Writing articles that can be submitted to the various article directories can be an excellent way to build your business. Articles make you visible as an expert in your field. Your articles will give you more credibility, visibility, traffic, and income. This does not happen overnight, but is an indirect result of you creating content that will help people solve problems and answer their questions. When people go to a search engine they are typically looking for the answer to some question that they are struggling with. Your article can be their answer. 

Think of article writing as an activity you will spend thirty minutes to an hour on each day, five days per week. I can tell you that I have averaged at least one article each day since coming online exclusively in 2006. It was not easy for the first couple of months, but now I think of myself as a writer and look forward to the process. Let me tell you how I am able to write so many articles. This is my big secret. Before I go to sleep each night, my notepad is filled with two or three ideas for new articles or blog posts. This way I am able to choose what I will write about in the morning, instead of having to spend time coming up with an idea. 

Each article is intended to teach one point about Internet marketing, and to include useful information the readers can implement almost immediately. This gives my writing a purpose and makes it something that people want to share. Then I post it to my blog so that it appears on my site first. I want to have the article appear on my site first so that I get credit for it and the traffic is able to go to my blog to read more about me and my products. 

When I submit first to my blog the search engines give me credit for it, and then I submit the exact same writing to the article directories. This makes sense if you are using SEO (search engine optimization) for your blog or other website. The search engines will find the article in the article directories too, but it will now be ranked lower than your site. Learn to enjoy the process of article marketing and content creation and your business will grow very quickly.