Is Article Marketing Even Worth it?

Allen Graves

16 years ago

Yes, I believe it is. What do YOU think?

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Frank_The_Tank 16 years ago

I've received some results with it, so yes, I think it is.
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Ken Leatherman

16 years ago

IMO article marketing is one of the most effective ways of marketing my business. I'm not going to give details but frankly my business thrives because my article marketing.

Just for your information, there are many, many threads in here that address your question, with a great many folks already replying to this particular topic. If this is research for you to make a business decision, you may well want to do a search and check out the many replies in those threads.

If you were more specific about your questions concerning article marketing, you also would some very specific answers, that could well be of more help to you.

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Andrea Brown

16 years ago

It is if you make it worth your time. You can't just put any crap out there.

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mariahm

16 years ago

I agree with cjmo75.

I've noticed that lately it does not seem as affective.

With the amount of time you put into article marketing you may as well just put the same amount into link building.

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anthony2

16 years ago

Originally Posted by mariahm

I agree with cjmo75.

I've noticed that lately it does not seem as affective.

With the amount of time you put into article marketing you may as well just put the same amount into link building.

Article Marketing is still very effective for me.
I not sure what everyone else is doing.
If i took a guess most people are just writing a couple of articles
and then submitting them to article directories.

If you are just doing that then i can see article marketing being less effective.

But if you

Write articles then

1)Submit the url to RSS directories
2)Submit them to social bookmarkting sites
3)submit them to google or yahoo groups
4)Making a simple video directing people to the article
5)Make the article into a podcast and submit the podcast to
podcast directories.
etc

Thats Article Marketing on Steriods

Also MariahM That Baby In The Picture Is Beautiful

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16 years ago

Originally Posted by mariahm

I agree with cjmo75.

I've noticed that lately it does not seem as affective.

With the amount of time you put into article marketing you may as well just put the same amount into link building.

Why not keep writing GOOD, quality articles and build links with them at the same time? This is a great way to not only increase traffic, but build page rank as well. There are many things that can be done with articles, especially if they are well-written.

So, to answer the OP's question, YES, article marketing IS worth it

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FriendlyRob 16 years ago

In my experience, it really depends on the niche. If you are trying to add people to your list in the Internet Marketing niche then it probably is not as effective as it once was.

On the other hand, in my other niches, I have found that it is still very effective. At least, more effective than any other traffic generation method that I can think of.
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- Emailrevealer 16 years ago
  
  In the past 2 months I've significantly increased my article writing and I've seen a huge increase in traffic and salers. So I would say yes, article marketing is very valuable.
  
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Allen Graves

16 years ago

If it was once effective for you and now it is not, then there is something wrong. Things change all the time as far as effective article marketing techniques and how they should be applied. My guess is that you have been doing it the same way the whole time and now something changed that is causing your articles not to do as well.

Stay on top of things, test, tweak and analyze your results. If you do, you'll figure it out and be back on the bandwagon before you know it!

Good luck and KEEP WRITING!
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TimG

16 years ago

Team, its not that article marketing has gotten less effective. On the contrary, more people have become better at article marketing which in turn has created more competition so the golden Bum Marketing days are not quite so lucrative.

In order to continue to reap the rewards from article marketing you must evolve and leverage the heck out of every article you write. It can no longer simply be as simple as write an article and submit it to Ezinearticles.com.

Now you need skills in niche selection, keyword research and you need to incorporate video article marketing, PDF article marketing, slideshow article marketing, social article marketing, directory article marketing, and press release article marketing into your total article marketing campaigns.

Additionally, you need to harness the power behind forums, RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook....etc.

Total niche domination requires a total article marketing effort -

Respectfully,
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Vanquish 16 years ago

Good post Tim, I agree with you completely.

I think when most people say if article marketing is worth it, they mean that if you just write and submit articles everyday you will eventually get a flood of sales and make a full time income. The answer to the question is no.

Successful article marketing that can make you a lot of money relies on KEYWORD RESEARCH combined with BACKLINK BUILDING. Without that you are just a robot churning out articles hoping to make a quick buck.

By doing proper keyword research and getting ranked high for competitive phrases you can begin to bring in a grow amount of passive income each month.
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warriorkay

16 years ago

Originally Posted by TimG

Team, its not that article marketing has gotten less effective. On the contrary, more people have become better at article marketing which in turn has created more competition so the golden Bum Marketing days are not quite so lucrative.

