Is Article Marketing a Good Traffic Source?

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Hey Guys

So I've been following the advice of Chris P Kent's method of gaining traffic to my squeeze page, and it's going reasonably well so far, I think!

Within his method, he recommends writing articles, relevant to what I'm selling, on low competition, but highly searched terms, and posting them on places like goarticles.com etc.

I followed the exact method advocated, yet my article is only at the bottom of page two of google (Eric Wong Strength and Conditioning - Sports - Martial Arts), having had only 2 views. Which leads me to wonder, is this method still worth it?

Of course, if anyone can point out any mistakes I've made, I will be very grateful for advice.

Thanks
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  • Article marketing has taken a bit of a back step with googles recent updates that does not mean it is still not effective. I would not base my whole business on it though. Personally I recommend list building and direct response marketing for obvious reasons, I think most would agree.
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    • Thanks for the advice!

      Sorry, I should have been more specific. I am building a list to market to, and focussing on methods to generate traffic to my squeeze page. One of the methods advocated for generating traffic is article marketing.

      I am also doing videos, uploaded to multiple sites via OneLoad and forum posting.

      Any other ideas of methods that are up to date, and effective?

      Thanks!
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      Article marketing is an absolutely outstanding traffic source. It produces floods of non-SEO traffic which is already highly targeted, without your having to do the targeting yourself: it doesn't get much better than that.

      But what you're asking about isn't "article marketing": it's "article directory marketing", and that's a dreadful traffic source.

      This post and the links inside it (if you click to read them all) explain the differences pretty clearly, and will help you, I hope and trust.

      Post #6 of that same thread explains in detail why it would be a huge mistake to try to get traffic from article directories.

      You might notice that over the last year or so, there've been 100+ threads here with titles like "Article Marketing Is Dead" and "Article Marketing Doesn't Work Any More". What all those threads have in common is that they've been started off by people who've been doing exactly what you're asking about, above, in the mistaken belief that it's "article marketing" (whereas it's actually "article directory marketing"), so they're quite right about it being "dead", but actually entirely wrong about what it is.
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  • Sure article writing still works for me.. I always post unique article on my website first (even if it's a squeeze page) and have it indexed by google before posting it anywhere else..

    I have a squeeze page in the MMO niche that's already rank in page 1 within 3 months because I've included unique content in it.. FREE Video - It's Time to Work Smart Instead of Just Working Hardautomated-passive-income.com <-- Only 6 articles

    Hope this help,
    Jeremiah
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  • Article marketing is one of the best traffic sources and it will always be. The reason
    people are saying it doesn't work is because the article directories have declined recently.

    The right way is publish your articles on your blog, get them indexed, and then you
    can post them in other places.

    That way you bring all the traffic to your blog and not the article directory, building an
    authority website, and getting high ranking.
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    • Awesome, thanks. This forum is so useful and the members are so helpful!

      I've been participating in some Mixed Martial Arts forums recently, and one in particular, sherdog.net, is SOOO aggressive! The guys on there are just like playground bullies
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    • Thanks Guys,

      I think I need to setup a blog. Can someone let me know the best way of doing this?

      I am a newbie when it comes to Wordpress. Is there some kind of software that can help me to estup a blog?

      Cheers,
      Ricky.
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  • I was going to comment on here, then I read Alexa's comment. There is not much more to be said just follow the advice she gave you.

    -Lee
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  • I don't recommend using article to drive traffic to my site 100%. If i am submitting content to article directories there is always more than one reason.

    You don't own the directories besides more than halve of your traffic/effort will go to the directory and their ads.

    Build your own site instead when you can.
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  • Article marketing can be a great source of traffic, if executed properly. Your content needs to be high-quality and unique. If you have several high-quality, unique articles at your disposal, you can submit them to article directories or news feeds while linking back to your main site.
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    • You've had some excellent advice, so I just want to touch on this point a bit more.

      If you are writing to complete novices, a solid grasp of the basic terminology might be enough to establish an at least superior level of expertise to their own.

      As you climb the ladder, the devil is in the details. The broad brush strokes don't change, but the small stuff does.

