Pros and Cons of Article Marketing

[xy7durga]

Pros of Article Marketing:

• Highly effective when trying to target traffic or back links in a short time.

• These links are one way, so it will help boost your Google Page Rank (when it updates)
  
• If you are proficient with your own writing style, you can easily make a 300-500 word article which can help establish you as an expert in your niche.
• Article Marketing is viral. If you do it once, it just spreads out. Its quite contagious)
• As long as you provide quality content, you cannot go wrong. Submit 5-10 articles a day and you can make some decent cash with that.

Cons of Article Marketing:

• You need decent writing skills (or atleast your own personal style which stands out)

• If you do not have enough skill in this, you can hire a ghost writer. Though it might cost you some money. (then again, ghost writers are worth it if you can find a good one)
  
• Manual Submissions can be a drag. If only there was another way. Oh wait. There is. You can pay someone else to do it for you!

• You can also find a program to do it for you, but I truly do not trust these. I’ve heard mixed reviews.
  
• Articles can be time consuming
• Marketing these articles can be time consuming

[TryUsOut]

Nice thoughts. Thanks for sharing


Another CON is that when sites copy your content without giving any credit on its source.

[seo_marketing]

Article promotion could have negative impact on your website . There are several websites which are facing duplicate content issues due to article promotion.

Google sees article promotion as duplicate content promotion.

[bicycle2000]

yeah... article marketing is one of the useful tools
Thanks for sharing your though

[rscracker]

yeah.. that great.. thnk 4 shring it to

[The Quite Guy]

I think the main con in articles is the time it takes to write then post.

[EricBlackwell]

I find that article writing does work well, but if you are going to take that kind of time, why not become a contributot to a major industry blog and post blogs for some SERIOUS back links?

I guess it depends on the industry, but works for me...

Best;

Eric

[NGB_Vero]

Originally Posted by EricBlackwell

I find that article writing does work well, but if you are going to take that kind of time, why not become a contributot to a major industry blog and post blogs for some SERIOUS back links?

I guess it depends on the industry, but works for me...

Best;

Eric

Hi Eric,

You are absolutely right about blogs. Usually, after having written a new article, it is recommended to post it on your own blog and submit RSS feeds to FeedBurner, for example. Or to any social networking site, the users of which may find your article(s) interesting.

As soon as Google picks up your URL and indexes it, it will be fine to go and submit the text of your article to article directories. Thus, google will consider that your blog has a 100% original content, and there won't be any issues with duplicate content, regardless how many copies of your article would be distributed. You can even reword it a little bit. Practice shows, that people do read articles.

BTW, Brad Callen released a very good semi-automatic article submitter.

Good luck,

[robodesignsolutions]

Thanks for this, its exactly what I suspected for article marketing. I'm right in the middle of it now, it is quite time consuming, but it does get the links coming in! Thanks again

Paul

[allfun]

You have nicely put up pros of article marketing, but I dont agree fully about cons - to get some thing you have to have some pain...

[sirandy]

Thanks for your thoughts. I have seen that article marketing can be effective if done properly. Better to just submit one article to one site vs. submitting to multiple sites.

[erikko]

i agree in the "time-consuming" part but it is paid off specially when you earn from the articles and they drive traffic to your site

[Marcos]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Yeah, an article writing can be effective if you are going to do it properly and every day. Also the article pages of your site must be specified by separate specific keyword.