I'm going to be doing another article marketing test (I've done two before) which compares my four favorite article marketing submission services (Unique Article Wizard, Article Marketing Automation, Article Marketer, & ISnare) and I'll be updating this thread with the results as they come in. Like my previous tests I'll be submitting just one article with each service and I'll *only* be building links for these particular landing pages with that specific article submission (this is to make sure that my results are not confused by other link building activities.) Below are my link building results from my last test (the external links calculation is found by using http://www.backlinkwatch.com/index.php) Service - External Links Article Marketer - 10 Article Marketing Automation - 12 Unique Article Wizard - 34 ISnare - 40 AMA + IS + UAW (Combo) - 57 --- Article Marketing Automation won my first test. I'm not sure why it did so much worse with my second test, which is part of the reason I'm doing a 3rd! --- I've just finished my best month ever as an affiliate marketer ($15,000+ in September) and I rely almost entirely upon article marketing for my link building (and rely almost entirely on natural traffic) so I know these techniques can work. I only do these tests to try to get a better understanding of exactly what's working and how well (it can be difficult to tell that when you're building links in many ways at the same time.) --- BTW, for those of you interested in PageRank (I pretty much ignore it myself) two of my landers have a PR 1. One of them is the one I sent three articles to (not a surprise) and the other was the ISnare lander (so it won both in backlinks and PR... too bad they take forever to approve articles!)
Hey Zibbu, I appreciate these types of case studies as I find them really informative and valuable. I was about to give up on Article Marketing because my results with EzineArticles were just as poor as yours. Article Marketing should be used to obtain quality backlinks, but Ezine Articles just wind up on spam sites and don't really generate any inbound links. I think I'll try Article Marketing Automation. I would appreciate you sharing any additional tips as far as Article keyword selection or any tricks you've learned that could help a newbie like me. Thanks!
I had a doubt about unique article wizard. as you have experience with it, I thought you may have an answer. can we just make copies of an article using it and not submit them?
1. I still use EZineArticles.com - but not as a way of building links, it's not effective for that. I use it more as a way of creating "landing pages" (which then link to my ultimate landing pages on my own domains) because EZA articles can rank well in the search engines. 2. Keywords - I don't even consider keywords in my articles. I think "keyword stuffing" is an entirely outdated concept. I don't even really worry about the keywords in my article titles because these (usually) have little chance of showing up in the search results (although it does happen sometimes... usually not very high up) ... I use these article submission services almost entirely for the links back, not direct traffic. 3. Anchor Text - Now here is where I consider keywords. The links back to my pages. I try to make sure my anchor text is varied. I "spin" my anchor text whenever possible and when it's not possible I do try to submit another articles somewhere else with different anchor texts going back to my landers. I was considering it... I did use it a long time ago and I don't remember being impressed with it. But I was thinking perhaps it has improved. On the other hand, I found a thread here about it and it didn't look like a lot of people were having much luck with it. I'm looking for suggestions for the 5th Beatle... I mean 5th article submission service. I'm not really understanding what you're asking... Why would you want to make copies of an article and not submit them? It's the submitting them that builds you the links! BTW, check out this post where you can really see the results for yourself. I highly recommend the method I describe there for making sure these article submission services are working (although this method will not work with AMA since you use no author name with AMA, it does work with the other services.)
I know that submitting brings links, but what if I want to use it for unique content generation only?
WOW $15,000 dollars in September, that is very impressive. i have not looked into Article Marketing Automation but will have a look now.
I suppose it could be used for this... One thing you can do is be a publisher so that you can fill your own site with other people's spun material (which will be unique to your site) of course that will mean lots of links to other people's sites. You could just spin your own material using the system so you wouldn't have all of those links out. But I'm pretty sure there are other ways to do that. I wouldn't recommend the UAW system just for that. I recommend it for those who want to build links. Yes, it was my best month ever and the money was made almost entirely through organic traffic created via article marketing. I'm unlikely to match that total this month because last month the stars aligned for me on a few different things which made that possible. But I think I can beat it in the future. With time I think I can be having months like that routinely. --- Today I'm making my landing pages so I can start my 3rd article test. Unless I can find a 5th competitor soon, I think I'll just stick with the four I'm using now. I haven't come across anything else that I want to experiment with. I'd be happy to hear recommendations.
My biggest issue against article marketing is that most of the people who use your article remove your link, make it nofollow, or make it only text (not a link even though it shows your link). No follow at least has some value, someone may click on the link, however it hardly seems worth the effort anymore.
adacprogramming, I haven't found that to be the case with these article submission services. I get plenty of followed links back to my sites.
I used to use isnare a lot (submit and forget, it's gonna take a while). When I searched later for the article title in quotes, I would find my article used hundreds of times and only get 5-10 links, most of them would drop off after a month or so. Kind of got discouraging
Thanks for sharing your experience. It's important that we test and test. Now based on your results, we can all skip the hard part and start with something that works.
I've decided to add ArticleRanks to my arsenal of article submission tools and will be including it in article test #3 which should really blast off sometime later this week (I still have to create five unique landing pages for testing purposes...) This time I plan on doing at least 3 articles each instead of just 1 like I did before. I think this should be a good test because it's more similar to how I usually use article submission services.
A good 5th one would be spin2submit. It looks great but i haven't tested it. It'd definately be worth your time to check it out.
I'll check it out. Although now that I've joined ArticleRanks, it would actually be the 6th! My article test #3 is now turning into a double test. I've put up two sets of landing pages in two different niches so that I can test everything twice with the niche variable changed. If I do decide to use this one as part of the test then I'll need to put up two more landing pages.
This is a good case study example bcos there is a lot of people asking that question even here at dp with stacks of repeated threads whether article marketing was still effective in being a substantial help with affiliate marketing, given there is a lot more competition from other IMers these days doing the same thing. Personally i still think article marketing is a must use tool for IMers along with most other common IM /seo methods with the success determined by the niche, skill and knowledge of article marketer, article quality, demand for the niche and competition.
1.There are other and faster ways to rank well in the SEs, like using blogs to rank your article fast and high. Contact me for a trial in the "internet marketing, traffic generation through SEs, blog marketing" or something close to related niche and I'll show you. 2. You are right concerning keyword stuffing, but you are wrong with your comment about titles. Write the title as the exact search frase and you will be surprised with my system. I'll show you Condition: a unique article 350 - 500 words theme related to the themes mentioned above.
Article tests #3 and #4 are moving along nicely. All landing pages are up and most of the articles have been sent out. I'm testing two different niches on a total of 10 different landing pages with 5 different article distribution services. I should have some preliminary results sometime next week. (BTW: Article Marketer is now "Content Crooner" - this change just happened out of nowhere... not sure what that's all about.)