When you are planning to market your new or even old website in order to get more traffics, one of the way is by writing an article and submitting it to as many places as possible. This is with the hope that webmasters will take your article and your website link and place them on their website. In this way, you have one link from where you submitted the article, and another each time a webmaster copies your article to place it on his/her site.

However, there are lots of people who do not know what format should be followed when writing one. Proper format and preparation will make your article look professional and this will make webmasters have confident with your ideas. I have listed few tips for you to follow below and these tips could be used for any type of articles since the main format is still the same. Here are the tips:

1.Determine your topic. Exactly what are you going to write about in your article? Brainstorm for ideas and list them down on paper.

2.Figure out who your audiences will be. Are you writing for a beginner, an intermediate, or an advanced audience?

3.Before you start to write, start with your research. How well do you know the topic? You could use the vast information in the internet to get ideas and information. Is it something you can write easily about with little or no preparation or do you need more information from experts in the field?

4.Decide on the length of the article and this will make you aware how much to write about certain subtopic within the article.

5.Write down list of possible sources for you to consult and acknowledge them later in your article. This can include source of documents, internet research and people that you quote.

6.Start by writing either an outline or a summary of your article first. This will help bring the concept of the article into sharper focus and will make it easier for you to write the full article later.

7.Write the rough draft of the article as follows:

-Tell your readers what you are going to tell them. This is your introduction that will pre-inform the reader what the main information that they going to get out of the article.

-After the introduction section, tell them the main part of the article. Explain in detail each main point that you pre-inform in the introduction sections. Tell your readers what you have promised to tell them in the introduction section.

-The last section of the article will be the summary section. Here you will reinstate the main points that you have wrote. Tell the reader the important gist of the article before you end the article.

8.Now since you have the first draft ready, check over your draft for final complete article.

-Check for faulty information. Have you double-checked your facts?

-Delete any unnecessary or contradictory information.

-Eliminate anything that is just taking up space. Don't fill your work with fluff. If you need to do more research, go ahead and do it. Your reader wants valuable information.

-Check for grammar and spelling errors.

-Read it aloud to your self to make sure the text flows smoothly as you intended.

9.Rewrite the article one more time after you have corrected all the mistakes.

10.Now, your article is complete and ready for submission and generate traffics to your site.