Even "Article Syndication" Is Dead!

Good point!

Then what is content syndication? I am not talking about creating infographics or videos and spreading them on visual.ly or YouTube, because practically that's how it works.

I am talking about "article syndication" and if you think I am defining it wrong, please do correct me.

I don't. These are the websites who rely on SEO rankings (a lot of the time), and mostly refuse to accept your content because they are misinformed, and believe it's "duplicate" when there is a distinct difference between duplicate and syndicated articles.

Ron ("schttrj") and I have been "debating" this subject, on and off, for 4 years. During that time countless successful article marketers have tried - to absolutely no collective avail at all - to explain to him the underlying concepts involved. I don't understand his motivation for continually alleging that "article syndication is dead" and frankly I'm tired of it.

In my opinion, his nonsense on this subject has actually reached (or even surpassed) the point of trolling.

So, in general, I'm no longer willing to dignify his ill-informed ramblings with responses, and that was why I hadn't replied, until you specifically asked me to.

Well, since you ask ... just this one time ...

You don't know what "duplicate content" is. You've been confusing it with "syndicated content" in almost every post you've ever made here, in which you've mentioned it in this context. You're nearly as confused about this whole subject as Ron, who started this thread (and he's been bullshitting on this subject here, on and off, for 4 years, now).

And believe me, that's really saying something.

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On this subject, like so many other "gurus", he actually has very little idea what he's talking about.

He's looking at article marketing as an SEO strategy. And that's frankly silly, because article marketing isn't an SEO strategy. (I've been telling Ron this for 4 years, since he joined this forum, but he doesn't listen.)

If anyone wants to see how well article syndication can work, in 2014, even for people comparatively new to it, here's a fairly typical little thread from the end of last year, in which someone pretty new to article syndication set out to make $1,500 by article syndication over a period of a few weeks. It's a kind of blow-by-blow account of how it worked out for her. I can't recall the details now, and I think I didn't post in it at all, but as I remember she actually made about $4,500, instead of her target $1,500, during those weeks. Try telling that thread's author that article syndication is "dead"!

Not everyone wants to start a thread about it (understandably enough), but I get messages from other people doing the same, here, every day of every week, and I have done, for years.

"It only happens all the time": in another six months' time, he'll find another "guru" with another blog post saying that "article marketing is dead" and he'll do the same exact thing all over again. He's been doing this almost ever since he joined this forum (many of these threads have been deleted, though, over the years - eventually they get too argumentative and too potentially damaging to people, and that's another reason for my not wanting to spend long posting in them, even to correct the factual misinformation - sorry.)

The overwhelming irony is that - as so many of us have been saying and showing here, over the last year or two - article syndication (thanks in part to the benefits for article marketers of the very Panda updates that "Ron's gurus" apparently blame for its so-called demise!?!? ) is actually easier, more productive and more profitable to do, now, in 2014, than it was when I started doing it for a living, back in 2008/9.

And that's probably enough from me: I don't want to sound unfriendly or arrogant about it, but honestly my time is too valuable to use it up replying to Ron: years of experience has shown me and many other pro-article marketers here that whatever anyone says, there just isn't a way to stop him from repeatedly posting this nonsense. So, no more from me in this thread though that's usually Ron's cue to ask me "specific questions" and then tell people I "ran away without answering them"!! Watch and see: they'll perhaps be along later, IF he's bothered checking for replies (he sometimes doesn't) - I've seen it all so many times before (and I don't play that game with him anyway, because I don't appreciate conversations with people who change their posts after I've replied to them. I'm serious: these things are all very, very trollish, not to mention tiresome).

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"You win some; you lose some".

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The many making full-time incomes through article syndication (as a main traffic source) will disagree with you.

Really?

I don't think it's true that one can't get published on big websites. I've done it - but NOT using the methods most tout here.

What method do I use then?

Easy.

A phone call. I call them, tell them who I am and I ASK FOR an agreement. I say something like.....

Hi. My name is Ben Pedersen and have been a DRM consultant for 15 years. I want to write for your BLOG. What is it your readers want- I will write it....... by the way, obviously I want a BIO".

Know what?

I close 90 percent of them.

Know why?

This is a business and most of the time, in business, a phone call is akin to 100 "cold emails" .

So is content syndication dead? NO. Not for those of us willing to WORK (if you can call it that - it's actually EASY. Building a restaraunt chain is WORK))

Are the half-assed, lame "short cut" methods that used to work finally dead because everyone caught on?

Yes. Thank god for that.

Above, I gave you the real method. Now go do if.

It's not worth it to you. Fair enough. I can respect that, and we can agree to disagree.

Calling the entire methodology "dead", though it might make for a dramatic subject line, is an overstatement.

Hi John,

True indeed, location matters.

But then again, this is not what I am saying. This is someone who stays and operates his business in US only.

Having said that I also understand your point of not following SEO and just spreading your article in other sites.

As I mentioned above, my question or rather opinion was, is it worth it? After weighing in all the pros and cons, I guess no.

That's my opinion and I do respect yours as well.

Yes, every product needs marketing and as a marketer yourself, you must know when the consumer can avail high quality products somewhere else, you can NOT sell sub-par product.

And technically, since these HUGE sites obviously want to provide value to their readers, they do NOT accept non-exclusive content because that is sub-standard. Not because it is badly written but because it is already published on someone else's site and they are barraged with thousands of other high-quality yet FRESH articles everyday.

To clarify myself further, this is over seven years of experience that still manages the e-marketing department of an ecommerce company speaking.

Bingo!

Perhaps the OP'S junk content is not news worthy and of a quality standard.

Oh, and I'm sick of hearing about duplicated content! There is no such thing as duplicated content unless it's duplicated on your own site. People always mistake curated content and syndicated as duplicated content.

^^This, precisely.

Words are powerful, and those who have learned how to effectively use article syndication marketing for directly driving traffic and sales are making fortunes.

Much like a narcotic, words have the power to change the way another person thinks, feel, and even to influence them to do or feel things that are not normal for them. (Throughout history it has been done for both good and bad purposes)

But only in recent times has this method been twisted and diluted for gaming the search engines. Many marketers (and perhaps even some publishers) still consider content in terms of SEO, search engine traffic, and ranking. In my not so humble opinion, it was always such a waste to use this potential power for backlinks and not for people.

"I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain."
- Rudyard Kipling