In order to continue to reap the rewards from article marketing you must evolve and leverage the heck out of every article you write. It can no longer simply be as simple as write an article and submit it to Ezinearticles.com.

Now you need skills in niche selection, keyword research and you need to incorporate video article marketing, PDF article marketing, slideshow article marketing, social article marketing, directory article marketing, and press release article marketing into your total article marketing campaigns.

Additionally, you need to harness the power behind forums, RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook....etc.

Total niche domination requires a total article marketing effort -

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Tim

Tim really hit the nail on the head. MORE
is needed to be done now to get the
results desired from article marketing.

By the way, Tim, glad to see you back to
actively posting here. I know how awesome
your posts are and I remember the days
of KeywordAvalanche,

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16 years ago

Originally Posted by warriorkay

Tim really hit the nail on the head. MORE
is needed to be done now to get the
results desired from article marketing.

By the way, Tim, glad to see you back to
actively posting here. I know how awesome
your posts are and I remember the days
of KeywordAvalanche,

Kingsley

Thanks for the kind words - I also remember those days long ago from Keyword Avalanche - Exciting times than and even more exciting things to come.

I'm personally more pumped for article marketing right now then I've ever been in my entire online marketing career.

Respectfully,
Tim

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Christian York

16 years ago

Originally Posted by TimG

Team, its not that article marketing has gotten less effective. On the contrary, more people have become better at article marketing which in turn has created more competition so the golden Bum Marketing days are not quite so lucrative.

In order to continue to reap the rewards from article marketing you must evolve and leverage the heck out of every article you write. It can no longer simply be as simple as write an article and submit it to Ezinearticles.com.

Now you need skills in niche selection, keyword research and you need to incorporate video article marketing, PDF article marketing, slideshow article marketing, social article marketing, directory article marketing, and press release article marketing into your total article marketing campaigns.

Additionally, you need to harness the power behind forums, RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook....etc.

Total niche domination requires a total article marketing effort -

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Tim

Great post Tim,

I couldn't have said it better.

Article marketing rocks and is a key component of any promotion/project I do. However you have to go all out with it.

If you write 15 articles, do not do keyword research and then submit to ezinearticles with a bad title and poor call to action, you will not much money.

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All Night Cafe 16 years ago

Article marketing is but only one way to be successful.

Is it worth it, yes,yes,and yes. But it takes practice
just like any other form of marketing. So dig in and
do what ever it takes to make it successful.
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TheNewGuy2010

16 years ago

This is very inspiring for my new niche I selected. I will apply all of these methods.

Originally Posted by TimG

Team, its not that article marketing has gotten less effective. On the contrary, more people have become better at article marketing which in turn has created more competition so the golden Bum Marketing days are not quite so lucrative.

In order to continue to reap the rewards from article marketing you must evolve and leverage the heck out of every article you write. It can no longer simply be as simple as write an article and submit it to Ezinearticles.com.

Now you need skills in niche selection, keyword research and you need to incorporate video article marketing, PDF article marketing, slideshow article marketing, social article marketing, directory article marketing, and press release article marketing into your total article marketing campaigns.

Additionally, you need to harness the power behind forums, RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook....etc.

Total niche domination requires a total article marketing effort -

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Tim

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Rod Cortez

16 years ago

Originally Posted by DoktorBraun

Please post your personal results here

Yes, it's worth it. If you know how to harness the power of content marketing (articles, videos, social media, using networks to get natural backlinks, harnessing the power of RSS, utilizing press releases, etc.) it's very much worth it because you will get traffic to your website to the point where you won't be able to stop it.

Just writing articles and submitting to directories is a lot of hard work and the decent payoff might not even hit until you've submitted 300 to 500 articles! But that was article marketing a few years ago, today it's definitely evolved which is why Warriors should pay close attention to what guys like Tim Gorman and Allen Graves have to say. Smart article marketers leverage their efforts by outsourcing, using networks, services, combining it with other methods, etc.

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Mike Murphy

16 years ago

Article marketing should only be "part" of your overall traffic plan. It still works fine and as Tim pointed out...there's just a lot more players playing the same game now.

