During my research into Article Marketing, what stood out was to just KEEP IT SIMPLE and WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW.

OVERVIEW: So, the basic idea is you write as many articles as you want and then send and submit them to “Article Directories”. People who want content for their sites all over the world will go to these sites to find free articles for them to use. They are allowed to use them only on the proviso that they put in your name and information at the bottom.

There’s an unlimited number of things you can write about. You can write about Real Estate, Home Business, Online Marketing or even Boats. It doesn’t matter what your interests are, but the important thing is what your blurb says about you at the bottom. Here’s an example of mine:

Tracey Dornelles is an online entrepreneur and founder of www.NewLifeHomeBusiness.com.au a marketing company designed to help people create their own home business. If you want to know how you can spend more time with your family and doing the more important things in life go to www.NewLifeHomeBusiness.com.au

You don’t need to have any kind of background in writing because it’s not like you’re writing a novel or an article for a respected newspaper …. it’s actually OK to write in a more conversational style, so just write how your would explain something to someone. That doesn’t mean you don’t need to plan a little bit, but people on the internet just want short snippets of info they can read in a short amount of time.

It’s a good idea to write in lots of paragraphs because people get bored otherwise.

* Sometimes I even write in point form!

* Give people free information – don’t just write a promo for your business, most of the article directories won’t accept it anyway and people just won’t read it.

Also don’t expect direct responses from articles. The main aim is actually more long term. It helps get your organic listing higher in the search engines and to get your name out there as an expert. It’s a long term thing, so you may even have to write as many as 10-20 articles to start seeing increased traffic to your website, but imagine after 6 months or even a year what your profile will be like in the industry.

Do a search for “Article Directories list” and lots of different websites you can submit your articles to will come up.

There are a few more popular ones and I found the biggest to be www.ezinearticles.com But have a look at lost of others too because they may be a niche directory for sports or business etc. If you want you can also submit your articles to your favourite websites. I wrote some baby articles and offered them straight to my favourite baby sites, which they now appear on.

These are a few more I have used: www.goarticles.com www.articleland.co.uk www.articlealley.com

Now you are armed with the basics of Article Marketing – Get writing! Start off slowly and eventually you get more efficient at writing great content. Good Luck!