I wrote my first ezine article in December 2001. I titled it The Power of Online Friendship. It was five paragraphs long and contained 3 typos. I used it to promote The Free Promotion Tips Ezine, an ezine of mine that has long since faded into the Great Void of Cyberspace. I still think its one of my most moving articles.

I danced around the house, riverdance-style, for about 10 minutes when I read the email from Chuck Bowden, the editor of Your Ad Space Ezine, who promised to utilize my article. That was quite possibly one of the happiest days of my adult life.

Im aware that most of you have more thrilling lives than me and, therefore, would not find getting an article published online to be a crowning acheivement in your life. I, however, live a life of loneliness and solitude and would thank you not to rub your lives in my face.

Ive written many more ezine articles since then and have had most of them used by various ezines and websites. Sometimes when Im tired of sorting out spam or signing up for free promotional programs just to get 50 costless visitors to my page , I like to type my name, followed by the word articles into Yahoo or Google. I take a few moments to go throught the results and see where some of my articles have been used.

Sometimes I find that my articles are being used in some very interesting places. For instance a few of my articles have turned up on religious websites, even though I have never written an article with a religious theme. I guess the Good Lord really does work in mysterious ways.

I find that a lot of my articles get published on Work At Home Mom web sites . I find this interesting (1) because as a male I cannot, technically, be a mom and (2) as a poor, blue collar, working class stiff I do not, technically, work at home. But my communication still carries weight with all those housewives. They must be despaerate...

My overall point is: Writing ezine articles is a dazzling way to get your title , internet page , merchandise , etc. plastered all over the World Wide Web. No matter how well you promote and sell there are just some dark corners of Cyberspace that you will not reach. You articles, however, over instant, might find their way to these nooks and crannies and illuminate them with your words.

So my advice to many people ? Keep writing ezine articles! Not only do you get the satisfaction of writing them but you also get the joy of seeing your title (and you words) all over the Net. And then itll be your turn to riverdance...