Yeah, a cliche title that you have read a billion times before. You may or may not have already read everything that you are about to read, but for the sake of a few moments of your time it could just be the best thing you read this year.

Article marketing for me has been the major reason for the turn around in the amount of traffic my sites were receiving. It’s one of the most effective ways to get targeted visitors to your site.

Getting your articles published in ezines and on sites such as addme.com or sitepronews.com will generate an enormous amount of traffic to your site. As a bonus, you even get 100’s of subscribers to your own ezine or social networking site in one day!

The trick is to write helpful how-to articles on current topics that other webmasters want on their sites, this will boost your link popularity with the search engines and increase your rankings. You must also very carefully choose the right keywords to target in your articles, matching the content on your site. You must target keywords that have high traffic, yet little competition from competing web sites.

By using the power of articles to get traffic to your site you should find that not only do you get traffic from the article publishing websites, but you will also get new visitors and members from the sites that your article gets re-published on. Don’t forget that this also helps you build those ever important and valuable back links from other websites to your own.