1. By writing and submitting good quality articles, you'll set up a viral affect. Which means, you're article will be picked up by hundreds if not thousands of other website owners for their content. This in turn will drive loads of traffic to your site and you'll get truckloads of back links.

3. For anyone with a website they will surely be looking to good rich content. If they've been around for a while, they'll understand the value of this to get their page or site ranked on the search engines.

4. Where can you get good FREE content, well there are hundreds of sites like, ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com just to mention a few. What happens here is that the person who has written the article, has a resource box at the bottom of the article.

5. You could say the resource box is the most important part of your article, it's not the only one but it's where you'll put something about yourself and your link. So, when someone uses your article, or maybe thousands, that link of yours will be all over the net.

6. So what happens now is, when a marketer finds your article and chooses to use it on their site, all your info will be there. Others might come along and decide to use it too and bingo it's on another site and another and another. Before you know it, your info about your site is all over the net. This has to be awesome.

7. See how powerful this is, imagine hundreds or even thousands using your article/s. The traffic is going to be phenomenal. This is what you want and it's all FREE. In this article, you'll learn some of these tips.

8. When you've done your research and found some good material, get the ideas and put it down on paper. Write a compelling headline and an interesting first paragraph, using words like, secret, revealed, uncovered. This will excite the reader and they want to read on.

9. Then you will have to write an opening paragraph, one that creates interest and inspires the reader to read more. You should put your main keyword in the article at various intervals, but don't overdo it.

10. Then with your research, create the rest of your text with what you've read. Don't copy other people's content, just get the idea and put it into your own words. Use bullets and short sentences like this article.

11. When your submitting, make sure you know their rules. Most will not allow you to put hyperlinks into the actual article. But most will let your put anchor text into your bio box. Anchor text is like this you put your URL in where is says and then you put some text whatever you like. It will come out something like this Click Here, which will be highlighted in blue of course so that people can click on it.

12. Have your eyes been opened to the power of this marketing strategy. It's no wonder marketers everywhere are using this day in day out.

13.After you've finished your article you'll then have to get it out there into cyber space. Mainly the article directories. There's a lot out there, try and pick one's with a page rank of 3 and higher. The search engines love these sites for their content.

14.The whole process can become a bit daunting but think of the rewards. Imagine if it was automated? Well it is, a new site just launched, will take your article re-write it a few times and it will be 100% UNIQUE then when it's all done, send it to over 600 of the best directories.

15.How cool is that. Now this is article marketing at it's best, this site is boasting getting people ranked in Google in just weeks. This is the power of article marketing.

This article tried to explain some of the benefits of article marketing and how to use them to the highest degree. It's not everything but hopefully it has given you some valuable insights on how to get going.

This article can be used on your web site or blog so long as you include my resource box at the bottom.