The fact that most people love free information makes article marketing absolutely wonderful. Do not pay attention to those people that say videos are better than articles online. This is far from the truth. Remember when people thought that with the advent of videos in the real world, newspapers and magazines would be forgotten. But today, many years after the advent of videos, newspapers and magazines are still increasing in popularity.

Yes, I am in agreement absolutely that there are many people today who prefer watching videos to reading newspapers and magazines, but there are also MANY people who prefer reading newspapers and magazines, rather than watching videos. That's also what's applicable with online videos and online articles. Lots of people still prefer reading interesting, educative and entertaining articles rather than watching online videos.

No matter what anyone says, you can use article marketing to make a lot of improvements in your online marketing efforts.

Below are 2 very wonderful guides to help you get the best results when submitting articles to the hundreds of article directories.

Submit to lots of article directories:

I know many out there insist that there are just few very good article directories out there that receive lots of visitors on a daily basis, but it's worth submitting your articles to hundreds of the others as well. Trust me - you will gain a whole lot when you submit your articles to the hundreds of article directories You will be surprised when you start getting hundreds of high quality backlinks pretty fast.

Yes, I know that the quality of the backlinks you get matters, but so does the quantity. In addition, since in most cases your articles will be published in the related categories in the article directories, the backlinks will be quality backlinks, regardless of whether the article directory receives lots of live visitors or not. The most important consideration is for the article directory to be in the indexes of the search engines, especially Google and yahoo..

Don't make your articles too long:

Many people don't like to stay too long on one page reading an article, no matter how interesting that article is. This is the World Wide Web we are talking about here where there are millions of other pages and articles to read. Why should anyone spend hours reading just one article? It's advisable to keep your article between 500 to 700 words. If you write more than 1,000 words article, many people won't read it. Even if they do, most surely won't read to the end.

Note that your target is for the reader to read to the end of your article to find and visit your website from your resource box. If the reader ends up tired from reading your "too long" article, he or she will obviously just close the browser or click another link to get out. When this happens, you would have only ended up wasting your time writing and submitting the article.

Take the above tips very seriously and you are sure to succeed and make a lot of impact with your article marketing.