The Rules Of Article Marketing Just Changed
Thursday, September 11th, 2008One of the best SEO tactics of all time is article marketing. Distributing articles for links “the old way” was a 100% winner… until now.
My friends, Marc and Daniel at PLRpro are releasing a new system called “Article Marketing Automation” and, I can tell you from my tests… it rocks!
Their system lets you build…
On-topic backlinks within your articles using anchor text you choose drip-fed to your site over time… from a massive blog network.
This is the next step in article marketing. It’s huge.
Anyone who continues to do “old style” article marketing will get left behind.
If you can already see the power of this system, head over to the AMA site and sign up…
Here’s more detail for you…
1: Google knows the Article Directory sites. In November last year, their PageRank got slapped and so did all the sites who got links mainly from Article Directories… OUCH!
Solution: Use a big, distributed network of blogs for your articles. Marc and Daniel’s system has 2,000 blogs signed up, and it’s just emerging from beta. Daniel told me they’ll have 60,000 by the end of 2008.
2: Article directories don’t usually let you put links to your sites in the body of the articles, but only in the “author box”, which doesn’t look like a natural link.
Solution: Distribute your articles using a system that allows you to put links within the articles. The links look like “natural links of love” and there’s no “author box” at the bottom to let Google know these are distributed articles. This is what Marc and Daniel’s system does… the articles don’t look like “articles”, they look like natural blog posts. 
3: Article directories send your articles out in one “blast”, which isn’t a natural way to get links.
Solution: Drip-feed your articles over time. Some article directories are moving to this system, but with Marc and Daniel’s system, it’s built-in.
4: If your article is distributed to many sites, Google will most likely not bother counting most of the backlinks. When you search Google for a phrase from your article and it shows 3 results and “click here to see more very similar results”, my guess is that Google doesn’t count links from those “very similar” pages, or rates them poorly.
Solution: Carefully craft your article with sentence replacement so that each version distributed is different, but still readable and of high quality. Again, some article directories are starting to do this, but Marc and Daniel’s system has this feature built-in… if you want to use it.
Article marketing has changed, forever. It’s no longer good enough to write an article, slap an “author box” at the bottom, blast it out and get backlinks.
Just as visiting each article directory was replaced by desktop software that allowed you to visit each directory and submit your article, and that was replaced by article distribution services, this is the future.
Now you can include your backlinks within your articles, lose the “author box” and distribute slowly, over-time to multiple on-topic blogs. If you like, you can even use the sentence-replacement feature to make the articles different from each other.
Just ask yourself… whose sites will get the traffic?
Will it be the people using the old system, or the new?
If you agree with me, Marc and Daniel, you need to start using the power of Article Marketing Automation.
PS, when Allan Gardyne says, “This is awesome!” and, “Daniel calls this a “ranking machine, I call it brilliant“, you know the Earth has just moved. I’ve never seen Allan so impressed by a new system, but I do know why.
BTW, I’ve spent many hours chatting with Marc and Daniel about this system via instant messenger and Skype. These guys are smart. I suggest you sign up for this new system right now, and start building genuine, quality links into your websites.
