To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills.With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is

Article marketing, of course, involves writing articles for the purpose of submitting them to the various online article directories and including a link to your web site in the articles, so that you will receive traffic from the articles you market.

There are two ways that you can make money with article marketing.

One way that you can make money with article marketing is by writing articles to send traffic to your web site, and then you make money from the traffic that comes to your web site, in much the same way that you make money from other forms of traffic, whether that is by building list and monetizing it, or by selling products online. I call this direct traffic when you submit the articles for the purpose of getting the direct hits from article readers. To do this effectively, simply write many quality articles and post them to the top 2 or 3 article directories online.

The second way that you can make money with article marketing is by writing a few articles and submitting them to multiple article directories I think that there are around 500 at current count. This will allow you to gain a maximum number of what the search engines call backlinks, and the search engines will generally rank you higher in the search engine results if you have more backlinks. Once the search engines rank your website, then people can visit your web site via the search engines, so I call this article marketing traffic indirect traffic.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 400 articles in print and 8 published ebooks.