... You 'reprobably reading this article right now from one of thosesources!Well written articles establish you as an expert, providereaders with valuable information, and will give you uniquecontent for your website. So you want to focus on a niche thatyou have some knowledge about. It could be about golf, dogs,computers, or anything you want. Articles are normally 400-600words in lenght, answer some question or need, and include a"resource box". The resource box contains your ...

...name,credentials, and a link to your website.This is where the real power of marketing articles is revealed.Article directories have thousands of subscribers and alsothousands of webmasters who use these articles as free contentfor their site. In exchange for giving them free content, theymust leave your resource box with your name and link back toyour website. If their website has a high page rank, searchengines will see your link and this will improve your page rankas well. If their website has lots of traffic, some of thattraffic will come to you through your link. So you're killingtwo birds with one stone - one way links to your site from highpage rank sites, and a constant flow traffic from the your links.Generally, a good article marketing campaign requires writing atleast 1 or 2 articles everyday. Submitting them to all the directories, mailing to your subscriptionlists, and adding them as content to your own site. This can bea very time consuming task, but you'll be rewarded with freehigh quality targeted traffic.There are several tools available to help you and will save youa lot of time. If your having trouble writing articles, thereare several private label content companies to choose from. Private labelcontent companies will have a directory of articles that youare allowed to copy and use as your own. There are private labelcontent companies popping up everyday, so it's important thatyou pick one that is established in the industry.If you don't know where to submit your articles or it's takingtoo long, there is software that will automatically orsemi-automatically submit your articles for you. The software isupdated from the vendor with the latest high quality articledirectory sights available. It then submits your articles to thehundreds of directories in minutes. Doing this by hand wouldnormally take several hours.Once you have your articles written and submitted, you'll wantto add them to your website as content. This will improve yoursearch engine rankings and help drive additional traffic to yoursite. Many webmasters will add adsense code from google tofurther monetize there efforts. Using unique article content onyour site will also improve the revenue generated from adsenseversus all of the "me too" duplicate websites getting justpennies per click.In summary, articles generate unlimited free traffic, establishyou as an expert, and generate more income for you as aninternet marketer. In part 2, I will talk about how to writearticles, how to find a popular niche, and how to make moneyfrom articles.