As someone pointed out above though, a large proportion of the articles are trash and other than getting a single link from the article in the article directory your wasting your time. The real results come from spending the time and effort to produce a quality article that is worthy of being used by website publishers. One good article that is published on 20 different websites is better than 10 poor articles that are published on non.

I really don’t know whether I can afford the time to continue. I know all the theorists say I should. But time is a constraint.

The result is not only increased traffic because of their good ranking, but it’s also effectively kept some of their main competitors off of page 1 results.

Susan

Another thing that concerns me about article writing is the unethical SEO types who lift your original content, post it to a blog, and insert spammy words with links to their sites.

Hopefully those unreadable postings are completely ignored by the search engines.

I have used internet article marketing for the past 6 months, and so far…

-I have received dozens of new clients.
-Been approached to write articles for ALL of the large trade magazines in my industry.
-Had other blogs and “gurus” use my articles on their blogs (with proper credit given)
-I now receive about 20 more hits to my website per week because of article sites (per Google Analytics)
- Been asked to be on the advisory board for two startup companies in my niche.

I use articles I have sent to my clients in my client only newsletter, or even short articles I post on my blog. My assistant is actually in charge of distribution to all the article sites.

I create good content once, and share it with everyone I can through my blog, articles,videos, and even twitter and facebook (GASP!)

You can choose to ignore the internet, or you can make it work for you…

I do it more for links though. The more I submit the more links I get. Not every site is one you would advertise on PPc either. Most of mine aren’t.