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If you need to find customers in a recession you will probably be searching 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 in need of completely free advertising.

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

It's free, the leads are targeted and they are looking for whatever product or services you are offering, and what's even better, unlike an out-of-reach month-long advert in the national press, new customers keep coming month on month. I have sites I haven't actively advertised for more than 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 great. But you do need to use article marketing correctly. Although you will get SOME traffic, with a hit or miss approach, it won't be the best you can reach for the time spent.

Some business owners may be afraid to even look at article marketing because they feel they're not "literate" enough. This should NOT be a barrier. Needless to say every article needs to be correctly punctuated and free from spelling mistakes, because that will reflect on you and your business as "sloppy". But a good spell-checker, in Word or even the one in your browser, will highlight the amendments you need.

If you still feel unable to compose content for your articles, you can find 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 stage is vital; it is what puts your own personality and stamp to articles that other people may already have purchased.

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

My original attempts were effective 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 time spent, considering a few more tips and tricks, I could have achieved so much more.

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

- How to settle on what keywords to use?

- Are you trying to get visitors to sites that already have too many competitors?

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

- Should you present your work to many sites or just a few - is more always better?

- What is the best way to compose articles?

- How to choose the best title for your article?

- How to defeat writer's block?

- What about Google's duplicate content penalty?

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

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

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