One of the most popular and least expensive ways of promoting a website is by writing articles. This helps establish the author as an expert in their field as well as generating valuable links back to the authors website.

Often people ask what they should write articles about. One place to start is by writing articles about what you are good at. If you work in the Information Technology world then write articles relating to your field of expertise. The reason for this is the main objectives of writing articles is to establish the author as an expert who can be trusted.

One way to get your message across is to write you article in the form of a story that puts across the main principals that you want to make. Once you have completed your article make sure to run it through a spell checker and a grammar checker.

If you are not sure about the format to use for an article start out by reading articles of other authors to see how they have written their articles.

In general Articles have a Title followed by a summary and then the body of the Article. The Article is concluded by a Resource Box which contains information about the Author.

For a list of Websites where you can post your articles have a look at http://www.beansoftware.com/Article-Sites-Master-List.aspx