I have been using article marketing as one of the main form of promotion for my content and websites and I can honestly say that before I never got any traffic for it because I did it the wrong way! Although article marketing works, most people just will not understand how to make the best use of it.

For you to really maximize your profit and traffic from article marketing, you need an automatic article submission software. Period. There is no other way to benefit from article marketing than by leveraging its power. Automated software will submit your article to as many as 400 article directories, which will have a considerable effect on increasing your targeted traffic.

Here is what you need to do in order to REALLY benefit from article marketing:

1. Get a software called Article Post Robot. This software is by far the best one out there.

2. Use a very catchy article title and make sure your resource box provides the reader with many good reason to click through. No one cares who you are so do not mention it extensively in the Resource Box. Instead, mention how you can help the reader.

3. Use Article Post Robot to spin your original article around 50% and then submit it to various article directories.

4. Make sure that you also provide around 10 different resource boxes for your article submissions. A good idea would be to use different anchor texts in them all.

That being said, article marketing in some niches is just a waste of time. If you are not in a specialized niche, it might be useless to write articles. For example, the "make money online" niche has tons of articles but minimal clicks because everyone is saying the same thing and there is no "information" dissemination. Stay away from these niches.

It would be a good idea to be a little personable in your articles. No one likes an overly formal tone so do not use it.

Finally, a very good idea would be to visit a renowned article directory like www.goarticles.com and go through some articles which have received the most views. You will almost always recognize the fact that those articles have a very catchy title.

Try to follow the above mentioned information and you will be sure to reap considerable benefits from this method of gaining free traffic!