A recent discussion on the blog at EzineArticles concerned whether you could write an article of quality in under 500 words.

One of the ideas being tossed around was that it takes more 500 words to deliver a great quality article.

There are a couple of points with which I agree, though overall I disagree.

Points of agreement

=> Many writers are not able to write a useful, helpful and great article in 300 - 500 words. It is too difficult.

You can write short articles and submit them to as many directories as you like. This will help to get your name known on the internet while you are promoting yourself and your products. If you are not sure about writing articles, realize that it will become much easier after you write your first ten and submit them to the article directories. Here are 7 tips on how to get started writing articles to market and promote yourself online.

• Make a list of what you would like to share in your first article. This can be tips, techniques, mistakes to avoid, or anything else your readers would be interested in.

In spite of what you may have heard there is no secret formula to the concept of article writing, other than it requires a lot of work, because the results of any article marketing strategy is dependent on massive article writing action.

So then, a better question would be - what is the secret to getting the work and massive action done then?

First, start with a few basic ideas to remember:

There are two primary strategies involved with article marketing and article submission.

The first is that of submitting to a small number of high-traffic article directories and focusing on the direct traffic that comes from the article directories when people read your articles and click through to your web site.

The second strategy is that of submitting your articles to as many article directories as possible for the long-term purpose of increasing pagerank and search engine rankings, which will lead to long term traffic from the search engines.

The number one challenge for a lot of internet marketers, or any kind of private practice professional or any kind of professional, is knowing what our customer wants to know. Because we do not ask, we create things we think our clients want and then try to sell it to them.

So knowing your market well is very important to your success. Now I want you to step back a minute, take a deep breath, and just think about your area of expertise. Just consider your area of expertise, what you’re an expert in.

I certainly wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for all of the wonderful article directories that have published my articles.

By publishing my articles, these article directories have allowed me to syndicate my articles on hundreds, possibly thousands of websites throughout the internet.

These directories have also allowed me to brand myself as an expert, build valuable backlinks to my websites, and share my knowledge with my potential customers and readers.

The problem these days seems to be those product owners who are more interested in creating phony trends than they are real products.

Almost all articles about marketing your blog tells us that we should publish our articles to the article directories. For those uninformed, article directories are the places where one can submit his article for sharing for free. Articles usually have certain title, category, summary, keywords, resource part and body. It is obvious what those parameters are for, but I will elaborate it anyway in another article.