How to Affiliate With Your eHow Friends

I've been doing a lot of reading on Internet marketing lately, and I found an affliate concept that most people just apply to just normal websites that I think can help us with our articles. In this article, I want to share my basic idea.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• eHow Friends
• The desire to help them and help yourself at the same time

1. First, pick some friends and read through their articles. This in itself will help them. What you're mainly looking for are articles that relate to your own existing articles.

2. Send an e-mail request to your friend asking if they would be willing to post links to your article or articles as a related resources to their articles. Offer to do the same for them. If needed, include both the link to their article and the link to yours. This way when you receive a reply, you have their article url handy to copy and can paste into yours. Wait for a response.
   
   If you're more ambitious like me, you can agree to help a friend as much as possible if they will help you as much as they're willing--this takes more work and time however. I think it'll be worth it long-term though for all of us.

3. For the friends who agree and are willing to take the time to do this, post a link to their article under the Resources category while they do the same with your article. Over time, this will create a complicated "net" of articles that has the possibility of giving both friends more exposure and income.

Tips & Warnings

• eHow already does this for us to a certain extent with "Related Articles," but this allows us to help other authors we know.
• If you're not already doing this, connect all of your related articles to each other. This will help you get more exposure, especially when people like one of the articles and want to immediately see more. I think it would be great to expand this idea out to helping each other.
• If you want to do this with any of my articles, just let me know. I think this is mutually beneficial. I'm in the process of contacting all of my friends, which I plan to exchange as many links as possible.
• Don't get upset if someone doesn't get back with you. Sometimes people are busy or just don't want any links in their articles for some reason.
• I think the best thing to do is start this with friends or authors you know are willing to do this. I wouldn't want this to turn into people spamming and bothering people.
• Don't connect articles that are way off topic from each other--that will confuse readers.

Resources

• How to Find Free Writing Prompts
• How to Make Money from Writing Online
• How to Get Writing Ideas
• How to Be a Great eHow Community Member
• More Free Writing Tips and Resources
• How to Be a Great eHow Community Member by eHow Member MrBB

[cat804]

on 9/3/2009 this is definitely worth thought. I think human networks are a great way to power our activities. 5* and rec, thank you for the ideas!

[bradmauer]

on 3/22/2009 good thinking

[insidestory]

on 3/13/2009 Wonderful tips! Thanks you, I needed these very badly.

[tinksmagic]

on 1/21/2009 This is a great concept, we could all benefit from it.

[kkemp]

on 12/30/2008 Great idea!