I have read a few people post around and say that they are not getting much from their article marketing efforts...I submit, but get little in return...I myself have submitted about 50 articles in the last month, at this point, i do not even see much as a backlink... just like anything, I personally think articles are over saturated, everyone and their children are submitting articles, and few people read them, but the end result still seems to be the same...very little in return... and it seems the big article directories are making the profits off our work...and thats about as far as it goes. they line their pockets with easy adsense cash, while we keep producing content to feed them... What do you guys think?
Yes I have the same feelings that article marketing is becoming usefull, to many ar just spinning articles and submitting them just for a link....not that they want to share something.
Original content and high quality will convert well. The return is depending on the competition of the niche or topic you are writing about. Try again with a little more research on keyword and adsense! GL
This is a very good question... Lets start here first... What are you trying to accomplish out of "Article Marketing?"
Article Marketing is still effective. As others have said, you need to focus on quality and content. A well written article targeting effective keywords (use KEI or similar) posted on 5-10 authoritative article sites like Ezinne, Buzzle etc will have a bigger effect then a crappy spun article automatically submitted to 50 spammy article sites.
Lots of competition and lots of room for success. You need to do the right keyword research and target the long-tail keywords to maximize your return. If you build links to your articles you can easily rank high in google for them, sometimes you can get on the first page of google within a few days for keywords. Aritlce marketing will be around for a while!
Hi dscurlock, Article marketing is not saturated, and will never be due to fact, that 1) New keywords are created all year long and old keywors are thrown out of the SERPS. 2) Corretcly done KWR, combined with unique content - will always attract attention from SERPS. 3) Ranking articles and keywords are a question of creating high quality backlinks. regards, LASSE
I don't mainly use article marketing for link building (however it works when done right)... I mainly use it for traffic.
depending on how you seo your article's page, you can actually rank quite well for competitive keywords for the articles you post
You are absolute true. Now a days i am also getting same kind of feeling. But as one of the measure we have to continue, keeping in mind that it may give you in return many backlinks, but some here and there.