Damn near everyone claims that article marketing is some sort of miracle marketing method, but, only 1 out of 1,000 is actually successful. The scenario is that you want free traffic so you try to write an article about your general industry or about your niche, then you put a link in the bottom of your article and submit it. Sounds good on paper, but I think we are forgetting something. How will people find your article? Do you think that people go to article directories to do their searching? LOL Maybe a few do, but that does not mean that YOUR article will be seen by them. 1. If anyone is going to see your article, it needs to rank in the SEs, primarily Google. So, we are right back at square one; "how to rank in Google"? The only difference is that, in this case, you would be trying to rank the article directory's page, rather than a page on your own site. Does that really make sense to you? 2. If you can get the article to rank, that does not mean that anyone will actually click on your link down at the bottom. You are doing a lot of work and only helping the article directory site, not your own site. 3. If you know your niche well and if you can write, the best place for your article is your own site. Haven't you heard that content is king? So, why make the article directory the king? Still, article marketing *sounds* like such a great idea, that people promote it over and over and the vast majority of those people do NOT do it, imo. Marketing myths like these are dispelled everyday in my bootcamp which keeps my clients marketing efforts on the right track, rather than wasting their time. Bompa
thank you for the interesting reading and when you say Article marketing sucks well what if for example you went to squidoo and posted your article on there so lets say in the url it would be how-to-make-an-ebook then the title and subtitle and the article itself plus the link at the end contained those keywords how to make an ebook and then you also have back links coming through it so here you would have on page and off page factors going on would this not help out the article to reach close to the top of google considering you researched the competition?
Proper spinning is very important when using articles to build up back links. I've written a guide (in my sig) on just this. You'll want to avoid a dupe content penalty, as such spinning or only submitting one article to one directory is important. I don't approach Article Marketing expecting a huge flood of traffic. That's a bit optimistic. I rather do it for the links, and the odd click here and there. You multiply that by a few hundred articles, and you've got a small, but steady flow of traffic. (plus a ton o linkage)
Have you even used article marketing before? Some of those facts are completely not true, such as that people won't click on your link (false, I have gotten many hits from my links). Article marketing does work, maybe you're just not doing it right.
I'm going to have to disagree with this post. Done correctly, Article Marketing can be very effective. I know its easy to bash it so you can throw in a quick promo of your Boot Camp....but anyways. Article marketing works, just learn from someone who knows it and follow the proven strategies. If you write it, they will come.
I think , as with anything on the internet, article marketing will work but it has to be realy worked at. Problem with article marketing now is that it is saturated.
Bad articles are saturated yeah, but good content that's relevant to the subject is always gobbled up and ranked if done correctly.
Article marketing takes a lot of work, lots of marketers use it though. It depends entirely on you if you like writing or not.
LOL You are not wrong there nazo, you sure do have to like writing, if not I would suggest not even starting article marketing.
Very true redbyte. Thats what I implied, there are so many people trying to do article marketing (the wrong way) .
You are so right redbyte, I use forum marketing as my main tool and find the same laws apply, if I take my time and post a really informative post with some real usable info then the traffic that I get from that post far outways a quick pointless post. I know that all posts can't be packed with usefull data but what I am saying is the ones that are get the real traffic.
Article marketing works if you do it right. I write 2-3 unique articles daily and post them to top article websites. I do get traffic because that is what they are looking for. If you write good optimised articles for long tail keywords related to your site your article will get picked up by search engines. They will follow the link to read more or just to have a look especially if you are selling products. You also get themed backlink. So article marketing works if you do it right!
Joan75, Does article marketing actualy bring you in earnings? How long do you have to write 2-3 unique articles daily before you start to see a return?
so, what are you all saying? that, if i will have tens of articles, somewhere in my website and link to particular pages, it will not help at all? , at this case, both strategies has to be in place. putting articles in directory, not only increasing traffic , but gives you great backlink from trusted site. Article from your own website can boost in crawling by google , due to fresh and unique content on those article pages and link to your own internal pages.
I agree completely, I tried article marketing a few times, without much success. You need to literally blast out 1000s of quality articles with good keyword research and placement if you want to make them earn you money. It is just too timeconsuming. Just with everything else I guess one's success doesn't guarantees success for others.
Article marketing is getting more and more dated, there are certinaly better ways to earn money online now.
Go into wordtracker and look into your niche. Pick keywords and put 'allintitle:"keyword"' look at competition levels and if it has less than 100 go for it. You need to post your articles for a keyword with lots of searches and little competition. You could also make a blog post about it.