Keep at it and keep an eye on your metrics...they'll tell you how you're doing. I still make sales from articles I wrote ages ago.

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MalloryMedia

16 years ago

Like Anthony2 said, it has to be part of an overall marketing strategy. If all you are doing is article marketing, you're selling yourself short.

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Lawrh

16 years ago

The only way you will get a definitive answer is to stop asking if it works and just do it and find out for yourself. Without experience you cannot even judge if the opinions of others are valid. The resources to learn are here, study then start publishing.

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Mert Elver 16 years ago

Depends on your niche competition.

Well if you are working on niche with a little competition around, go with it. You will be successful.

But if you are working on niche witih high competition, Article Marketing will only help you to get some backlinks.
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Ernie Lo

16 years ago

Yes! Very much worth it, especially in a niche other than IM...

In fact being in a niche is better in every way I think....you should see my Adsense CTR too

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travlinguy

16 years ago

If you're throwing up crap articles loaded with keywords but short on real info or some other type of spun garbage, nope, it ain't worth it no mo...

Google's hip to that and so is EZA and both are moving toward PUNISHING people who flagrantly abuse the system. Can I get an AMEN? Thanks you! Oh, by punishing I mean rejecting articles and not indexing crapola...

But if you want to write informative, useful articles, yes, article marketing is worth it.

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SEO Alien

16 years ago

Absolutely! Without articles, what would we have to bookmark? What do you tweet? What would you use to get good quality backlinks from high ranking sites to your sites?

You can get an article to the top of the search engines very quickly and have it stay there for a long time for very competitive keyphrases. It works, does take a little time, but when done correctly will give you great results. Please visit our posts on tips and tricks that will help your articles get to the top of Google!

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Jamian

16 years ago

Originally Posted by DoktorBraun

Please post your personal results here

Article marketing is one of the major key player in IM and still very affective yet one of the best tool to build your list.

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kchui1028

16 years ago

when it comes to SEO and building traffic, it's better to leave it to the professionals. Article Marketing, building backlinks, social media links, etc. are all a lot of work to do it yourself.

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Marhelper

16 years ago

I am still doing very well with it. I honestly have not noticed much of a difference since I first started a few years ago.

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l3vi501

16 years ago

When someone ask me if something is worth it, I first have to ask what are we comparing that "worth it" to. If we care comparing it to 10 links for 1 hour or writing and submitting, then maybe it is worth it. On the other hand, if I was comparing one week for 100 links to two hours working on a paid blog post with a link-bait for 1,000+ links that cost $200, then my answer is no.

If I do any writing at all I will go guest blog post and try to get a link from giving out good advice.

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seosuperstar2014

16 years ago

Yes it is. I am getting 70% visitors from my ezinearticles.

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JAIDEEP2959 16 years ago

Here are the proofs of my current article :

It was on the first page for quite some time.
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Gwen_Iler

16 years ago

I am having problems with article marketing.... Onlywire doesn't give much......

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TimG 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Gwen_Iler

I am having problems with article marketing.... Onlywire doesn't give much......

Can you be more specific in terms of what types of problems? We might be able to help you out.

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  Originally Posted by TimG
  
  Can you be more specific in terms of what types of problems? We might be able to help you out.
  
  Tim
  
  Well, I cant seem to see the problem....Onlywire gives my articles just 1 or 2 traffic a day.... My articles are keyword rich with high quality but it just doesn't have kicks....
  
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FredJones 16 years ago

Article marketing today is far ahead of its Bum Marketing days. You need to really diversify and strategize, and leverage all the options that have come up as necessary evils today.

Let's try to understand a difference of two questions and their respective answers.

Does article marketing still work as an art? Oh yeah, absolutely. It works as well as ever, and I believe it will continue to, since the general (online/offline/both) buyer psychology has not changed much at least in the last 2-4 years.

Does article marketnig work for you and me as professionals? Yes, only if you really show up in the niche - not by writing articles like a bum any more. It may involve much more such as bookmarking, video distribution, slide sharing, press releases and so on. No, otherwise, thanks to the cut-thhroat competition that has emerged with time.

So, to make it clear, buyers still buy from article marketing, but to reach the buyer the seller has to work smarter now to which many people may not have adapted well enough with time.
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tyroneshum

16 years ago

In order to continue to reap the rewards from article marketing you must evolve and leverage the heck out of every article you write. It can no longer simply be as simple as write an article and submit it to Ezinearticles.com.

