In yesterday's post, Article Marketing for Passive Profits I discussed some results I had with article marketing.

For example, my top article for 2007 was viewed 42,898 times on EzineArticles.com and also received 1,188 clicks (highly targeted traffic to my site)!

Those article marketing numbers are only the immediate stats direct from EzineArticles.com.

Article Marketing Update: Read more

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The internet has opened up a whole new world of opportunities to work as a freelance writer.

Writing from home is one of the largest work at home occupations around today. So how do you become a work at home freelance writer?

Launching your freelance writing business is pretty simple and straightforward.

Yes, it will take hard work to become successful but it's an easy, and inexpensive, business to get started.

You start by simply doing some research on the internet and then apply for freelance writing jobs.

With all the online writing opportunities, you'll be able to find something, even if you have no previous writing experience.

If you want to write the great American novel, you're probably better off doing that on your own time.

Non-fiction writing and creative writing for hire (such as ghostwriting articles) are where most of the paying opportunities are. Read more

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If you've been around for any length of time you've probably heard about article marketing for promoting your site, product or even as an affiliate for someone else's product.

It's popular because it's powerful and it's something you can do quickly and easily.

However, you need to make sure you do it right or you won't get the results you want. And most people market on sites like EzineArticles the wrong way.

Here are 5 simple steps you need to follow to get the most out of using articles as part of your online marketing arsenal.

Step 1: Choose the product or service you want to promote.

This one is kind of a no-brainer. It all begins with deciding what you want to promote. Is it your own product or service? Or do you prefer affiliate marketing?

We're not talking about your newsletter. We're talking about an actual offer you want to present that you'll earn profits from when readers of your article make a purchase.

Decide what it is that you want to promote through your article. And then move on. Read more

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Article marketing, while getting saturated because of concepts like bum marketing, is still a very viable way to help your internet marketing efforts.

But it's important to understand that direct traffic from those articles shouldn't necessarily be your focus or the way you judge whether or not your article marketing efforts are a failure or success.

Some of the commonly talked about ways article marketing can help you include:

1) Direct traffic to your site via article directories where you submit your articles.

2) Writing and submitting articles can generate lots of backlinks to your site from the article directories and other sites that pick up and use your articles.

3) Indirectly, these backlinks may improve your organic search engine rankings, helping your search engine optimization efforts, and drive more traffic to your site via the search engines.

These are all great reasons to write articles.

However, if you are focusing on building an internet business that is successful over the long haul, these aren't the real power behind article marketing. Read more

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