subject: How To Succeed With Article Marketing [print this page] When you have an internet business, there are a lot of different marketing methods you will need to use to get your business in front of as many people as possible. One of the most effective methods to use is article marketing.This marketing method is also free to use. There are certain steps that you need to take in order to be successful with this marketing method.To help you learn how to succeed with this method here are the most important steps that you need to take to achieve that goal.1. The first step is to write a useful quality article or hirer an article writer to do it. You will need to do some keyword research to find keywords that you can base your article around. Keywords are important if you want the search engines to list your site.Once you have the keywords use one or two in each article that is written. Then you need to write an article that is of high quality and provides useful information. Don't write an article that tries to sell something.People read articles looking for information on particular subjects, by giving them that information; You can then direct them back to your website through the resource box at the bottom of the article.2. Distributing the article you wrote to as many different places online as you can is the next big step. There are many different places that are important to distribute your article to because this will help provide the most coverage possible for your articles.Here are a few of the most important places to distribute articles.- Article directories- Forums- Ezines or newsletters- Your blog (Just change the article a little bit so it is original for your blog, which is easy to do for anyone.)Getting your article to as many places as possible online will provide the most exposure and this also means over time, the most traffic possible. Just remember that you only want to distribute articles that are of good quality and informative because if you don't, then this can end up harming your business.These are the most important steps that you will need to take in order to be successful with article marketing. Now that you know what these steps are, all that is left is for you to get started using this marketing method now to promote your internet business.Don't put off getting started because the sooner you do the faster you will see positive results in your business.