I believe this knocks heads off. People have often been seeing writing articles as "pretend you know everything" thing but it's actually not. Being effective in article marketing and writing articles itself is a serious one - it requires research, experience and taking action to be able to express what you have learned on that subject. As a result, that article will sound much "real" than those from bum marketers making you even more prominent as you produce the "good" ones which are worth reading and buying.

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brunski57 16 years ago

Only if you are selling a course on "Article Marketing"
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Ty Neal

16 years ago

Article Marketing IS totally worth it, It good to have content all over the internet. Article marketing is more long term and a lot of marketers are looking for that short term success. I will say dive into PPC to get that instant traffic

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MarketingSPY

16 years ago

We simply outsource article marketing, link building, social media, etc ... and allow it all to integrate together. It all works - but you must do it all every day.

Happy Trails!

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David Raybould

16 years ago

After getting almost seven hundred thousand
visitors and counting, yes, I'd say it's worth it.

-David Raybould

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TimG 16 years ago

Originally Posted by David Raybould

After getting almost seven hundred thousand
visitors and counting, yes, I'd say it's worth it.

-David Raybould

David,
Those are impressive stats...very impressive. Job well done to you Sir!!

Respectfully,
Tim
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  Originally Posted by TimG
  
  David,
  Those are impressive stats...very impressive. Job well done to you Sir!!
  
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  Thanks, Tim
  
  A lot of people say that article
  marketing is dead, or whatever...
  
  ... just wanted to show them
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stevecane

16 years ago

Amazing stats, you must be keen and dedicated to write almost 8,000 articles. Are those outsourced?

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paj_mccarthy 16 years ago

Originally Posted by stevecane

Amazing stats, you must be keen and dedicated to write almost 8,000 articles. Are those outsourced?

Ste

No, he's only written 274 articles.

The 7,954 number refers to the amount of times that one of his 274 articles have been published on other sites.
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PinkSassyRN

16 years ago

Yes it's worth it,but don't just give your 100% focus on Article Marketing alone. In fact, it should be accompanied with quality backlinks, use of social media and right keyword then you're good to go.

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Chris Worner

16 years ago

Who are you writing articles for? People or the search engines?

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Robert Puddy

16 years ago

I'm sure it works if you put enough effort into it...

Its the putting effort into it that makes it inefficient, and unnatractive to me.

I would much sooner you put the effort in, and do the work then when your good at it, along comes someone like me and bribes you to send that traffic to me when your done with it.

So much easier to let someone else do the work and you cash in on their effort

Robert

PS: This the same for any kind of traffic generation skill by the way not just article marketing

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Chris Hunter

16 years ago

David,

When I go to EZA and look up your name, as displayed in your image, there aren't 274 live articles under the name of David Raybould.

What am I missing here?

I guess I'm a bit confused, and I understand pen names, but if you have David Raybould selected as the author to display in your image, why am I not seeing all 274 of your articles under David Raybould when I go to EZA?

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David Raybould

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris Hunter

David,

When I go to EZA and look up your name, as displayed in your image, there aren't 274 live articles under the name of David Raybould.

What am I missing here?

I guess I'm a bit confused, and I understand pen names, but if you have David Raybould selected as the author to display in your image, why am I not seeing all 274 of your articles under David Raybould when I go to EZA?

No, you won't see all of anyone's
articles unless they're all under the
same name.

You're not missing anything.

There are a few crappy old articles
under my own name, but most are
under pen names. You're seeing the
old ones, but anything under a pen
name won't display unless you know
the name of the pen author to search
for.

Make sense?

If you have an EZA account and you
use pen names, log in and you'll see
the same thing.

Also my name isn't selected in that
example pic, it's simply what I see when
I first log in.

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Chris Hunter

16 years ago

Thanks, David. I wasn't meaning to accuse you of anything. I was genuinely confused with what I was seeing.

Thanks!

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unclepennybags 16 years ago

There are mainly two kinds of article marketing, at least to me. There is direct article marketing where your affiliate link is in the resource box and then there is article marketing for your affiliate sites or landing pages or whatever promotions.

