Have you been reading more and more about the power of article marketing but haven't been able to have much success with it yourself? It isn't uncommon for many new internet marketers to stumble across forum threads or blog posts discussing the potential of article marketing and then trying it out for themselves.
Like many others, I was in the same boat thinking that all I had to do was write a few articles and wait for the flurry of traffic to hit my web sites.
Needless to say, the traffic never came and I viewed writing articles as another waste of time.
Are you guilty of the same thing? Don't worry, most people new to writing articles generally make the same mistakes.
Most people write articles and submit them to article directories with the intention of driving traffic to their web site.
However, a new article writer will make these common mistakes:

• Not performing keyword research
• Not conducting enough research to write an informative article
• Not using keywords in their title
• Not writing and submitting consistently
• Not promoting their articles (social bookmarking, etc.
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Writing and submitting articles can do wonders for a web site.
By submitting to the top article directories, you will have regular traffic going to your sites, not to mention the backlinks you will be building.
Those who figure out how to write articles in such a way to get click-thrus to their web sites often go on to make significant amounts of income promoting their own products or affiliate products.
Avoid the mistakes above and you are much closer to finally having success with article marketing.