Is article marketing still effective for SEO?

**Hulbert Lee** · 15 July, 2011, 04:31 AM

What do you think of article marketing today? Do you think they are still effective for SEO or do you think there are better methods that you would use?

**garfish** · 15 July, 2011, 18:05 PM

as long as you will be posting a unique article it will be helpful. some people though prefer to be guest poster to a related sites/blog

**MrToad** · 16 July, 2011, 21:50 PM

If it is a unique article on a well respected legitimate article site, I think it is probably helpful. Unfortunately, 99% of articles and article directories don't meet this criteria.

I think the vast majority of articles get lost in the shuffle, and the general proposition is not a very good use of your time. I think participating in relevant forums and providing useful input is a much better use of your time, and is also more interesting.

**Brandon Sheley** · 18 July, 2011, 04:26 AM

Every little bit helps in my opinion. You'll get much better results if you can use unique articles with quality sites.

**royking** · 28 July, 2011, 09:40 AM

In my point of view still article marketing is very useful & it will very helpful for boost your website ranking.

**Andy101** · 28 July, 2011, 15:52 PM

In my case, I use a paid service to push my spintax articles out in the form of unique article posts to blogs. I think it is a waste of time to individually post articles to various places online, but I may be wrong. I consider the content of my articles to offer good value to the universe since I spend around 1 hour writing each article with original content.

**sydneymatt** · 12 August, 2011, 13:05 PM

I've tried a whole bunch of different link building methods and I think article marketing gives the most benefit for the amount of time you put in. You have to post to a well ranked directory though. And you should build a couple of links to the article as well.

**alex.coleman** · 16 August, 2011, 01:03 AM

Article marketing is a great way to generate back links naturally.Articles are also a good way to drive trafffic and demonstrate your knowledge and expertise in your sector.Careful placement of articles on blogs, used as a guest speaker, etc. is an effective SEO strategy.

**caroline159** · 16 August, 2011, 20:24 PM

Article marketing works - but you have to put some effort into making unique articles. Pushing an identical article to 500 different sites does not give you much of a boost.