Before I come to powerful secret of writing articles with such ease and in under a few minutes let me tell you what an article does for your e-business or small home based business venture.

Writing articles as some of you may know is one of best ways to attract visitors to your site without spending any money. Millions of sites are offering to publish your article for free and in return offer a resource box of five to six lines at end with a link to your site. Some sites even allow a link in article itself if it is not a blatant advertisement. This is quickest and most rewarding promotional strategy ever devised by net for small business owners.

Imagine if your article gets picked up by a site or a newsletter with a circulation of 100,000 readers. Your hot counters would be changing so fast for a few days you would be amazed. Not only that you have orders and enquiries flooding in for your small business, MLM opportunity, affiliate program or whatever home based business you are in.

With growing interest in blogging as a means of online promotion and branding, a lot of marketers are starting blogs to promote their opinions, products, books and services.

But a blog is like a website. "Write and they will come" isn't exactly a magic formula to bring in traffic by boatload.

If you need to promote your website in order to build traffic to it, you need to promote your blog as well.

Here are some ways you can become a well-read and influential blogger.

1. Write Posts That People Will Want To Read

This should be common sense, but many marketers tend to forget that their readers are real people and that you need to use principles of online copywriting to make your headlines and copy interesting to your readers.

If you write posts that people enjoy reading, they will reward you by returning to your blog regularly.

Make your posts conversational, pithy and topical. Keep them short and stick to one topic per post.

Write often and regularly so that both readers and search engines visit your blog more often.

2. Optimize Your Posts for Search Engines

I cover this topic in detail in my article on "Search Engine Optimization For Blogs" http://www.blog-maniac.com/blog-seo.htm

But here are most important rules to follow to get your posts listed for keywords of your choice.

* Make sure your blog URL contains primary keyword you want to optimize for

* Use your primary keywords in title of your post

* Use your secondary keywords in body of your post

* Use your keywords in anchor text of links in body of your posts

3. Submit Your Blog and RSS Feed To Directories

If you publish a blog you should submit your blog and RSS feed to big directories like Yahoo and Dmoz, as well as numerous blog directories and search engines.

Here is best list I've found of places to submit your feed or blog, compiled by Luigi Canali De Rossi, who writes under pseudonym Robin Good.

Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Another list of sites to submit your Blog. http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm

4. Ping The Blog Services