You just created your first blog, and you've put up a few posts. But you quickly realize that visitors don't just come to your site just because you started blogging. You have to generate your own blog traffic. Consistent promotion is the key ingredient. One of the most effective ways of bringing traffic to your website is article marketing.

If you've never heard of "article marketing" this is just a form of promotion in which you write articles, and post them to article directories. Not only do you get traffic to your blog when people read your articles, you also acquire backlinks. Links to your blog are essential, because they help with your 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. Use a keyword tool to find high traffic keywords to include in your articles. Your blog's visitors will find you via the search engines, so it's important to include keywords in your articles. Keywords are those words which people type into a search engine query box to find you.

3. Article marketing builds upon itself. Your blog traffic will grow with time. Article marketing results will vary. Sometimes you'll get traffic quickly, sometimes you won't. But, as time goes by, your traffic will steadily increase, based on the number of articles you write.

Like a snowball that grows and grows as it rolls down a hill, your blog traffic will increase as you write and post more and more articles. The more articles you have posted in the directories, the greater your online presence will be, and the bigger your traffic "snowball" will get.

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.