How Article Marketing Changed The Face of The Internet

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Winter market, NYC – Jan 2009 – 17

More foreign tourists … this couple had no interest whatsoever in the market, or the apples, or the cider, or anything else in the immediate vicinity. They were lost, and were consulting a map to see how to get wherever they were going….

Note: this photo was published in a Jul 20, 2009 blog titled "We’re Not Invincible." And it was published in a Jul 30, 2009 blog article titled "Esquire Improves Your Tourist Trap Experience." It was also published in an Aug 14, 2010 blog titled "How did President Bush’s plan to reshape Iraq as a free-market paradise lead to massive corruption?"

It was also published in a Feb 8, 2011 blog titled "How to Travel With Your Partner (& Still Come Home as a Couple)."

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These photos were taken on a random Saturday afternoon in late January 2009, about two blocks south of the movie theater where I was planning to see the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

I arrived half an hour early (as usual), and decided to wander around the area to see if I could find something interesting to photograph — and stumbled unexpectedly upon a "green market" in the "pocket park" next to the subway station at Broadway & 66th Street. Aside from the essentially empty "DiPaola Turkey Farm" booth, the other vendors seemed to be selling apples (and hot cider) for the most part, though there were also a couple of stands selling honey, cookies, and pies.

Lots of people were walking by, and there were some chairs and small picnic tables where people could sit and relax, or perhaps enjoy some of the wares they had purchased. It was pretty cold when I took these pictures, probably around 25-30 degrees Fahrenheit, but there was also a dazzling bright sun that made the weather a little more tolerable….

After I finished taking as many pictures as I could reasonably imagine taking (80% of which were deleted before these "keepers" were uploaded), I walked back north to the movie theater. Along the way, I passed a guy wearing a billboard advertising a "going out of business" sale at Circuit City … which had nothing to do with the fresh-food market I had just seen, but which were still sufficiently interesting that I couldn’t help photographing them and adding them into the collection…

How Article Marketing Changed The Face of The Internet

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With the Internet the new venue for business, article marketing has become the new trend for advertising and marketing products to consumers. These articles do not only provide information on a variety of topics, it also allows visitors to see the sites. It is because of this wide range of content why it is so easy now to research over the Internet.

Article marketing, to those who are not yet familiar with the field, is the use of articles to help introduce the products that the sites are selling. These articles will often contain a bio box and a byline that will include the name of the business and the contact information. Article marketing is also used in increasing the rank of a site in search engines like Yahoo and Google.

You see, the more articles you put into the directory, the better will your site’s search results will be. Of course, websites that are on top of the sites will have more visitors and in turn better sales from the increased consumer viewing.

A site that has reliable and good content will not only expect the support of the online viewers but also advertisers who feel that they will be viewed more in the website. These companies are called online advertisers.

Some online advertisers can post their advertisement for free in exchange for a percentage of the income generated by the ads or the number of views of the ad. Some sites however sell their space to online advertisers. The pop up advertisements that you see in yahoo every time you open the search engine is an example of this paid advertisement.

But this usage of articles in article marketing has also led to the decrease in content and structure quality of the write-ups. Because many sites are putting in more articles than they can finish, the articles are often haphazardly done and unfinished. Many will contain grammar mistakes and even wrong spelling. Some sites will even have unfinished articles with the paragraph all about the topic you searched on but the body of the article about an entirely different topics. It will take you a while before you can sort out everything.

The trend of article marketing has also led to a lot of copied content or rephrased content. When you try keyword search and click on the websites that come out in the results, you will notice that a lot of them will have the same content. Some will have the same exact content while others will just be a re-written version of the original that was posted.

From being used as a way to increase the credibility of the product and giving information to the consumers and researchers, article marketing has become a business that has squeezed out the quality from the articles that are posted.

Because of this, researchers on the internet have been cautioned to only check the websites that are being kept by reliable sources such as universities, government agencies, foreign organizations and research facilities. Some sources of information over the internet are not actually to be trusted when it comes to content and originality.

Article marketing have definitely changed the face of the Internet. The question is: Is it for the better or for the worse? We will have to wait and see in the future.

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article marketing question by greffy: Internet Article Marketing – does it really work?
My first hand, real research on this topic shows that the results may not be what others claim it to be.

I’ve written many articles and submitted them to the article directories. The results are far less than expected.

What do you think? Do you have any hard proof that it works? Please share.
Hi everyone.

Really, I am looking for YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE with article marketing. I’m not really talking about affiliate programs but rather if YOU received a significant number of unique visitors due to putting the articles out there.

Many of mine are picked up and posted with the link gone or not hot. That is useless to us.

I always get answers from people that it works, but no one can prove it.

greg

article marketing best answer:

Answer by Beth M
Yes it definitely does work. It depends on what you are writing about (promoting) who you are targeting, what you’ve written, where it was submitted, if you have a website or not, etc. There are a lot of factors involved. I think the key is to do research (wordtracker is wonderful) to find your niche. Once you have a niche and you know exactly what keywords you are targeting, then you can create content around that (with or without a website) and profit from related affiliate programs.