Article Marketing is a powerful way to drive free traffic to your websites and affiliate links.  The great part about article marketing is that you don’t need to have your own website, or any experience in advertising online for that matter!  Simply follow a few simple guidelines, write some content and it will get picked up in the search engines for free!  Sounds simple, and trust me it is but you have to be willing to learn the ins and outs to be successful at article marketing.  Article Marketing is a huge way to drive short, but more certainly long term traffic! I have articles written months ago that are still earning me money today!

When someone does a search in any search engine such as Google or Yahoo and types in a “keyword” it will return relevant results for what that person was looking for.  Article Marketing allows you to have your article content delivered as a relevant web page for keywords that you choose!  Yes, you have control over what keywords your articles are listed under in the search engines, and I’m going to teach you exactly how to do this.

There are many different sites available on the net that are specifically created for articles and article marketers.  These websites allow you to add your articles to their sites, therefore you do not need your own website to benefit from article marketing.  Once you have your article written, it only takes a few moments to add your article to an article submission site and have it published online.

Here are the steps you must take to master the article marketing process:

1. Research an Audience and Product
2. Write an Article (or outsource it!)
3. Submit your article to an article submission site
4. Rinse and Repeat

Now that you know how article marketing works in a nutshell and what your job is as the article marketer, let me elaborate on the steps to build your article marketing campaign….tomorrow!

Article marketing, in my opinion, is the absolute best way to build a solid foundation of traffic and business all wrapped up in a nice profitable package!

Tomorrow I will be discussing the most important piece of the puzzle, research.  So many people dismiss research as simple keyword research, it’s much more than that.  Although I will be emphasizing several techniques covering keyword research, I will be discussing other factors that need to be taken in to consideration when creating your most profitable article yet.