Article Marketing in Wikipedia Seriously Needs an Update

As a Wikipedia Editor, I will be updating the page on article marketing, but I’d love some suggestions from others about what to include in the update. Currently, this is what it says;

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Traditional Article Marketing

Article marketing has been used by professionals for nearly as long as mass print has been available. A business provides content to a newspaper, possibly on a timely topic such as an article on tax audits during tax season, and the newspaper may use the article and include the business’s name and contact information. Newspapers and other traditional media have limited budgets for gathering content and these articles may be used in the business section of the newspaper.

Internet Article Marketing

Internet article marketing is used to promote products and services online via article directories. Article directories with good web page ranks receive a lot of site visitors and are may be considered authority sites by search engines,leading to high traffic. These directories then go on PageRank to the author’s website and in addition send traffic from readers.

Internet marketers attempt to maximize the results of an article advertising campaign by submitting their articles to a number of article directories. However, most of the major search engines filter duplicate content to stop the identical content material from being returned multiple times in searches. Some marketers attempt to circumvent this filter by creating a number of variations of an article, known as article spinning. By doing this, one article can theoretically acquire site visitors from a number of article directories.

Most forms of search engine optimization and internet marketing require a domain, internet hosting plan, and promoting budget. However, article advertising makes use of article directories as a free host and receives traffic by way of organic searches due to the listing’s search engine authority.

The primary goal behind article marketing is to get search engine traffic and authors generally incorporate relevant keywords or keyphrases in their articles.

This is seriously short for an article about article marketing. There are so many methods of article distribution other than mass submitting articles to article directories. Hub Pages, Squidoo Lenses, Forums, Social Media, etc.

What I would like is suggestions from others in the article marketing business as to how to update this article. I will give credit to the source of the information. So, please take the time to add anything you think needs to be added to this page at Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_marketing

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