Article Marketing is a great tool to use when it comes to adding traffic to your site. If you are not familiar with what it is, Article Marketing is simply writing articles and submitting them to article reprint directories on the web.

You're probably aware that fresh content is important to getting search engine traffic to your website or blog. A lot of webmasters and bloggers frequent these article directory websites, looking for new articles for their own sites.

By submitting your article to these directories, you're giving permission for other website owners to use it on their website, on the condition that include a resource box that you supply along with the article.

This section lets you include more information about your website, as well as links back to it where people can get more information.

When the website owner or blogger puts your article up on the web, all of their readers will see your biography information and the links to your website. Your article could end up on hundreds or thousands of websites, and quite possibly, millions of people could end up reading it! Who knows how many people could click on your link?

Finding article directories isn't difficult - all you really need to do is a Google search for "article directory". Some of the results will focus on specific markets, such as health or home & garden, while many will accept articles on almost any topic.

Choosing a topic for your article is quite simple. What is your website about? Think of something your visitors would be looking for and then write an article about it. For example, someone who sells Tupperware could quite easily write about any food-related topics or even something a little further afield such as organizing your home.

If you're not a natural writer, don't let it bother you. There are plenty of places you can hire writers that will "ghostwrite" your articles for you. The cost will vary, depending on the quality of the writer, but you'll generally pay between $7 and $15 for a 500 word article. If you really want to be hands-off, you can even outsource the submission of the articles and just sit back and watch the visitors arrive on your website!