Why should you use Article Marketing to promote your website and/or products? Sure, you’ve got other methods that are working, either adequately or sufficiently, but if you need convincing as to why Article Marketing is THE way to go for your marketing needs, here you go:

1. It’s FREE!
How much can I possibly say about this feature? Between getting poor results from free traffic methods like Safelists and Traffic Exchanges, which barely work AT BEST, any free methods that actually work–and works well–is exactly what everyone is looking for. Article Marketing is your best free method.

2. Backlinks!
Getting your website to rank as highly as possible in the search engines is quite necessary for your business. One of the things the search engines look at when determining how popular your website is, is how many OUTSIDE LINKS are pointing to your site. When you write and post articles to article directories, you will be posting a link back to your site. Instant backlinks.

3. Instant Expertise!
When you research and write your articles, you gain an instant status as an expert. People who search for your topic will find your articles and if you’ve done your job well, you will establish yourself as an expert on your topic. They will come to trust you and that’s what Internet Marketing is all about: building relationships.

4. Long Life!
For your articles, not you. Well, maybe for you. Yes, of course for you! Anyway… your articles will be around for as long as the directories to which you posted them remain live. Years from now, you will still be getting traffic from each article you write today.

5. Fresh Content!
You have no idea (or maybe you do) how badly webmasters need good content for their sites. That’s one of the reasons article directories have sprung up like weeds. So, write, please! Provide us all with fresh perspectives on your topic.

6. Increase your market!
This one has to be obvious. The more articles you write, the more eyes you’ll reach. The more eyes, the more exposure. The more exposure, the more sales.

7. It’s Viral!
Speaking of webmaster’s needing content–when they download (or copy and paste) your article (keeping your link intact, of course–that’s the rule!) from the article directory, and post it on their site, the market they reach will be exposed to you and potentially head to your site, as well.

8. It’s EASY!
Writing a short article is easy. Okay, maybe not at first, if you’re new to this, or if you never cared for writing. But an article of 300-500 words is really not that much, and once you’ve gotten into the habit, you’ll realize that it’s one of the easiest things in the world to dash off a quick article for publication.

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