Article marketing seems to be the buzz word in web site marketing and SEO (search engine optimization) lately. I’ve had a lot of people ask me– what exactly is article marketing? Why is it so popular? And how is it done?

Well, the whole point of Internet marketing is to get people to notice your site out of the thousands and thousands of sites out there. There is little point in taking the time and going to the expense of having a business website if no one ever sees it.

So, how do you get people to visit your site? That is where web marketing comes in. Internet web site marketing is a specialization in the marketing industry, who’s whole point is to bring in those “hits” on a website, and with those hits comes profit for the business.

There are a lot of ways that web marketing is done. One of the biggest is search engine optimization or SEO. This is the art of getting the big search engines to notice you, and put your site higher on the list of sites that come up when a person searches for something you sell. SEO can include site design, careful writing and keyword research, and pay-per-click advertising.

There are other ways to market a website. You can put an ad in your local newspaper or put your web address on all your business cards and correspondence. This is more of a traditional type of marketing, and there is nothing wrong with that. It has been around a long time because it works.

But my personal favorite is article marketing. This is where you write an article about a subject that you are an expert on, and that relates to your website business or hobby. You put a short ad with a link at the bottom of the article that goes to your website. Then you publish your article for free, to anyone who wants to use it in their newsletter, website, or blog.

You find people who want to publish your article by placing it in article directories, where web publishers go to find good content. The web publishers are happy to get new content, and you get people who read your article and follow the link to your site. Your article can get picked up by hundreds (or thousands) of people looking for something to put on their website, blog or ezine.

Now you end up with links to your site all over the Internet, and this in turn helps with SEO. Now the search engines start noticing you. And you don’t have to worry about reciprocal links

Paid to click websites, mostly we know them as PTC websites which paid there publisher for clicking and viewinning there sponcers and advertiser websites. this is kind of incentive way to earn money, by peoples because i feel 70% peoples only view and visit those websites in PTC sites to get credit few cents in there pocket.

Earning from PTC website are not good, i had seen many peoples who are strugling to make couple of dollers every month from paid to click (ptc) websites, but its took them 2 or 3 month for getting payouts and some website even cheating and scamming there publishers.

these websites creating lots of trouble for newbie and confusing them too, but the real story is, that these all are the biggest time waster, and you cannot depend on them for your internet earning, they are only in the market for getting the attraction of newbies, and even offered 2$ to 4$ for every click, but they never paid you single pennys for your all hardwork and  efforts.

So its better to stop working on PTC websites and always do some research about the website background on google before giving your efforts and hardwork to it.

There are more then 20 millions websites on internet, and they are growing with the average of 20 thousand every day. But very few websites get good amount of free SEO traffic, natural visitors, good ranking in search engines, good page ranks, and alexa rank.

For one individual website, these search engines ranks are very important, because these help website to come over from the crawl list of 2 million websites.

So, now the question is how you can improve these ranking?

Keyword Research is only then best solution for it, so before start any website, its better if you will do little keyword research. Let me show you one example of keyword research below.

For example you want to start website on Dog Breeds. Let do some research on that keyword in Google Keyword Research Tool

So here you can see the results, its 165000 unique & natural visitors searching for that keyword in google search every month, so if you will use that keyword in your website, then surly you will get some part of 165000 natural visitors on your website as well J

And if you can see, that some extension of Dogs Breeds are still available, and if you will create an website on by taking domain like dogsbreeds.biz or dogbreeds.net, or dogbreeds.org then you will surly ranked good on google.

That how the keyword research worked, and I hope you enjoyed it.