I have started out with direct article marketing and had some success. But in order to do this right you need to have QUALITY articles. Article marketing for your sites are different because they should just be short sweet, and to the point with a simple resource box that tells the reader to click on the link to learn more.

Is it worth it? Absolutely as long as you know what you are doing. It is one of the most common strategies because it is free and possibly the best way for broke newbies to start out. I should know because I was one.
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NiyazK

16 years ago

For Me Article Marketing is a continuous source of traffic. Getting a few well written articles on high ranking article directories would mean slow and continuous traffic

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Hardi Wijaya

16 years ago

Yes, it is.

But the true power comes from the authority sites that host your articles. Blind distribution could waste your time and money.

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holla22

16 years ago

Wow David, Outstanding results there!

I must say the power is there. I have for example one article with 102 views and 17 clicks and click rate of 16.7%. Now that just 'n little example of the power. So I would say you aren't doing it right if you ain't getting any results.

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frankstar

16 years ago

Well! Those results were pretty huge! As I read through this thread I was thinking - the originator of the thread wanted results - maybe I'll post some of mine, and then boom! Staggering results.

I don't think article marketing is dead - but here is a slightly different take on it and what needs to be done for article marketing to be successful. It's a simplified model, but when I thought about this it makes the situation clearer.

Lets say you have selected a product to sell, and you get $20 commision when its sold. The conversion rate of the sales page is %2. A click through rate of 15% is achievable for your article. Viewing figures of 150 a month is also achievable.

So putting that all together, 150 * 0.15 * 0.02*$20 = $9

If you achieved these figures, ie a 15% CTR, had a product that converted 2%, got 150 views a month and had a product that got you $20 a sales, then every article you write would make you on average $9 a month.

This means that to make say $10000 a month from article marketing, you'll need to create 1,111 articles.

That's a lot of articles - but it maybe you can do it in less.

So article marketing isn't dead - but you have to work hard at it. It's about researching, writing, promoting the article effectively, and tracking the results, finding out what coould boost your viewings, clicks throughs and conversions.

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TimG

16 years ago

Originally Posted by frankstar

Lets say you have selected a product to sell, and you get $20 commision when its sold. The conversion rate of the sales page is %2. A click through rate of 15% is achievable for your article. Viewing figures of 150 a month is also achievable.

So putting that all together, 150 * 0.15 * 0.02*$20 = $9

If you achieved these figures, ie a 15% CTR, had a product that converted 2%, got 150 views a month and had a product that got you $20 a sales, then every article you write would make you on average $9 a month.

This means that to make say $10000 a month from article marketing, you'll need to create 1,111 articles.

That's a lot of articles - but it maybe you can do it in less.

So article marketing isn't dead - but you have to work hard at it. It's about researching, writing, promoting the article effectively, and tracking the results, finding out what coould boost your viewings, clicks throughs and conversions.

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Francis,
Good summary of what takes place. I don't think we are quite there yet where over 1000 articles is needed to dominate a niche but the overall number required to be competitive and profitable is getting higher every day.

5 years ago you could make a fortune with as little as 25 to 50 articles. The numbers required gradually grew to 150 and has now started inching well above 250 articles in order to effectively drive a steady stream of traffic.

Right now I think if you pump out between 400-500 articles for a niche you can still do well in that niche. Mind you, I'm only talking about Ezinearticles.com in this example.

You can lower the number of required articles if you leverage each individual article correctly. The synergy created from the leveraging process allows you to create the same traffic (in many cases actually more) with fewer articles.

So 25 properly leveraged articles would have the same traffic generating/income producing capabilities as 400-500 non leveraged articles.

Hopefully that all made some sense -

Respectfully,
Tim

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Dalton Dewar

16 years ago

It depends on what is your goal. Clearly, if your goal is make a lot of upfront money then article marketing is not the most effective strategy. However, if your goal is long-term business strategy then certainly article marketing should be an important part of your marketing campaign. You have to look at the viral effect of article marketing, from a financial standpoint it's a free strategy that could be generating leads for you for years to come. Hope this gives you a better perspective on this marketing strategy.

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alunmax

16 years ago

Hi,

Yeah. Heard great testimonials for David Raybould as a copywriter, and I'm not doing a Brit solidarity thang! Articles are still well worth writing but you do need keyword research first, and PPC can give you great stats on which terms pull in buyers. You can then optimise articles round those.

