Okay, So I keep hearing this article marketing thing.... I want a REAL answer --- from someone who knows what they are talking about --- Is it a load of crap? I can't imagine posting the same article with a few words changed is a whitehat, and acceptible technique. I actually get the idea that it is kind of a sad excuse for building excellent content and links to said content.... and thus might be reflected in your SERPs..... Thoughts? Anyone with over 500 responses? No spammers, I will not try any of your sites. Sam
I do personally do article marketing as a main way to get traffic and backlinks. They seem to convert well for me. I have not made a fortune from them but enough for me to believe it works. Originally I was just submitting to Ezine articles but now I have brought a article submitter ill be sending my articles to other directories as well. I wouldnt suggest just changing a few words, id change at least 30%. I tend to read my original article (that ill put on my blog) and completely rewrite it and use this new copy as an article to submit to directories.
heh, yeah, most here are idiots. Even the ones with over 500 posts. Just because they have a lot of posts doesn't mean they know anything. Article marketers who know what they are doing pick high-commission products. Say, a commish of $20. They then submit 5, 10, 20 crap, very short articles a day to the most popular article dumpers. Ezine, for example. They make a sale or two a day from the number of visitors that read them. For example, if they write, say, 15 articles and submit them to 3 article dumpers, they will get around 1,000 readers. Of that many, maybe, 10 will go to the site. Of that many, maybe 1 will buy. The more articles they submit, the more money they make. Some actually do make up to $100 a day. That is article marketing,and it does work. The catch is that in order to keep the money flowing, one has to be tied to the computer, every...single...day writing out all of these articles.
Or outsource work to cheap writers and use article spinners to spin original, respun and respun-spun articles like some seem to be doing. (Un)Intentional self denigration. Good advice is good advice whether it's from a low post count user or a postmonster. Learn to identify good advice and you can forget about post count.
That would be the hard way to do it. Or you could focus on keywords with good traffic and low competition and optimize the articles for the search engines so they rank high on the first page and you get very targeted traffic. Either way it's a lot of work but you will be writing far less articles if you focus on good keywords. I myself would rather have 20 articles that all rank really well on Google for keywords that get 100+ searches a day than 200 articles that may get searched 5 times a day if even that. Or worse, rely on the surge of traffic you get when you first submit an article because after that it's dead. As they say, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
I'm not sure what or where you heard about article marketing, but I can tell you that it works for me. But I don't change a few words and post from one directory to another. I either post the same good article to multiple locations, or I write something unique. It depends on which site and the reason I'm posting it there. For long term results, IMHO, nothing can ever top good quality, unique content, no matter where you post it or what kind of content (video, audio, written, or whatever.)
I've been focusing on article marketing mainly for the past while. I've seen enough results to see that it does work and works quite well.
I have been doing article marketing for several years now. It really did not have much effect until I used Article Marketers and Isnare. They both let you submit articles free but what really got my pr up was using there distribution service. When doing this each time yo you submit an article it sends it to thousands of article directories. There are others but I have not used them I discovered Isnare after Article Marketers and it did the same thing for my pr at a much lower price.
I tried using iSnare's free service and they still haven't approved 3 articles I submitted over 2 weeks ago. Anyone else have this problem with them?
Article marketing may or may not work for everyone. Personally, I only convert a little in article marketing but does not stop me from doing article marketing. I still think that is one way of getting good revenue in the future.
article marketing does work.. but with website like wiki.. ehow... any conceivable topics have been covered.. it is very difficult to find anything original to write about.. that is why you see the quality of most of articles written so low... simply the same old craps...
I don't have a problem with changing up an original article, especially if it is one that YOU wrote, and submitting it more than once. Why should you be limited to one single, solitary link for a great piece of writing? That said, I've never used an "article spinner" but know how they work....these I'm not so comfortable with. Though, I'm sure that some people have lots of success using them.
if you submit 5 articles a day to the top article directories, you will be gaining thousands of visitors in a matter of days.
its a long term strategies. Remember that good articles will bring in traffic for year to come. If you set up a goal and strategy for article marketing, you will find great results. eg. 3 articles/week = 150+ articles a year . If each article bring generate 20 visitors, you are looking 3000+ visitor a year...if you can continue with the same strategy, imagine the number in 3-4 years. Remember this is just based on 20 visitor/article. Good articles can generate well over 1000 visitors a year.
I've heard arguement from people on both sites of this issue, both with strong feelings. I've been keeping doing the submission things for a while even though a lot of people talk about many sites are actually offering nofollow links and will do no good to your backlink building service. I believe it will at least attract some traffic. And it feels good when I feel that I'm trying to share some informative things with others. And so far, I've got retweet or redigg or something else like that, which means some people out of there like what I wrote and love to recommend the information to others. It is a quite happy experience, man. So, I think if you are confident with your content, and you are not only working to increase backlinks and improve PR in short-term and make money, you'll find submitting to social bookmarking and social networking sites quite helpful.
Since you want your article to be seen by visitors to your site. By applying spinning, you raising the chance to be seen your article in search engines. I would definitely say it is acceptable technique if it is done by preventing lack of sense content.
I've done article marketing quite successfully and I don't have to stay at the computer all day. 3 a day does more than enough, but it is work. Spun articles won't do any good though.