Traffic from articles?

Nooo.

Start from the square one.

You want: TRAFFIC
What you can do for it: Write Articles

Then why not write good content for the site you want to get traffic at and by good content I mean things people will want to read/share on social networks.

Something like 5 TIPS ..., HOW TO DO ...
You will also grab some search engine traffic after some time so it gets all the benefits and stays in your control - content is on YOUR site.

So just write some good content for your site.
Best option in my opinion to use your writing skills.

(or sell the article writing services and use the traffic to just buy traffic - but that's different story.

Thanks Alexa, I took a look at the links you gave as well as some links in those threads. But to be honest I am a little confused. In most cases I see you say that articles are a bad idea for getting traffic as the first line in what I quoted says. Then as the last line says you believe article marketing can work well.

So I am a little confused. Are you trying to say that submitting to article directories in hopes that the article will be syndicated is a good idea and that just submitting to those directories for the purpose of getting traffic from the directory itself is a bad idea?

I am not sure what exactly you are saying because it seems to contradict itself. But I am sure I am probably just not getting it. I'm a little bit of a simple man.

Just like was said put the articles on your own site, and yield the benefits of the traffic.

But here's the rub. I've never had exceptional luck with these sites as others just end up stealing the articles and removing the bylines. Of course, they're not supposed to, but that doesn't mean they're following the rules. I just don't get a huge bang for my buck with places like ezinearticles anymore.

Very similar indeed. "Guest posting" is just one specific type of article marketing. (I do plenty of that, too: I don't really distinguish between the two - it's all "article marketing" to me. I'm publishing the content on my site first, and then identical copies of it anywhere else I can that's relevant and has the traffic I want. So my "guest blogging appearances" elsewhere are with content already published on my own site. Don't let people tell you that "Bloggers don't want that content". All that matters to them is whether their visitors have already seen it, of course.)

No; not really. You could get lucky that way, but it's definitely not something to rely on. It tends to be slow and unreliable and very variable, and of course you can't control it. As explained above, putting the article in EZA is just "the last 1%". That's called "passive syndication" (because you can't control it).

Yes: it's here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6575732

Ok, that's fairly easy to explain: this is article marketing, but article directory marketing means "putting copies of your articles in article directories in an attempt to attract either traffic or backlinks from the directory" (which is, of course, completely forlorn and pointless and futile).

Alas, no. The very promising title, unfortunately, doesn't even begin to match the content of the thread at all. Most of it is about article directory marketing, not article marketing at all. That thread barely distinguishes between the two, and is just a desperately confusing mess. To be avoided. I'm afraid it's partly because of all the threads like that, in forums, that so many people just don't understand how article marketing works at all, and some of them even try to convince others that "it doesn't work as well as it used to" (the reality is exactly the opposite - it's a little easier and better and more productive, all round, in 2014 than it was when I started in 2008/9!).

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Writing articles for wide distribution within targeted markets has always been the most effective method for driving torrents of highly convertible traffic, bar none. For some reason over the past few years, however, writing has nearly become a lost art to online marketers giving in the allure of easy backlinks and SEO through stuffing key words into semi-coherent text and submitting to article directories.

The reality is that even during the peak of such pre-Panda SEO madness, article marketers using methods closely allied with the marketing model described by Alexa above were (and still are) making fortunes. Within any given commercially viable niche, there may be hundreds (or perhaps even hundreds of thousands) of online/offline publications suitable for article marketing. Article directories never did and never will match the leveraging power of self-syndication to publications already targeting your reading audience.