This is a good question and the best way to answer this is to list some resources that discuss this in great detail....

How to write an article resource - this is a good central site that has some great articles and gives resources to how to write an article

Article marketing is a great way to get exposure to your website, but you must also follow some steps to keep it effective for you as an author. You must make sure you are writing articles that will get accepted to the different publications out there (article directories, newsletters, etc.).

The best way to answer this question is to point you to a page that gives you a good overview of how to write a high quality article that not only will get you traffic, but other people will also want to publish your article as well.

This follows the question about getting ideas for articles. Your article content is basically answering or elaborating on the research that you did for getting ideas for your articles. Your article content should solve a problem, answer a question, or provide a new way of looking at something.

This is part 2 of this question as several people have asked this question. Where does one get good ideas for content? There are a number of places that authors can get ideas for articles.

This is a multi-part answer to this question so I will answer it over several entries.

I'm going to break down the question into several sections that include
1) Article Structure
2) Ideas for Getting Articles
3) Article Content

This is a great question and is best answered by a number of different reference ebooks out there. Basically, to get ranked in google with your article, you will need to have the following characteristics.

1) Your article must contain the keyword phrases you want to get ranked for, preferably include these keyword phrases in the title

This is a good question.

Article marketing is a very powerful way to promote products and services and will ultimately allow you to have a long-term marketing machine in place. Article marketing becomes the most profitable when you have something to market that can generate income or sales for you.

If you do your research thoroughly, then it will be easy enough to create an article that is unique enough and different. Your research should include what questions people are asking, what problems they are currently experiencing and also what are some of the hot topics in the niche that you are writing about.

Using articles to increase your page rank is a bit tricky. It all depends upon where you submit your article to and also what kind of linking is allowed in your article. If the article directory or place where you have submitted your article to passes on link "juice", then you will have a better chance at increasing your page rank.