Gain the advantage over your competition and consistent traffic to your site with article writing. With articles writing you provide information which is what the internet is all about. By submitting the articles that you write to article sites, directories and blogs you gain an advantage over others that are in the same niche that you are.

Even if you are not a great or speedy writer, the subject of your website is one that you have a lot of knowledge about. You know your business and the benefits of it. Writing articles about the subject that you are very involved in will reflect your passion.

Even if you are not a perfect writer, you can create an outline of the article that you want to write and then find a freelance writer to help you make the article as you envision it. A good place to find freelance writers is at www.help-2-succeed.com – it’s a site that provides resources to help creative and talented folks to make a living with their art. Just send a request to find a freelance writer.

When you write articles, stay on the same topic as your website. Doing so will give you benefits such as a larger readership and more people to your site because of what you have to say. The people arrive to your article via the search engines, read what you have to say and then, wanting more info on the topic, click on your link in the resource box and arrive at your website.

It is very key that you have a method that a person can sign up for your newsletter because, in doing so, the person will continue to be informed about what you have to say and, if not a customer at first, will eventually become one. A wonderful and easy to use service to create a sign up box for your website is www.messagebot.com. Not only is it simple to create the necessary form, it’s free, too. In a matter of a few minutes you will have a generated form that you can copy and paste to your site in order to grow your list.

To get your article read, follow these tips:

– Limit the amount of words, stay in the range of 500-800 words

– Brief paragraphs get read more often than long ones

– Don’t cram the paragraphs one after the other, create a space in-between each

– Stay on the same topic as your website

Submit your articles online to articles sites, articles directories and blogs. Another great method to get the word out about your articles is to create a newsletter to send to your mailing list. One more tip is to submit your newsletter, try the following sites to do so:

* Zinester – You can find tools and resources here to help you improve your newsletter readership. This service has a small monthly charge to use it.

* Best Ezine – free to use, list your ezine, get ratings and reviews

* The Ezine Directory – a very resourceful site that has been online since 1999 helping internet business get the word out about their newsletters.

* Ezine Locater – This service is human edited. There’s a small lifetime membership fee to utilize the service.

* Newsletter Access – This site has two levels of service to promote your ezine

* New List – a free service that was started in 1998 to help get the word out about your news which helps you to get new subscribers to your list

* New Jour – go to http://library.georgetown.edu/newjour/ to utilize this free service to register your newsletter and get subscribers.

As a summary, start writing and submitting your articles. Your articles will get re-published online which spreads the word about you and your services. It is a no cost marketing strategy that will continue to work for you for years driving traffic to your site.