Article Marketing Dead!

Article marketing is still very relavent. Post it on your own site and to article directories. If you have good SEO on your website you will get traffic.

I have articles from 4 years ago which still get me a sale every now and than. It took awhile to see the traffic to start to come in.

What's stopping you from doing both? Maybe post in the directories, then link to them on your website?

You have already declared article marketing dead, so why are you asking us? :rolleyes:


p.s. If you only post the articles on your own site, that is not actually "article marketing". That is creating content for your visitors to consume. :p

p.p.s. For article marketing to be truly effective, the content you submit to directories should be as good as or better than the content you put on your own site -- NOT worse!

First of all your thread title states 'Article Marketing Dead!'.

Second of all you have "hired a writer to write daily articles which i will post on top articles directories".

Last of all you ask, "Is article marketing of any use, will it bring traffic to my site?"

You are all over the place. Why on earth would you waste time and money on something you don't even know if it works? You will get nowhere in this industry if all you do is throw mud at a wall and hope some sticks.

The choices you make are often what determines whether you will be successful or not. So make sure you do more research before jumping into things. If you are still unsure as to the effectiveness of article marketing then you shouldn't have someone writing articles for you yet.

Post them on your website, then the top article directories

It probably won't help you much: that isn't "article marketing" at all. It's just "article directory marketing". That was only ever based on a misunderstanding of what article directories are and how and why they work.

For all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer would want to attract potential customer traffic to their site via an article directory. That isn't how article directories work, or what they're there for.

This is how they actually work: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Never submit to an article directory any content that hasn't already been published and indexed on your own site first. This is absolutely fundamental to any model of article marketing.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

It's a great way of building a business, which large and increasing numbers of Warriors are using to make their livings.

But what you describe above isn't article marketing at all - it's just a complete misunderstanding.

Apologies if I sound churlish about it, but it's so very ironic to see threads labelled "article marketing dead" just at a time when article marketing is booming so much: it's just evidence that the person who posted it doesn't actually understand what article marketing is. Anyway, the links in this post and some of the comments above may help you with that, if you want to find out.

You can post articles to your website and even blog and then to article directories [Corrected]

Article marketing can bring a steady long term amount of targeted traffic so you should try submitting to the top directories.

Here are some you should be focusing on:

EzineArticles.com
GoArticles.com
ArticleDashboard.com
WebWorldIndex.com
BusinessKnowHow.com
PromotionWorld.com
ExcellentGuide.com/article
ContentDesk.com
ArticleBiz.com
ArticlesBase.com
SelfGrowth.com
ArticleCity.com
ArticleAlley.com
Web-Source.net
Amazines.com
ArticleTrader.com

again sorry for topic it should be a questions rather than a stetement

Very interesting comments, I think the entire "Riding the traffic Coat Tail" to your website was once a very valid method of attracting good SEO, Traffic, Backlinks, but with the way things are changing, the way Google and Bing are changing the truth is when it comes to article directories, I think SEO as it once was is very nearly and very seriously Ill.

What we have here is a Corporate Model, you have to pay to play, that is really what this is all about, "I know that is cynical, but if you look hard at this you can only come to one conclusion" You can achieve a certain amount of success using various methods of publishing, back-linking even Article Marketing, but in reality it is just like putting Gas in your Car or Truck, once it runs out of Gas you have to start all over again.

The model is one of business, meaning you have to pay the price to get the exposure...

Its certainly something to think about, how much is your time worth?

I would do both. Your own website if it is new will take a while to get authority in the search engines and see consistent traffic from there. So you will need to add content on it to begin to develop authority.
If you submit to article directories (good ones - Ezine) then you will see instant traffic.
Do both!

Doing both is surely the best way to go about it. I don't support posting the same article on various websites as that creates duplicate content issues. Build a strong authorship on different article websites and link them all to your Google + profile (if you don't have one, make one today) as Google loves to list articles published by users it can identify on G+.

I add articles to my site first, then after week to article directories.
Article submission still works or at least for me, it is no way dead.

...So, you hired a writer, but you don't even know if article marketing works? You are also assuming that it's dead before starting. I'm sorry, but this doesn't sound like it bodes well.

As long as people use search engines to look for content, article marketing will never be dead.

Put your articles on your site. If you do good on page SEO, you'll start picking up long tail traffic. If you put those articles on article directories.. they'll get your traffic instead of you.

Consider converting your articles to video, pdf and audio to get some different types of content either on your site or pointing people back to your site too.

Guest blogging is another good option to use articles for traffic.

article marketing is one of the best strategies of seo and if your articles start getting approved on ezine or squidoo kind of high pr directories then you can't even think how much traffic you will start getting over night.