      Take something like hitting a baseball. At the simplest, most basic end, you hand someone a bat and tell them to hold the little end and try to hit the ball with the big end. At it's most complex, you'll be talking about things like grip, pressure, set to the plate, weight distribution, timing and I don't know what else. But a true expert will.

      If I'm talking to another fishing nut, we might spend considerable time debating what hook size and style to use, which knot to attach it to the line with in different situations, and on and on. I would never presume to bury a beginner under that much info. I'd give advice on one style, knot, whatever that I know works and send them out to do their best.

      Write for the audience for which you can competently add value. As you study and learn, that audience will grow - both in size and sophistication.
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  • For me article marketing has been less effective over the last few years, but I find ezine articles by far the best site for getting targetted traffic.
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    • Article marketing will continue and always be one of the consistent way of generating traffic even when you are sleeping or lost..

      Article marketing also involves blog posting....

      In my own experience, submiting to article directories... in one way is better..

      Consider a scenerio where you have a new site or blog and wants traffic...and another scenerio when you really want to rank well in google and have all the time, money and patient to do so..

      In the first instance...article marketing in the form of submitting to article directories is best and effective for immediate result and profit..

      While in the long run... though article directories posting it is still usefull, you can instead get the benefit for unique content from google for creating your own blog..

      You will agree with me that ranking high takes a lot of resources and time especially for a newbie so you decide which is best for you.

      I will advice if you have a business presense you should use the initial scenerio then as you get more profit you can as well..use both (thats after posting the content to your site or blog and google get it indexed.)

      On the contrary.. if you have the time and resources you can build your way through marketing your blog...to improve your google ranking..hehhe

      I hope this helps...

      Jonathan
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  • Forum traffic is wayyy better in terms of ROI compared to Article Marketing, although the latter is good for SEO.

    You can easily get 140-150 views a day through forums and blog comments and it can be targeted traffic to your squeeze page. If you work overtime you can easily get 2-3x that.
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    • Oh yeah? How is that working out for you?


      Really? How much money are you making from those Ezinearticles leads you are getting?



      Interesting. How many views are you getting to your squeezepage per day? How many are signing-up? How many are actually buying from you with that method?

      I only ask because it seems a little silly to you know, take people from a platform where it is very easy to have open conversations and build relationships (like a forum) and transfer them to a platform where it is much more difficult to build a relationship and get them to even read the things you write (like an email list)?

      Also, how are those articles helping with SEO? And why would you use articles, which can attract very high quality buyers to you, in the hopes that you might get some slightly targeted, low quality traffic from Google?
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    • Thank you, I will quit wasting my time with articles then. Perhaps I should quit forum marketing, too?

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      By the way afilmarket, I have a couple of Wong's books and they are superb. I love his strength conditioning methods without too many heavy weights, which is great for joints and ligaments. (Because what is the point of having hulking muscles and weakened joints? LOL)

      But I have to ask, what are you trying to sell? Because if you are selling those books
      through affiliate links or something, it isn't going to make you very much. Unless you are
      using it to build a buyer's list and market more expensive products, you should really
      choose something that will make you a lot more money.
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  • UAW and Article Syndication is the way to go
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  • Article marketing is always going to be alive.

    Why?

    Well because the internet and yes GOOGLE revolves around fresh content. As long as your articles make sense and are helping someones issue, then yes article marketing will work just fine for you.

    It does not work as good as it did say 2 years ago, but people will still visit article directories (The popular ones) and even if you want to build backlinks with them, its not a bad idea either.

    -Omar
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  • Article Marketing can boost your rankings too.
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  • Article marketing is a sure-fire way of increasing your web site traffic. So far, it is one of the tactics that is able to stand with time.

    S. Roberts
    Empower Network Review
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  • It can be a great traffic source with good keyword research and well written articles. I will tell you that it used to be a much more valuable traffic resource before Google decided to go crazy with all the updating and dropping large article directories in the rankings.
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    • In my experience, there is perhaps no better traffic source than article marketing; over 90% of all my traffic and sales within some of the most "saturated" niches are the result of readers of my articles.

