As I’ve said before, the internet is made up of information.

While video and audio are becoming more and more popular as people get faster and faster internet connections, the text format still has it’s place in any marketing campaign.

For one, many people prefer reading over audio or video when it comes to absorbing information.

I know I much prefer being able to read something as opposed to listening to an audio on the same topic.

I’ve written previously on using article marketing for traffic generation, as well as link building, and sharing with you some of the results I’ve had, including my article marketing case study that you can get for free at ArticlePublishing.com.

Article marketing will drive traffic to your site. 

How much traffic it drives and how much money you make will depend on other factors, such as your niche market, your keyword research, your resource box for your article and then the structure of the offer on your web site when people do click through and visit.

Here’s a recent look at my main Ezine Articles account (yes, I have other Ezine Article accounts. In the past, they didn’t allow you to have multiple author names in one account so you had to sign up for different accounts for each pen name you used).

One thing I want to point out is the clicks.  This number is probably much higher. 

I had my EA account, and most of my article views, long before EA started tracking that information.

My first site, which is still around and about 1,000 pages or original content right now, was built around  proper keyword research, SEO, and article marketing. 

As you can see in the image below, this site gets a lot of traffic from a lot of different web sites.

That’s because the articles I’ve written get picked up by other web sites and link back to my sites. 

This means the articles you submit to a site like Ezine Articles help you in other ways. 

They get you links on other sites which helps your search engine rankings and they also get you direct traffic from other sites as well.

If you’re beginning internet marketing or you’ve been trying to make money online but have been struggling and are frustrated with your results, or you don’t have much money to try things like ppc, article marketing can do wonders for you.

Haven’t made money online?  Want to make that first bit of cash?

1.  Grab your own domain and hosting and set up a simple 5 page web site OR just set up a free site at Blogger.com

2.  Put Adsense on the site

3.  Write and submit articles to EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com

4.  See money in your Adsense account

Obviously, that’s a very simplified example but it also works. 

I finally started seeing success online when I focused on building a quality web site using Site Build It and writing and submitting articles to EA.

Everything else I’ve done has grown on top of that initial site building and article marketing process.

Now, a crucial point to understand is that you can leverage your article marketing efforts by turning your articles into audios to submit to podcasting directories, and videos to submit to sites like You Tube, Meta Cafe and Revver.

You can do all of this quickly and easily with PushButtonTrafficSystem.com

You don’t have to create completely new content.  You’re just re-purposing your articles into different mediums to generate more links and more traffic to your money sites

I included article marketing as one of the tips in yesterday’s article, 10 One Way Link Building Tips.

I wanted to share something with you that I recently received via snail mail. I received a very cool mouse pad in the mail from EzineArticles.com

It included a brief one page letter about my 2007 article marketing results, which were as follows:

For example, my most viewed article on EzineArticles.com was viewed 42,898 times!

That same article got the most clicks in 2007 – 1,188 clicks!

Those article marketing numbers are only the immediate stats direct from EzineArticles.com.

It doesn’t include things such as the number of other sites that posted the article, the number of one way links it generated, and the traffic those links on other sites generated.

It also doesn’t include the intangibles, like the joint venture opportunities that happen because other experts in my niche recognize my name.

That article took me about a half an hour to write. And it generated 1,188 visitors just from EzineArticles.com.

Don’t forget that is also extremely targeted traffic. Those visitors clicked through to my site AFTER reading that article.

They would only click through if they liked the article and wanted more of the same type of information.

Oh, and EzineArticles.com only sent this package out to 500 of their members out of over 82,000! There’s your other lesson in this bit.

Besides the results you can get from article marketing, it’s an example of great marketing by EzineArticles.com.

After all, their business is dependent on quality submissions from their top authors. It re-energized me to keep on top of my article marketing.