Courtney Tuttle recommends Article Marketer and while I don't buy everything I see or believe everything I read I do trust her opinion a great deal. I know the issue has been discussed but is anyone presently using this now and if so does it work for you? Your response is appreciated.
Of course she recommends it, she is probably getting a huge commission to promote it. I've heard AM sucks, for myself Ezine + iSnare gets me plenty of results, without paying $100/month or whatever ridiculous fee they charge you.
Article market is the best way of getting quality back links and SERP's ranking. But make sure you will embed anchor text on your Article content.
I have experienced on AM, UAW, AMA and isnare AM is not bad. But I think you can focus on the backlinks instead of real traffic when you are using it. If you need traffic from the directories, stick to ezine, articlesbase, goarticles and buzzle
I tried Article Marketer once and saw no traffic from it at all. ezine, in my limited experience, is much better.
There are a lot of free article site without costing you much money you can even hire your submitters and writers if you have no time it's much cheaper.
They are charging $99.00 per quarter recurring, which I hate in addition to not wanting to pay for it unless it is awesome and I have read opinions and it is 50%/50%. You mention articlebase which has the nofollow attributes. I am only looking for backlinks so I assume articlebase is a non starter. I am putting articles on ezine, goarticles and just signed up at buzzle.
I don't like it, they are astonishingly fussy they take a week to review your article, tell you there is something wrong, you fix it, wait a week, they tell you something else is wrong, wait a week, then you get little interest
Associated Content is another site to submit content to, and you can get paid for each article you submit
I only use their free service - it still gets you a good few backlinks. If you can afford it, it probably can't hurt. if I'm not mistaken Even Chia is behind it? Bigtime internet marketer, so you will probably be upsold on a gazillion products afterwards, but he will also attract some good sites and your articles may well get published on sites with good PR's