Idea: putting affiliate links in sponsored newspapers articles?

Hey guys.
So here's an idea I've had, I am posting it here in order to receive your feedback (I am pretty new to the affiliate marketing sphere)

The idea is as follows:
1) Find an affiliate marketing of your interest
2) Find keywords you could rank that affiliate product for (local keywords, normal global keywords, keywords in other languages, etc)
3) Buy an article in a high DA newspapers or magazine targeting those KWs you found. Add your affiliate links in the article.
The article you paid for will most likely rank for the said keywords, thus it will attract traffic (it will also receive internal traffic from the usual readers of that media/newspaper). Some of that traffic will click on your affiliate links and convert, on a regular basis.
What do you think about this idea? Do you think newspapers would accept these sorts of links? I know they accept do-follows (indeed, I have a database of +2000 online magazines and newspapers selling do-follows), however, I don't know if they would accept an affiliate link. Because what's the point of them accepting it if they could just put their own affiliate link instead?

They won't let you do it.

Basically, you want to use those sites as parasites.
If they don't let you (most likely) then link to your landing page. This way, you get traffic + your landing page will rank because of the links.

I think Matt Diggity gave an example exactly like the one you talk about, only it was for male-enhancing pills. The #1 article was ranking on a magazine/newspaper website, and the link was to a landing page.

If you have the budget, this is a great way to go.
Usually, lower magazines sell links for $400ish or less, so you don't have to spend THAT much money.

The only risk is if your sales do not create the return that would cover the cost of the sponsored article.

I myself write such articles weekly that point to our product pages and they absolutely fail to generate enough income to cover their cost, we only continue to build authority for the domain because these are do-f0llow content links.

4ry4n said:

The only risk is if your sales do not create the return that would cover the cost of the sponsored article.

I myself write such articles weekly that point to our product pages and they absolutely fail to generate enough income to cover their cost, we only continue to build authority for the domain because these are do-f0llow content links.

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But these articles will be ranking forever, and getting and steady and regular inflow of leads / traffic.
Therefore I guess that over time they should cover the costs?

borson said:

But these articles will be ranking forever, and getting and steady and regular inflow of leads / traffic.
Therefore I guess that over time they should cover the costs?

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That is an optimistic view and I am not known to have that.

I guess it could in some niches make enough transactions but in my niche which is mobile phones and digital tech it did not.

I highly encourage you to test that and report back to the community.
But definitely test more than 2 or 3 articles on different domains to have a clear result as less than that could be affected by many things.