Article Marketing For Link Building

[danielblinman]

Just wanted to get a discussion going about the effectiveness of article marketing for building links. All of my content will be decent and unique.

I will submit to the following 10 directories:

• Ezine
• Buzzle
• Goarticles
• Article Dashboard
• Sooperarticles
• Helium
• Articlebase
• Articlealley
• Isnare
• Article City

Of course, varied anchor text and relevant content to my various niches. I just want to know if this is still an effective link building strategy. Please don't recommend i "try" something else because i am doing everything else as well. Thanks guys

[gcdtechnologies]

Hi Claire,

Article marketing can still work if the articles are high enough quality - but if they are high enough quality it would be more beneficial to submit them to a high authority niche site rather than one of these directories.

I tend to go with a 90/10 rule - 90% of my content goes on our own site, and 10% are guest posts on a blog with a strong reputation that will earn trust and authority. I think your time might be better spent writing one really great post for a really great site rather than 10 decent posts for directory sites.

Good luck!

[kbloemendaal]

I agree with Alice. Time would be better spent these days looking for other places to post that content, that is not to say article marketing is worthless completely, but I don't put enough weight into it myself to spend the time when I could use other tactics that would get better results.