Is Article Marketing Still Valid? After the recent Google changes.
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The recent changes effected by Google seem to have affected mainly so called "Content Farms". Are places like Ezinearticles, content farms? Well it appears Google seems to think so. This change seems to have affected search results on US based engines and could mean article marketing has lost it's power.
A LOT of pages that used to rank on the front page of google two or three days ago... now are nowhere to be found. And pages that previously didn't seem to exist have popped up now on the front page.
So how were you affected?
Here are a few things I've noticed within the search realm of "mlm marketing", "internet marketing" and "affiliate marketing".
Ezinearticles, Buzzle and other major article directories have dropped significantly in the SERPS.
Squidoo and Hubpages have dropped significantly in the SERPS.
Authority sites like eHow and About.com have dropped significantly.
Which means article marketing - as we used to know it - simply is NOT working as well as it did last week.
The idea behind article marketing, previously, was to simply write great content and submit that content to an "authority site" (a site know to rank high on the SERPS) and promote that new page by getting a massive number of backlinks to the page. A week ago it worked like a charm. Today... many of these "authority sites" are no where to be found on the front page!
So where does that leave those that rely on submissions via Link Vine, UAW etc? I think it maybe time to adopt a different strategy.
Any thoughts anyone?
Regards
CD
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