Article Marketing or SEO Expert

You could get both in one shot with SEO. As far as I know, SEO experts implement article marketing. Hope I understood the question.

Article marketing on high traffic blogs can bring massive traffic to your site. Hire few writers to write articles then you send articles to blogs owners to published.

You can select SEO option if you want, you need to diversity backlink kinds to rank a keyword that you target. You hire link builiders to do it.

You can combinate both article marketing and SEO to maximum results.

Article marketing is a popular form of SEO through which you can get a lot of traffic. You can submit your articles into high PR article directories like ezinearticles, articlebase, goarticles etc. You will get a lot of direct referral traffic from them and also some good backlinks too.

Hiring a SEO expert is not a bad idea either. You can do that one also.

Yah I'm trying to decide - what I really need is some kind of solid plan to follow - I have a few funds so if I can get a plan to follow I can be good - does anyone have any recommendations?

I highly recommend you get an SEO expert to devise a plan for you concerning your website and that includes article marketing. So, you get more value for your money.

I would hire an "seo expert" and content marketer or just build a team. You might need.

SEO Specialist/Link Builder
Guest Blogger
Blog Writer

Regards,

Ronnie

Article marketing is not as powerful as it used to be before Google’s updates. You should concentrate your attention on SEO first of all.

What's your goal then?

Yes as everybody said hire an Seo Expert... They will do it perfectly hence they are expert... you can focus on any other martketing

I think you need to calculate the size and competitiveness of your market before you ask this question.

Because if your market is ultra difficult to rank for in the search engines then there's no point doing SEO unless you have a massive budget AND the returns will be worth the expenditure.

Once you figure this out the choice will be made for you.

Well SEO experts know how to handle with articles too but what you says the dirty work of seo its not like that with out marketing you can not tell people about your new products.

Oh Jay, this is a surefire way to get your pm inbox spammed with SEO service offers from here to Timbuktu.

Article marketing can be very time consuming and you will spend more time reviewing writers work than making any money.

There are a few article marketers out there who actually convert sales from articles. But in recent years with the introduction of SEO tools like Senuke and Article Marketing Robot. The value and effectiveness of Article Marketing has been extremely diluted.

But then there is the dilemma of finding an "SEO Expert".

Everyone with a copy of Senuke and Scrapebox seems to claim they are one these days. You will probably know this by now as you have had to delete your inbo 6 times this morning already.

If your starting out in SEO for your business.

My advice would be to start the work yourself. Find what works best and then outsource the task to someone with strict guidance on what exactly you want done.

The goal in online business is not rankings and its not SEO. It Sales

Find where your target audience hangs out and take your product to them. When you find them, scale up the process.
By doing it yourself first you will have a much clearer idea of what works best and what kind of ROI you should be getting from your "SEO Expert" outsourcing team.

Hope this helps.
Kevin

This is incorrect.

Article marketing isn't intrinsically "a form of SEO" at all. It's a traffic-generating method in its own right which entirely transcends SEO.

I think you're probably thinking of "article directory marketing"? That's an attempted form of SEO (not one that works, though).

Sorry, but this is all completely wrong, Alex.

That isn't how article directories work, at all: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

And by the way, there's no such thing as a "high PR article directory", either.

Article directory are websites, and websites don't "have page ranks".

Only pages have page ranks.

Here's the point you're missing: a backlink from Ezine Articles (of which I have thousands, myself) is useless to my off-page SEO because they're all non-context-relevant PR-0 backlinks. The fact that EZA's own home page happens to be PR-6 doesn't alter that, because my articles aren't published on the directory's own home page. And neither are yours, nor anyone else's. So I'm afraid what you're saying here is just an "urban myth" from top to bottom. :p

Backlinks from article directories are worthless, for all the reasons explained in this and many other "article marketing" threads: How do Article Directories work? Even for a year or so before all the Panda updates of 2011 devalued article directory backlinks so much, SEO textbook writers were saying that you'd need literally tens of thousands of those "backlinks" to give you same linkjuice as that arising from one good backlink on a quality site specifically relevant to your niche.

And for all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer would/should want to get potential customer traffic coming from an article directory to their own site!

In my opinion, knowing almost nothing about your business, probably on article marketing, if you know how to do it (but that's not anything like what's described above!).

Article marketing traffic tends to be very highly targeted and responsive.

SEO traffic tends to be about the poorest-quality, least-converting kind of traffic there is.

It's also one of the most precarious kinds of traffic there is. A business that depends on Google for its primary traffic can never be more than one algorithm-change away from a big accident, or even a disaster (as so many Warriors have discovered, some to their very great cost, over the last couple of years).

But, if trying article marketing, be really clear first about what it is and how it works, and don't imagine that the stuff above about trying to use article directories for their own traffic or for their own backlinks will bring you any success at all: that's exactly what all the people starting off all the 100+ threads with titles like "Is Article Marketing Dead?" have been trying to do, and the answer is that for them it is dead, because they didn't appreciate that "article marketing" and "article directory marketing" are two radically, completely, utterly different things.

Do you mean traffic that targets a particular keyword with SEO ? If so then it's highly profitable if you have the correct buying keywords, much like ppc is.

Agree with that.

You need to be careful with any SEO Service.