1. If you're wondering how this technique can increase traffic and boost your back links, then here's why. You see, content is very popular on the net, nearly every person with a website is looking for valuable content. The search engines love it too.

3. Good content is the essence for getting your site ranked with the search engines. Not only are they looking for site with this content, but you will get good back links using article marketing.

4. FREE content can be found on the net, just search Google for article directories and you'll find heaps. They are very popular and you can find an article on just about any topic. This is where the viral aspect comes in, when someone uses your article.

5. How you get back links is via your resource box, this tells the reader a little bit about yourself. Then you put your URL in and when someone uses your article on their site, voila you have a back link back to your site.

6. So what happens now is, when a marketer finds your article and chooses to use it on their site, all your info will be there. Others might come along and decide to use it too and bingo it's on another site and another and another. Before you know it, your info about your site is all over the net. This has to be awesome.

7. I hope you can see the enormous benefit here of article marketing. Just by writing a good article and submitting it to the directories, you can spread your URL to thousands and thousands or sites. The sky is the limit.

8. Research is needed to find good stuff to write about for your niche article. Just visit the article directories and search for your keyword. Don't copy other people's article but get an idea.

9. With the first paragraph, you need to set the mood for the rest of the article. Use words like, this article aims to, or, this article will look at. This first sentence introduces the subject to your article, it also should state some factual information.

10. From your research you can then start to write this info into the body of your article. Write in your own words and don't plagiarize whatever you do. Use spaces between your paragraphs and have about 3-5 lines in each one.

11. When your submitting, make sure you know their rules. Most will not allow you to put hyperlinks into the actual article. But most will let your put anchor text into your bio box. Anchor text is like this Site Name you put your URL in where is says and then you put some text whatever you like. It will come out something like this Click Here, which will be highlighted in blue of course so that people can click on it.

12. Can you now see the power of this marketing strategy. It's no wonder the smart marketers are using this day in day out.

13.Once you've got your article written then you'll need to get onto the article directories. There's a lot out there, try and pick one's with a page rank of 3 and higher. This is good for the search engines.

14.This is all very tedious, but now it can be automated, a new site just launched, will take your article re-write a few times and it will be 100% UNIQUE then when it's all done, send it to over 600 of the best directories.

15.Imagine, being able to have your article written in a Unique form, then being sent to over 600 sites, and I mean top article sites. All in the one place. Well it's here.

This article has shown some proven methods to use article marketing to it's fullest value. It's not everything but hopefully it has given you some valuable information.

This article can be used on your web site or blog so long as you include my resource box at the bottom.