I have read a lot of e-books about internet marketing and I have tried many traffic schemes. I have spent a little fortune to get visitors to my site. I have wasted a lot of time trying to optimize my sites…for search engines, but nothing really got the results I was waiting for. Until I discovered a new method to get highly targeted visitors: Writing articles and submitting to article Directories. It is easy to do - but there are some important things you have to consider:

1. Come up with a keyword rich headline that attracts attention. Honestly, I see a lot of articles a day, but I really read the ones with an interesting and exciting headline.

2. Write high quality articles about your site but do not offer your service or product directly because people don't like to get sold.

3. Provide useful and high-quality content. Write about one topic and offer as much useful information as possible. Remember that most of the people looking for information about a topic or to find a solution for a specific problem they have.

4. Add some target keywords into your body of your article.

5. Spell checks your article with software or give a friend for proof reading.

6. Submit your articles to as many article directories as possible. That sounds hard but it is easier than you think. You can use automatic software or you can choose online submission services.

Then wait for the visitors … it's simple and easy. But don't wait too long …you could use your time writing another article and do the same thing again. If you have time to write one article a week and submit your article to the most important article directories you will have a steady flow of highly targeted visitors to your site for years to come.

Article marketing has just become an even more powerful form of web promotion. This well known, tried and tested web marketing tool, had, in some people's eyes, lost part of its value in recent years. Article marketing in now back in fashion however, as Google have started to clamp down on paid links and excessive reciprocal links. No longer are people able to just buy their way to the top, it is now the grafters, people like you and me, who are willing and happy to produce quality content for the web, that will once again rise to the top of those all important rankings - let the good times roll.

My name is Steve Hill; I have a number of websites and have been writing articles to promote these sites for the last four years. I have now had over six hundred of these articles accepted into, what I consider to be the best article marketing website, EzineArticles.

I have seen very positive results from this form of web marketing and often advice people that this is how, in my opinion; they should go about promoting their website/s. So often in the past these people have stated that they do not have the time to write and submit articles, or that why should they start to write when they can just purchase a pr7 backward link on eBay for three months to gain the same results? I always found it hard to answer that question, but Matt Cutts and his crew have now made it a whole lot easier.

Certain people will still take chances on purchasing backward links, perhaps they are lazy, and perhaps they are stupid! Why take the risk? If you set yourself a goal to write say twenty articles per month, you will soon see your site moving up the rankings. Yes it is hard work, it is quite boring work at times, and yes it will take time to have an effect, but have an effect it will.

Some people argue that article marketing does not work due to duplicate content. This would be true if you were also including the same article that you have submitted to sites like EzineArticles, on your own website, but let's face it, that would be rather daft!