Article marketing blog posts can help you get a lot of very targeted traffic to your blog. When you use targeted keywords in your articles as well as your blog post you can greatly increase the number of visitors you get. When you add an autoresponder into the mix you're really cooking with gas!

First things first, what is a 'targeted keyword:? It simply means that the keyword that you are writing your blog around gets a high number of monthly searches but doesn't have too many competitors all competing for a high rank in Google for the same keyword.

For example, let's say you've got a blog where you promote dog training books. You find a great keyword: 'easy to use dog training tips'. The keyword has a lot of monthly searches, at least over 1,500 but not a lot of competition, less than 20,000. When you write your articles and blog posts you will write about easy to use dog training tips. You will not only make that the subject of your articles and blog posts but you will also include that phrase a few times in each. That will make you stand out for the search engines and it will allow your article to appear on the first page of results in Google as well as drive traffic directly to your website because you've got that keyword in your blog post. Make sense?

So when you combine article marketing blog posts and optimize your keywords you can get a lot of traffic for free.

In my personal opinion anyone who is new to internet marketing should stay away from pay per click forms of advertising. Why? Because it costs a lot of money and it has a steep learning curve. In short, what that means is that you will spend a lot of money while you are learning how to do it but you will have very limited results. I just don't think it's worth it. For anyone with a limited budget or who is just starting out I think it makes sense for you to concentrate on the free methods first.

For one thing they are generally easier to master and for another they do not cost money. So if you make mistakes while you are learning how to do it, it will not cost you anything. You may not get optimum results but you won't have wasted any money to not get optimal results.

One other thing, an autoresponder. This is a fully automated system where you can collect the email addresses of the people who visit your site. They can choose to opt in to your email list and by doing so they agree to allow you to contact them. So, no spam complaints against you. Using this will allow you to have a lot of contact with your site visitors which means you can continue to provide them with good information and build rapport with them over time.

So, to recap, use article marketing blog posts to set yourself up as an expert in your field, to build trust with your website visitors and to get a lot of traffic to your site. Add all this together and you'll have a winning combination to make a lot of money online.