OK I've been trying to hold my tongue on this for months.
I hate to rain on everyone's article marketing parade BUT...
1st I realize if you are new and have no money to market, this is one way and it's better than nothing. I also realize it can get you some traffic and know that you can sometimes get really high placement in the search engines for certain key phrases, so I get all that...
I've admitted numerous times I have never been involved in article marketing, so maybe I'm really missing the boat.
However I'd like to ask some of our more experienced marketers this. Don't you think
article marketing is (or can be depending on the site) one big giant leak?
Really look at this page I just picked at random from Ezine Articles, one of the most popular.
Affiliate Marketing Tips - One of the Biggest Mistakes You Can Make
Imagine being a surfer, you search for "Affiliate Marketing Mistakes" and see this article in Google so you click over to read it. What do you SEE?
29 COUNT EM - 29 different highly targeted KW rich Google Adsense ads that are going to pull the visitor right off the site and away from your article. (I thought there was a limit to how many banks of Adsense ads you could have on a page? EZ has 6 banks per page!)
PLUS there are also at least 30 links to other related keyword rich articles that could pull people away from yours before they ever click your one little link.
So what are the chances that the ONE link in your bio is going to get a click when there are 60 other well written KW links that will take the visitor off your article page?
What I see when I look at this model is the owner of the directory making Big money off these pages and the writer maybe getting a couple clicks if they are lucky.
Again for newbies I see it as a viable part of the mix, if you can't do anything else, but for pros - is it worth doing with all these leaks???
OK go ahead and start throwing the tomatoes!
I hate to rain on everyone's article marketing parade BUT...
1st I realize if you are new and have no money to market, this is one way and it's better than nothing. I also realize it can get you some traffic and know that you can sometimes get really high placement in the search engines for certain key phrases, so I get all that...
I've admitted numerous times I have never been involved in article marketing, so maybe I'm really missing the boat.
However I'd like to ask some of our more experienced marketers this. Don't you think
article marketing is (or can be depending on the site) one big giant leak?
Really look at this page I just picked at random from Ezine Articles, one of the most popular.
Affiliate Marketing Tips - One of the Biggest Mistakes You Can Make
Imagine being a surfer, you search for "Affiliate Marketing Mistakes" and see this article in Google so you click over to read it. What do you SEE?
29 COUNT EM - 29 different highly targeted KW rich Google Adsense ads that are going to pull the visitor right off the site and away from your article. (I thought there was a limit to how many banks of Adsense ads you could have on a page? EZ has 6 banks per page!)
PLUS there are also at least 30 links to other related keyword rich articles that could pull people away from yours before they ever click your one little link.
So what are the chances that the ONE link in your bio is going to get a click when there are 60 other well written KW links that will take the visitor off your article page?
What I see when I look at this model is the owner of the directory making Big money off these pages and the writer maybe getting a couple clicks if they are lucky.
Again for newbies I see it as a viable part of the mix, if you can't do anything else, but for pros - is it worth doing with all these leaks???
OK go ahead and start throwing the tomatoes!