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Article marketing is a procedure wherein once provides articles to websites, blogs and ezines, in most cases, without a charge. In exchange, the article recipient will publish the authors bio data and a URL that links back to the authors site in the resources section.

Article marketing allows you to establish yourself as an expert. Public recognition of your name will increase traffic to your site which greatly improves your search engine rank and generates leads. The popularity of article marketing has led to development of software packages and websites that help authors syndicate articles to thousands of websites.

To quickly increase your search rankings, you may want to consider subscribing to a service that will re-distribute your article to other distribution lists. As your article gets disseminated to a larger group of viewers, the chances for web hits increases exponentially. Usually the companies that distribute your article will accept it free, but charge a small fee, commonly less than $10, to make it available to other sites.

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.

Also important to article marketing is search engine optimization or SEO. A publisher needs to have a thorough understanding of how search algorithms work and be familiar with commonly used search terms. This will help the publisher determine which websites would be the best to place a particular article, helping to ensure the site visitors are actually looking for the information the article has to offer.

Keeping SEO in mind however does not always mean publishing content which is more searchable. Sometimes it may be done during the web development stage, so that the coding and structure of the website and it's presentation enables search engines to properly index the site. Or the webmaster may decide to include unique content on his site which are easily indexed by search engines, and at the same time are attractive to human visitors.

Writing an article and getting it published on a website is an easy way to establish oneself as an expert. The best articles stay focused. They are easy-to-understand and help the visitors in some way or other. An article should not be used for plugging your product or service, at least not obviously. Otherwise many websites may not put it up. In short, the most successful article is one that satisfies some need of the visitor.