Article Marketing can also be used for increasing your search engine rankings by having high page ranked sites publish your work.

Just as with any other venture, your objectives should be clear at start. Ask yourself these questions:

1.Are you writing articles as a long term method of driving traffic to your affiliate pages? 2.Are you promoting a specific product, service, mlm/network marketing program or is your aim to get leads? 3.Is this going to be your primary method of advertising?

Once you post your article on a site it can be picked up and reprinted thousands of times. Is your site going to be “Up” for next 5-10 years?

That’s why I say this is a long term strategy. You could have thousands of “hits” per year or per day from that one article.

Multiply that by 1000 or 10,000 and you have an idea of what this could mean to you.

Now you have to stop and think as to why you have built a website in first place, are you selling a product of your own or are you marketing affiliate programs!

The idea is to think about what you want your site to do and generally it is not to send your visitors elsewhere.

MARKETING A Product of Your Own If this is case you are selling a product on your web sites why have you created an adsense campaign to send your hard earned visitors to someone else's web site at a profit to you of maybe 0.01 cents.

This is probably most common mistake made, and really is easiest to correct.

Things to consider

What is sale of your product worth to you?

What do your affiliates pay you for a sale on their site (usually more than cents you are currently getting)