Got Effective Article Submission Tips?

So I have been submitting my articles to the major article directories, I think I have a pretty good tactic, but I still haven't seen any traffic from it. Is article submission the way to go, or have you guys found something else out to generate traffic?

No, article marketing is old news. Try link bait, and instead of giving your content for free, make it good enough to make it to the front page of social bookmarks

Write a good article about something your are passionate about. Submit it to ezinearticles.com

I just started a webmaster wiki today. If you have content that is webmaster related you could post it there. Then just add your link at the bottom as a reference to the source or author. Link to wiki: http://www.bestwebimage.com/wiki/

Pretty much every topic is open being that I have yet to announce it, and only one page is done.

A lot of top internet marketers swear by article marketing. What have you got against it?

Barb

Nothing really, but it does not have the power it used to have before 1-2 years, especially after google started to penalize duplicate content. At this moment besides giving your article to a strong site, there is no value to giving it for free in all the article directories as there is no link juice from them anymore.

Re linkbait:

I have heard of some amazing successes from brilliant linkbaiting. Recently, there was that SEO company (I think it was Cornwall SEO?) gaining thousands of backlinks for a client by writing a hoax story that was believed by many journos and editors and run on countless highly ranked news sites.

Using such tactics can be hugely effective, but is morally dubious, I reckon. 

I think Article submission is good for the site.If your article provides the information to visitors then definitely your article will be popular.
Basically it shows the quality of your site.

I recommend using article submission strategically. Personally, I only post articles that are not listed anywhere else on any other site. Also, I post them when I am focusing on that subject for a month on my blog. What has really helped my reputation and built a global grand for my practice, is writing articles for other reputable sites. These areticles, a month or two later can then be sent to submission sites.

If you want to brand yourself on the net, write great content, get people to promote great content, then find a way to monetize it. My blog has earned me $150 online, but offline it is helping net my mid six figure income.

I still read a lot that article submission IS a good thing, if your article is unique and fact-filled.

To have good results with submission there 2 aspects should be taken into consideration:
Each article you submit should be unique. At least for SE
Each article must be useful for interesting to read. And relevant to the directory

We have the same problem.There is no traffic coming from article directories.

Dear, please check the status of your articles i.e whether they are approved or in pending approvals. I think, it is because of your articles pending approval.

Nothing really, but it does not have the power it used to have before 1-2 years, especially after google started to penalize duplicate content. At this moment besides giving your article to a strong site, there is no value to giving it for free in all the article directories as there is no link juice from them anymore.

I once came across a statement from Google that actually said they do not penalize for duplicate content. Of course I do not have that statement at the moment so this isn't really helping any of us but if I can find it again I will post it here. Anyway duplicate content is almost a guarantee as people will take your article and post it on their site anyway. Happens to me all the time. So in that respect all of us will be penalized by Google if they truely don't like it and in my opinion that makes it a wash. So I say do anyway and I think writing a unique article for each directory is a huge waste of your time if people will copy it anyways. I never get much traffic from the articles themselves but I still see positive impacts in ranking which then provides the traffic I was seeking.

Try writing articles about what you know . Not just writing few words and then quit , because your out of ideas.

to be honest I believe that article marketing still works. there are still some things that would work better in terms of traffic, but I believe thatarticle marketing is actually been a very consistent source of traffic.

I think articles are good to get a good pr and backlinks and if they are good enough they will give you good traffic, just make sure you put the link in a smart way so people click on it.

Better to keep your content on your site. And promote it using social book marking!

The try using a link wheel to generate traffic

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