Writing articles to promote your web site is one of the best free ways there is to generate traffic. That is, if the readers click your link at the end.

I can tell you from first hand experience that writing articles works. Not only to get the visitors to your site, but they also convert at least twice as good as any other traffic.

If you are considering writing articles to promote your web site, you should absolutely do so. And it's not as hard as you might think.

There are many article sites that you can submit to. Literally thousands of them. So how many should you be submitting to? I have heard everything from one to all of them. My experience suggests that only one is required, and that is EzineArticles.com.

With a little experience and an effective bio box, you can get at least 20 visitors to your site for every article you write. Of course, some niches (such as this one), are so saturated that article marketing becomes difficult. Find products in slower niches for the most success.

If you compare article marketing with Google AdWords, it's a no brainer. Let's say you can place an article in the golf niche and get on average 20 visitors for each one. If you were paying 25 cents a click, that's $5 you just saved on advertising. And you got higher converting traffic to boot.

I have put up several well timed articles in the golf niche that have received over 200 reads and over 100 clicks over one weekend. That's the equivalent of $25 in adverting cost saved. Or you could consider payment for writing the article.