Article Writing

There is a lot of study material relating to the writing of articles and making money from them. Many Internet marketers are believed to have been benefited from article writing. Experts have been recommending article writing for increased popularity and monetary benefits.

There can be many reasons for wring articles like love of writing, education, publicity, hobby, developing one's writing skills, advertising and also for making money.

If one's intention is to make money, there are various ways. These could be by promoting a web site, selling products or promoting affiliate programs.

First requirement is that one should have a product to write about. One can also join different affiliate programs and promote their products. One can sell products through one's own Internet site or directly from the seller's web site.

After one has selected products, either one's own or affiliate products, one can start writing articles on each product. These can describe different products and provide useful information about them. Towards the end, the author must provide a link to the sales page of the product which is on one's own web site or somewhere else. The idea is that when readers read about any product, they might follow the link that has been provided at the end and convert them into sales.

Many writers have reported increased traffic to their web site or in sales with this method. However, it has to be ensured that articles have good content and pertain to a product which is in high demand. There is a lot of competition in the market in article writing as many people have realized its importance. Therefore, it is all the more important that articles should be of high quality.

After articles have been written, these should be submitted to free article directories. These article directories will be more than willing to publish free articles. A few of them are: goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com, isnare.com, ideamarketers.com, articlecentral.com, articlebase.com etc.

In order to benefit from article writing, it is very important to have one's own web site. Many article directories do not accept articles from third party web sites.

Evaluating the of performace of article writing will be the subject of another post.