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I never did article marketing for a long, long time because I always heard the following things:

1. If you submit an article to hundreds of directories you’ll be extremely lucky to get 50 daily visitors from it.
2. If you submit an article to the hundreds of article directories then the backlinks in only one or two of the articles will actually count as Google will discount the other articles as duplicate content.
3. The people I saw actually doing article marketing made crappy little sites which didn’t have a lot of traffic or didn’t make a lot of money.

This put me off - as far as the many promotional methods I could use article marketing really looked like it SUCKED so i didn’t even bother trying it.

I was really stupid by coming to a conclusion without trying it myself first!

You’ll always hear people saying something is crap or something is great - but you will never know for sure until you try it yourself and give it a good go!

So I tried article marketing

However, I did not do what everyone else seemed to be doing and tried to address some of the issues I had with article marketing:

1. I did not use it to promote a thin MFA or affiliate site. I used it as a wider marketing/SEO strategy to promote profitable pages on well developed and useful websites.
2. I avoided duplicate content by submitting articles that were all unique. I did this quickly by using an article spinner like Content Composer (best) or JetSpinner (free).
3. I do a bit of linking towards my profiles and articles within the article directories. These links can come from places like Squidoo, other articles I submit or anywhere else I can think of. This helps get all my articles indexed quicker and raises the SE juice of the article pages themselves meaning they pass more "weight" to my own pages.

This has worked really well in terms of raising search engine rankings and also bringing a trickle of targeted traffic from the article sites.

I now am able to get hundreds of backlinks from relevant sites that are actually counted by Google and has helped boost my rankings considerably.

The trick is now just outsourcing the whole process so I can have it going on in the background automatically.

Lesson to Learn: Don’t discount something until you have tried it yourself and put some thought and effort into it.

Tags: article marketing, articles, promotion, seo

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