Link Building vs Article Marketing

Clyde Dennis

15 years ago

I'd have to say article marketing. It's hands down one of the best long term methods around.

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kidino

15 years ago

Thanks for the input Clyde. Hope to hear from someone who's had success with link building too...

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GoogleSearchToday.com

15 years ago

I would use article writting, blogs and YouTube video's. Link them all together and you will get ranked high in the search engines for free if you do it right.

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kidino

15 years ago

Originally Posted by GoogleSearchToday.com

I would use article writting, blogs and YouTube video's. Link them all together and you will get ranked high in the search engines for free if you do it right.

When you say blogs, you mean satellite blogs like Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Weebly.com, etc... yeah, I've heard about linking web2.0 sites all together... thanks for sharing

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donaldclifton 15 years ago

I like and use article writing, it has given me a better bang for the buck than link building.
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kidino

15 years ago

So far most people have been very positive with article marketing...

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trisario

15 years ago

Well yeah, article wins hands down, but sure gonna slap you in the face if the articles keeps getting rejected :p

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dburk

15 years ago

Hi kidino,

Article marketing is link building. It can have an advantage over some other types of link building since you are creating much of the content of the linking page. However, a link from a very hot topic page could be worth more than a hundred articles.

In link building it's really good idea to get links from a variety of different places so that it appears more natural.

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puti1

15 years ago

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi kidino,

Article marketing is link building. It can have an advantage over some other types of link building since you are creating much of the content of the linking page. However, a link from a very hot topic page could be worth more than a hundred articles.

In link building it's really good idea to get links from a variety of different places so that it appears more natural.

HI dburk,
Agree with you. But if you are going to list the link building strategies in terms of its effectiveness, which one will you choose in descending order...
Blog commenting, articles, forum signatures, directories, buying links, link reciprocal, etc...

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dburk

15 years ago

Originally Posted by puti1

HI dburk,
Agree with you. But if you are going to list the link building strategies in terms of its effectiveness, which one will you choose in descending order...
Blog commenting, articles, forum signatures, directories, buying links, link reciprocal, etc...

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Hi puti1,

It is different on a case by case basis. Often the very best links can only be had by purchasing them. So I would have to say that would frequently net you the most effective links.

Guest blogging and syndicating articles would be next on my list followed by blog commenting and forum signatures.

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Hafsoh

15 years ago

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi kidino,

Article marketing is link building. It can have an advantage over some other types of link building since you are creating much of the content of the linking page. However, a link from a very hot topic page could be worth more than a hundred articles.

In link building it's really good idea to get links from a variety of different places so that it appears more natural.

Yes Article marketing is a way of building link,You can maintain your online reputation and continue to build good quality incoming links with article marketing

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zoobie

15 years ago

well, if you are for affiliate sales, article marketing is better. But link building will boost your site search engine ranking but normally you won't see any results after three months of doing it...

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kidino

15 years ago

Yeah Don, that's why I ask this.

With article marketing, though you are also link building, your inbound links are mostly limited from article directories. Where as strategic link building, you can target those from blog comments, social pages, satellite blogs, link directories, text links, etc...

Being aware of those, that's why I started the thread.

When it comes to effort, IMHO, link building is more straightforward because you get links right away without having to think much about content creation.

But when it comes to getting traffic that converts, hmm...

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dburk

15 years ago

Originally Posted by kidino

Yeah Don, that's why I ask this.

With article marketing, though you are also link building, your inbound links are mostly limited from article directories. Where as strategic link building, you can target those from blog comments, social pages, satellite blogs, link directories, text links, etc...

Being aware of those, that's why I started the thread.

When it comes to effort, IMHO, link building is more straightforward because you get links right away without having to think much about content creation.

But when it comes to getting traffic that converts, hmm...

Hi kidino,

Actually, most article directories are designed to syndicate your articles to other websites, so if you write great content you will get traffic from a lot more places than just the directories.

You can also do guest authoring or contribute articles to popular websites and get paid to do so. The are many strategies available to you in the article marketing arena.

You're right, often the quickest and easiest thing to do is buy a link or blurb from another site that's hot in your niche.

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bannor32

15 years ago

Submitting articles to EZA has been hands down the best strategy for me when it comes to promoting affiliate programs. As far as backlinks go, if you write compelling content for EZA it will be picked up by other webmasters, and providing you've left a live link to your site in your resource box, you'll get a natural backlink from every website that republishes your article.

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ruru

15 years ago

Article for short term is great. For long term you should build partnership around the niche, not just link.

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geoffcruz

15 years ago

Originally Posted by kidino

Let say that we are promoting affiliate programs. And our main goal is traffic that converts into sales, which would you go for?

Would you do one without the other?

- Link Building (blog comments, buying links, link directories, buying blog posts, forum sig, etc)

- Article Marketing (aggressive article writing/re-writing & submission)

Hope to hear your input, opinion and experience.

If i was new in affiliate marketing i would definitely start out with article marketing, not only are you getting targeted traffic, you are also building links to your site. Once i have got the hang of affiliate marketing, then i will start linking and targeting specific keywords.

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bergie812

15 years ago

Right now I am using everything I can. Articles work well and link building seems to take up a bunch of time.

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15 years ago

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BeauPenaranda 15 years ago

Hey Kidino,

I've been writing articles for a couple of my niches sites and they have done well with traffic and rankings. I've got a couple that are PR2 within 6-8 months.

Another good thing about articles is that many of them continue to drive traffic long after you write them.

What do you think?
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irving

15 years ago

Article writing and link building should go hand in hand. I have been getting good results by using both these. I think you should try it out!!

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BeauPenaranda 15 years ago

I agree with another person's comment that article building can also be link building since you are creating anchor texts back to your sites pages. But yeah, since Kidino did define what he meant by link building, it helps alot...agreed.

To this day, I still do directory submissions and get pretty good results. Also do software directory submissions as a lot of these software directories have high pr rankings and give back some good "link juice".
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ebizza

15 years ago

The best long term method is to build links to your articles so they rank. Then they live by themselves and drive constant traffic to you.

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TechBlog

15 years ago

nice question even i was eager to know the answer for this one

... i hope to start the article writing thing soon

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venomous2000

15 years ago

I use both. I use articles to redirect people to my blog where the product is being held and at the same time I do blog posts to get even more visitors