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Is it safe to use Article Marketing Robot as an offline marketing tool?

by avjoseph
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Im a novice SEO but right now im contracting some programming for a new laser manufacturing company that is doing incredible things with lasers. Theyre currently submitting articles to sites like ezinearticles etc. and i told them about article marketing robot but the marketing manager/CEO said theyre concerned it might be seen as spam for some technical reason. Hes kind of incompetent, and usually doesnt know what hes talking about. In fact all the other executives are trying to get him to resign because hes so incompetent and has almost brought down the company a number of times. So my question is can you think of any potential hazards at all to using article marketing robot for this purpose?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by avjoseph View Post

    So my question is can you think of any potential hazards at all to using article marketing robot for this purpose?
    Only "failure to achieve much of benefit", really.

    I don't think there's any specific downside per se, in SEO terms, for the purpose you're describing. But any backlinks achieved from its use would be only non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks, anyway. According to the standard SEO textbooks, something like 50,000 - 100,000 of those backlinks are equivalent in link-juice terms to one backlink from a relevant authority-site. And they said that before Google's latest algorithm change so dramatically devalued article directories still further. "100,000+" is probably a bit nearer the mark, now.

    What you're asking about isn't really article marketing at all: it's just article directory marketing, which simply isn't a viable business model for most people (and deteriorating further, all the time).

    For me, "wasted opportunity-cost" would be the reason for not doing it.

    Originally Posted by avjoseph View Post

    the marketing manager/CEO said theyre concerned it might be seen as spam for some technical reason. Hes kind of incompetent, and usually doesnt know what hes talking about.
    Sounds that way, from what you say. But it looks like he's actually coming to the right decision here, albeit perhaps for completely the wrong reasons. Meanwhile, better just hope he doesn't read your post above, I suppose?
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  • Profile picture of the author avjoseph
    Theyre submitting articles to these sites anyways, not for the backlinks, just to get some notoriety. which i also have issues with but like i said, the marketing manager is incompetent. So if theyre submitting articles to hundreds of these sites anyways then why not just use AMR and save yourself a couple days of manually submitting
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by avjoseph View Post

      if theyre submitting articles to hundreds of these sites anyways then why not just use AMR and save yourself a couple days of manually submitting
      No reason at all that I can see, that being so. If AMR works as advertised (and I've certainly quite widely heard much better things about it than about its competitors), it will save them time, clearly.

      Whether they'll get any real benefit from it at all is another matter: call me a skepchick but it's far from immediately apparent how syndicated articles mass-submitted to directories are going to get in front of any targeted traffic when they're mostly indexed only in Google's supplemental index rather than in the main index. :confused:

      But to answer your original question, I can envisage absolutely no possible downside at all in SEO terms. (And it would clearly be very bizarre indeed if there were, because it would be the easiest way in the world to handicap one's competitors' sites, if that was all it took).
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  • Profile picture of the author avjoseph
    Im not too sure what their reasons are for submitting articles to article sites. its not seo reasons, thats all i know, they dont really care if people come to their site or not. right now theyre trying to get VCs interested, and they are, but not through posting articles on ezine. theyre getting Vcs just though contacts that they know. their technology is truely amazing though, seriously, its gonna be a complete game changer...
    thanks for the input
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  • Profile picture of the author avjoseph
    i think he was most afraid of his email being associated with spam if he mass submits these articles on all the big article sites
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