A lot of people starting a home based business fail because they do not know how to market online, or they blow all their money trying to do pay per click or some other type of marketing. When I first started working online I did not pay for any of my traffic. All of my traffic was completely free. I relied on what is called article marketing.

Article marketing did not cost me a penny, and it worked very well. It helped increase my sales in a matter of a few days. Now I tell all of my members to start out by writing up a few articles and submitting them out to a number of different article directory sites. All the money you will earn from articles is pure profit, because you did not spend any money in advertising. It just makes sense to start off this way.

Another great benefit that comes with article marketing is that it builds up not only traffic to your website, but one way links. This will help increase your google page ranking, and help your website get higher up in search engines.

There are just so many great things an article brings to the table that it would almost hurt your business if you didnt submit articles. Some big questions I often get asked are what should I write about, how do I write an article, and how many articles should I write?

That is up to you. I tend to tell people to write about things they know or like, and that they have an interest in. If you are having a hard time writing about something do a little research on it and educate your self a little more then try and write an article on it. You should also try to submit at least 5 to 10 articles a week.

Now the best way to submit your articles to websites is not by hand, but by using an article submitter program. Submitting your article by hand can take hours, and you might only be able to submit your article to 10 or so places before you get tired and quit.

Using an article submission program you can easily submit your article to hundreds of different places in just a matter of 10 or 15 minutes. Doing this will help increase the attention your article will receive, and how many views it gets. Which in return means more hits to your website and more sales for you.