Is Article Marketing + Submission Still Effective After Google Penguin?

Thanks Apoorv, I am still waiting for few replies from expert Warriors .

Personally, I don't think article marketing will cut it anymore.

The 'idea' of it is great .. you submit authoritive articles in exchange for a link back from a 'high pr' site.

The important thing to remember here is that the page rank of the page your link is from will be 0 or N/A .. page rank flows from the domain but remember that it's flowing to a huge amount of pages so won't be of all that much value unless you build tiered links to the page your article is on.

BUT .. most article directories have been hit hard with panda/penguin .. and Google does manually turn off a websites ability to pass link juice .. they've done this with A LOT of web directories .. I'm sure it's a similar thing with article directories.

Worst part really is you just won't know which ones.

The other benefit of article submissions is that other webmasters syndicate your articles to their sites - in theory this is great .. but if you've optimized your article for particular keywords in anchor text and you get a lot of webmasters syndicating your articles then this can be very problematic.

Personally I had another problem with this .. some of the webmasters who syndicated my articles spun them into complete garbage and have since been slapped hard or deindexed - ok this wasn't all webmasters .. but enough to cause me SERIOUS problems.

So I'd recommend avoiding it IMO .. others may feel differently though but this is just me.

In terms of what link building strategies should be the main focus from now on .. guest posting or general outreach to webmasters.

When I say outreach, I mean you reach out .. personally to webmasters asking them to link to you .. this will only work if your site is going to be valuable to their readers though and is a time consuming task - but the links you get will be far more valuable than anything else.

The other big thing is social signals .. tweets/likes/+1's etc ..

What kind of service provider? web host?

Article marketing is still effective (and always will be). How you syndicate your articles CAN change though, and Penguin has convinced me to change a number of things.

1. Diversify Your Anchor Text

- Do not use the same keywords over and over again

2. Diversify Your Content

If you want to Gain as much Link Juice or article exposure as possible, you will need to either spin your articles, or create a bunch more content. Google filters out "duplicate copies" more now than ever before.

3. Diversify Your Target Pages

- DO NOT only send backlinks to your money site. There's nothing wrong with article directory backlinks. But to many of them at one time is an obvious flag to Google.

Instead, set up a handful of buffer sites that receive the mass amount of backlinks from article marketing. That way, your main site is safe from any Google penalties, but you still have link juice flowing towards your main offer.

Not only article marketing but also all old methods are still working. Nothing actually changed. Google might decreased juice count level from some specific platforms but still you need to follow the BASIC RULES.

Get backlinks from Authority sites with anchor texts you are targeting. You would be fine. I have noticed huge rush after each update and folks start discussing this is not working now that is not working anymore but truth is most of them are panic as most of them are actually spam kings/queens.

Get backlinks from high PR(parent domain) and dofollow article directories. You would see the result. Also dont fill internet with crap spun contents. Use well written, informative articles. Help others by informing about a topic. You will be able to do 2 stuffs simultaneously. 1- SEO for your site and 2- You would get some direct traffic from these articles.

Love others you would get back loves from other.

I'm sorry for you Marry Parker. I dono where have you been promoting your service before penguin and why it affected your sales post penguin. What my statistics shows is that backlinks from web 2.0 and article directory sites with unique content is what working at the moment. If the contextual backlink comes from high PR sites, then it surely gives extra boost.

But quality backlinks alone is not enough to gain ranking, you've to get some backlinks from social networks also. Let your visitors engage through social networking sites.

So to answer your question,

1. No, Article Marketing still holds a lot of weight and is still working.

2. Social Network participation like retweets,facebook likes & shares,Google +1's,Pinterest pins if you've media blog. No matter what type of backlinks you build but be it have Varied anchor texts related to your keyword. And your homepage should have less than 30% of total backlinks pointing to your site.

3. I'd say try to reduce your service price a little to get more sales.

Good Day!

