Starting an online business is challenging, often many gave up due to confusion. If you're about to start an online business and work from home using your computer but have no idea about what article marketing is all about? You've got to learn about one of these effective strategies in generating large traffic to your websites and see how wonderful this tactic may help you.

We all know that large search engines like Google gives your website tons of traffic. Your online business can't survive without them. Getting links is a way of getting higher ranking in these major search engines. You can do it by submitting your website to directories or exchanging with relevant websites.

But one of the best ways is still article marketing, you need to devote some time to draft out an amazing article that will be looked upon by people. After writing an ingenious piece of article, submit it to major directories like Ezinearticles, articlecity, etc.

Of course, submitting article to reputable directories will be much better than directories which do not hold much authority in the internet. This can be seen by their page rank, the higher page rank of the directory, the better it is.

At the end of the article, there will be an area which you can promote your website, there you go, you've created a back link to your website! It is usually called the resource box or signature file

Is it really effective? It depends on a lot of factors. Let me list down below a few examples.

The main thing is that you've written an article that provided quality information. You do not want to read an article which provides you nothing but information that you already know. In another words, you should not write articles which provide no real information.

People will stop reading your article and surf at other websites. I believe that's not what we want.

Another weakness that most article marketers do is that they create a sales page rather than an article. The words that they used are more likely to contain hype, making people interested in the products than the article.

However, some people will feel sickened to continue to read your article, you should provide useful information and nothing else. It's like a universal law, the more you give to others, the more you will be rewarded.

Lastly, you want an article that captures attention, more than anything else. An expert did a survey once before, by changing the title of the same book with the same content in it, the sales derived from each title differed. That's why they say, "do not judge a book by its cover."

There are many useful tools that you can find in the internet that allows you to create a title that is so captivating enough that people are dying to read your stuff.

Article marketing, when used effectively, can create miracles for online business owners and working from home using your computer will no longer be a fairytale!