Yes, Article marketing really works.

Article marketing has several purposes. It's used to drive traffic to a blog/website where an affiliate product is sold or your own product/services are offered. It's used to get people to clickthrough to a squeeze page for a free report. It increases backlinks and it can boost your ranking in the search engines.

I'm no guru when it comes to article marketing, so there is hope for all of us. I managed within 2 days and only two articles to get my nearly brand new website to rank on the first page of Google using the phrase unleash the power of publicity - no quotes and power of publicity no quotes.

The article had Unleash the Power of Publicity in the title, once in the first paragraph and once at the end. My bio had power of publicity as the text link back to my site. It doesn't hurt that my last name is Power. Or that power of publicity is in the url.

The articles were first published on the new website. I onlywired them. The articles were then submitted to ezine articles and distributed through articlemarketer.

I will also be setting up several squidoo lenses and a couple of hub pages. For those of you not familiar with hubpages, the content has to be unique and not appear anywhere else, even on your own site.

So there you have it. Article marketing does work.

Dee