Article submission for traffic? How effective is it?

Sure it's worth it, as long as you understand that slow and steady wins the race.

You need to do your research before you write or submit any articles though. You'll need a good buyers niche, great keywords, good content (relevant and useful to your target market) and the right length and format to your articles.
There are also ways to 'sell the click' in your resource box.

Additionally, you'll want to select the best article directories as well. By writing relevant content your articles will be seen by publishers who may want to put your articles on their blog, website or use to send to their lists. Try to develop a consistent, steady habit of submitting articles (or having your outsourcers do it) daily.

Finally, develop a long term perspective because depending on what kind of competition there is in the niche you're going after it may take more work. The beauty of it is if you do everything right you'll have articles that'll stay out there forever and can bring you traffic for years to come.

Yes.

This is why large and increasing numbers of Warriors, in 2013, are making our full-time livings through article marketing - as a huge number of forum threads on the subject will show you.

Yes.

As long as you get the articles published where the highly targeted traffic you want to attract is already looking.

That doesn't mean article directories!

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 sites in the first place).

Trying to use article directories directly to generate traffic is one of the mistakes to avoid.

That isn't their purpose at all. The point, and the good news, is that now that's become impossible to do effectively, it's actually become easier, more productive and more profitable to use article directories for their intended purpose.

An article directory is simply a stepping-stone to re-publication in places that do have the targeted traffic you want, not a source of that traffic in its own right.

How do Article Directories work? <---- This will help you!

Just to Ezine Articles. As an afterthought only, albeit a good and worthwhile afterthought, after everything else you do with them.

But do so knowing how an article directory works, and why you're doing it, and what benefits you can (and can't!) hope for, from it.

Don't do so imagining that it's a sensible way of getting potential customer traffic to your site: that isn't how article directories work.

Per week? I produce and publish three articles per month (in each separate niche in which I'm an affiliate marketer - I have a few different niches now, because I've making my living this way for over 4 years.)

That's more than enough for all my article marketing needs (and article marketing is my full-time business).

Even though I'm a professional writer, I couldn't possibly produce more than one article per day for my business. I wouldn't have any time left over to run my business or do the actual "article marketing", using the articles, i.e. building the relationships necessary to get them published in the right places - and that's the time-consuming part.

Article marketing isn't about how many articles you have: it's about who reads them, and that means "where you get them published".

There's no question about it: it's a hugely beneficial way of attracting floods of targeted traffic. But you have to understand how it works, to get anything out of it.

Don't imagine that it's about "getting backlinks from articles" or about "getting potential customers from article directory traffic". These are both huge misunderstandings. :p

Here's a one-post overview of "how article marketing works".

May I offer you a little piece of advice for reading the rest of the thread, as it continues? If you see people saying "Article marketing doesn't work any more" or "Article directories don't work any more" or "It doesn't work as well as it used to after recent Google updates", ignore them completely, because people saying these things have missed the point and misunderstood your question, and are confusing article marketing with article directory marketing (as some people always do, in such conversations). Article directory marketing doesn't work at all, and hasn't done so for a long time, but there's no surprise there, because it was only ever based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how article directories work and what they exist for, anyway. :p

I've got traffic from my articles that have been put on other peoples' sites that I put on article directories for that purpose, so yes, for me it does work.

I'd also like to take a moment to thank Alexa for all her posts that I've been reading of hers on here, they've really helped me.

Neither HubPages nor Squidoo is - in any sense of the words - an "article directory".

This is both (a) incorrect, and (b) irrelevant to article marketing. (Backlinks are part of the bullion of search engine traffic only - but article marketing is a way of transcending the need for search engine traffic).

For all the reasons explained here, the benefits of article directory submission have nothing directly to do with SEO at all.

You're confusing article marketing with article directory marketing. This thread will also help you, Fpdeziner: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Rather than submitting to places like Ezine Articles - I've found that submitting to ebook directories generates a ton more traffic these days.

Its as simple as converting your articles into 18 page PDF ebooks and submit to the various ebook syndication sites out there that are hungry for your quality content.

Having said that you can still do well with the articles submission method which as a previous post noted can be a bit slower.

Hope this helps

Originally Posted by madhushan Hi everyone, I am trying to drive traffic to my squeeze page using some free methods, and I wonder if article submission is still effective. I have submitted some articles in Ezinearticles.com over the past year, and each one is getting 5 visits/month which is pretty low. But, that was not in the IM niche. So, I would like to ask those who are successful in driving traffic to their squeeze pages using article directories... Does article submission still work? Does it get you the traffic you need? If so, which article directories do you recommend that I submit my articles to? and how many articles/week? I would like to know if article submission is worth it, before I spend my time and energy. I appreciate everyone's views.

Based on my experience, article marketing is still effective way to drive traffic. But you need to give yourself some time for your articles to get approved by respective directories and ranked by Google for people to locate your articles.

That also brings me to the topic of SEO. Write your articles based on the keywords most people are searching for and with least or medium competition. As in putting your keywords as in the title and first or second sentence of first paragraph.

Because if you looked carefully at the Google results you see after typing in the keyword say weight loss, you will see the title and first 2 or 3 sentences of the first paragraph with keywords highlighted in bold.

There are 3 things to write articles:

1. Do it yourself

2. Outsource to freelancers

3. Use automation tools as in spinning, duplicate content checker and article submission tools.

Here is a free resource I used to write articles even if I know nothing about the topic but is what most people want to know more about.

Upon signing up, this guy Robert Dickson will send articles on different topics everyday for next 8-9 months. Each topic will consist of 20-30 articles that you can use to rewrite and publish be it your site content, separate articles to be submitted and even free report to build your email list.