Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy?

Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy and how are the backlinks treated when other websites republish the same article? Jeff, Orange County, CA

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• seo
• article
• marketing

[TheRichJerks]

@internetgurublog Ezine killed itself by being a content farm with nothing but ads.. Every lame marketer says go post on ezine and many follow. Frankly I think it is funny how ezine has suffered. Sure glad I do not post my quality content to their site.

[TheRichJerks]

I will make a post on my forum about this. I have told people for years about this bum marketing and so-called article marketing. The problem is many and I do mean many teach article marketing "WRONG!". True article marketing has nothing to do with submitting to content farms such as ezine articles or 1000's of other ad filled article directories. True article marketing has to do with writing quality content and empowering your site with that content + many other factors.

[aileenaya]

Everybody needs SEO marketing videos… even if they admit it or not using seo service because this means gaining a good position in Google’s and other search engines…which means free traffic and in the end…money

[AmazonMojo14]

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[timgarciacc]

article marketing does work! if you have the right tools ...

articlesclub[dot]net

[Planphoria]

So when did Google get put in charge of what is good and what is not on the Internet?

[TheEmageon]

@josephbison You don't know anything. Rank #4, article marketing- 1 month. Beat that.

[TheEmageon]

All this guy talks about is good content. Im pretty sure hes required to say half the stuff he does, the rest is just general information that most people know. I just ranked my site using the same techniques that "the panda update" supposedly shut down. People don't know what they are talking about. Just figure out something that works and keep doing it till it dosent work, Then... Find something new. Try to adding here and there to the techniques you've "tapped out".

[LifeBloodMarketing]

@insuretec Someone else noticed...

[LifeBloodMarketing]

@slowdating Isn't that a chance for one to stand out then? Article marketing doesn't have to mean using absence farms to place articles. You could simply setup your own content distribution sites for your personal use and have them perform just as well. Of course I have only meet a few people willing to put in the effort.