Writing Articles does it work anymore?

Only really if the links you get with them are from relevant sites ("numbers of backlinks" alone mean almost nothing, these days). So you need to get your article syndicated to relevant sites in your niches.

Yes - it's true: even their owners say so.

But article directory backlinks weren't really worth having for a couple of years before that, anyway. It's true that the Panda update was probably the last nail in the already-closed coffin-lid of "article directory marketing", though.

But that isn't the end of "article marketing" at all: that hasn't changed.

The point is: article directories were never designed or intended for this purpose anyway, and this isn't a sensible or logical way to use them. They're a stepping-stone to better places. If your articles get picked up from article directories and syndicated to relevant sites, it can still be very well worth while - and the Panda update did no damage at all to that.

But there's very little point in trying to use directories for their own backlinks - and certainly not for their own traffic, obviously (we all lose most of that traffic: nobody has a 100% click-through rate!).

These recent threads are worth a read-through, to appreciate the current position with article marketing, including "how to use article directories".

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

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

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

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...mith-myob.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...e-wonders.html

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

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

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

I used to use article marketing to drive traffic to my adsense sites. It worked beautifully. I tried again this year, even before the Panda update - epic fail. A single article used to drive dozens of visitors to my websites - now it drives 2 or 3. Huge waste of time. I did the exact same thing that I used to do, and it no longer works.

What DOES work for me is having built up a lot of followers on social media sites, writing good, high quality posts on my blogs, and tweeting links to those post with intriguing headlines - in between socializing and interacting with people on social media sites.

I'm writing articles and blogs but I also am adding video. YouTube videos rank great with SEO.

Ya they still do. Funny thing is, the more people who think it doesn't work anymore because of the Panda update, the better it is for people who submit good articles and make it work. But don't just stop at article marketing directories. Consider repurposing the content into pdf reports and submit them to places like scribd and slideshare. Or take the same content and shoot some slideshow videos.

Google still gives huge amounts of juice for article backlinks. Any one who tells you otherwise doesn't know how to do it right.

I feel like many article directories - well-known ones like EZA and ArticlesBase, as well as hidden gems - simply became harder to please. In other words, Google got needier with them. You used to get away with a simple <a href> - now you need to ensure you rel="dofollow" it and a bunch of other things. The quality of the content needs to be ever more relevant, the readability needs to be more pleasing to the eye.

Search engines are getting smarter, and this is only the beginning.

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I think so as far as your article is unique and interesting...

I say YES! I've been writing articles for my sites and it is working. I am getting great traffic and hope for more.

It works, just not as easily as it used to. You can't get away with junk articles anymore. The people who have always supplied relevant content will not be affected by any of the changes. The less junk there is floating around out there, the better it is for everyone involved.

I would consider Rank Jumpers and take your post seriously if I did not see the shameless promotion in your footer. Still worth taking a look I guess.

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thanks guys great points to think about!!!

Writing good quality articles that are relevant to your website, will work well when using links.

Hi Ron, it just isn't about "article marketing and SEO".

It's about what Matt Cutts chose that day to call "article marketing" and SEO.

That day, a little uncharacteristically, he chose something that most successful article marketers I know wouldn't call "article marketing" at all: they'd call it either "article directory marketing" (the common, everday term for it) or "attempts to use article directories for their own traffic and/or their own backlinks" (a wordier but perhaps more accurate description of it).

And everything Cutts - and so many other people - say about that is, of course, entirely correct. But that doesn't make it representative of "article marketing" at all ... so don't let the terminology confuse you, as it has confused so many others.

The essential point is that "article marketing" isn't primarily about SEO. A read-through of all the little threads I've linked to in my post above (#2) will make sense of it for you, if you want to try to ease that confusion about what "article marketing" actually means and refers to.

As suggested by many warriors...writing was good sometimes back and writers were making pretty good money and now..if you can spend much time on social networking and bookmarking websites...you will reserve a good position in google.