A free content article directory is there for you. You can find articles on pretty much any subject you want and use them on your site, mini site or blog to make money. This is useful if you have your own product and you find an article directory article on that subject. Its also useful if you don't have your own product. You can become an affiliate of many different affiliate programs, such as clickbank. Browse through their categories and find something you would be interested in selling (preferable something that sells well). Then go to your favorite article directory and browse through and find an article directory article you like that is relevant to the product you want to sell and put it on your website.

Using an article directory can be a great way it go if you have a slim budget. However, there are some steep obstacles you'll need to overcome in order to use a article directory in this manner.

Obstacle #1 Search Engines

If you want the search engines to send you traffic, then you need to become search engine friendly. Search Engine Optimization or SEO can be very difficult. Fortunately, if your willing to research and learn, you can find your answers at you favorite article directory by searching Internet marketing SEO or just SEO.

Obstacle #2 Getting visitors to click

Once you've tweaked your SEO enough to start getting visitors, then you need to make them want to click on your affiliate links, make them feel like you're an expert who knows what their talking about. And, most of all, say it in a way that will make them spring into action. Fortunately again, if you're willing to research and learn, you can find your answers at you favorite article directory by searching writing for the web, or writing, or writing sales letters, writing web copy, etc.

Obstacle #3 Author Bio or About The Author

In order for you to use articles from an article directory, you must first agree to keep the author bio or about the author intact with working links and anchor text, just as you see it in the article directory. Remember, they're letting you use their content for free, it's the least you can do for them.

The downside is that you risk your visitors clicking away from your site with the author links. However, it is your website and you can make your links stand out more and you can encourage your visitor to spring into action here. This is where learning to write good ad copy comes in handy. Fortunately once more, if your willing to research and learn, you can find your answers at you favorite article directory by searching.

Over come these obstacles, use your favorite article directory and you'll be well on your way. And remember, an article directory is a great source of information.

Let me encourage you to use this article and any article directory articles as if they were your own (within the guide lines of acceptable use by the article directory).

You can use article directory articles for websites, message boards, blogs, newsletters, ezines and email campaigns or even just email it to a friend.