelines here, as well as the banner ad rules and regulations.

There is a zero tolerance policy for spam. AffSphere is only interested in useful and beneficial marketing, so anything scraped, scammed, stolen or spammed will be denied and will result in an account suspension.

Article marketing is a time-consuming method of increasing traffic, backlinks and sales. AffSphere can increase your energy pay off by allowing more links, enabling free advertising, and including AdSense. Why not get a better result from your efforts, you’ve earned it!