Article Marketing
something I have
worked at and read
about but haven’t
really focused on as of yet.
But that is about to change.
In my last post I discussed a great tool to optimize my seo onpage.
Now I want cover some tools for the obtaining back links and my experience and thoughts on each.
So despite the title Article Marketing: A Do And A Don’t I am going to start with the don’t first.
So I am on a webinar with your neighborhood friendly guru and he is telling us how he uses article marketing as pretty much the backbone of his marketing strategy for his
internet mlm business.
But not only this he has a super duper backlink building tool that no sane marketer doing article marketing can live without.
He goes through the whole spill how he is regularly getting top ranking with google using his network marketing software.
In conjuction with an mlm blog and you guessed it article marketing.
The tool I am referring to is the automatic article submitter.
According to this particular guru you are supposed to be able to get up to 300 backlinks per submission and everything even the signing up of accounts was automatic.
The greatest thing since sliced bread for article marketing right? Wrong!
The reality of it was this (mine anyway).
The signing up process is far from automated it will sign you up for some but at best is semi-automatic.
At best I was submitting to 60-80 article sites because a lot were hacked or just didn’t work at least not for article marketing.
I couldn’t figure that out and when I emailed many times for advice or to ask for help I never got a response.
I guess being based out of the country excuses you from this courtesy.
Now I have read about and watched videos on other people who have seen success with it and say it’s a powerful way to do article marketing.
I am merely writing about my experience with it.
But not stupid enough to give up on a great strategy like article marketing I kept at it.
Like it usually does persistence pays off after hitting some forums and doing research on google I found a service that fits my needs and maybe your as well.
What I found was isnare.com an article distribution site.
For those unfamiliar with article submission and article distribution and what it can do for your article marketing efforts here is an explanation:
If you submit an article to an Article Submission site (aka an Article Directory site).
What can happen is your article may be reprinted on any number of other websites that draw their content from that particular Article Directory, and each reprint carries your Author Byline with a link to your website.
Article Distribution sites, on the other hand, take care of submitting your article to multiple Article Directory sites for you, saving you the extra work.
I guess what you have to decide is if you are willing to pay for someone to do this for you.
And what this could mean for your article marketing strategy.
I realize there are other sites like this but I think I have found one that really suits my needs.
They have free article submission to their site much like Ezine.
The starting distribution package is basically $2 per submission.
Of course this per price drops as you buy into bigger packages.
For me it seems very reasonable price for the amount of exposure you article can get.
I hope this info has been helpful and if it has please share this content.
It’s very easy click on any of the facebook buttons the tweet button at the top and let them do all the work.
You could also click the digg or bookmark and share its up to you.
What I would like most is a comment and let me and other people know how article marketing has helped your internet mlm business.
Thanks for the visit and again what are the pros and cons in your opinion with article marketing.
Take Care,
Steve Shoemaker
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Something new stuff I come to know here about article, after read this post and comments yet i want to change my marketing strategy and want to use your technique.
Thanks Steve for guidelines,
No problem Jenny you have to be patient with article marketing but it can be effective if done right. I hope these tips point you in the right direction.
Steve
This is a vital information for me Steve. I have been doing some marketing but it’s not very effective. I will take your word for this.
Hey Walter it’s all about trial and error. The automatic article software may work better for you. But I have to say most of the feedback from other people it’s not worth hassle take that for what it’s worth and the best of luck. If I can help you let me know.
Steve
Great article Steve. I use Automatic Auto Submitter and really like it but it certainly has it’s drawbacks. Anyone who says you get 300 backlinks is full of it. There are over 300 submission that get set to go out but it’s more like 100 – 120 that actually get the submission and as you said probably more like 60 – 80 that actually publish. Still those are great numbers to have per 250 – 500 word article as they can be pumped out daily.
In just 1 week of using the auto submitter I took my traffic from around 200 visitors per day to over 400. Keywords are the key.
