should i consider article marketing

Yeah definitely..

Like Henry Ford once said If you think you can or you think you can't you are right.

Of course web 2.0 sites have taken a beating with googles updates but I can tell you that you can still make some good money if you follow a plan and deliver quality content to the end user and do your homework on how and from who to get and give backlinks.

If you understand clearly how it works, certainly.

It's a hugely successful business model, and every Google update over the years seems to improve it further and further.

I don't really know of anything else that can attract the floods of highly targeted traffic that article marketing can.

But stay well away from article directory marketing: that's pretty useless, and the people who try it are all the ones who end up starting those hundreds of threads with titles like "Article Marketing Is Dead". (They're quite right about it being dead - but completely wrong about it being "article marketing"!).

Here's a thread from yesterday/earlier today which might interest you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...g-helpful.html

And here are two posts giving all the low-down on article directories - this one: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872 and then this one from the same thread.

Using article directories still work, but you need to make sure to use the quality ones that get a high-traffic volume. You should also write unique, quality content, and don't use spun content. You need to write your articles in such a way as to leave the reader wanting more so they will visit your site (where the main content that makes the sales should be, i.e. product reviews and such). Over time and once your site grows, you won't even need to use article directories anymore.

Good luck,
Joey

Reading the title of the thread I thought to my self that I would find Alexa in here with a valuable response and this was true!

Also appreciated your response Joe. Had not seen those threads.

Just on a quick and practical note - depending on what the article marketing is for... I always like to remind people that if you start and hold steady with a quality not quantity approach, the possibilities for what you can do with these articles are vast.

Specifically, repurposing content can be a very valuable and powerful technique to drive quality traffic and visitors to your site, product, blog, etc.

For instance, starting out with a series of say, (10) 1000 word high quality articles that you used for article marketing (maybe first posting on your site, maybe submitting to directories, maybe being picked up for syndication), these can be repurposed into other mediums and disseminated.

10 articles become 10 - 20 videos which can be distributed to multiple video sharing sites - all driving visitors back to you. 10 articles become at least 10 slide shows which can be distro'd to slide sharing sites, again, with traffic coming back to you. 10 articles become 1-10 podcasts which are distributed to podcast sharing sites, driving even more traffic. And 10 quality articles become one ebook and one kindle book that can be distributed to ebook sharing sites AND amazon - potentially driving traffic and possibly even making money on their own.

Obviously it's a bit more detailed than this, but the basic idea is sound and repurposing content can be a very effective and once set up, passive way to drive traffic.

Depends on your intent and needs, but I always ask my self "what else can I do with this" when I create something online. There's always more... and sometimes it's quite valuable.

^^^Read and listen to all of that post right there. Getting the most out of each piece of content (and no, that doesn't mean spinning it to smithereens) is key.

I'm not a big fan of article marketing. The reason is because you make an article to market your site on Squidoo or Hubpages (or wherever) and then you have to market those, so they can market your original site. It becomes tedious.

If you have a popular site you can post an article to, then that's great, but other than that, I don't like it. Just my opinion though.

You shouls since it is free, gives you a ton of backlinks.