Is Article Marketing Dead? Or Just In A Coma!

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Is it just me or has anyone else noticed it takes more to succeed at article marketing recently. For example, the traffic I used to get two years ago with one article now takes 5 articles to get. And the clicks-thurs I need to get an order has tripled.

I'd like to just blame it on the economy and competition but could it be article blindness or article resource box blindness? Is anyone experiencing this trend and what are you doing about it?
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  • Nah, all depends on demand of what you are writing about and qualitiy.

    Demand + Quality = Succeed in Article Marketing.
  • Is it just me? or is there an increase of people creating threads(Without doing a forum search) on a topic that has been beaten to death day in and day out over the last week?

    Here are a couple examples:

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html


    Chris
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    • People seem to be getting overly alarmed about this supposed "death" of internet marketing - if they spent half as much time focusing on writing quality content instead, I think they'd be singing a very different tune!

      Paul
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  • Article marketing is dead for everyone that is lazy.

    If you notice downward trends, then you aren't staying polishing in your game. Nothing is dead, only the people who aren't putting enough effort into it.

    Proper keyword research is a necessity.

    I would analyze what has been working for you in the past, and compare articles, statistics and such.
  • A warrior member sent me this on FB, its a post from EA's blog.

    Search Engine Algorithm Changes

    It says how their traffic is down by 11% and that they are making major changes. They are considering changing the minimum words/article from 350 to 400.
  • Just how many funerals can article marketing have?
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    • To be honest, my initial capital to invest in paid traffic came from article marketing.

      Most people are thinking about just releasing articles, direct linking them.

      And they make little or no money.

      The key to this is automation. I have a lot of locally employed workers (students) who write articles at less than USD$1 per 300 word article.

      In article marketing, quantity is important. Amount of traffic determines the amount of money you make.

      Copy is important as well.

      I have now quit article marketing because I went into paid advertising and also offline consulting (really big fishes in my area). I just did not have the energy do article marketing anymore.
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    • COMING FROM EZINE ARTICLES
      • Expect to see our current article rejection rate (40.6%) climb by another ~20%.
      • Articles that are advertorials were already targeted by our team, but they will now get a hyper-focus to reject.
      • The rel="NOFOLLOW" attribute will be added to all links on all articles very soon. Currently, it's included in the article body of any links but now it'll also be included in the resource box.

      The nofollow tag, I believe there is still some link juice or at least SOMETHING counting towards SERPs, people may call me stupid for that, but I think so and will until I prove myself wrong.

      However, I see this update from EA in two different ways. Article marketing may die, from ezinearticles. But either way, that shouldn't be the only place you put articles. Another way is, that this will give them a boost on quality articles, not so much garbage will be accepted.

      I think they are making a dumb decision making links nofollow because I would bet thousands of articles a week, will dwindle down because many SEOs won't mess with nofollow links period.
  • now everyone who has article marketed with Ezinearticles will have all those backlinks taken away (Dofollow->NoFollow)
  • It's time for a purging of the following:

    1. Spun articles
    2. Repeat content
    3. Poorly written articles

    And, did I say repeat content... : )

    If you're researching a product or looking for specific articles, don't you get tired of reading stuff that sounds like an attempt at English?
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    • In addition to that, what really irks me is when I get this vague sense of deja vu, in which I feel that I have just read this very same article a few minutes ago at another site that was also on the first page of Google.
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  • It definately takes more articles now then ever before to get the same amount of traffic that it did several years ago.

    EZA admits that the traffic that could be generated with a dozen articles 5 years ago requires about 200-500 articles today. I think that is a bit high but it does show that more articles are needed.

    They also state that the average article generates about 25-250 page views a year so 10 articles would bring 250-2500 page views and 7-75 clicks to your website.

    100 articles would bring 2,500-25,000 page views and 70-750 clicks to your website.

    Remember, those are average figures so the good and bad articles are lumped together.

    The situation is cloud, murky and bleak but a resourceful marketer will find a way to turn this recent development to their advantage....that's what I intend to do.

    Respectfully,
    Tim
  • Having spent most of the last 24 hours looking deeply into the new Google algorithm change, I am jumping up and down with glee as well.

    Quality content has come home as the Prodigal Son at Google. HURRAY!!!
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    Is Article Marketing Dead? Or Just In A Coma!

    Is it just me or has anyone else noticed it takes more to succeed at article marketing recently. For example, the traffic I used to get two years ago with one article now takes 5 articles to get. And the clicks-thurs I need to get an order has tripled. I'd like to just blame it on the economy and competition but could it be article blindness or article resource box blindness? Is anyone experiencing this trend and what are you doing about it?