Article Marketing

[KernelPanic]

In a previous post I claimed that article marketing was "mostly useless", in another post in that same thread I said it was "useless" in relation to Google ranks.

Judging from the excellent comments that opinions received, I want to open my mind and do my own study.

So I wrote a killer article, it is compelling, original and relevant... And I will write another each week for 8 weeks. I will measure the results on Google and report them back here.

Do I put the articles on my own site first and link to it from the article site I choose? or do I just give this article site my great content and link it to the page with the most relevant optimization?

Do I put it on 1 article site or 3 or more?

Here's my prediction: I will see a short term boost, followed by a just as rapid decline to its original or very slightly better position.

Any advice on placing my article(s)?
I encourage others to do their own study so we can compare results.

[Noj]

Ok from my 'in the field' experimentation with article writing I tend to think you will find the results which you think you will if you are in any competitive field.

I don't think even the best article writers think it is a route to 10 top rankings for big insurance, finance or travel terms.

Lets define the field you are targetting and see if it is relevant to the test at hand.

I would suggest you also look at the article stratgery you wish to use.

1) Link bait.

Publish on your own site, and see what happens, if you have a1 content I see this as the best policy.

2) Volume

Spun articles looking for volumes of links and hoping that some stick. Lower quality articles, useful for long tail stuff, or intial links but nothing else.

Have a look at uniue article wizard if want to try this.

3) Viral

High quality article with a viral hook, I have no idea how to do this and if you can work it our please tell me, I think this how article writing really works effectively.

Also depends on the site.

Try it for a virgin domain I think you will see a wothwhile effect,

Try in for aged domain with good backlink profile you will see little effect.

[seo-sparky]

I've been investigating this as well. I have 5 articles all around 1000 words written specifically for this purpose posted on ezine. The articles are well written and very informative (written by a Dr.). I have links in the footers back to the website with the target phrase I was hoping to enhance.

After about 10 weeks, the result so far is no change in my ranking, however an increase in traffic due to the popularity of the articles.

[Noj]

I don't think 1 version of 5 articles on all on the same website is effective article based link building.

Its like saying I wrote 2 words of quality text and my site hasn't moved.

I've been investigating this as well. I have 5 articles all around 1000 words written specifically for this purpose posted on ezine. The articles are well written and very informative (written by a Dr.). I have links in the footers back to the website with the target phrase I was hoping to enhance.

After about 10 weeks, the result so far is no change in my ranking, however an increase in traffic due to the popularity of the articles.

[seo-sparky]

I don't think 1 version of 5 articles on all on the same website is effective article based link building.

Its like saying I wrote 2 words of quality text and my site hasn't moved.

I didn't say it was effective, I said it was not effective.

Strictly an observation of my experience so far... after all KernelPanic was talking about 8 killer articles, I have 5. So I think there's some relevance.

[Noj]

I think we would both agreed its not effective, but I don't think its an effective test because you haven't got an effect SEO link building strategy.

If we are both agreeing that then it is fine.

If your saying that link building by article submission does work because of your experiences, then id say its not a proper test.

However in the field experience is leading me to believe its useful for very new sites for there first links and has a low value after that point.

I didn't say it was effective, I said it was not effective.

Strictly an observation of my experience so far... after all KernelPanic was talking about 8 killer articles, I have 5. So I think there's some relevance.

[seo-sparky]

I think we would both agreed its not effective, but I don't think its an effective test because you haven't got an effect SEO link building strategy.

If we are both agreeing that then it is fine.

If your saying that link building by article submission does work because of your experiences, then id say its not a proper test.

However in the field experience is leading me to believe its useful for very new sites for there first links and has a low value after that point.

Would you say his test of 8 articles will not be an effective test either? What's the breakover point from ineffective to effective?

[KernelPanic]

I think we would both agreed its not effective, but I don't think its an effective test because you haven't got an effect SEO link building strategy.

If we are both agreeing that then it is fine.

If your saying that link building by article submission does work because of your experiences, then id say its not a proper test.

However in the field experience is leading me to believe its useful for very new sites for there first links and has a low value after that point.