Thanks for the tip on Isnare, I’ll check that out!
Robert Clark recently posted..Network Marketing Passion – Get Some!
Thats great Robert I’m glad your are seeing good results. Yes I agree the keywords are very important part of the strategy but I didn’t appreciate the dishonesty of of this mlsp guru.
Thanks for stopping by.
Steve
Hi Steve,
Great insight. I was going to buy Auto Article Submitter this week, but in the light of this post I’ll do some more homework before I do. Will have a look at isnare as well.
Thanks for the tips!
Jym
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Jym man I am glad I saved you the 100 bucks it does not perform as advertised. Yes I think you would be better off finding a good article distribution like isnare. I think you will definitely get more bang for your buck.
Steve
Stuff stuff Steve, we do article marketing also and have had great success with it.
Jeff and Sharon Reed recently posted..Victor Cruz the MLSP of the NFL
That is great I am really glad to hear it what services or tools are you currently using? I am really glad you stopped by to visit and take care.
Steve
Great Article Steve, I use automatic article submitter everyday faithful.. But I’m look in to Isnare and see what it is all about.. thanks for the info my friend.
Eric Burnett
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Eric well you are a minority here my friend.
Most people have not seen much success with it. Trust me I really wanted it to work as advertised and what I saw on youtube just never materialized. I really wish you continued success with it.
Steve
Hey Steve,
I’m taking notes on the article marketing strategy. Since I will be turning my videos into articles, the strategies that you are teaching should really help me out. Thanks a bunch.
Fred Williams aka “The Basement Millionaire”
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No problem Fred. Please heed the first part of the post if nothing else don’t buy the automatic article submitter those guys made their money and ran.
That is an interesting concept turning your videos into articles can’t wait to read’em.
Take care and thanks for stopping in.
Steve
Steve Shoemaker recently posted..Article Marketing- A Do And A Don’t
Automatic Article Submitter really got on my nerves! Every big promise of it was a painstaking task to achieve.
In all honesty I turned me off from article marketing. It took way to long to do what it was supposed to do, and then it only did 30% of what it promised (my experience).
However. I know article marketing is hugely powerful. I will get back into it soon.
Thank you your take on it
Chat soon
Dwayne
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Dwayne,
Yes you get all that quality for a mere $100.00. Pain staking that is a word I wished I would used in the post that is exactly what it was.
The guru somehow made it look all so easy I really thought I had a winner.
After that I went with the Ezine Article Submitter plug in and that works great.
I hope you get back in the saddle man and thanks for your visit.
Steve
Steve Shoemaker recently posted..Article Marketing- A Do And A Don’t
Hi Steve,
I’m very fond of Article Marketing because that’s how I got my blog exposed in the beginning.
Thank you for shedding light on the services that are available to help you distribute your articles over the web. I know how valuable article marketing can be, so it sounds like a good return on investment.
Thank you,
Wayne
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Hello Wayne,
Yes article marketing is very powerful when used right. I really have high hopes for isnare and am looking forward to getting started.
Thanks for the visit and take care.
Steve
Steve,
I had the same problems with Automatic Article Submitter. It can take forever just to sign up for all the accounts that are not automated and the customer service is horrible.
Article Marketing can really help your business if done correctly and if you have enough patience.
Thanks for the information,
Tommy D.
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Tommy,
I don’t know if you remember but I recall our conversation on skype and you echoed the exact same sentiments about the customer service.
Wish I could have chatted with you first.
Something else we agree on is article marketing is very effective in building the backlinks combined and with proper onpage seo we could amazing changes in our business.
Thanks for the visit.
Steve
Steve Shoemaker recently posted..Article Marketing- A Do And A Don’t
Ditto on automatic article submitters.
I’ve tried Isnare in the past. It sounded like a great tool, but I did not find I got much out of it.
I’d love to hear what kind of results you get out of it, Steve.
