Does Article Marketing Still in Use?

This is incorrect. Article marketing is actually more effective after Google's algorithm updates than it was before them. All the Panda updates of 2011/12, and Penguin update were helpful to article marketers.

Over the last couple of years, there have been about 100 threads here full of posts from professional article marketers explaining in some detail how and why all those Google updates have helped us out (as Google updates always seem to).

It's article directory marketing that isn't as effective (it was never very effective in the first place, though, because it was only ever based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how article directories work and what benefits they can and can't provide).

No - definitely not.

3-5 articles per day is far too many.

I write 3 articles per month (per niche) and that's more than enough for all the content needs of my article marketing business.

Article marketing isn't about how many articles you have. It's about who reads them.

Nobody's who's writing 3-5 articles per day is producing the quality required, and nobody who does that has the time to get them published in the right places to attract the already-targeted traffic they need. Article directories are only an afterthought.

When you say "ezine", you mean the article directory called "Ezine Articles", I think? You're not actually asking about "ezines" at all? You can submit articles to EZA, of course, but make quite sure that you start off by understanding how article directories work, and don't try to draw your traffic from them, because not only doesn't that work, but it can even do your business a disservice rather than helping it!

You could try, but it would be a big mistake. That isn't how article directories work.

For all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer wants to get his potential customer traffic coming to his site from an article directory (we all lose most of that traffic, and all of it's traffic which we could easily have arranged to have coming directly to our own site in the first place).

Yes, if you want to do quite a bit of reading! Start here: this post (and the links in it, which you also need to click on and read) explains in detail exactly how article directories work and how to use them): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

And this is a kind of one-post overview of how article marketing works: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

If you want to see how I've built up my whole business on article marketing, start here (it's more or less how other successful article marketers have done it, also): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5721774

No, this is completely wrong, Ken. It's "article directory marketing" that they've hurt, but that never worked very well anyway. All explained in the threads linked to above.

That has never been its purpose. That doesn't work. Publishing in EZA is a good and helpful thing to do, but not for exposure to customers or customer-traffic from EZA itself. That has nothing to do with why article directories are there, or how they should be used. The people trying to misuse them that way are all the ones starting off the threads with titles like "Is Article Marketing Dead?" (It is for them, because they don't know what they're doing, and they're trying to use article directories for objectives they can never serve, and were never even intended to provide. But what those people are all doing isn't actually "article marketing": it's only "article directory marketing").

Yes, "very ok": large and increasing numbers of Warriors are making our full-time livings from it. But you have to start by not confusing it with "article directory marketing" which is what many of the people posting above are mistakenly doing. That's why they all imagine that the Google updates were a bad thing, rather than the very good thing they actually were!

This is nonsense.

They simply have no idea what they're talking about, Sandy. They don't really even understand what an article directory is and what purposes it can serve. I suggest you ignore them completely and take your advice on the subject from people who are making a living from article marketing, not from people who (bizarrely) imagine that it has anything much to do with SEO.

This is completely wrong, grotesquely misguided and just total nonsense. That's far, far more likely to damage your business than to help it. It's absolutely crazy. It was absolutely crazy even 5 years ago when it did actually have some theoretically possible benefits (it doesn't now). Nobody in their right mind should want to submit unique content to any article directory. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

Not using it that way, no - because that just isn't how it works. Anything you could do that way, you could do better and more efficiently attracting the traffic to your site rather than expecting to get customer-traffic/opt-in traffic coming to you from EZA. That's something you shouldn't want to do! The links above will explain the whole thing to you, in detail, but there's a lot of reading there.

But alexa smith pointed a different approach how article directories to be used.. I am still waiting for her answer to my question.

article marketing is still a viable option and can still yield impressive results. The key is to optimize your keywords,create an interesting title tag along with some great content :p.