I absolutely love my article marketing. I guess I just love telling people what to do so I enjoy writing. I also like it because it gets me a lot of traffic, high search engine rankings, and it’s free.

There is one thing about article marketing that many people don’t like: the sheer volume of articles it takes to get the amount of traffic you need.

It’s true on average you’ll need between 30-50 keyword optimized articles to get a nice steady flow of traffic. The cool thing is that once you have the articles out there they can generate traffic for you for months or years to come. So you write the articles once and they’ll work for you for a long time. Not a bad ROI.

When you’re starting a new niche site you can actually start with around 10 articles just to get an idea of whether you have a winner or not. If you’re getting great sales from those 10 articles add more until you reach the 30-50 article range.

If the idea of writing 30-50 (or even 10 for that matter) articles makes you want to vomit there is a solution: hire a professional to write your articles for you.

But be careful who your trust with such an important task. This isn’t the time to cheap out. A good, native English speaking writer will probably charge between $8-$10 per article.

If you think that sounds like a lot just figure out how much time you’ll save by not having to do it yourself times the number of sales you’ll get from those visitors. You’ll see that it’s actually a very small price to pay to build traffic and a professional online reputation.

So go forth and write…or hire someone. It doesn’t matter which way you go as long as you get a lot of articles out there working for you 24/7.