Best,
Ana Hoffman
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Hello Ana,
Really well from what I have read that is unusual but just like with the automatic article submitter depending on who you talk to you will hear a different result.
Youtube was full of success stories. But yes I will you keep posted with isnare an I hope I have a different outcome. Thanks for stopping by.
Steve
Steve Shoemaker recently posted..Article Marketing- A Do And A Don’t
Steve,
Great post – I still haven’t gone full speed with my article marketing but it’s something that I do fairly often to get some links coming back to a particular post I want to rank well.
Thanks for this.
Talk soon
Hector
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Hector,
We are in the same predicament. Not something I am implementing like I should. Well I know you have had some #1 page ranks so whatever your doing is working. Thanks for the visit talk to you soon.
Steve
Steve Shoemaker recently posted..Article Marketing- A Do And A Don’t
Hey Steve,
To be honest with you, I did article marketing consistently early on. I had to discontinue it because I was….
“Doing it wrong”
So what you speak about, I did it. I did it wrong. But then I got wise and figure out how to do it right. Now I regularly do article marketing. I use all different type of article marketing sites.
What a great reminder, even though maybe you didn’t intend that – that’s what hit me.
Talk to you later buddy,
Jerome Ratliff
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Hey Jerome,
That’s great I’m glad the post resonated with you in some way. And from looks of things I’m sure it has went from wrong to right your results are proof of that. Thanks for stopping by and take care.
Steve
Hi Steve,
This is very valuable information and could save someone quite a bit of frustration. Personally, I am not a big fan of automation, but I do know that it can save you quite a bit of time. After all, we all have only 24 hours in a day, right?
Thanks for sharing this! I bookmarked the site.
Ilka
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Ilka,
Yes I certainly hope so not to mention money. Even though isnare is not free if you get the results seek it ‘s just the price of doing business. Done right it should pay for itself I would think. I read some great post today but yours really hit home thanks for sharing the value young lady and take care.
Steve
Hey Steve
I too have the Atomatic Article Submitter software.
I spent the whole day setiing it up and registering with all of the sites, so yes it is a lot of work.
Here is a tip, I use the second tier of article sites to support the articles I submit to the first tier, ie Ezine.
So I actually write two articles, one for the first tier sites and one for the second tier sites. All of the articles spun for the second tier link to the first tier articles.
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Peter,
Never thought of that and your not kidding it took a long time to get through all that.
All the more reason I was more than a little disappointed with it can’t get that time back.
I may try your strategy sounds very, very reasonable.
Thanks for sharing and the visit.
Steve
Hi Steve,
I have been on the fence for months on whether to invest in an article submssion program or not. I have been using article marketing for quite a long time and I manually submit everything and one thing I am starting to see is more sites using the CAPTHCA program. I know that the submission programs get the content out to hundreds of other sites, but at what quality? With me doing it manually I can usually tweek the HTML code to add in hyper inks back to my blog, and another link to my business opportunity. I have also noticed that if I was not adding them in manually , they may not go, and if they did how would it look?
While adding things manually I know it does take longer but it is my name,my reputation and many times my face out there next to the article. Do I want to be know for great valuable content or mixed up jibberish that looks like a “copy” that lost its luster.
Robert,
Great question yes I think it could be an issue even though it says it submits to high ranking sites what would it look like.
As far as adding links if you need to there is a little tool called the myspacegenerator.com to help with that to.
I use the ezine plug in to submit but you can’t add links from your dashboard so I use this comes in handy.
Steve
Thank you, Steve, and Everyone, for passing on what you know!
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Hello Bess,
That’s very gracious of you and thank you for stopping by. I hope you have found something useful and please come again.You take care.
Steve
Steve Shoemaker recently posted..Article Marketing- A Do And A Don’t
Hi Steve – seems like the Jury is still out on what works most effectively – look forward to hearing what the popular consensus is re submitting services
Cheers Kiran
Hello Kiaran,
Good question. I nominate Josh Garcia for that one he is the article dude around here. I can tell you if you haven’t bought the automatic article submitter don’t! Plenty of comments here to settle that one.
