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02
Filed Under (Writing and Speaking) by FinanceMan on 02-07-2008

The strategy behind article marketing has changed over the years. Many people who still use the old strategy claim that it no longer works. The fact is, article marketing is alive and doing very well. How do I adopt to the newest trend in article marketing?

It used to be so easy. You wrote an article, submitted it to hundreds of large and small article directories and virtually overnight you got hundreds of inbound links to your site.

Even a new site would get crawled in less than 24 hours using this method. That is the old way of doing article marketing. While it was effective to gain link popularity back then with this method, it is no longer true. Google and other search engines are now smart enough to detect if the backlinks you get are natural, through mass submissions, or spam.

For that reason, I no longer submit to hundreds of article directories, even though that can be made automatic by using article submission software. The reason is, a lot of directories didn’t provide one single traffic at all to my site. The inbound links are also useless from the search engine’s standpoint.

Most article submission software didn’t do a good job when it comes to automatic submission too. Things that work may not work tomorrow because of the change in the article directories.

Let’s not talk about duplicate content issue. It is for that reason and all above that I decided I should focus on 1-3 most popular article directories. If you understand the 80/20 principle. Twenty percent of your effort will produce 80 percent of the results and 80 percent of your results will produce 20 percent of the results.

Go think of ways you can maximize the outcome from your effort. Your time will be better spent on writing more articles. When it comes to article marketing, that is the way to go.

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