Is Article Marketing Enough?

I have not had much success with article marketing.

I get plenty of clicks, but little movement in page ranking.

Let me add that I do feel that it is part of the puzzle, but a much smaller piece than some people claim.

My successes have come from other forms of marketing and SEO traffic generation.

Article marketing is not enough just for page ranking. It is excellent for direct traffic if your resource box is good but good page rank takes more work.

I keep hearing that you need to do backlinking and all kinds of other things, in order for this to be really effective. Other people suggest to just use ezinearticles, which prettymuch automatically drives traffic...

But I am still confused as to how to do backlinking, and I can definitely vouch for the traffic that comes from EZA...

But if you really want to make a profit that makes your eyes gleam, then as someone else said you need to upscale things...

Alot of people just do one article, see little to no results, and then decide it stinks and want to give up... and honestly that is not the route either.

Rememebr that it's probably not the websites, but the article, your marketing and other things that are keeping you from getting the results you want to see in the end.

I really think there is some huge potential in this kind of marketing, especially for what you said; as long as you ensure that everything is TIP TOP... to persuade readers to click and buy in the firstplace.

But how much were you thinking to get in the firstplace? ball park figure?

I have never worried about backlinks or articles at all - I just use SEO and have plenty of traffic from the SEs.

I don't have much luck with article marketing at all.... as much as I hate this, it makes me feel better that I'm not the only one...

There is a reason it is called article "marketing", If you want to get your website ranked high in google for a low or medium competition keyword, submitting articles to directories would be the hard way to do it, unless the process is completely automated and each of your article is being sent to a few hundred sites for review. The primary purpose of article marketing is not SEO. Yes! article submission is also used as a part of SEO plan but that is a totally different thing and that doesn't count as article marketing.

I would absolutely say that article marketing alone is not enough. I do think however that it's an important piece of the puzzle. For SEO, I have had better luck with Angela's backlinks. I also use Onlywire.com for mass social bookmarking, I think that helps as well.