As the Internet get bigger and bigger as time goes on so does article marketing. If you can produce keyword rich articles that are written by you then the search engines will reward you by giving you a high ranking on the search engines. Also you can submit them to the article directories to gain more back links. Here is five easy steps you can take to improve your article marketing and to help you get better rankings. 1. Whatever niche you are going to write about you need to a keyword list, make it long the longer the better. Having a quality set of keywords is to your advantage in today’s marketing strategies. 2. Look for a keyword tool that you can bookmark and go to when you need to. The two that comes to mind with me are Google Keyword Tool which gives you a comprehensive list of keywords according to the main term of your topic. Also try Word tracker it will be free for a certain time period then after that you will have to buy a subscription. 3. Go on the internet and start looking for great titles! Go and have a look at your favorite article web page and start looking at the article titles on that page this will give you ideas on some good article titles that you can re-write. Create a file of potential article titles that are going to grab the interest of the reader. The title is a very important part of article writing if you don’t have good title no one is going to click on it. Make your title sound interesting grabbing the attention of the reader. 4. Having a good first paragraph is important too. You only have a small window of opportunity to grab the readers attention and get them to stay on your site and read the rest of your article. 5. Writing articles is a gift that writers have, you can adopt this with practice and write the best articles you can, and over time your writing is going to get better and better. Keep at it and try and improve your writing with each article make them helpful to the reader and try to keep it interesting thought your copyright. 6. Last and probably the most important, submitting your article to the best article directories around, don’t try and submit your articles to the many article directories that are available. You need to look at the page rank of every article directory that you look at. Page rank is important when your submitting your articles. For instance you might submit to twenty high ranked article directories apposed to 100 directories that are not ranked and will never be seen by anyone. So try and get the best ranked sites that you can to submit your articles too. Copyright 2009 Charles Goldie Charlie is a professional writer who does article writing as a hobby. He lives in Vallejo CA, with his wife and son. Charlie has been working in the maintenance field all his life but just recently attended college to get a degree in medical billing which he has taken an interest in. He also likes to be invovled with his home based buisness in his spare time. You can visit charlies blog at :Home Business Ideas And Opportunities Blog