Is your belief that it is not effective a "feeling" or do you have data to back it up? In the end I think I will end up agreeing with you and sparky, but I have to challenge my thought process on occasion or risk becoming a closed minded old codger. (as opposed to just an old codger)

I had a "feeling" it was of no value because a link from ezine is so obviously an artifical one. Then I saw Purdue's link showing some pretty good data:

http://hubshout.com/?Does-syndication-really-help-SEO&AID=164

This is why I am testing it. Again, I think you are correct.... we'll see. Of course no definite conclusion can be based on 8 weeks of article marketing, but it's a start, and if more like sparky jump into the fray we'll actually be doing some good rather than just shouting our opinions at one another

[noam015]

In a previous post I claimed that article marketing was "mostly useless", in another post in that same thread I said it was "useless" in relation to Google ranks.

Judging from the excellent comments that opinions received, I want to open my mind and do my own study.

So I wrote a killer article, it is compelling, original and relevant... And I will write another each week for 8 weeks. I will measure the results on Google and report them back here.

Do I put the articles on my own site first and link to it from the article site I choose? or do I just give this article site my great content and link it to the page with the most relevant optimization?

Do I put it on 1 article site or 3 or more?

Here's my prediction: I will see a short term boost, followed by a just as rapid decline to its original or very slightly better position.

Any advice on placing my article(s)?
I encourage others to do their own study so we can compare results.

A few articles won't do.

[Noj]

Would you say his test of 8 articles will not be an effective test either? What's the breakover point from ineffective to effective?

I think its a lot more complex than how many articles on ezines.

I think there is an art to doing article link well, and if you work that art out it can work well for you, I juts haven't done that yet

I think if you idea of article based link building is putting articles on ezines it juts wont work, at all.

[BGreen]

I think its a lot more complex than how many articles on ezines.

I think there is an art to doing article link well, and if you work that art out it can work well for you, I juts haven't done that yet

I think if you idea of article based link building is putting articles on ezines it juts wont work, at all.

If you want to get the link benefit from an article you need to submit that article to many places!

[Noj]

Is your belief that it is not effective a "feeling" or do you have data to back it up? In the end I think I will end up agreeing with you and sparky, but I have to challenge my thought process on occasion or risk becoming a closed minded old codger. (as opposed to just an old codger)

I have been using it the last few months and found it useful for new sites and long tail stuff, but useless in shifting more difficult terms in any direction.

I do 'article spinning' which will give me about 20-40 links per article, all low quality but distributed and quite natural in pattern

The Sharpe Books site in my footer was had 10 weeks link building from launch which is just from signature links, blog posts and article writing, and is now top 10 for 42 of the 67 original target phrases, so I don't think its useless.

However it has done very little for a more mature site i have been link building for, so I think its a limited technique.

[EGOL]

We do not post- any articles out to syndication. None, never.

Write a great article - best on the web in its niche - then toss a link and clever description of it out to three or four good social media sites - it will often be like tossing gasoline on a fire (if your articles are really best on the web in their niche).

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[Noj]

We do not post- any articles out to syndication. None, never.

Can I suggsest you are in a particlaulry strong position, I will make some assumptions, but I don't think they will be that wild.

1) That you are a very skilled writer of link bait.
2) That you a writing on sites that alreday have a very strong link profile.
3) Most artciles you write will rank before you do off page optiomisation based, on the strength of your sites.
4) Your sites have some social authority in their targert niche's

In those cirumstances you take exactly the right stance, and it is 100% the corrrect thing to do.

However that is not the fortunate (I know hard work got you there not fortune ) position most SEO's find themselves in.

A different case study;

A few weeks ago I was in a different situation I had a brand new site, with 30 odd pages of content (now 50), and no backlinks. No funds and no network of sites to link towards me.

I could create 6 or 7 pieces of extra material over a 2 week period which by syndication would create my first 200 backlinks, on 50 different ip address, on relevant pages, with varied anchor text, that look like natural editorial links.

Was that waste of the 7 quickley written articles?

Write a great article - best on the web in its niche - then toss a link and clever description of it out to three or four good social media sites - it will often be like tossing gasoline on a fire (if your articles are really best on the web in their niche).

Ok i'd love to get abit more detail on that or examples