Article Marketing Experience? Pros and Cons

You will definitely find a TON of people on here that have much experience in this antiquated means of promotion

Article marketing requires more than a question and answer to be learnt. Try to read because there are loads of threads about this matter posted already. So far nothing is better than ezine but there are articlebase and articledashboard as the next options.

Andrea

For article marketing you will be needed Fresh and unique content so that people can attract on your article. And submit your article in top article sites.

in my opinion go with these:

EzineArticles, Squidoo, GoArticles and Hubpages

but always remember when it comes to article marketing its QUALITY over quantity.

ALWAYS give your audience amazing content. try to fix there problems with a humanly voice on words, and NEVER EVER EVER spin or respin an article EVER

if you want go ahead and PM me here on warriorforum and ill tell you how you can contact me directly and we can talk about this in more detail

Do a search on this forum for "Alexa Smith". Go to her profile; click on the "statistics" link on the left, then the "show all posts" link on the right.

Start reading backwards through her posts, and the threads in which she posted. Pay attention to the links she has provided within her posts (they often look like "here, here, here and here"). Read those threads as well.

Pay attention to the others who post in those threads, and their interactions with Alexa. You'll pretty soon figure out which other posters you'll want to follow. Keep notes.

Take some time and read back through about the last six weeks, or roughly since the Panda/Farmer update. Follow the details; allow the big picture to form. You'll be amazed at the breadth and depth of information from about 8-10 ppl in particular.

Good luck,
Robert

Here's a list of article directories that I normally use:

1) Ezine
2) Goarticles
3) Articlebase
4) Articledashboard
5) Buzzle
6) Bukisa
7) Amazine
8) Sooperarticles
9) a1Articles
10) Article Snatch


Regards,
Shafiq

Dear Leon,

By all means, to answer your question, click on my signature and read the OP.

PS: Don't buy it. Just read the OP and your questions will be answered.

PSS: Here's a secret. I only use ArticlesBase.com.

Hope this helps man.


Calfred

here are the top article directories:

1. EzineArtiles.com

2. GoArticles.com

3. Searchwarp.com

4. ArticlesBase.com

5. ArticleDashboard.com

And, few tips ...

Generally, articles you create should be:-

• 1. Useful , but incomplete
  2. Compelling
  3. Search engine friendly
     • Use The main keyword in the title
     • You articles should be LSI friendly
     • Moderate length - between 400 to 500 words
     • Keyword Density 2 %

Hope it helps .
Mike

Today article writing and submitting to good article submission sites is very important for the promotion of your site and blog,etc.If you are not taking the benefit of the article submission then you are out of the race of the search engine optimization.It results in the increased no of back links and the good search engine rankings for your keywords in the google search engine search results.

If any body wants to optimize the search engine than he needs to make quality no of back links as many as possible.A good no of websites which have high pr have high no of quality back links even in thousands and lacs and crores.

High no of back links are very important to increase the pr of a page or website or a blog.Submitting article to good article sites like ezine, articlebase, sooperarticles sites comes out to be very useful and profitable.

You can leave 3 or 4 backlinks in an article which remains forever till that article site is present and that means that you will get traffic for that period without an extra work.If you have an habit of the blogging then if you post regularly then you will get links juice to your site.If you stop posting in your blog then traffic will also be stopped to your site.For this you will need a good list of best article submission sites, which you can also search on the net.To konw more see friendseo.blogspot.com there you can find a good list of articles and other info as well.

Thank you one and all. I am really impressed by your thoughtful answers. I wish I could thank you all but this is my first posting. However, I would appreciate is Diego if you could PM with your contact information (I can't PM until after another 48 posts).

I disagree that article marketing is dead despite the comment of one other poster. But this person seems to be posting in many threads that article marketing is "antiquated" or so in the past form of marketing.

I have had quite a bit of success with article marketing and I am the top ranked author in several categories on ezinearticles and my articles have been viewed over 25,000 times. Nice bit of traffic that brings in to my websites and my lists.

Another article directory that I have not seen mentioned here is knol. knol is a site run by google. I would think that google might give preference to knol articles in their new ranking algorithm but can not provide this.

Article marketing should be just one strategy that you use to drive traffic to your websites. It should not be the ONLY method that you use.

Do write original content
Do not plagerize / steal
Do be informative
Do not Spam
Do spell / grammar check

Rev

Write for syndication. This means people publish your EZA article (or whatever directory) on their site with your resource box and backlinks.

You improve your chances of syndication by writing articles people want to publish. Therefore, write quality articles.

I was never much interested in article marketing until I started reading on WF about the power of syndication. That made sense to me and makes article marketing worth it. Publish one article, and if syndicated, you get more readers and backlinks for no additional time invested. It's leveraging your work.

Therefore, you're better off spending more time writing quality and getting it syndicated than writing garbage and no syndication (in my view).

Reduce your time investment further by simply publishing your actual blog posts once indexed on EZA. This way the only time invested is the time it takes to format an article in EZA (a couple minutes).

I have quite a bit of article marketing experience and the dos and don'ts really depend on your goals and the directories you are using. Plus everything just recently changes along with the new google algorithms.

The benefits are numerous and I can tell you that I have websites that I build and only did article marketing for that still make me money and they are 8 to 10 years old. I have not done anything to them in probably 5 years. I also have sites that I have recently put up that make me money after about a week of work.

My advice is that you make sure you are using good content and that your articles are at least 500 words in length. Use article marketing for both traffic and for SEO purposes.

Benjamin Ehinger

PM'ed you my info

Hi Lwilliams777,

I recommend writing articles, aimed at providing your specific target readers benefits in the form of tips, info, advice, suggestions and techniques useful for their needs and problems relevant to your onsite content, products and services, in your own style and ways most appropriate for informing, educating and entertaining them...

I recommend integrating into your articles your own relevant sets of observations, inferences, test results, actual experience, theories, opinions and perspectives...

I recommend publishing your articles on your website, updating your sitemap.xml and submitting it to Google via your Google Webmaster Tools account, before submitting those articles to article directories...

I recommend submitting your articles to contextually relevant article directories where webmasters of websites go, to find articles they can publish on their website for their target viewers...

Hope this helps...