Articles, do they still work today?

Is this still true today?

Bum marketing is nothing like it used to be.

I wish it still was like how it was back in the day. I wouldn't submit to Squidoo or Hubpages... i would build my own real estate and submit brand new articles to my site or blog.

You're excused.

But no, it's not still true today. As a matter of fact, a lot of things that seemed to work well a few years back, don't today.

The internet is an ever changing beast and changes all of the time. You just need to learn to go with the ebb and flow of it.

Good luck to you, by the way.

Terra

EzineArticles....

They used to the be most recommended directory for promoting affiliate products... Right now, I am not sure if they even EXIST :O...

Those days, everyone was after articles... now it's Social Media

Not like it used to be but still good for SEO.

LOL

Note: I no longer sell article marketing services, so I am not trying to convince you to use my services.

But, I sure do hope it still works good. I have syndicated 24 articles in the last 5 weeks, and I have another 18 scheduled for syndication over the next 6 weeks. I also have another 10 articles purchased from writers, and I expect to syndicate those articles as well in the next few weeks.

p.s. I wouldn't be spending so much time and money doing article marketing if it wasn't still producing excellent results for me.

p.p.s. If you don't want to play, that is fine with me. Less competition.

Spun articles doesnt work. Big traffic from submitting an article to a large article site like Ezine doesnt work. Using articles for Web 2.0, guest blogging and SEO purposes does work.

It used to work wonders, not anymore!

The internet is a medium which people use to share and gather content. Article is one form of content as there are other form of content like videos, PDF documents, podcast etc. If content marketing is dead, then there will be more content on the internet. I think it is more practical to find the most effective way to get exposure to the content.

Yes article marketing is still effective if you submit your quality articles on quality websites like Articledashboard, Ezine, Squidoo, Sooperarticles, Article base which approves only original and quality content.

I’m still getting a lot of traffic from the old articles I had submitted to EZA. The new ones work only in the beginning.

It wasn't really true even when they said it.

Those were "gurus" (they must have been - they said so themselves and you can't get much more authentic than that! :rolleyes: :p ) who didn't understand the difference between article directory marketing and article marketing.

Ezine Articles does still have a (small, minor, afterthought) role to play in article marketing, in that it can help people achieve a little additional passive syndication of their articles, which can bring some additional, future, targeted traffic from the sites that re-publish the articles from the directory. (That's what article directories are there for).

The mistake is to try to use the directory as a way of getting additional customer traffic directly from readers (rather than publishers) finding the article directory copy. Not only doesn't this help you, but in the long run it can even damage your business.

So it's really worthwhile understanding what benefits you can and can't get from an article directory (and the "gurus" you're quoting above mostly didn't understand that, and to the extent that some of them did understand it, it's changed, as well).

All explained here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

I don't believe it's worth trying to use Squidoo for this kind of purpose at all, and the reasons for that (which are different, because that's a whole different type of misunderstanding) are explained here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8109462

Article marketing, on the other hand, is very successful in 2013, which is why large and increasing numbers of Warriors are making our livings from it. But that's very different from "article directory marketing". If it helps, here's a quick, one-post overview of how article marketing works, in 2013.

One thing is for sure: people who switch from trying to use article directories (and Web 2.0 sites) as a way of attracting potential customer traffic to their sites, to article marketing, are not switching back - and there are reasons for that.

Beware: when you see people saying things like "article marketing doesn't work well any more", they're invariably confusing the concepts of article marketing and article directory marketing. It's true that what they're saying "doesn't work any more" really doesn't work any more, but it was never actually "article marketing" in the first place: it's just what they imagine "article marketing" means.

Yes, they do: they can work brilliantly. Out of everything I've ever tried, in all my 8 different niches, I've never had anything else even close to the targeted traffic (and sales) I can get from articles.

Hi guys, it might be something old, but still i've not got a good answer because big seo platforms says that article marketing works while some say that it does not. I'm not talking about every directory but just ezine articles, i've heard that it doesn't work as well,

I've done a few and they've me okay traffic, it's definitely not something I'd rely on for traffic though, I get much better results from forums and social media.

ok lets be honest, articles do not do as well as they use too, and I will be the first to admit it.

However, the same thing gets good results for us, that is GOOD CONTENT. No matter what happens to the internet or articles, at the end of the day if you are not providing good content, you will not get good results, Pretty simple really.

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Regarding article marketing, yes it still works, but not in the same way before. You can no longer throw out some articles on Hubpages and Squidoo and rank from them as Google do not pay much attention to those sites any more. Now is the era of self-branding, guest posting and community building.