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"Article marketing" is a phrase used to describe publishing your own written articles on separate websites, including blogs and electronic magazines. There is most often no compensation, except that beneath your article, in a "resource box," brief information about yourself and links to your own website may be included.

Article marketing has some great benefits. As your articles get published and passed around the web, your name gets associated with the subject of your article, and you establish yourself as an expert. These articles are also tools for generating leads and increasing your site traffic. More traffic can mean greatly improving your search engine ranking. Many websites offer software to get your article out there, or will even do the syndicating for you.

Usually for under ten dollars, some websites will redistribute an article to many other distribution lists. These lists may then distribute your article even further. Search engines can then more easily find your article when searches are performed. This becomes a very cost effective way to distribute your message and to increase your search rankings.

Article marketing is, nevertheless, not exclusively for internet marketers. Various websites are always searching for new content to enrich their pages, and are receptive to articles on many different issues. You will always be able to find webmasters prepared to welcome free submissions, and people interested in finding out more about whatever subject you are most knowledgeable in.

Another aspect to article marketing is search engine optimization or SEO. It is important for a publisher to understand how search algorithms work and to be familiar with commonly used search terms. That way, he can place only those articles that best match site visitors with websites that offer what they are looking for.

Web content may not always be more searchable, keep SEO in mind. In the web development stage, coding and structure of a web site can enable a search engine to more properly index a site. Webmasters may decide to include some unique content on the site which will be more easily indexed by search engines, and all more attractive to actual human visitors.

Writing an article is a great way to have your name associated with the related topic and establish yourself as somewhat of an expert. The best articles give focused, easy to understand information. Directly plugging your product or service in relation to the topic lessens your credibilty on the subject. If the article sounds like an ad, many websites may not put it up on their site at all. A successful article satisfies the need of the visitor, not just the writer.