I used to submit at Ezine but after Panda update their Editors become insane by Rejecting every Article .

Yes, article marketing still works i have seen good SERP movements in recent past time using Article Marketing.

Marry,


Article marketing is still effective done the right way. Content is what makes up the Internet so I can't see why this would not be effective anymore. However it seems that others don't think so and that has affected your business.



As far as link building strategies.... maybe think about content in the form of video marketing is very effective for SEO. Unfortunately, many people underutilize this method because they don't think they can make a video. It's not sexy, so to speak, but I use a tool from Webfire.com that converts my unique articles into powerpoint type text article videos that I then submit to video sharing sites like YouTube and Daily Motion. It's really easy to do with the right software and I've found it effective.


Articles continue to be in demand and you'll find many clients that want your services. Maybe add additional services like creating videos for them, doing some keyword research for them and offering submission services for video also. Just some suggestions I hope will help you.

What I do is use the quality article directories like Ezine, hubpages, and ect... I avoid the low quality ones that accept spun articles.

Yes, it's effective, still article submission is the best tool.
For now, it is more on social media

i have stopped all my backlink work after google penguin for a while. but now i want to start this work again.

Article marketing is still effective and working good. Actually google run theses updates only to caught blackhat SEO and wants to provide quality information to users. As the latest is for spamming so you have to avoid repetition of keyword in anchor text and use synonyms in it. There should be relevancy among the article and keywords placed in the article.

Articles are still fine I think but the main thing penquin did was completely shut down nearly all blog networks and all links from any articles in them. Just submit articles to non spammy places and you'll be fine. One big thing google is keying in on is how natural everything looks. Sure you can build 500 backlinks a day but you have to build 500 backlinks everyday or it wont look right. Another thing I havn't heard anyone talking about and I got this straight from the head of google. They now are using a large group of people to manually review your site and everything about it if it stands out too much. Good time for all of us to be extra careful.

This stategy is still working but it is a kind of risky one..

Google has his eyes on article directories especially big ones. You know what happend with Ezine Articles last year..

Try to publish your articles on private blogs instead and you will get better results.

Publishing a private blogs, that's a good idea.

As long as its unique content, you bet!

Yes....
The Quality And Unique Content For Article Submissions Is Still Working.

Ya articles with unique content are still effective one after update of algorithm.

Start offering guest blog posting,choose a niche,like weight loss,which is popular or finance. Come up with something,build a relation with 20+ blog owners,create quality content and offer it as a service. This is way much better than offering Ezine submissions on fiverr. If your content is being rejected,means something is wrong. But when it comes to article marketing,it has worked,it works,it will work in the future.

Article directories and PR submissions still works. You just need to diversify your anchor to be on the safe side...

For the most part yes, however if you use your own list of high pr do follow article directories, I would recommend looking into AMR, great tool, been using it for the last 2 years.

Does it work?

Sort of...Honestly your not gonna get much ground in even a semi competitive niche

Is It Effective

No...not at all. There are far more better ways to be spending your time right now that making articles and submitting them for crap links.

If you just say "article marketing" and don't get into the details such as Article Spinning and then submitting the articles to sites with no editorial standard, you don't have the whole story. There is a lot of really bad SEO going around that harms people's sites, often people who know no better and spent a lot of time making their site. Article marketing can be a good thing if quality is emphasized and following what everyone else is doing is avoided.

If you submit original interesting content that is naturally written and has no grammar issues,it will be approved 100% of the time. Of course, maybe that belongs on your website!

Go Steelers!

Yes, Article Marketing is still working.

Only the thing is that you should change contents every time. Do not post same keywords and same contents to many article marketing website, otherwise this will affect in decreasing your site results very fast.

Google has created more strict algorithm in penguin and panda update. Use your main key phrases as anchor text and never use spammy keyphrases which increase high density for your keywords. Use variations in keywords in article contents and Anchor text.

Article submission is good for SEO. It will increase your website backlinks and page rank.