The following is a guest post from Ben Pei at Peiprofit.com, where he teaches how to make money blogging. I waited for Ben to finish active duty to hopefully respond to comments directly .

To all bloggers out there, now is the time to start getting those creative writing skills back.

With modern advanced technology in communication comes the popularity of info-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular.

There are already many platforms and services that people can use to make the process of distributing their articles more easily. Though this is invaluable in getting the contents more exposure, which is only half of the story.

Are you making one of these common mistakes that most people do before submitting their contents to article directories?

Everyone who has a website knows, or should know, that to have sales, sign-ups or whatever; you must have traffic, but not just any traffic it has to be TARGETED TRAFFIC.

What is Targeted traffic? Simply put, it is visitors to your website that are actually interested in what your website is about.

For example, people interested in buying jewelry will find jewellery websites interesting.

I know I know, you’re thinking “duh, no kidding!” well, you’d be surprised to find out how many don’t follow the simplest of logic. How do I GET the targeted traffic? Ah yes, the 64 thousand dollar question indeed! The following are just a few of many tried and tested methods. Certainly enough to get you started…

Forums: Subscribe to forums that discuss your topic. Answer questions and join in the debates there. Become an expert in the field. Then with each article reply you write have a discreet link to your website in the signature file.