Writing articles can be a very creative and free way to advertise your website. This way of marketing can bring mountains of traffic to your blog or website if done correctly. I'm going to try my very best to make this how to guide to article marketing as simple to understand as possible. It's really not as hard as you may think and the more articles you write, the faster you'll get at it. The key to marketing using articles is consistent writing, you have to write every day and you have to have a blog or a website to send your visitors to, many article directories won't allow affiliate links so this is important. You can build a free blog with WordPress.

The first thing you should do if your going to market your online business using articles is finding keywords to base your articles on and they have to have low competition if your gonna rank anywhere, this is probably the hardest part about article marketing. They have free tools for this, I personally use the Google keyword tool. This tool is located within Google Adwords and they have tutorials on how to go about researching keywords. Keywords are the words that people type into the search engines to locate whatever it is they are searching for. Create a list of ten low competitive keywords just to get started. When you've completed this task, you'll be ready to begin your article.

Now what you are gonna do is write a 400-500 word article and your going to base that article on only one of your keywords. There are certain places within your article that your keyword must be placed to properly optimize your article for the search engines.

1. The title- your keyword should always be in the title

2. Mention it again within the third or fourth sentence

3.Then mention it again in the conclusion of your article

Once you have completed your article, you'll be ready to submit it to an article directory. There are numerous article directories online submit your article to one article directory. Don't submit the same article to numerous directory, Google doesn't like duplicate content but you can change up your article a little and resubmit it as a whole new article. It's a very simplified formula: write + submit = $

The is the easiest way I know of to earn an income online. I'll admit it's a little time consuming but it will pay off in the long run so do the work. This how to guide to article marketing is pretty simple.

Find a product to promote, search for keywords, and write articles based on one keyword at a time. You can easily come up with 500 keywords for one product. That's 500 articles you can write about your product, so get motivated.