by Jan Sterrett

Created on: January 21, 2008

In my recent attempts to try Affiliate Marketing, many people have recommended that I submit my written promotional articles to a number of different Article Publishers for free publication.

I admit that I have a hard time, accepting the concept of allowing a good portion of my writing to be published for free. In addition, web site owners, who currently are totally unknown to me, will then get to freely use my written articles for their own use, on their web sites, because they are badly in need of fresh new content there.

If they get well written content on their web sites, those web site owners, might be able to sell more products. If they sell more products perhaps because of my well written content, they'll earn more money for the increase in their sales. So how do I as a writer benefit if I've agreed to allow my written artcles that I've worked hard to write, be published for free?

In this debate question, I feel web sites should pay writers, for the efforts we put into writing our articles.

I understand if I submit my articles to as many publishers as possible, that will help to increase my by-name recognition. I understand that might later lead to my writing and my
by-name becoming better known in the future, in this vast Internet World.

However, as someone new to affiliate marketing, I'm putting in a great deal of time and effort into writing my promotional articles as well as I'm humanly capable of doing. That not only includes the writing itself, but proofreading, editing, and revising my article, before I submit them anywhere. I may have needed to research my topic, before I even put my fingers on the keyboard.

My promotional articles might be viewed by some people, as being nothing more then longer written advertisements. Many Article Publishing sites do not allow the Affiliate Marketers or the writers to place direct links to the items we're promoting, within the body of the article itself.

I feel like I'm making my potential customers take extra unnecessary steps. First, they are hopefully reading my promotional article at that particular Article Directory Site. Then they need to go to my blog. From there they'll need to find my affiliate link, so they can travel on to finally getting their first look at the web site, product or service that I've been trying to promote to them all along.

Who knows how many more links they might have to click on, when they finally get there? It seems like I've sending my potential customers on that longer scenic route,

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