      To put this in more perspective, article marketing in its highest form - article syndication, can be an extremely powerful tool in its own right, independent of Google or any SEO consideration. For example, within any given viable niche there may be millions of possible candidates for publication of articles.

      Because of this very powerful principle of leverage, using article syndication, it does not take many articles at all to just completely bypass the most intense competition for keywords and ranking.
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  • of course its a good source of traffic,for me i think its all depend on the source box if you just make a good source box you will get hot traffic and i used to follow craig maco fast seo attack wso and its really works.
  • myob is right, alot of our traffic is coming from PPC and articles syndicated in the right spots.

    Why? well because this is highly targeted and you do not really have to worry about ranking and seo much at all.
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  • you don't really see great results by submitting one or two articles.
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    • You will not see good results from articles if you are spamming directories, yes especially with panda updates abound.

      But with the right syndication you can literally get a flood of sales and subscribers with one article. We have done this numerous times.

      Just depends on which outlets you are targeting and their reach.
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      Not if you're submitting to multiple article directories, no.

      But as explained in so many threads here, that's just article directory marketing, not "article marketing".

      On the other hand, if you publish one or two high quality articles on your own site and then syndicate them as widely as possible to relevant sites of quality, you can easily attract floods of highly targeted traffic from them. Even in "competitive niches", with very small numbers of articles.

      http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794
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  • Article marketing is still a good traffic source. Google has been deindexing not-so-helpful sites so adding in better content is a great idea. Don't be disheartened by not having views after only a few articles.

    Try uploading articles in different categories and you might just hit the jackpot.

    Good luck!
    Ryuchi
  • Yes Article Marketing a Good Traffic Source but We need to follow some rules before publishing the Article like How good quality your Article Is and How much Informative.
  • Article Marketing is one of the best resources for ultra targeted traffic. Quality articles always ranks and gets me a good traffic.
  • Try creating quality, informative articles on your topic and create a YouTube video about it.
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  • I think it is still very effective. I think the major changes google recently made will directly effect those already with a million backlinks. You will be ok, but it wouldn't hurt to try other forms of marketing also.
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    • Article marketing the way we used to do it isn't such a good traffic source any more (submitting to the directories like EZA etc).

      You can get alot more traffic these days just by posting your article on your own blog or site, building some backlinks to it and getting it ranked in the search engines.

      I've had some good success with guest posting. Depending on your niche you should be able to find some popular, high traffic sites that accept guest posts. You can get a huge short term influx of traffic from these.
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  • It's not as good as video marketing or SEO.
  • I agree on what Alexa said here. Get to know the difference between Article Marketing and Article directory Marketing.
  • It's definitely better writing interesting articles for your own website and not for other websites like article directories. If someone is looking for some info, he's not looking into article directories, but on search engines. I think is better to find the article on your site than finding it on other sites, hoping they will click on a link and visit yours.
  • as long as the big,bad search engines continue to do what they do best ... "search for
    content" article writing will ALWAYS be relevant with online marketing
    take your ORIGINAL articles and create videos out of them and send them video
    submission sites (Traffic Geyser)
    or how about publishing your article content with Ezine newsletters
    remember.. content is king
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  • There are various techniques to grab attention of web traffic. One of them is article marketing. Why not try this? I have received positive response for my website. There are many who have not. But there is no harm to try. What I feel that when opting for article marketing, you should make sure all the articles you publish online are content rich, grammatically correct and carry relevant information related to your business, services or products.
  • This subject seems to have been around for a while and will probably be around for a bit longer yet I think.

    I have learnt so much from following Alexas posts and the best part is I have acted on what I have learnt and guess what - it works! very quick, noticable increases in ALexa rankings, backlinks and most importantly traffic!

    I think it's simple, follow someone who knows what they are doing. Don't reinvent the wheel.
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  • Article marketing is my second choice in my marketing career. Ezine directory, squidoo gave me a great success.
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  • Very insightful Alexa. Good knowledge by you. Of course it comes down to testing and configuring what works for you. With that in mind I shall apply some of your insight to my efforts and see where it goes.
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