Bum Marketing or the Bum Marketing Method is an simple is a practically fool proof variation of article marketing that allows you to earn money online from the commissions of affiliate products, sales of your own products, AdSense ads and so on.
Here’s how it works: You write keyword optimized articles about under-exposed niches, submit them to popular article websites, let the search engines pick them up, earn affiliate commissions, get opt-in signups or make money from selling your own products.
Bum Marketing was invented and popularized by Travis Sago of
Bum Marketing Method - Free Traffic Tips. Many people call Bum Marketing, Bum Marketing because it is supposed to be so easy that even a bum off the street can do it. I don’t disagree, however I think the real reason it is called Bum Marketing is because it is one of those extremely rare occasions where it doesn’t take money to make money.
In a nutshell, here’s how it works:
1. You find an untapped, low competition niche.
2. Then you find an affiliate program with a complimentary product, which pays a decent commission.
3. Then you research and find low competition keywords that you can write articles about.
4. Next you write a series of articles based on the low competition keyword or keyword phrase.
5. Then you submit your article to popular article directors so they get picked up by Google and the other major search engines.
6. And finally you earn affiliate commissions, get opt-in signups, make money from selling your own products or earn AdSense revenue.