Thanks for stopping by man and take care.
Steve
Hey Steve,
You can receive a lot of errors with automation submission sites. Now, you can also benefit from them as well. I’m a big fan of article marketing as well. It does drive traffic when you place the articles in the right directories and targeting the right readers. I saved that site in my article submission folder. Thanks!
Chat with you later…
Josh
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Your welcome Josh,
If that got your seal of approval on article marketing I did a little something right.
I appreciate the insight and comment hope to see you again.
Steve
Hi Steve,
Another great tool! Thanks for sharing this useful information.
All the best,
Mavis Nong
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Mavis,
Glad you liked it and even more glad you stopped by. Yes it can come in handy if you are looking to create your backlinks its one of many but I think it suits my purposes well. Take care.
Steve
Hi Steve,
I assume there are sites for article submission like traffic geyser is for video, but I haven’t taken the time to really research it. Thanks for the awesome information and for saving me some headaches! I really appreciate the head’s up.
Heather
Heather C Stephens recently posted..Personal Branding- 2 Essentials to Establish Know- Like- and Trust
Well Heather write me post on traffic geyser I have heard of it but have never used it.
We have to be careful about buying into the hype I fell for it and so have a lot of other people.
It can still serve a purpose but is not rainmaker I thought it would be. Thanks for taking time to stop by.
Steve
Hi Steve,
I had a similar experience with another article submission software (articlepostrobot). And I had received rave reviews before I decided to purchase it. Needless to say, it flattered to deceive. They don’t offer automated signups anyway and at best have around 50% success rate on posts and a very poor log which doesn’t give the correct picture of results.
Another issue is, and I guess most of the robots and automaters will face is the increasing number of content sites that employ “captcha” for submission. If it becomes widespread most of the bots will be rendered worthless.
Anyway, will stick with it for some more time. Hopefully persistence will pay sometime.
Cheers
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Tanzz,
I think your right when all the big sites go to the tighter submission standards you can pretty much rule any of this type of software out.
That’s why I am glad I found isnare. For your sake my friend I hope persistence does pay off and big!
Thanks for your visit.
Steve
Hi Steve,
Hmmm could have saved you the heartache with AAS… gave that up a while ago. It took me days to submit one article. I have also used Unique Article Wizard which works well if you are prepared to pay $67 per month. I was not using it enough to warrant the price but will use it again in the future.
~Marcus
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Marcus,
Yes I have had it quite awhile now myself.
I put article marketing on the shelf but I see it’s something that I will need to get those all important back links.
Yes I knew it was going to be a flop when I first tried the ole automated sign ups. Thanks for the advice and take care.
Steve
Hi Steve,
yes, this is indeed a useful post because it shed some light on the subject of article marketing. I’m still building my strategy in this field, so thank you for your ideas.
Take care
Oliver
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Oliver,
Thanks I appreciate that. I think it’s definitely worth looking into.
Isnare is a good fit for me because what they offer and the price. All the reviews I looked up are very favorable I will let you know how it goes.
Thank you for the comment.
Steve
Hey Steve, yes..I had the same experience with an automated article submitter & was so disillusioned by the whole thing that I gave article marketing a miss for quite a while now.
I make use of a free traffic system that is similar & works with you to get blog posts of yours put onto quality sites, this generates 30 or more quality backlinks for you with every post you make & submit.
Another part of the service is that you can get guest bloggers to post content onto you blog for you, that is related to your blog niche, but it still gives you total control over the post. I’m using it on my new blog & it seems to be quite a good way to get content without having to write it myself.
Stay inspired!
Michael
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Thanks, Michael, that makes good sense. What is the name of the system you use?
Wow Michael sounds like a great resource and a great topic for a post.
Would love to know the name of it when you get the chance great find!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing that great insight.
Steve