Article Marketing is a great tool to use when it comes to adding traffic to your site. If you are not familiar with what it is, Article Marketing is simply writing articles and submitting them to article reprint directories on the web.

You’re probably aware that fresh content is important to getting search engine traffic to your website or blog. A lot of webmasters and bloggers frequent these article directory websites, looking for new articles for their own sites.

When you submit an article to a directory, you are allowing other website owners and bloggers permission to add your article to their site - for free. However, they need to include an ‘about the author’ box at the end of the article.

This section lets you include more information about your website, as well as links back to it where people can get more information.

When the website owner or blogger puts your article up on the web, all of their readers will see your biography information and the links to your website. Your article could end up on hundreds or thousands of websites, and quite possibly, millions of people could end up reading it! Who knows how many people could click on your link?

Finding article directories isn’t difficult - all you really need to do is a Google search for “article directory”. Some of the results will focus on specific markets, such as health or home & garden, while many will accept articles on almost any topic.

Coming up with ideas for article topics is really not hard. Just take the topic of your website and think of a question your visitors would have, then write an article answering it. For example, if you have a gardening website, you could write about how to care for your indoor plants or when to start planting seeds.

And if you don’t really enjoy writing, it’s not a problem. You can hire writers to ghostwrite your articles at various places on the internet. How much you’ll pay will depend on different factors, but usually you’ll wind up paying between $8 and $20 per 500 word article.

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