Master Google saw to it that massive backlinking through article marketing basically became a moral crime. How dare you! :-)

Even posting manually in article submission sites such as Ezine Articles or Hubpages isn't going to bring all that much to the table anymore.

Does that mean the article marketing is dead?

No - it isn't dead, but there's a better delivery system that has gone back to an old fashioned networking method.

The old fashioned...