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At one time article marketing was limited to Internet marketers writing articles for the sole purpose of promoting their websites. If a marketer had a website about dog products that marketer would write articles about dogs and various things about dogs, and submit them to the pet’s category of article directories. If the marketer wanted to promote a site about making money online, he or she would write articles about making money online and submit it to the appropriate category in article directories. If the marketer had a website about widgets he would write articles about widgets and submit them to the directories. Writing articles for these types of article directories is writing done almost solely for the sake of publicity. People will know that you write about a certain subject because you have knowledge about that subject and may even seek out your expertise on the subject that you write about.

There is a new trend to article marketing today. It still takes into account getting traffic to a website but also more it is for the purpose of the article writer getting paid. In some cases the articles that a writer develops for these sites are not necessarily related to the niche of the writer’s websites. It is important when submitting to the directories that you establish a sense of credibility. The more credible that your article seems the more articles may get accepted.

The purpose of writing for article directories that pay you is first to make money by selling one’s writing. You do not necessarily have to be them most proficient in your writing capabilities in order to write for these type of article directories. Traffic to your website is secondary to how much traffic your content will bring to this article or media directory.

Of course, if your articles are well written, and provide valuable content, then your readers will scour the directory, and the Internet to search out more of your articles, and more information about you.

Both types of article directories have their place in the world of media. The ones that primarily serve as conduits to marketers wanting to get traffic to their websites will remain for some time to come and will remain a valuable asset to both the contributing writers and the people who visit these sites looking for content to reprint in their ezines and websites.

The more recent get paid for article directories just put a new face on article marketing. With the growing need for more specialized content these new sources will continue to need writers for some time to come. I would encourage you as a potential article marketer to work with both kinds of directories.

Keith P Stieneke is an Internet affiliate and network marketer who loves to write about several niche topics. He operates several websites. You can also see what he has to say about sites which pay you for content at http://www.opportunityassistance.com/paidtowriteonline

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Article Database Official Newsletter Issue 7 March 11 2007

Welcome to another issue of the Article Database News Blog Newsletter

It has indeed been quite a period since I have published a newsletter for this site. Many things in my personal life needed attending to and with manually approving every article in Article Database it has indeed been a challenge. I will continue to set manual approval of articles for two reasons:

1. There are many of you who have not paid attention to the fact that URLS do not use html coding in order to show up. In fact if you use html in your articles it will not show up. Since I want you to have a clickable link in your article I have to remove all the html coding manually when you use such coding. This takes time and may in the future result in me deleting your articles rather than approving them.

2. There are some people who think that an ad is article. To these people I say “Please unsubscribe from Article Database” as I am looking for informative articles, not some of these ads which start out “Get Rich Schemes Revealed.”
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With that being said I am pleased to say that for this issue I am pulling an article from Article Database to use as the article for this issues newsletter. Without further adieu here it is:

Article Marketing Surefire Tips
By: Davion Wong

Article marketing is reputedly one of the easiest and fastest way to drive traffic to your website be it a hobbyist or business website. It does not require you to mess with search engine algorithm or html, php or any other webpage design language. In essence, as long as you can write, you can pen an article and start seeing instant traffic. And the best parts are the traffic is targeted and absolutely free! Article marketing has other indirect benefits such as letting you establish yourself as an authoritative figure in your field and in search engine terms, improve your website link popularity and search engine ranking. Now is it starting to make sense to you to use article marketing in your website promotion strategy?

Article marketing has three parts to it. First part is keyword and content research. Second part is of course writing the content, and lastly article submission. Now among the three, I would prefer to write, but some people simply hate writing. But we know without a doubt that everyone hates the process of submitting articles. Fret not. We will learn some tips and tricks about article marketing and how to work around the article submission part.

Article Marketing Tip 1 – Keyword and Content Research

Go to forums and read the posts there. You are sure to find out about the market needs and what are the people’s demands and problems. Next find a solution in the form of a product to meet that need or problem. If you already have a product, simply write from an angle of meeting that need. Article directories are also great places to do your market research. By browsing through the categories and looking at the articles written, you can grasp a brief idea of the current market demands.

Keyword research is very important. It makes your article look targeted to your audience and also improves your chance of getting the article indexed and ranked high in the search engines. This is what we call using indirect organic traffic or borrowed traffic.

Article Marketing Tip 2 – Writing Articles

As mentioned earlier, forums and article directories are the best places to find content. Other places include the search engines and offline resources like your local library or magazines. Magazines have done their own research so it is likely that their content is relevant to readers. Tap onto this opportunity.

If you hate to write or feel that your command of English is not strong enough, you can always pay a ghostwriter to write you an article. But don’t get too lazy. You still need to give the guy your target keywords. You can find good writers at affordable rates at Scriptlance and Elance. The good thing about this is you get unique content.

Article Marketing Tip 3 – Submitting Articles

The power of article marketing is enhanced many fold by mass submission to numerous article directories, probably in the tune of hundreds.

You have basically three options to do so. One is to do it manually which would take tons of time and brainless monotony. But it is free. The second option is to pay an article submission service such as iSnare or The Phantom Writers to do that for you. But be mindful that it can add up quite a bit and strain your budget. The last option is still the most preferred – using article submission software.

Nowadays, article submission software are affordable to almost everyone. In the long run, it is most cost effective to use an article submission software to expedite the submission of articles. Read more about article submission software at my blog and find out which are the most popular software in the market today.

This article may be freely reprinted or distributed in its entirety in any ezine, newsletter, blog or website. The author’s name, bio and website links must remain intact and be included with every reproduction.

Davion is a successful webmaster and author. Discover more about article marketing and read reviews of top http://Article-Submission-Software.blogspot.com article submission software such as Article Post Robot, Instant Article Submitter etc and find out how these tools can drive instant and continuous traffic to your website at http://Article-Submission-Software.blogspot.com
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In other news I have created a lens over at Squidoo.com called Article Marketing Revisited. You can visit it to discover many ideas about article marketing. The address is http://www.squidoo.com/articlemarketingrevisited
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I will be updating this blog more frequently now that my schedule allows me to do so. A brand new newsletter should be coming by the beginning of next week. Thank you for your patience during these times.