Is Article Marketing Dead?

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The death of article marketing is upon us. At least it is according to the one and only Len Bartholomew.

Nice job Len on this article. It is something we should all be concerned with because article marketing has been the one free form of promotion that has actually worked for me.

I’m not sure where all this is going to end up. I see where EzineArticles.com is considering, or maybe already has done, adding no follow code to all of the articles before the resource box.

What that means is the search engines do not spider our websites listed in the resource box. The only benefit to the writer is when the reader clicks on the link in the resource box. This eliminates any benefit as far as backlinks from an seo point of view.

So is article marketing dead? Probably not, but the way we do it may be. Using articles in social marketing is working for me right now. I get can on page one of google in a day or less and stay there if I choose my keywords right and get them set up in the post correctly.

The other thing is getting them submitted to as many social directories as possible. This certainly drives traffic, increases rss feed subscribers, and is getting me some good page rankings for the various keywords I target.

The downside is my make money blog does not convert well for Google Adsense. I am experimenting on other ways to make money with it and we will see how that goes.