Is there a way to do article marketing these days that actually works?

Let me suggest a free RSS import plugin from WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-retriever-lite/.

It allows you to automatically insert relevant YouTube videos into posts imported from 3rd-party sources. For example, this feature is very useful for importing product lists into WooCommerce. The plugin automatically analyzes the post title (product name), finds the most relevant video about it, and embeds it directly into the WordPress post being created.

never thought of that need to build my new website

Question is WHERE yr artickyools be happnin'.

In the cahntent swamp, you gotta seek out eyries.

Absolutely, content marketing works in every era. But still now its more competitive than before. High quality and clear user intent article are more valuable nowadays. Rather than just publishing and waiting for rankings.

Claude is right.... the days of guest writing are long gone. focus on your own content for your own site.

Something to consider.... Look at me thread here: ( https://www.warriorforum.com/warrior...days-ebay.html ) pay attention to the first post. you will see links to all of the specific "on topic" posts.

You want to create content in this type of format. dont do the long winded cover all type posts. break the post down to very specific topics. You want to batch "publish" a number of post at once. ( if you are using word press - you want to publish the posts from last to first ) The example here would be again my first post - the links. there are 19 on topic related posts, you would publish the last one " looking forward to 2022 " and then Post " covid ebay sourcing ", and so on and so on till you reach the first of the series " Shipping ".

You then want to go back in once they are posted and include links at the top and bottom of each post to the next post and previous post. THEN you can submit to Google.

I would say the KEY to writing content in todays world ( and really yesterdays world is no different ) is to write VERY specific content that answers a very specific problem. Look at the titles of each of the links ( again in my ebay thread ) each link is very specific and very targetted to a single problem and solution.

Hope that Helps!

thinking you are talking about Travis Sago's Bum Marketing. it was huge in 2008 with Ezine Articles but those days are gone

I've been building websites, writing content, and researching SEO for right in at 29 - 30 years.

The strategies I used way back when and the ones I use today I pretty much the same. Granted some of the nonsense keyword stuffing from back in the day is gone, but the basic principles of the content itself remain the same... understand the problem and publish a solution. Understand the question an end user might have and provide an answer.

Going way back to 1996 Bill Gates said; " Content is King " and look at where we are today... Content is EVERYWHERE. Regardless of format ( video, written, graphic, audio, etc ) there is an ABSOLUTE rule that makes some content better than the rest. 3 simple steps.

1. Identify the problem ( using the title etc
2. Give a glimpse at the solution
3. Provide the steps to get to the solution.

Watch TikTok, watch YouTube, read an article, listen to a podcast... ALL of the " GOOD " content follow these 3 steps Get them in, show them what they are getting, and show them how to get there.

In terms of SEO, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Modern SEO stems back to the " Florida " Google update back in 2003. The only thing that has changed in all of these years is the latitude and importance of all of the algorithm rules made back then. The general rules have remained the same.

like anything in life, if you want to participate, you kinda have to know the rules. What rules have to be followed, and which ones and under what circumstances you can break.

The Blackhat world of SEO is a never ending story of those that over time get caught. Then the flip side of that is the white hat hero's that have dragged out, one might say a successful career quietly and under the radar. The above mentioned idea of stacking content is in many ways the idea of Silo SEO structure.... Silo has long been frowned apon as breaking the rules... but chronologically and by topic stacking content is giving you the same SEO advantages without the blatant risk.

The only thing that has changed for those that understand the history of SEO, is not the rules themselves, but how the rules have been refined over the years. Its not ok to use Silo structure, but it is ok to stack content. In the end you still have the same SEO advantages, but the risk is gone. Your not publishing to rank for the sake of rank, you are now publishing content that has context, and content worth reading, watching, listening to with the structure that allows for better rank.

Because most people prefer to watch videos.

That's just facts.

Articles can still work but as someone wrote
above, putting videos inside the article makes
it more interesting to the reader/viewer and it
gives them more options.

Platforms like Medium make it easy to insert
a video into your articles and images as well.

But to each their own, if you think people are
going to read your plain text articles, then just
do that.