Article Marketing: Disappointment or Joy?

I am an article writer and I have hd joy seeing some of my articles being featured in press releases and the like.

The only dissapointment is that it takes a while to build your name and to be recognised and just like any other IM business it takes a lot of hardwork.

All said and done I think it is one step towards the optimum internet business

I have done VERY well with it but it took time to get there. I try and outsource as much as possible but when I have to write I use DNS - big help.

You're absolutely right, Al. All of the things you mentioned are absolutely crucial to article marketing success.

David Jackson

Article marketing indeed bring tremendous joy to me although it took some time to see good results. By the way, why limit yourself only in SiteproNews and PromotionWorld? In fact you can increase your credibility by submiting your articles to other well-known article directories like Ezinearticles and Articlesbase.

The key with article marketing is knowing how to use it. I firmly believe that a combination of quality and quantity are important, and some of the big time article marketers in this forum (Tim Gorman, Steve Wagenheim, John Schwartz) prove this.

I don't want to speak for any of these guys, but looking at what they teach and their own article profiles you can see that they have written a lot of articles, but they also focus on quality.

Conduct in depth keyword research, write quality articles, write a lot of articles, and promote your articles!

Article marketing is perhaps the BEST form of FREE marketing. Not only is it an integral part of Off-Page SEO but it is indeed one of the best ways to get your site exposed and grow a name for yourself. My experience with article marketing has been phenomenal, only of course after I hired my ongoing Article Writer, she is not only great, but has pulled through whenever I needed last minute articles.

YET, I think most IM beginners overlook that one of the most important aspects of Article Marketing is NOT necessarily increasing traffic and visitors to your site. But rather what I mentioned above, GAINING respect due to the knowledge and information you presented in the article. Articles are supposed to help you become an authority in addition to bringing you business.

My experience?

If I had to sum it up into one of the words you chose, I would say Joy. Overwhelmingly.

That's not to say it has been easy, but it has been an excellent traffic generation method for me in many, many niches.

The thing that I've found with article marketing...

Is that the majority of those who "teach" it, are using very outdated methods. Ones that worked 5 or 6 years ago.

The internet changes SO much that any method will flex it's performance from week to week. Sure, the fundamentals are there and the basics seem to be evergreen.

But to really keep a method working for you, take some time to watch trends, and the evolution of strategy.

Article marketing has always been best when you calculate your actions. Checking your output of content.. how it ranks, where it ranks, overall performance.. further than just checking the article directories and traffic numbers.

Places like EzineArticles, GoArticles, should simply be your first port of call with content that has already been published on your own website. The scope and reach of your articles and content goes much, much further than the article directories that you initially publish to.

Don't allow yourself to be sucked into basic article marketing and think you are limited to just that.

Learn from people who are actively involved in moving this niche and strategy. Learn from people who are evolving what it takes to make a successful article marketing campaign.

They are teaching it, and some of them are teaching it very well. The old stuff is more or less outdated now.

Be careful who you take advice from.... don't take anything as Gospel.

Test things for yourself!!!!

Your numbers, stats and figures are more important than anything else.. don't be crippled by poor advice... get your own data before you make a judgement.

Peace

Jay

Its a joy for me, my articles themselves generate a lot of traffic. But when I combine that with easy SEO its really a win win.

The results are joy, but writing 1000 articles on the same topic got pretty tedious pretty quick. That being said, I needed massive results quickly, and there's no reason that most will have to write that many in a short period of time :-)

I would say both, sometimes I think I'm going to get a great response and I don't, other times I'm blown away by how successful my articles are. More and more I think it has a lot to do with how lucky you are with the time you post it. If you post it and immediately you get a bunch of views, only more views will come, while if you get a real slow start it is hard to fight back from that.

I know that SEO, niches, and keywords can play a big part in all this, but I really do think you either do or don't get lucky with when you post.

Though none of this matters if you already have a strong following.

I actually hate article marketing, well the writing of them but with the recent changes of the SEO front feature rich content is going to be a big player in the future. Thank you all for an insightful topic. Kieron

Well I can say for sure that the more articles you write the better you get at writing them.

I absolutely LOVE to write. So even if my articles didn't generate sales I'd still write them.

Fortunately, I've seen a lot of success with writing high quality articles for both my products, and the products of others. It takes some time to generate enough momentum to jusitfy all the hard work you put into it, but so far article writing has been extremely lucrative for my business.

Let's face it, not having a boss, not waking up to an alarm, and logging into paypal half asleep with fresh money in the bank is WELL worth all the effort. If you don't like writing articles then farm them out to someone who does. With time, article distribution is well worth the investment.

I love Article Marketing! It's going to play a huge part of me quitting my job! I get visitors every day from my articles...whats not to love about it?

Some say its not as effective as it once was.

Who cares?

It's working for me I'll just have to put out more quality articles at a more faster rate.

Oh well....as I keep saying....better than waking up early everyday to go visit your boss

I'm surprised at how much hate there is against article marketing ... its been one of the few traffic sources thats been consistent for me. If you take a really close look at a lot of articles out there, most of them are horrid. The same info over and over again. There are way too many people trying to re-invent the wheel...

If you're able to write something short (300 words) and be creative, original and honest... it'll drive targeted traffic pretty heavily.

I'm very satisfied with articles marketing, it's make a ton backlink for my site. actually i spend my time everyday to write unique articles and distribution with a great articles distribution provider.

It's effects are sometimes residual but once you have been consistently doing it for a few months, the traffic will actually be very stable.

Article marketing is definitely a joy when you get a lot of comments on your articles. Getting a bunch of views is always great, but I always like comments the most.

The traffic I get from EZA is ALWAYS my #2 referrer. How's that for results?