Over the last several years, article marketing has been all about getting the right keywords in your articles, getting the right keyword density, getting the keyword in the title in a certain way, writing your articles in a compelling manner, submitting those articles to EzineArticles.com and as many other article directories you could possibly find and, of course, building as many backlinks as possible to your article.

A lot of these factors are still important when it comes to getting...

Boy has article marketing changed over the last few months! I remember just a year ago it was all about spinning a bunch of crap articles and submitting them to as many mass submission services as possible. The classic abuse it 'till you lose it scenario.

Today, it's completely different. It's all about credibility, hard work and integrity.

For those of you that have known me for a time, I have been fighting for this change for years and it seems like it is FINALLY beginning...

I have been watching articles and their habits in the search engines for years. I have come to understand a lot about how the search engines rank article directory article pages as opposed to articles found on (authority and fly-by-night) websites. Yes, there is a difference.

Believe it or not, search engines (Google, at least) seem to have a totally different way of ranking articles on article directories. Of course I am not going to get into all that, but trust me, there is an obvious...

EzineArticles.com is by far the most renowned and popular article directory on the internet today. Everyone is using EA, and if you're not...you should be. After all, where else can you submit an article and get it on the first page of Google within a couple of days?

Well, if you think about it, this very thing could end up being a problem as well.

I guess it would depend on whether you are running your article marketing campaign to submit articles for quick profit or...

I got an email yesterday that made me remember that there is yet another benefit to article marketing that people rarely, if ever, talk about.

You see, article marketing can bring you possibly the most targeted prospect possible...the direct communicator! This is by far the most profitable prospect and should be treated with kid gloves.

Here's a copy of that email I received:

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