Bompa you are not far from been right, even if you article is on top of the serp that does not guarantee clicks to your link at the bottom of the article. And this article tend to be more beneficial to the article directories themselve because we give them more links to actually become our own enemy. On the other side, a site needs lots of link to get to the first page of the search engine, we don't have option if we really want to diversify our linking building. I still think its important to create a blog and intergrate it to our site, each content we add will be building our own site. Thou we still need these article directories for traffic as well as link.
Good point... What have I learned from my experience with internet marketing that there is enough evidence to prove and disprove just about anything with "facts". Article writing and marketing can be time consuming and it is becoming harder to be a legitimate writer on most article directly sites. It seems that spam prevails
Article marketing works for some people. I've submitted articles in several article directories and those articles ended up in other people's blogs with my website link included in them. There's backlinking for you. I've also clicked on links from articles I've read in article directories. Usually when you do a search in Google, there's a few relevant results which turn up that are from article directories - that's how people get to those sites.
article marketing without spinning is a waste of time. Imagine you are a search engine. Someone searches your engine for 'credit cards'. Do you a) show a page of links to the exact same article, just hosted on different domains? b) show a variety of destinations that might actually be of some use to the searcher? not exactly rocket science, is it? Dupe copies of anything aren't going to rank *unless the engines really have nothing else suitable to offer up*.
For sure if you write unique quality content and submit/post it on the right site. You can achieve this with articles on good blogs too, without the hassle of article submission and an in text, KW rich anchor link.
The majority of article marketeers are utterly transparent in their spin motives, and in a losing battle with more reputable online content. Personally I don't use information from the article databases that are touted on here: if it is not from a university press, a broadsheet or an experienced source, I don't trust it. If the English is poorly edited I don't respect it. The cleverest marketing techniques cannot make up for a lack of consistently high-quality writing.
You make some valid points. I use article marketing as a way to get high PR links from other sites and boost my SE ranking. I DO often use software to bookmark my articles (takes a minute or so) and it does help. Articles aren't going to generate a LOT of traffic unless they are on busy site and on a popular topic... generally speaking.
Hai Bompa I do agree with you. If we can write good article marketing, then our own blog would be the best ownership. There are many ways on how to use article marketing for generating traffic. Further submitting our article to article directories would caused our article become smaller in the crowd.
Yeah I also agree with you if its not so effective than no one will spend lots of money for article witting and submitting it. As far as I know article submission help you in long term to keep your kw's stable ranking. And if you article is good enough with satisfactory information in it than it will definitely help you in getting traffic to your site.
well, it is not necessary that people can find your article through search engines only, you can do syndication, there are a lot of news sites, where you can post your article title and description and a link to your article. when you do that in a number of sites, you will definitely get responses, and your article content, of course need to be really good and interesting. secondly, posting the article on one's own site, well, if your site doesn't attract enough traffic and not popular . There is no point in posting your article at your site where hardly a few people read. The article sites are platforms which drive frequent large amount of traffic, you will get more exposure, and people will definitely click on your site links to know more about you, if you can really influence them through your writing skills.
very interesting topic and make sense... i try article marketing too, but no results, but i don't know i'm wrong or false.. but it will be open your mind..
I've written over 1600 articles and they are a major source of traffic for me. They are also why I rank #1 for certain keywords that I target at Google. However, I don't consider article writing the best use of my time any more, so I now outsource it. The key is getting your keyword optimized articles in the right places. I've gotten the best results from EzineArticles and IdeaMarketers. However, I submit my articles to over 400 places using a desktop software application.
I think a lot of people are doing article marketing completely wrong. The best articles are those that your write for your audience and that gets in front of them. Writing a ton of articles and submitting them to directories that get no traffic is just a waste of time. If you're going to write an article, it should be quality and syndicated on a site that can get you traffic immediately. The SE's will pick those up faster and give them more weight anyway.
People pick up on crap writing quickly and even if you had a crappy article at the top of the SERPS, it wouldn't last. I am all for automation, in fact it's my middle name. Well, no, it isn't. Anyway, when you use tools like spinners, and you want the articles to stick, be read, and reposted, they can't be crap, so read through the spins, for god's sake!
Assuming the content is good, most people don't see good results from article marketing because the keywords they are targeting are highly competitive and exremeley hard to get ranked high for in Google or Yahoo. I only write an article for keywords that have a low search volume such as 100-700 searches a month. Ranking high for these keywords is so much easier and even if you only get 30 clicks a month from one article it should be considered a good article in my opinion.
Of course it works, And my friend chris farell, proved this just recently, he wrote an article and submitted this to ezinearticles: the title was "Keyword Research and Quotation Marks" thats all he did, was to submit it to ezinearticles and sat back, within 7 days, he was no.1 on google, and that keyword is getting huge hits per month - so bottom line, ezinearticles.com is ranked very high with Google, mainly because it has very regualr updated content, which G loves. Article marketing does work, but only as one part of your traffic weapon method. Goarticles is also very high ranking.