Article marketing of course is the process of writing articles, including links to your own web site within them, and then submitting them online to the various article directories.
So is article marketing for traffic sustainable, or is it another fad that will pass?
Last year, when I got involved in internet marketing and article marketing, it was during the time that building article directories was a hot thing (and quite faddish, I must say). And that has certainly cooled off.
But it has not imploded. I thought that it would – but it is less than a year later – so maybe it still will. But many of those article directories are showing pageranks of 4-6 and that is surprising to me. Of course, only a few are at pr 6 or 7, and that was my basic prediction – and the search engines may decide to ban that type of content from all the copy cat sites.
So if that happens, is all lost? I think not. There are a few article directories that actually monitor the quality of their submissions, and I think that those web sites will continue to grow, and continue to gain search engine traffic – in fact, their traffic may increase as the search engines become tougher on duplicate content, banning sites who use content that is the same as content on other sites.
Also, it is my estimation that only about 100 or less article marketers are making a fulltime income online using just article marketing. Now, in a well-developed field such as article marketing, I think this is interesting. I think it means that most people feel like it is too much work to do regularly – and it is almost impossible to use automated means of writing articles that get accepted by the top directories – so I think that article marketing can remain alive for many years, for those who personally write their own articles.
Now, for people using PLR, etc., I think the end is near. So you have to write your own articles!
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