Articles: What do they have to do with blogging?

In a word - gobs!  Articles and blogs go hand in hand.  You can drive traffic to your blog through your articles.  You can repurpose articles into several blog posts.  You can take several similar topic blog posts and craft an article from them.

My friend, Jeff Herring, over at The Great Article Marketing Blog has a great blurb on submitting articles to article directories and is it a waste of time in his post titled Article Marketing Tip of the Week.  (Hint - it is not.)

Go check it out for some excellent, realistic advice on articles, directories, and blogs.