Proof that article marketing is NOT dead

Yep I know ... article marketing pays for my holidays

Done correctly and if its written about something people want you can do really well, the problem is all the people who say that it is dead don't do it properly.

Yeah, I need to do more of it

Aww Man, No Article Marketing Is No Where Close to dead, I just made 2 sales off an article that I posted 4 months ago.

Those are big numbers. AM is not dead. I still have articles from 4 yrs ago that still get picked up and re-posted.

Those are definitely some impressive numbers. Can't say I sport anything like that, but I do earn a decent supplemental income with article marketing.

Wow! Article marketing is not dead, but you can't just write articles and expect them to alwyas stay at the top. You actually need to build back links to your articles so that they can maintain ranking. It's hard to figure out the perfect system.

Nice numbers. Article marketing is definitely not dead. People just need to be patient to see the results of it.

I know a guy that pulls a couple grand a week from article marketing, and he hasn't posted a new article in like 6 months lol.

It all comes down to how good your contents are and how competitive the niche is! Its still all hardwork though. Look at the top author for example, 1.7k articles submitted in 3 years. That shows a lot of commitment and hard work

Okay ... Now That's Something Cool ..

I think now i have to work hard to get articles for my sites ..

It definitely works ....

Of course, it's not dead in general. But it might be for a specific individual.

Maybe I am jaded, but I often tend to think that everytime I see an article in EZA that has an astronomical view count, that the author paid for those views. Whats really funny is when the article is a week old and it has over 100K views.

Back on topic,

article marketing will never get old, as long as you do it properly.

Chris

Thanks for this useful thread, This is what I need cause I'm in the mid of confusion about article marketing

Well if anything, these examples show that article directories, in particular EZA, are not dead more so than "article marketing" itself.

It's no surprise, though, really. Not when you consider how many people promote their content on the directory, instead of promoting their content on their own site. Worse, others put their content on the directories exclusively.

I have done all of the above. But I've learned my ways (I swear.)

The only people who say things are dead are:

1. People who can't do it
2. People who want you to buy something else
3. Widows

They're all a miserable bunch, and need all the sympathy they can get.

That's an impressive click through rate....I wish I could send even 25% of that rate toward my wine site from articles, which I can usually rank on page 1 for an individual winery

I'm not even sure how Article Marketing can die... unless people forget how to read, it ain't happening.

I have to agree that article marketing is not dead, and you'd be hardpressed to convince me that it ever will be dead. Information search is the second largest online activity, ranking only behind email... and articles are information.

However, with the sweeping changes in the noted article directories, and within the big "G" and other search engines, more people find it difficult to get their less than quality junk accepted. Therefore, they say article marketing is dead.

Personally, I do not use the article directories any longer because I found something better for my article marketing efforts... online magazines. Mind you, I did not say ezines, but actual online magazines. It is akin to getting your articles accepted and published in print magazines, but without a lot of the headaches.

I have written articles in the top ranked online magazine that have made it to page one in google in a matter of hours... unlike eza and others where you would still be waiting to get accepted.

I, like many other Warriors have found that writing articles for online magazines can ge you massive backlinks instantly, manke money almost as soon as your article is published, grab subscribers, and generate residual income.

Article marketing dead? NO! The way you market with articles now? YES!

Someone said the other day that Google was finished!

Someone else said the world was going to end soon, or was that back at Y2K.

I'm sure there is a meteor going to hit soon anyway, so what's the point doing articles...

We all better give up now I suppose....

There are a lot of things online that are not really dead but just
not as alive as they use to be. So they are alive but it takes a
lot more to keep them out of the grave.

-Ray Edwards

Lots of $$$ for him.
He could prob do this for a living having 1746 articles and counting.

Don't believe article marketing can die. Everything you can is an article or can be an article. Articles can evolve, but never die out.

More concrete proof that you must do the testing yourself. It will teach you a whole lot more than any bantering about what doesn't work. Consistent, well-planned article marketing campaigns still work for those who put forth the effort.

Notes of caution from someone who makes part of her living from statisitcal anlysis:

1. No one has any idea what the true views are on this EZA account.

For years, including SEVERAL top-selling WSOs, the concept of paying for third-party traffic to generate false views of EZA articles was practiced (and still is).

Don't assume the views are legit. Doesn't mean they aren't, don't get me wrong here. But if you're a lurker don't suddenly stop whatever IM method you're pursuing because you're falling for some possibly-inflated figures.

2. BEWARE advice coming from people in these "pro-article marketing" threads that have ACTIVE WSOs for sale about articles, article-marketing, or anything else related to an obvious reason why they would pimp it as an IM method to focus on.

Again, doesn't mean they're full of **** by any means, but you must always be on guard.

3. At the end of 2008, Ezineartciles had a total of just over 2M articles live and on the directory. It took them nearly a decade to achive that figures. As of today, they're close to 6M...just a few years later.

What this tells you is that people who are throwing hundreds of low-quality articles at the wall hoping some of it will stick through outsourcing have had to increase their efforts to make the same amount of money as previosuly.

You can infer from this that changes are happening to the CORE of the method.

Does this mean it's failing? Not necessarily. Does it mean you're going to have to be talented and have a competitive advantage to make article marketing work? Possibly.

But it does show conclusively that this method is being pursued by an ever-increasing amount of people who are trying to overcome a poor sales funnel by throwing an ever-increasing amount of low quality outsourced articles into the machine.

Just some thoughts to ponder, but it is VERY easy to be led astray as a newbie or lurker by threads like these...that only see the top layer of the surface and offer only cursory examination of what lies beneath.

Article marketing will never never die and will be the most effective in all kinds of seo

The main benefit of article marketing now is backlinks. You should be posting the articles to your own site, and once it gets indexed, then post to the directories. You want your own site to be what's showing up in google, not an EZA.

People are now faking hits to their articles by changing IPs and giving hits.
Also - they are buying hits by the thousands every month.