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If you want to find customers in a recession you will probably be hunting for creative promotion methods, and I'm guessing it will be even better if there is a plan that's available to those with a rock bottom budget - or even for those looking for completely free advertising.

The best way I have found to get website traffic, without a doubt, is Article Marketing.

It's free, the customers are targeted and they are searching whatever product you are recommending, and what's even better, unlike an expensive month-long advert in the national press, the customers keep coming month after month. I have sites I haven't actively advertised for over 4 years - yet targeted visitors arrive over and over again.

You really don't need to be (or hire) a professional with website promotion tricks, although if you are able, that's even better. But you do need to use article marketing well. While you will get SOME traffic, with a hit or miss approach, it won't be the best you can obtain for the time spent.

Some people may be afraid to even consider article marketing because they think they're not "literate" enough. This need NOT be an obstacle. Of course every article needs to be properly punctuated and free from spelling errors, because that will reflect on you and your business as "sloppy". But a basic spell-checker, in Word or even the one in your browser, will highlight the corrections you need.

If you still feel unable to create content for your articles, you can commission authors to write them for you at a surprisingly low cost and, if you pick a good author you can end up with excellent work. Tip - give authors a small project to work on first, as some are better than others. Just one of my initial mistakes!

Another alternative is to obtain low-cost PLR articles and rewrite them yourself. Please note that th rewriting step is very important; it is what puts your own personality and stamp to articles that other people may already have purchased.

So having removed fears about being unable to devise good content, you're well on the way to starting to use article marketing to get free visitors. It really can be that easy.

My first attempts were productive even with a small number of "raw" articles I'd written myself without considering any of the finer points. But for just a little extra effort, using a few more tips and tricks, I could have done so much better.

A few of the article marketing tips that can help you get better results are:

- How to decide what keywords to use?

- Are you trying to get prospects to sites that already have too much competition?

- Which article sites are the top ones to submit to?

- Should you submit your work to many sites or just a small number - is more always better?

- What is the best way to structure articles?

- How to select the best title for your article?

- How to overcome writer's block?

- What about Google's duplicate content penalty?

Formatting your articles for the benefit of the people who will download them

The REAL benefit of Article Marketing, that most people aren't even aware of.

Study some of these tricks and you'll be streets ahead of most article marketers who don't even know the questions to ask.

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