People are joining all sorts of affiliate Internet marketing programs all the time. They quickly paste the affiliate links somewhere on their site or blog and wait for some miracle to happen, it never does. The reason for failure is usually very simple. They just do not have enough traffic arriving at their affiliate Internet marketing site.

No affiliate Internet marketing program on earth can ever hope to meet with success without traffic and loads of it. This article focuses on how virtually anybody can build his or her own colossal traffic using a simple system that will cost you nothing but time and a little dedication.

The affiliate Internet marketing system you are on the verge of discovering, uses only one tool albeit in four different ways. That tool is a promotional article. Yeah, yeah, youve heard about it before, but just a second before you lose a big opportunity here to change your life. Be aware of the fact that 99 per cent of webmasters and bloggers do not use articles correctly and that is the reason they fail and quickly give promotional articles a bad name. Vast majorities who are happy with promotional articles are still not using them to full effect and are just scratching the surface.

The truth is that it would be difficult, if not impossible for you to find a more effective affiliate Internet marketing tool that drives such highly targeted high traffic to a site.

The right way to use articles is firstly with the right keywords so that you will be able to win loads of free search engine traffic. The second way to use your promotional articles is to post them at some very specific high traffic article directories with your site address in the resource box. This should get you loads of immediate traffic but it will also create valuable one way links pointing at your site. Thirdly you should regularly get a very different article written, called a link-baiting article. This is usually a controversial article attacking an opinion or leading bloggers view on a hot subject.

Done skillfully and in good taste, a link baiting article or post is capable of generating a colossal amount of links in only a few hours or days, pointing at your site, thus dramatically improving your ranking with search engines and guaranteeing a surge in traffic.

And finally, your articles should be created to help you build an opt-in email list as quickly as possible. I will discuss each of these four different ways to use articles in greater detail, in the next article.