I'm going to cut through chase and get to point, you use articles for various reasons - they do more for you than you can imagine - here are just a few:

1. TRAFFIC 2. SALES 3. Brand yourself 4. Brand your website 5. Fre-e incoming links to your site 6. Become known as an expert...

Bottom line, NOTHING bad can ever come of writing articles - only good. That basically means that you have no excuse to not write articles to promote yourself.

============================ Where To Post Your Articles ============================ There are many places that you can start promoting your articles, here are a few:

1. Submit them to ezine publishers 2. Submit them to article directories 3. Submit them to websites

Now, all of this can be very time-consuming unless you develop a system to help you. I use 3 different automated systems to help me: A service called SubmitYourArticle.com, a software called Ezine Announcer and I also submit directly to ezines who accept articles.

If you want to learn exactly where to get these resources and how I use them, please visit http://www.AffiliateClassroom.com - we did an entire case study on this topic in February, 2005.

The bottom line is that you want your article to get out as much as possible. However, once it's out, you never need to worry about it again! It will continue to promote for you for years to come without you ever having to manage it.

============================== Final Strategy You Should Use ============================== I really recommend directing your resource box traffic directly to an opt-in page. Start building your list with this strategy and you can profit for a long time to come. Think of infinite profit potential if you build a list!

============= Final Note ============= Do not expect this strategy to pay off in a day, a week or even a month. If you really want to use this strategy then be ready to be at it for months. Put in some work now and you will profit from it for years to come.  

Overture clearly is missing out on a huge revenue source by limiting program participants. The rational behind its selectivity is most likely fact that its contextual advertising program relies heavily on Overture's editorial team to avoid poor matches that a technology-dependant approach inevitably produces. As an example, according to statements released at time of program’s launch by Bill Demas, Overture's Senior Vice President, without editorial intervention a story about a person stabbed to death could easily carry knife advertisements.

While Overture is missing out on significant revenues, web publishers are also missing out by Overture’s non-participation. This is because, if more web publishers were able to choose between AdSense and Overture’s programs, Google would be forced to become more aggressive with percentage split that it gives AdSense publishers. While it has been reported that big Google partners such as AOL.com receive 80% of revenue per click generated by Google ads, AdSense publishers report figures in 10% to 50% range.

So, web publishers should really begin pushing Overture to open up its contextual advertising program as web publishers, and potentially Overture/Yahoo!’s shareholders, could reap significant financial benefits.