Keith Gloster.com

With the internet changing every day and with internet users looking to gain knowledge and interaction from their time spent on the world wide web, it is important that you as an internet marketer give them exactly what they crave which are highly-informative articles. You can write an article for just about any topic you can think of and submit it to article directories, content publishers, e-groups and forums around the Web. And even though there are no restrictions as to how long your article should be, article directories prefer that your article is no less than 300 words and no more than 750 words in length, and should be geared to some aspect of interest to your specific market.

One major benefit of article marketing is that when you consistently submit your articles to reputable article directories, your submissions can drive targeted traffic directly to your affiliate landing pages, product pages and Adsense sites for free and on auto-pilot. Another added benefit of writing good quality articles and submitting them to these sites are highly-targeted one-way backlinks. Since there are hundreds and even thousands of these high-ranking article repositories online, you can be certain that your articles will generate quality one-way backlinks to your website.

However it doesn’t stop there because here are 5 additional benefits that will have you cranking out articles in no time flat and help you get the most out of your articles and article marketing campaigns:

1. When you write and distribute helpful and/or useful article content, you are perceived as an expert and can justifiably increase your rates and charge more for your products.
2. It is no secret that search engines love well-written and informative articles. So if you write and submit articles on a regular basis, you’re giving the search engines exactly what they want. In other words, your website or blog gets spidered and the new pages are indexed which is what you want. And the search engines get constantly updated, useful and fresh content which is what they want.
3. People love to be and feel well informed – It helps them make better decisions.  Your articles can serve as the source for the input they seek.  And who better to buy from then the source that provided the information in the first place.
4. If your articles are good and distributed properly, they can spread like wildfire and literally cause a viral marketing frenzy.  Ultimately driving business your way.
5. You can syndicate your articles via RSS. If you’re familiar with RSS (better known as Really Simple Syndication) and you write ‘Articles’ on a consistent basis, you can set-up an RSS feed on your blog that web surfers and/or website owners can ‘Opt-In’ to receive via an RSS reader. In addition, you can also submit your RSS feeds to RSS search engines and directories for added exposure.  However, all of this depends on how useful your website visitors consider your content to be.

To ensure that your articles are informative and freely accepted by all of the most reputable article directories, here are a couple of tips to consider before writing your articles:

• You can freely use and rewrite public domain articles related to your subject. In this scenario, permission from the author to reuse their content is not necessary. However if you choose to use another author’s work without re-writing it in your own words, make sure that you give them credit for it before you post it to your blog or email it to your ezine subscribers.
• You can use survey results from a self-conducted survey as an article. This does mean you’ll have to write a little, but compiling the results and turning it into a fast article isn’t very hard or time-consuming. You can create surveys through Survey Monkey at www.surveymonkey.com .

Is article marketing right for you? Unfortunately I can’t answer that question for you but I can say this. If you are someone who failed 8th grade English, are on a tight budget but want highly-targeted short- and long-term traffic for your website, then article marketing is the perfect solution for you. However if you love to write, understand the countless benefits of article marketing but simply don’t have the time to write, then article marketing is right for you too.

So why do I consider article marketing to be the perfect solution for Internet marketers no matter what experiences they may have had with writing? One word. Automation. Automation not only allows you to perform task much faster, it allows you to do them more intellegently while helping you to quickly generate good quality articles that are freely accepted by all of the major search engines and article directories around the web and redistributed by newsletter and blog owners alike.

if you would like to learn how to write articles fast and designed to not only increase sales and sign-ups but get accepted every time by high-traffic article directories, stay tuned for my short video in the next article post.