[Niche_Links]

As per Google's Penguin update, you will have to pay attention to avoid content duplicity, which is applicable not merely for website content, but also for the blogs and articles that are often used for popularizing a business. Therefore, many SEO experts have started providing their views against submission of same article on multiple article directories. It clearly means that article marketing has become an old fashioned stuff from the SEO perspective.

Does anyone have better alternative for article marketing?

[bstar]

use nothing but unique content wherever you post??

Edited by bstar, 07 June 2012 - 11:59.

[triobacklinkbuilder]

Dont use any software to post spin articles to every Sites.
As there many sites which are not maintain w3c rules
even they post all the cr*p adds on the sites.

We know content is always king so post Unique content
on good high PR Sites.

[Niche_Links]

use nothing but unique content wherever you post??

Yes, I agree, but it is difficult to write number of fresh articles to be submitted on various article directories.

[Jonathan Branson]

Yes, I agree, but it is difficult to write number of fresh articles to be submitted on various article directories.

Well i think that if its hard for you to write and post new content just hire someone to do it for you! You can't do it all just if you want you can hire number of writers and let them write the article for you then you will have many original articles on the same topic.

Edited by Jonathan Branson, 08 June 2012 - 01:33.

[bstar]

Well i think that if its hard for you to write and post new content just hire someone to do it for you! You can't do it all just if you want you can hire number of writers and let them write the article for you then you will have many original articles on the same topic.

the amount of work that goes into SEO today is 10 times higher than just a year or so ago. I just had to hire a second person to help me with my sites...

[Jonathan Branson]

Well ofcourse and it's just going to get bigger and bigger! Don't forget that if you are not growing you are dying.

[Pat]

Yes, I agree, but it is difficult to write number of fresh articles to be submitted on various article directories.

So outsource. Content is cheap.

[Niche_Links]

So outsource. Content is cheap.

It seems as if you are comparing quality content with some household commodity. By the way, if content is cheap than how much are you going to offer me for a set of 40 fresh articles to be submitted on different article directories? Dear, I think that you are badly mistaken, and you should re-think about your views regarding the price for quality content. Remember. I am not speaking about spun articles, with meaningless lines. Also, take care that if you cannot negotiate with a doctor for reducing his service charges, you cannot even compel a content writer to provide a series of articles on the similar keywords at cheaper prices, because it takes a lot of hard work to generate fresh articles.

[bstar]

It seems as if you are comparing quality content with some household commodity. By the way, if content is cheap than how much are you going to offer me for a set of 40 fresh articles to be submitted on different article directories? Dear, I think that you are badly mistaken, and you should re-think about your views regarding the price for quality content. Remember. I am not speaking about spun articles, with meaningless lines. Also, take care that if you cannot negotiate with a doctor for reducing his service charges, you cannot even compel a content writer to provide a series of articles on the similar keywords at cheaper prices, because it takes a lot of hard work to generate fresh articles.

I negotiate healthcare costs all the time.

[Lynch]

Wasn't article marketing the first casualty of panda? Back in 2011 feb 7th. After that date I haven't really seen any articles ranking in the search engines.

[Derek]

I don't know, I still do pretty well with article marketing.

I'd bought in that article marketing wasn't worth it, but it's still an alright link, and if your article is any good, you'll still manage to get a bit of traffic from your submissions as well.

[gripex]

Posting the same exact article was a bad practice way before panda and penguin..... Now posting spun content all over seems not to work as well either...

Buy quality content and have it published on real blogs.

[_Richard]

Posting the same exact article was a bad practice way before panda and penguin..... Now posting spun content all over seems not to work as well either...

Buy quality content and have it published on real blogs.

Sorry wrong answer.....None of the updates this year had anything to do with using spun content in your link building. I only use spun content and if Google had attacked and devalued spun content I would have been hammered.

In fact after the initial penquin update I was seeing pages with spun content out ranking the money sites with quality content that they were linking to. While that did not last, if the update had been targeting spun content that would never have happened.

[SirKnight]

You might want to check your spun content because I'm having no such problems.

Posting the same exact article was a bad practice way before panda and penguin..... Now posting spun content all over seems not to work as well either...

I still have articles ranking, so what does that mean? And these are articles that I pretty much slapped together and called it a day.

Wasn't article marketing the first casualty of panda? Back in 2011 feb 7th. After that date I haven't really seen any articles ranking in the search engines.

Here is the truth...

Sorry wrong answer.....None of the updates this year had anything to do with using spun content in your link building. I only use spun content and if Google had attacked and devalued spun content I would have been hammered.

In fact after the initial penquin update I was seeing pages with spun content out ranking the money sites with quality content that they were linking to. While that did not last, if the update had been targeting spun content that would never have happened.

Any content that I produce gets spun and that has been my position since the beta version of TBS. Spun content worked then and it works now.

[VHSEO_Mike]

Well i think that if its hard for you to write and post new content just hire someone to do it for you! You can't do it all just if you want you can hire number of writers and let them write the article for you then you will have many original articles on the same topic.

Exactly. Writing articles is a very time consuming job, and for many people it is boring, so hiring someone is a nice choice.

[StevieP]

in related news, interesting to see that about.com apparently got slapped by Google
http://journalism.about.com/od/trends/a/In-Defense-Of-About-Com.htm

quite interesting to see that even those big sites can be harmed....

[deborahp]

I think the way Google are behaving at present, there are very few sites that Google would have to think twice about before they gave them a "slap"

[john franky]

Umm..Interesting question mate.

To tell my experience, Article Submission still works as it before. But the only thing that differs is Quality and uniqueness of the article. Search engines become very smart in finding the next generation spam techniques and are awaiting from now to punish.
For your question the alternative is, Article Submission only. But submit unique, useful and updated content to trusted Article websites.
As per my knowledge, Directory Submission and Press Release will works similar like Article Submission.

[anuj291]

Its got stronger in my opinion ... !

Its just how you use it to your advantage... Article markeitng got hit as people used spun and ***** content... Use unique content and see the magic it can do..

I do a lot of article marketing for many SEO firms and most of their sites are reaching in top 10 after a month !!