I would also suggest you don't have a last para that ends 'finally', or 'in conclusion'. You might as well write 'Please don't read my resource box and whatever you do don't click on my link!'.

I also recommend your keyword term should form the anchor text in your bio box link. Google 'href html' and paste the code straight into the resource box and then make the changes.

Adios!

Alun from England

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OfferJunkie

16 years ago

WOW !! Very impressive stats David...I was going to put in my 2 cents worth but you just made me speechless.

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Terry Hatfield

16 years ago

LOL.

It isn't article marketing anyomre . . . It is MARKET the Article!

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TimG 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Terry Hatfield

LOL.

It isn't article marketing anyomre . . . It is MARKET the Article!

Exactly - Instead of Article Marketing it is more along the lines of Article Leveraging.

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brokenblade

16 years ago

Yes it is worth it. From experience, I've tried everything I could from Ad exchanges, link exchanges, etc. Article Marketing is one of the most effective ways to earn money online. You will definitely gain a lot more traffic to your site. The traffic is targeted as well.

My only problem with Article Marketing is that I wish I had discovered it a lot earlier. I would've saved myself a lot of frustration. If there is one marketing strategy that is effective, it is article marketing.

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franamico

16 years ago

Originally Posted by DoktorBraun

Please post your personal results here

I post my best content on ezinearticles.com and get on google first page the day after. Same thing with articles that I use to start threads in forums.

It depends on how you write them. Do you use bullet points? are they short enough? is the content very very special? (I am sure it is).

I try to imagine I am somebody who's looking for good information and spend a lot of time doing e research (not just keyword research).

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bestIMtools

16 years ago

Yes. That's how I've built my business to six figures a year. But there's two ways to do article marketing: (1) to write and submit to thousands of directories that nobody read to get backlinks and (2) to write for a reading audience to a blog or EzineArticles.com, etc.

A combination of both is necessary and will bear fruit in the LOOOONG run!

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RentItNow

16 years ago

I think what has changed is that searchers believe they are not going to find answers to their problems inside an ezine article (too much sifting through over marketed articles). Instead, the authority of the link has given way to video (by far i would say).

Now on the end of conversions, i am seeing great numbers with a well written "Blah Blah Sucks" article. Go figure!

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GeorgR.

16 years ago

Originally Posted by DoktorBraun

Please post your personal results here

It's way more worth it than Adwords, especially for affiliate merketing liek clickbank where so many products are paying < $30. Honestly, WAY better ROI hiring some writers instead of messing around with adwords.

Furthermore, articlemarketing can be more than "only" ezine or goarticles, i consider UAW, Seolinkvine etc. also part of "article marketing". It builds backlinks, boosts google rank, gives clicks and targeted traffic...so many ways to use articles!

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woolabee 16 years ago

Article marketing is still extremely effective in my opinion. I have to agree though, there is much more competition online in the article directories nowadays.
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warriorkay

16 years ago

I agree with MOST of what has been said already,
to make Article Marketing worth it for you, you have
to do MORE than the average Joe. It's certainly
and truly not enough to just write articles and
submit to EzineArticles anymore. What's MOST
important right now is the QUANTITY and QUALITY
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Igor Kheifets

16 years ago

It only works if you put the time and the effort into it.

Also, it's highly important to use software for submission-that
where the real trick is.

In a nutshell-Article Marketing is perfect for traffic generation if
you're willing to invest the time into it or pay someone to do it for you.

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nadavs

16 years ago

Article marketing works if you do it well. It's about quality, quantity, time, and good landing page. If you have all four together, you're on your way to success with article marketing.

If you don't have one or some of the four requirements, learn them or pay someone to do it for you. You can't succeed without them.

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TimG

16 years ago

Originally Posted by cjmo75

I recently watched a video about how to write better articles that got click throughs as high as 50%. The whole idea is to write the article in more of a sales letter format. Also, the articles should always be 300-350 words.

Just keep in mind that an article under 400 words won't appear in Ezinearticles.com most viewed list if that is one of your goals.

Also, here is one more validation that article marketing works - If it didn't, I wouldn't be up past midnight writing and submitting articles on how to prevent yeast infections for one of my pen names -

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Tim

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16 years ago

It does if you know what you're doing.

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