This is another post to complete my Quick Start Money Making Guide.

What Is Article Marketing?

Article marketing is a type of advertising in which businesses write short articles related to their respective industry.

These articles are made available for distribution and publication in the marketplace. Each article contains a bio box and byline that include references and contact information for the author’s business. Well-written content articles released for free distribution have the potential of increasing the authoring business’ credibility within its market as well as attracting new clients.

Article directories are basically article farms. You can take the articles from the directory to post on your blog, but the condition is that you have to leave the author’s bio intact. Alternatively, you can rewrite the articles and make it your own. A simple reason why you submit to article directories is that article directories tend to rank higher in search engines. Therefore, increasing the chances of getting your article rank high and get free traffic from the Article Directories to your website.

Well, submitting to Article Directories not only gets you Free Traffic, but is also considered a backlink to your website. Remember, a link is a link, no matter Do-follow, No-Follow or whatever, you want as much links as possible to your money making sites.

Its also less intimidating for your potential customer as well, that they have a choice to click on your link to find out information on the topic. It is not too difficult to see that those who clicked on your link are your targeted audience and it would make sense to do some hardsell in your website/landing page.

List of Article Directories as of 29 Jan 2008

Well, I have 3 Simple Tips On Writing Good Enough Articles that gets approved easily (especially true in Ezine Articles):

1. Read more news articles, magazines, blogs that have a good command of English (or French, German, Chinese, Tamil, whatever)
2. Learn the technique of copywriting.
   This skill will help greatly in your sales letter and in article writing too.
3. Just reference to articles of your niche and rewrite it in your very own style!

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