12 Powerful Reasons Article Marketing Does Not Suck!

[Sean Donahoe]

Those are some great stats and points Dean. Thanks for your comments here.

Article marketing is a great way to build credibility, develop pre-formed relationships with your readers and have fantastic head start in building a long term relationship with them once you convert them to customers.

[Emmanuel Betinis]

Originally Posted by Dean Shainin

I’d rather have my business working for me instead of me having to work in the business all the time. I prefer residual income from articles that work for me 24/7/365.

Absolutely! I agree 100% with the fact that writing ONE REALLY GOOD QUALITY article is much better than submitting 100 crappy slapped-together articles with no real meaning or "pull" to the reader. What about for SEO purposes (submitting 100 articles for backlinks to your site OR to THAT ONE SINGLE GOOD article)? Do you see productivity in this methodology of article marketing?

[Dean Shainin]

Originally Posted by anapest

Absolutely! I agree 100% with the fact that writing ONE REALLY GOOD QUALITY article is much better than submitting 100 crappy slapped-together articles with no real meaning or "pull" to the reader. But what about for SEO purposes (submitting 100 articles for backlinks to THAT ONE SINGLE GOOD article)? Do you see productivity in this methodology of article marketing?

One thing I've noticed is that a really great article gets book marked and picked up from webmasters on their sites so that generates back links over time anyways. There are pros and cons to most anything with any type of marketing but I did noticed loads of one way back links when I used to use SubmitYourArticle for mass submission.

One major aspects that has changed with the top article directory EzineArticles is that one cannot get away with submitting crappy articles like one used to be able to do back in the day simply trying to get SEO results from hundreds of articles. EA has so many filters including keyword density filters and other aspects in place to prevent this.

Cheers,
Dean

[Allen Graves]

Hi Dean,

You're right (except for one thing ) - EZA is still accepting crappy articles. Recently they promoted one of their articles on Twitter and I was shocked to see all sorts of grammatical and punctuation errors. I see these articles every day as I am doing research.

While the content isn't crap, the grammar, spelling and punctuation certainly is.

To me, those are just as important as the content. Wood you by, from some body, who writes they're articles like this.? Doubt it - in fact, I'm sure those CTRs are probably somewhere just north of nada.

Anyhow, I agree with everything you said above, just needed to point out that although EZA continues to increase the quality of their article review, they are still far from only accepting top-quality articles.

Funny too, if this is what they want to do...why not just do it?! (this is better left for a separate thread. LOL)

I also wanted to add that I am noticing that those "ONE GOOD ARTICLES" will carry a lot more weight when it comes to your website's off-page optimization (backlinks)...much more than those 100 crappy ones that will most likely be completely ignored.

Take a look around, guys and girls. Articles do have Page Rank...at least the good ones do. The crappy ones have one of those not-so-sought-after grey bars.

Hmmm. A hundred grey bars or a single article that Google already knows is appropriate, well written and on topic...which would you choose?

Respectfully,
Allen GRaves

[Sean Donahoe]

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

You're right (except for one thing ) - EZA is still accepting crappy articles. Recently they promoted one of their articles on Twitter and I was shocked to see all sorts of grammatical and punctuation errors. I see these articles every day as I am doing research.

This drives me nuts and there is no real reason for it. All modern word processors have spell checkers and grammar suggestions tools to help correct any possible errors.

It is very easy to re-read an article or even read it out loud so you can actually hear how it reads and you will quickly pick up on any potential errors prior to publishing.

I even saw one this morning that had a title "How to Mkae money Online today" and somehow it got through the so-called quality control process.

[Emmanuel Betinis]

Originally Posted by Sean Donahoe

I even saw one this morning that had a title "How to Mkae money Online today" and somehow it got through the so-called quality control process.

Ugh...that's horrible!

[jjpmarketing]

I like what I am hearing. Since so many articles submitted have terrible quality, I am certain my articles will stand out. I always have to do a few revisions. First revision is to check for poor word choice and dyslexic wording. The second revision for typos, and then the 3rd revision to determine if I can make anything better.

@sean Thanks for the clarification. Makes more sense now.

[AndyCamden]

Great thread. I don't do much Article Marketing but I am going to add it to my arsenal for 2009 starting........RIGHT NOW! Thanks for a great post man!

[paco88]

yup it is a great thread, i had one article written for me ( im a lousy writer) and it got 600 views and 76 url clicks in one day - i know that's not much compared to the others here, but the best i could do was 93 views in six months! haha!

[ariefsyu]

Article marketing always helps and experts say so.

Good post and good information all along the thread. Everyone must and must read it who are trying to get success in Internet Marketing.

Thanks for sharing.

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