I am under the impression that article writing is a cost effective way to create traffic to your money sites.
The idea is you would write passionately about the subject on your website using certain keywords you have come up with. After writing your article, you would get it published in as many of the article sites as possible, in fact you would create as many articles as possible using different keywords.
This is something that sounds simple and like something that would work, it is definetly something I am going to try once I get a website up and running. This will be something I pursue further, until then if everyone would please give some info on the subject. Does this really work? How quickly would you expect to see results? I will do some more homework on the subject and get back with an indepth article on my finding soon.