How effective is article marketing at driving traffic to squeeze pages?

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I know that posting articles on article directories for link building is now seen as a low quality form of link building. How effective though is article marketing as a form of actually driving traffic to your squeeze pages?
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  • Most article directories no longer rank well in Google, so there is a very low chance of your article receiving a sizable amount of traffic from article directories, which means it's probably not worth it.
  • 3 years ago a popular technique in affiliate marketing was create 5-10 articles per day, post on article directories and link to your landing page... it worked a treat! Now not so much
  • like the above - I would say "meh".

    Another good technique (more up to date) is posting content to slideshare.com because it generates a lot of traffic but only if you pdf / presentation will rank. If your article / pdf / presentation is longer then 3 sites or something like this you can add a link into it which in this case would be your squeeze page
  • Ezine Articles still works for this purpose.

    Slideshare is killer if you provide good content.
  • Thanks for the replies.

    On yesterday, one of the warriors was saying the opposite.. and said that article marketing would have been there preferred option. mmm..
  • Article marketing is the best if you can write but you have to use the right platform and the best platforms are
    a) Slideshare
    b) LinkedIN
  • Well I guess being able to write will help you in article marketing joke
    The platforms you have mentioned, are they better to use than actual directories?
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    • E zine and Sooperarticles is best platform for Article marketing.
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  • If you can find good article directories, go ahead but I am wary of Google slapping them and all your work goes up in smoke. Look for "Slap proof techniques", I'd say.
  • I find social media and forums to be the most efficient ways. Don't worry about article marketing, that just doesn't work as well as it used to. Promote just one link across all channels. Focus your efforts and results will come. Good luck.
  • very effective am still using it right now!
  • Article marketing is not at all effective these days, even if you post around 100 articles on a daily basis to really good directories, you would be just getting around 2-3 visitors if you are lucky. Try to post on some web 2.0 blogs and social networking sites...
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    • Well this is the opposite of what our fellow warrior "Slin" is saying... So does it work or doesn't it?

      I know there are 2 different end goals mentioned here. If you are trying to rank your site we know that that will not be very effective. For the purpose of driving traffic though, does it work?
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  • Try Triberr. Be active on Twitter and G+, These two can give you engaging and quality traffic
  • Article marketing is a long hard slog. But yes, it can work. There are better and quicker ways in my opinion.
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    • I think that's what it come down to, do I think there is a better use of my time in terms of return on investment.
  • Articles writing is only effective when you have high quality content and it is making sense to post, the most important thing in content based marketing and link-building is that your content should be perfect.
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