The content on these sites is dreadful and with 1 single link in every post it becomes very easy for google to filter out. If you want a cheap way of creating links each month I suggest finding some bloggers who except content or sponsored posts (not the large networks) and get your links in there with decent or syndicated content along with links to other sites as well as your own.

Anyway, good to have you on board with the commenting!

I had a linkvana account for 4 months to see if it could deliver a rankings boost, however what I found is that 75% of the websites were being de indexed and even after 400 links to one domain we failed to have movement on one of our sites.

The content on these sites is dreadful and with 1 single link in every post it becomes very easy for google to filter out. If you want a cheap way of creating links each month I suggest finding some bloggers who except content or sponsored posts (not the large networks) and get your links in there with decent or syndicated content along with links to other sites as well as your own.

Anyway, good to have you on board with the commenting!

I think you are right in what you’re saying, article marketing alone is never going to win you a competitive niche, however I still like to use it for building deep links and yes pointing the odd one back at deep pages. I think you can rank well using article marketing but you are going to need more to dominate in a competitive niche.

Before I changed the title and focus of this site I ranked first page for “seo consultant” using nothing but articles, so it is possible.

I think you have hit on a very valid point with building links to links, I use this technique often. I may have a link on a deep page of a trusted domain, however it may not be indexed. Fire a couple of articles at it and social bookmarks and before you know it you have an anchored link, PR3 on the deep page of a PR7 homepage domain.

As you say I know of pages on goarticles that outrank TLD’s in the most competitive industries, not particularly a huge link profile but one full of quality, thanks for the input.

Dependant on the Niche, sometimes you don’t even need a site, hubpages are pretty good for this. I also recently seen a GoArticle outranking lots of sites to be number 1 for a really competitive keyword (it did have an excellent link profile).

Everyone has there favourite directories but you might want to check out this link;

http://dofollow001.com/blog/10-dofollow-article-directories

They are all dofollow and of a decent quality.

I personally like to use the unique article wizard for my distribution, then I will simply post a unique copy yo goarticles and ezinearticles, and sometimes articleblast.

Doing article marketing is time consuming, but to be honest I don’t really know many ‘white-hat’ link building techniques that aren’t. You have to think about what makes a good link as well, I like to look at domain metrics, if the homepage of a site has a PR5 or above, getting a link from that domain, even on a deep page is high value, that is why I like using high PR article directories.

Link building is a pain I know, but if you dedicate 4 – 8 hours a week to it you will benefit in the long run.

For instance, Buzzle specifically states; Duplicate content not allowed.
With buzzle, by the way, I fond it excrutiatingly slow to navigate around their site — but maybe it’s my computer.

And ArticleBase, as I mentioned once before here, I’m sure is a NoFollow site.

Could you say whether such a list is readily available ?

Lastly, do others feel it is very time consuming filing an article on the directories, even when all the various box items are pre-prepared (I do mine by copying my first posting on e-zine) ?

Thanks for any enlightenement, Jim R.

I here what your saying but we have found links to be of worth even on PR0 pages. Yes it’s nice to write articles that get republished, but even those articles sitting on deep pages carry a little juice and if you get enough will increase keyword rankings. We recenlty moved a site from page 5 to top 5 of Google based on article marketing and anchor text alone and the key phrase isn’t exactly short on competition.

The linkvana network has always been pretty clean and they have strict rules on unique content and and links. It’s almost like a paid article directory, sort of. It was always helpful for getting those important anchor texts and great for building links to niche websites, however like you say it looks like Google has had enough.