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12 years ago

The main thing that has been changing in the Google Panda/Penguin updates is like you said good quality and unique content. I have been apart of the SEO community for about five years now. Alot of us have been going with linkwheels and linkpyramids; both are very useful and effective. Another big change has been diversity; trying using more and more methods of linkbuilding to be more successful! Hope this helped!

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12 years ago

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Geordie John

12 years ago

And then you'll spend a couple more hours going through the related threads too... at least i did. The stuff in there was better info than most of the products i've ever bought

Originally Posted by JaRyCu

Two words: Search. Button. It's in the upper right corner, just below your username.

Specifically, go read this thread:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...mith-myob.html

It'll take an hour plus to go through it, but it'll be well worth your time.

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linkdestiny

12 years ago

This article is from 09' are you sure it still have relevant information? Not trying to be rude just SEO has changed alot since 09'

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Robert M Gouge

12 years ago

In my opinion, SEO is on it's way out the door.

The future is going to be social proof. Aside from basic SEO, I'm not really bothering, at all.

My advice would be to focus more on social networks/sharing/article syndication/making content viral/etc rather than SEO.

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jpf566

12 years ago

Oh man MY HEAD, so many opposing views.

I had never heard anyone say that duplicate content across different domains is not duplicate content but in fact syndicated content as Alexa Smith seems to preach.

The URL she uses to prove this is talked about on this SEOMOZ forum. I want to know if this is bogus or not: | SEOmoz Q&A Interesting..

Hmm a lot to consider

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socialbrandpromoter

12 years ago

jpf566 has given a fantastic source to judge information. This post in the SEOMOZ forum is exactly what we need to avoid being led astray. Thanks!

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fin

12 years ago

Obviously SEO is the best way to get traffic. Once you have steady streams of traffic you don't need to do anything.

But use links to drive traffic rather than spam.

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shiningeye

12 years ago

but i am confused. can someone differentiate between article marketing and seo? coz i think article marketing and link building comes under the definition of seo. can anybody explain please

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Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by shiningeye

i think article marketing and link building comes under the definition of seo.

Link building does come within SEO. Specifically, it's "off-page SEO". Naturally acquired backlinks from relevant sites are among the things that help your own site to rank well in Google's SERP's. Article marketing isn't intrinsically about SEO. It's a method of generating targeted traffic in its own right. This thread (and the links within it) explain in great detail: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872
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Kreator517

12 years ago

Originally Posted by shiningeye

but i am confused. can someone differentiate between article marketing and seo? coz i think article marketing and link building comes under the definition of seo. can anybody explain please

Article marketing is if you're seeking to generate leads from the posted article. I.E, someone reads the article, clicks the link, and signs up to the offer.

Posting articles for SEO is essentially just posting content for a backlink and its not just limited to articles.

Essentially, its article marketing if you don't have you're own site and are just using posts to promote an affiliate offer.

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tpw

12 years ago

Originally Posted by jpf566

Oh man MY HEAD, so many opposing views.

I had never heard anyone say that duplicate content across different domains is not duplicate content but in fact syndicated content as Alexa Smith seems to preach.

The URL she uses to prove this is talked about on this SEOMOZ forum. I want to know if this is bogus or not: | SEOmoz Q&A Interesting..

Hmm a lot to consider

I preach the same.

If you have never read that before, you are running in small circles.

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jpf566 12 years ago

Originally Posted by tpw

I preach the same.

If you have never read that before, you are running in small circles.

Until lately my circle has mainly been SEOMOZ and other large authority seo sources. And like I said I am new to outside SEO and am mainly familiar with onsite SEO optimization as I have been a web designer not an internet marketer up until this point.

I found this video very interesting http://www.seomoz.org/blog/article-m...teboard-friday regarding article marketing, duplicate content and such..
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NewAge29

12 years ago

If you go outside the IM niche, article marketing isn't dead at all.

I was in the stock business for 9 years. I used to write articles on Ezine and tell my prospects I "had a few articles published". I'd even send them over to read them. It worked but of course the content was good and I wasn't really using it for SEO purposes.

