I am a UK based, native English speaking writer and marketing director with over 15 years experience. Article marketing, or affiliate marketing is something of an art in itself. The most important starting point is having good, solid content surrounding each different product or affiliate offering you are directing your visitors to. This content has to be 100% original. It needs to be SEO optimised. This optimisation has to come off the back of solid keyword research where we seek out keywords with a low competition / high-value ratio. No matter what industry you are in, or what niche you have chosen, these terms will be available in one form or another. Identifying them, tying them to your product and writing highly effective content around these terms is one of the quickest ways to get a google ranking.