You've created a blog, and you've posted to it. But where's your traffic? Getting traffic to your blog is easy: you must promote your blog, and you must promote consistently. One of the easiest and best blog promotional methods is article marketing.

If article marketing is new to you, it's simply a promotional method where you write articles (with links to your blog) and put them in article directories. This is beneficial in two ways. First, when people read your articles and click your links, they go to go your blog. Second, you get backlinks from each article you posted. These backlinks are important for search engine optimization (SEO).

Let's look at three tips which will help you with your article marketing.

1. Consistency is important. Create a schedule for writing and posting your articles. Marketing is an ongoing process; you have to be persistent. While it's true that one article can bring visitors to your blog, you'll have greater success with more articles. The more articles you have posted, the more visitors will come to your blog.

Don't expect immediate results. Paid advertising is the only way to get immediate results. But of course, that can be expensive. Also, the traffic from paid results stops as soon as you stop paying for the advertising. Article marketing however, brings traffic day in, day out, as long as your article is online.

2. Search out high traffic keywords to place in your articles by using a keyword tool. This will help your visitors find your blog through the search engines. Keywords are the words people search in the search engines, so it's important to use them in your articles.

3. Results from article marketing will grow over time. You might get traffic quickly with some articles, and with others it will be much slower. But don't get discouraged with slow results, you're in this for the long run. Your blog traffic will grow as time goes on, as the number of articles you post grows.

Article marketing is like the proverbial snowball, growing larger and larger as it rolls down the hill. Writing and posting more and more articles will allow your web presence to grow, just like a snowball.

There you have it. Three great tips to bring visitors to your blog through article marketing. Make sure you keep all three in mind as you are blogging, and watch your blog traffic grow.