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Article marketing certainly works, especially in smaller niches. When it comes to unique articles and an increase in indexed links I think article wizard is hard to beat. I think at the top end of a popular niche you need to do more than article marketing and incorporate many strategies. I also think those already at the top forget about the small steps all internet marketers need to take to gain some ground. Yes if you have a high ranking site receiving thousands of viral links a month there is no need for articles, however to get noticed in the first place you must generate links regardless of the quality.

Thanks for your insights.

It appears to me that some SEO sites and power bloggers intentionally engage in disinformation. Perhaps they feel that if they can dissuade many from believing something works it makes it easier for them – eliminates the competition so to speak.

I am a strange type of blogger. I seek out who knows the most about any particular speciality, share what I have learned, and test everything personally. I have years of experience managing pay per click accounts with access to analytics for dozens of ecommerce stores so I could see how changes affected results.

Although I am not opposed to monetizing blogs, I do very little of that because I ocus almost all my time figuring out and then explaining what really works in a way that even those with no background can understand it.

Glad you liked it. My honest advice with regards to article marketing and how many directories is simply as many as possible. It is one of those methods where you through as much as you can and hope 10-20 bits stick. One thing I will say is to keep you content clean, by that I mean don’t just publish rubbish, make it insightful without spending hours on it. If you know your niche well I am sure you could reel off some interesting articles.

If you write 2 articles a week and publish them through out a few different directories, I guarantee in 2 months time you will have seen a difference in your rankigs and search traffic. It an ideal method of keeping you link foundation strong

You link building should be split 25% article marketing, 20% directory hunting, 60% writing quality content for your blog and guest posts.

Excellent post. Answers a number of the traffic-related blogging questions that I have been wrestling with for some time. It is extremely helpful to get this level of insight from someone who has “been there, done that.” Great examples in your post.

I thought the way you divided the different type of “online species” was right on the money. And as with any project your methods and tactics need to align with your goals. High profile, well-known bloggers who are drawing 15,000 unique visitors to their site each day will have different goals and therefore different tactics than those of us with much smaller audiences.

You have convinced me to do more article marketing. Big Question: How many directories can I submit the same article to? 1 directory, 2, 10, 150? And does this matter? Thanks for a very helpful post.

If you can get it in the article content as well thats great, I’m glad other people don’t just listen to all the so called pros and drop kick article marketing, I also hope those that read this post apply it. As I said in the post it’s no the be all and end all but it creates an unbeatable foundation. I have been targeting the keyword “search engine optimisation” recenlty, really tough keyword but already google.com page 3 and UK page 5/6, all I can say is watch out.

Great article and again, I’ve always used Article Marketing as part of my link building campaign.

When you refer to anchor text – are are referring to the resource box or the body of the article or both?

Thanks.

Andrew