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Article marketing sucks…not! Ha ha! Got your attention, did I? Well, no, article marketing does not suck. In fact, article marketing is great and is one of the best ways to get traffic to your websites. I know that, and many other marketers know it, too, but instead of listing off a bunch of reasons why article marketing is so wonderful, I am going to tell my story and my experiences with it and you can decide for yourself.

I started this blog in the fall of 2008 as an afterthought. Some guru somewhere said that blogging was a great way to earn money online,  so I bought a domain and threw a Wordpress blog together. I really didn’t have any direction at the time, other than the fact that I am in the work from home niche, and I didn’t have a clue about how you get traffic flowing other than traffic exchanges, safelists, and Adwords.

As you can imagine, I didn’t really do much with my blog, and in not doing much, I didn’t really get much out of it. Things continued this way until a little light bulb went off in my head and I put together everything that I had been learning about internet marketing and traffic generation into one cohesive bundle that I could actually put into use. I knew what I wanted to do with this blog: I wanted to create a place where people could come for some good information, and hopefully, if they enjoyed the information here, they would maybe buy some of the affiliate products I recommend.

But, I needed traffic and at this point, I didn’t have much in the way of cash to pay for advertising in Google Adwords and such, and really, blogs aren’t great as landing pages for PPC anyway. So I re-visited everything I knew about free traffic generation and decided that I would focus on article marketing and really give it my best effort. I set a goal for myself that I would write at least one article a day and that I would post my articles to the top article directories, like Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com, and articlebase.com.

To give you an idea of how well my plan is working, and how absolutely great article marketing is for generating traffic, when I put my plan into effect in July of 2009 my Alexa page rank was over 3 million.  In Alexa, as in Google, the closer you are to #1, the more popular you are and the more visitors your website receives. As I write this post, my Alexa page rank has risen  to 615043.  Do the math. In just under three months, I have increased my page rank by over 2 million. That’s huge!

Now, considering that the most popular websites and blogs have Alexa ranks well under five thousand, I have a long way to go before I reach my ultimate goal. My point in giving you the numbers is to prove that article marketing is a powerful way to get more visitors to your website and that you can see results very quickly. The more dedicated you are, the better your results will be and you’ll be able to see the results more quickly.

So, I challenge you: Give article marketing an honest try. Commit yourself to writing an article a day for a month and submitting them to the top directories.  Then watch the traffic start to roll in.