Article Marketing Bribery: Is It Necessary?
Lately there have been new article directories popping up, wanting you to submit your articles and promising you certain money-making benefits. There are some that offer to place your AdSense on a certain percentage of your articles. There are article directories that allow you to place ads on their website in exchange for your articles. Some allow you to join an affiliate program after you’ve had so many articles published. And there are other variations of the income-producing model that are being developed along these lines. Are any of them necessary?
First, I’d like to say that article marketing has never been about getting your article published in a directory. Article marketing is about getting your articles picked up by publishers within your niche. That’s the end goal and when that happens it is much more valuable reward then any of the promised benefits mentioned above or, for that matter, and future promised benefits to try to get your publish your articles. Quite frankly, I find these offers to be a bit off-putting and they tend to take your mind off of the real goal of article marketing.
Think about it: The goal of article marketing is to have your articles published on niche sites with a link back to your site. You preferably want those links to be on authority sites with relevant content. Those are the best links. In fact, if that happens with your articles often then you are getting real benefit from your article marketing efforts. Other benefits pale in comparison.
Honestly, would you rather have $10 monthly income from your articles on an article directory or permanent links from hundreds of websites within your niche that drive traffic to your landing pages every day? If you said the former then you might as well just forget about article marketing and build a website with content on it and slap your own AdSense ads on that site because you’ll make more money that way in the long run. But if you are trying to sell a product or service and you are looking for business, stick with traditional article marketing. Don’t take the bribes.
Indeed, I could not agree more, in fact, I am getting 3-unsolicited emails a week begging me to post articles on various sites, most of them new. Look, I am not here to build up other people’s sites, I want the right traffic to my website. Mostly, I tell the new site owners to call me if they ever get to a million hits a month and then we can talk. Currently, I have in excess of 13,000 articles online.