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hebsgaard

12 years ago

Depends on how you go about it really. Alexa has been talking about the difference between article directory marketing and article marketing extensively. Seems like those who are just in it for the backlink (where the actual article is merely a necessary evil) might be struggling these days.

Can't say it makes me too sad.

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fin 12 years ago

Why don't you try some things that take your fancy and see what works out the best. Once you know what's bringing you the most traffic you can concentrate on that.

Over time your rankings will improve, but you'll have developed a strategy to bring in traffic without the search engines.

What I'm going to do is eventually come up with something I can drive paid traffic to. F**k this working hard stuff lol.
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johnben1444

12 years ago

Syndicate only unique content or content first published on your site to top article directories, no need mass submitting to thousands of site...

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Randall Magwood

12 years ago

If you mean submitting to the article directories... then yes, this is dead. In the days where you could get 50-80 clicks per day from your articles.... you're lucky if you get 40 within 1 whole month.

Swap it with another strategy. Try Youtube.

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Lucian Lada

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Randall Magwood

If you mean submitting to the article directories... then yes, this is dead. In the days where you could get 50-80 clicks per day from your articles.... you're lucky if you get 40 within 1 whole month.

Swap it with another strategy. Try Youtube.

I wonder how forum signatures are doing these days... Care to answer, Randall?

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fin 12 years ago

Originally Posted by canyon

I wonder how forum signatures are doing these days... Care to answer, Randall?

I'm not Randall, but I've had a few posts bring in about 200 visitors. It's not bad for something that takes 5 minutes, though you get some that bomb.
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viator

12 years ago

If you use a technique found here somewhere on the warrior forum (can't find the thread).
He describes his backlinking technique and what he does is make two layers off back links to his site. The first layer is article directories, web 2.0, and blogs. The first layer links back to the site. The Second layer links to the first layer. This is where he does mass article submissions and social bookmarking.

I know this backlinking technique was posted a few years back, but I'm not sure if its outdated. I have yet to implement it to my site.

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Samung19

12 years ago

Article marketing still has its place, but not as powerful as it used to be and compared with other linking stratergies isn´t really worth the time.

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Tim Wallace 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Samung19

Article marketing still has its place, but not as powerful as it used to be and compared with other linking stratergies isn´t really worth the time.

Yes, I agree with this point, and it is still useful if you submit article to directory to get dofollow backlinks. meanwhile, the whole impact from off-page seo is not as powerful as it use.
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viator

12 years ago

What are some other linking strategies out there?

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ysb888

12 years ago

Article Marketing is not dead, You just can not do the same old tatic such as submiting article to thousand article directories as well as sending spun article to public blog network that get catch by Google or so.

Be smart, and focus of quality backlink such as making your own private blog network, guest post.

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whiterock

12 years ago

According to me seo is the best way to get traffic. Once you have steady streams of traffic you don't need to do anything.

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dhanakncet

12 years ago

Its not dead,article marketing is now getting slow because of google updates,so try to marketing the unique and worth able contents.

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karthikseo 12 years ago

Hi..

Article Marketing is a power of SEO. Article reproductions are slightly down from Google panda and Penguin updates. But, i am still using article marketing techniques to get keyword SERP and backlinks..
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aadi144

12 years ago

I guess article marketing is still alive but if you are posting the duplicate content in your article then it will surely be dead for you.Try posting article on high PR article directories.

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Kylie James

12 years ago

Article Marketing is here to stay for more.. important thing is that your content should be unique and shareable not duplicate or rephrase thrash content.

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viator

12 years ago

Well supposedly from what I have been studying backlinking is the best way to improve your google rank.

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Surminga

12 years ago

My focus has always been on SEO and Social Media - I see Social as the future but SEO has always and will always be there and never get penalised from the search engines etc.
Obviously SEO has to be done the right way and when done right it will always prosper.

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viator

12 years ago

Well using social media wont help with the SERP it just helps bring in some traffic correct? And anyways making a Twitter or whatever for a micro niche site sounds ridiculousl

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