Article marketing has many advantages. That is the reason almost every successful online marketing expert uses it.  Some of the advantages of article marketing are:

• You will get quality backlinks to your website or blog within a very short period of time.
• You can control the anchor text. Usually this is not possible with directory submissions and link exchanges.
• You will not only get good backlinks, you will also get quality traffic. Most of the bigger article directories get massive amounts of traffic.
• Much cheaper in the long run. Article marketing is cheaper than pay per click advertising.

• Create doorway pages and stuff keywords there. Doorway pages contain nothing more than keywords. You have to use a special script that shows the search engine bots these pages while users get redirected to another page. This is how BMW.de got banned from Google’s index sometime back. If don’t know how to create doorway pages, approach the search engine optimizers who worked on the site I mentioned before. If you still can’t figure it out, you should eat more of Iodine

Blogging is a great way of getting traffic to your website. However, blogging is not easy. One has to invest a lot of time in writing meaningful blog posts. Good content is the life and blood of any successful blog that attracts lots of unique visitors. It gives the blog and its author an authority in that niche. How can anyone write good blog posts ?

Here are some tips:

• Select a topic and write content on it by researching from the Internet. In the first paragraph, introduce the topic. Give more information about the topic and in the end provide a suitable conclusion. Don’t forget to add your opinion to the blog post. Make the post as personal as possible.

Wordpress is great! It is very easy to use and there are plenty of beautiful themes available for free. But by default, it is not fully optimized for search engines. Making a few modifications to Wordpress can make your blog perform much better. If you want your blog or website (that is powered by Wordpress) to perform well in the search engine ranking positions, you have to make a few hacks. These hacks are very simple and there is a lot of information on how to do these effectively.

Here are some tips:

Adding Technorati tags to your blog can increase traffic to your blog. Technorati is a search engine dedicated exclusively to blogs. Adding Technorati tags to your blog acts as a source of backlinks and can increase pagerank.

This is how you add tags to your blog:

1. Choose 4 or 5 keywords related to your blog post. Suppose you have written a post about web hosting, select keywords like "webhosting, hosting, server, website" and so on.