Make Money Fast - Get Going With Article Marketing

Article marketing is by far the easiest way to get started and make money fast. The process is simple:

 

1. You write (or buy) articles on a specific topic

 

2. Next, go to some article directories and post your article there.

 

3. Finally, you will get free traffic from people who read your article

 

4. The way it works is that in your article you can place a link back to your site. This actually has two beneficial effects:

 

First, because people visit these sites looking for quality information, if you provide that they will click on your link and visit your site. So you can get nearly instant traffic from posting up articles to article directories. This is a pretty obvious and immediate benefit.

 

In addition to that, you're building the "page rank" of your website with your articles. Here's how this works: Since article directories have lots of content that's constantly being updated, search engines give these site high rankings. So the links in your article from these sites add to your site's page rank. The search engine considers the link as a "vote" from your site on the topic of your article. And since this vote comes from a site with a higher rank than yours, it increases the page rank for you site. The higher your page rank, then more traffic you'll get directly from the search engines.

 

Pretty simple and straight forward so far, right?

 

OK, the process is easy and it works. The trouble is that there are literally thousands of article directories where you can post your article. To make the submission you have to fill in a form at each website and paste your article into the form to submit it. Obviously, you're not going to be able to do this thousands of time, so you'll need a service to submit your article for you. However, even if you could just blast your article to thousands of directories, you're going to be faced with "duplicate content" issues.

 

To make this work, you have to submit unique content to each article directory. If you don't, then you lose both of the benefits. First, if the people who visit the different article directories have seen your article on another site, they simply won't read it - even if they skipped it on the other site. More importantly, the search engines will only count one of the copies, so you won't get the backlink credits and you won't get the page rank benefits.

 

Nonetheless, I strongly suggest that anyone wanting to make money fast take advantage of the breadth of scope which article marketing provides.