Is Article Marketing Dead?

I don't bother with it at all and we do just fine. To me it just seems like a lot of work for 2 clicks or whatever, I just don't have the patience for it.

I'm not sure I can prove you wrong because that means I'd have to go and find some examples with screen shots etc which seems like a lot of work right now but I will say that article marketing is not dead.

Always makes me giggle when I hear some method declared as dead, in fact as soon as it becomes conventional wisdom that a method is dead it means competitors will drop off like flies....

It may be a little harder IF you're targeting the article directories with the same niches and keywords as every other affiliate marketer however with a good article and proper keyword research you can get a lot of benefit.

First human traffic, one article I submitted last week has had just over 1,300 views and generated 437 clicks to my landing page resulting in 1 $68 affiliate sale and about 40 new email subscribers. And it will continue to bring in revenue with a little help from back links etc.

Is that typical...nope...not for most people submitting articles.

Also I get higher search engine rankings for my sites through article marketing.

So while I'd agree somewhat that the days of slapping up an article with a few links in it and waiting for the cash to roll in are gone in many competitive niches I'd say article marketing is far from dead as long as you know what you are doing. It's just like PPC is harder, Twitter and Facebook are harder...as competition grows you've got to market smarter.

I'm sure you'll get plenty of opinions either way.

Short story is you still need good keywords, a good product, a great headline - article - and call to action (AIDA) plus I still need to promote my articles as I would any site with back links, bookmarking etc.

In other words article marketing = effort.

It is definitely not for everyone but if you can get it to click for you it is a sound strategy.

Cheers,

Jonathan

One of my close friends is making a modest $3k a month using nothing but article marketing techniques.

It's not easy, nor fun, but now he's at that level he can outsource everything and he's making a good passive income that allows him to focus on his passions.

You should learn not to listen to others.. if they say it is dead then good for them .. who cares ?? Just because they say something does not make it the truth and frankly I do not care who the "guru" is that says it.

With that said I would like to point out there is a huge difference between "Article Marketing" and "Bum Marketing" ... Personally myself I have never agreed with nor will I ever agree with the "Bum Marketing" method...

James

This exact thread comes up once a week, article marketing is not dead. I make about $200 a day from the sale of my product, and the only marketing I do is article marketing. People that say it is dead are usually just too lazy to do all of the writing and submitting. Just my two cents. I do think it is much more competitive than it was though.

Nope, not dead. Article marketing is the Snake Plissken of the IM world. If you get that obscure reference, you're not a kid anymore.

Article marketing is not dead, not even close. My 747 articles and 158,231 views (I just checked my stats) tell me that. Not to mention the 26% (Not that great) CTR I get with those articles.

If you are looking to make some quick affiliate sales in a crowded niche then I would say find another business model. However, if you are doing proper keyword research, backlinking, niche targeting, etc. then article marketing is far from dead!

You just have to find the right method to make article marketing successful, and if you are not familiar with the process then you may want to learn from someone who has been there and done that.

They say the horse and buggy is dead as a form of transportation. Clearly they have never been to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Article marketing is very powerfull!!! if u know how to do it right!!

Well, EZA is consistently my number 3 referer bringing me a constant stream of traffic. I have over 250 articles written on my subject of expertise so maybe that's why.

I still make money from article marketing.

It takes a lot of time though, but I love it.

No, article marketing isn't dead, it is just so many people are doing it the wrong way or they are not doing there due-diligence. Article marketing works, you just have to work at it to make it work.

Not every article you write is going to drive heard of traffic, this is why keyword research is so important. Article marketing is a step by step process, if you slack on any of the steps, then you are not going to get the results you are after.

A quote I heard a long time ago, kinda rings true here:

"The market only pays for the results they get out of your work"

To put it another way, you are not paid to work, you are paid to produce a result for the customer. Anyway, I think I'm rambling again, and I have my own work to do, hope that helps.

Its not dead, otherwise i wouldn't make sales

But there might be a tendency to a shift to more specialized sites, away from the big mills like EZA, GoArticles etc. Someone posted a good list of such specialized "authority" sites not long ago, but i don't have the link handy. site-reference.com was one of them. Such articles get syndicated like crazy to very targeted audiences, like newsletters etc. I think this is the future.

I don't think that article marketing is dead. In fact I use nothing but article marketing and I make a very good living.
It is all about the quality of the articles, they have to be in an attractive format, have good info, in order to bring you traffic back to your websites.