An Internet businesses success heavily relies on the sort of exposure your website receives through Internet traffic. You can achieve this much necessary Internet traffic through paid advertising, pay-per-click advertising (in search engines like Google), web linkages through blogs and plugs in various websites, and article marketing. Article marketing, in my opinion, is actually one of the smartest and most productive strategy you can choose should you opt to employ any of the aforementioned moves. While gaining the top position in search queries in various search engines or getting advertised in major websites also do you good, article marketing just gives you the greater edge you need as you carry on with your Internet business.

What is article marketing? Article marketing, in simple terms, is writing articles about your business, or the field with which your business is concerned and having these articles published in various online magazines, website that provide general information, or even websites of within the same related industry.

What does article marketing achieve for you? Article marketing achieves for you a reputation of expertise. Having yourself published in various websites will give your potential customer an impression that more than just someone selling a product, you are also someone who knows a lot about what you are selling. This sort of impression is important because when your customers believe that you know what you're selling and you know what you're talking about, they are bound to believe that you are also selling them the best there is in existence in that field.

This impression of expertise is also very important especially if your potential customer is choosing between you and other alternate providers of that product or service. Your customer, having heard about you in the various informative articles you've written, will be willing to choose you right away over the next best alternative because of how your reputation precedes you. And this, my friend, is the sort of perception-based advantage you'd want to have over your competitors.

An obvious benefit of article marketing is the fact that by writing these articles to get published in other web magazines, you are actually also creating content pages for your own website.

However, the greater good of article marketing lies in the added profit that will likely result from the various other benefits you stand to derive from article marketing. Article marketing help you in getting a lot of advertising mileage given that you are writing about your product or the field relating to the business you cater to. These articles, once they are already published, will provide you with the option of providing a link to your website. Obviously, if you provide useful information on your article, it is very likely that you'll be providing potential customers access to your website, or encourage people who may not have previously considered. The power of suggestion, coupled with an entire article discussing benefits and useful knowledge, may in turn translate to added profit for you.

Internet traffic will be directed towards your website and the article you wrote when interested customers search for a product you sell or read on related information for which the article is written. This will give you a lot of online hits, because search engines usually rank you higher on the query list when they search for you manually, instead of you providing them your website name and information.

Now how do you make sure that your article gets published, and moreover, that you are published extensively over a huge variety of reputable online magazines and websites?

The best way to assure this sort of coverage is to make sure that your articles are of quality. Think of it this way two articles on the same topic will be differentiated only by the quality of the way either was written. Moreover, meatier content in these articles, which will be characterized by greater research and more specialized information, will also increase the value of your article.

Once you have the basic meat or kernel of an article, don't be afraid to make some revisions in order to create many articles out of the same topic. It will not hurt getting published a huge number of times through various articles that may run within a similar line. You may also try adding in some tips, some lists, and a condensed step-by-step discussion relevant to the topic you are writing about. While having a huge deal of information to offer, a longer article with longer paragraphs has less likelihood of being read than one written in compact, easy-to-read paragraphs and lists