Is bum marketing dead?

by Bill_Lawrence

Posted: 12 years ago 14 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I'm just getting my feet wet again with IM. I've been away for almost a year. I'm just wondering if bum marketing is dead?

#bum #dead #marketing

Chris Worner 12 years ago

In terms of submitting articles to EZA and banging your head against a wall building backlinks to those articles hoping that they rank in Google?

Yes (For the most part at least) The farmer and panda updates made sure of that. EZA lost in upwards of 90% of its search engine rankings. Moreoever why would you want to make yourself entirely dependent on EZA for traffic? Most of it gets lost to all the Adsense ads. Plus they can delete all your content at any time, leaving you out to dry.

However some people still swear by submitting mass amounts of articles for direct traffic from EZA itself. That still works. (Directory marketing) Though not as much as it used to.

Syndication marketing will never die however.

I guess it depends on your definition of bum marketing.

-Chris
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imgeek2727 12 years ago

It's not dead, but not nearly as effective as it used to be. Depends on the niche and competition too.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago
  
  Funny ... it feels like only the other day we had quite a long thread asking "Is bum marketing dead?"
  
  Oh ... wait ... it was only the other day: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...rk-2012-a.html
  
  And these slightly earlier discussions (among 100+ others) were also interesting ...
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ally-dead.html
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ng-method.html
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...m-journey.html
  
  Edited to add: sorry - I was typing while Anne posted, just above!
  
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AnniePot 12 years ago

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5719186
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NACAdam 12 years ago

Hell no I am banking off article marketing it will never be dead
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Bill_Lawrence 12 years ago

Thanks NACAdam,

Are you using ezinearticles?
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- NACAdam 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Bill_Lawrence
  
  Thanks NACAdam,
  
  Are you using ezinearticles?
  
  Yeah Ezine articles haha check this out I am using about the top 20 or so article directories posting in the work at home , IM niche then in the resource box I have my affiliate link back to a WSO not even to a website and I am killing it haha
  
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  los s 12 years ago
  
  no its not
  
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  BK42 12 years ago
  
  Hey Adam I get an "error detected" from paypal on your bottom link. It's on you birthday offer. Just a heads up.
  
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celente 12 years ago

nope it aint dead, but its not as effective.

We changed from bum marketing back in 2010 / 2011 when we saw the first google changes. I am glad we did that, and now get lots of traffic through syndication and also directories and becoming friends with high traffic webmasters and trade journals. This...in my opinion is better than any article marketing secrets you will hear.

Do the hard work, and get the good results you are after. Simple as that.
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bguest 12 years ago

its not working right now
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jamesrich1 12 years ago

Its not dead, its more competitive. The copywriters in action are taking over.
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Cataclysm1987 12 years ago

Traditional bum marketing is dead. No more EZA, Goarticles, Hub Pages or USFreeAds.

Here's the new strategy:

1. Write 20 articles
2. Turn those 20 articles into videos (You can do this on Fiverr or use a service like Xtranormal to make a free video)
3. Submit and start backlinking like crazy!

Youtube is the new EZA.
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