Article Writing Is It Still Worth Doing!

We have been focused on writing articles and posting directly to our site and then communicating new articles via social media. We did try and post articles to websites such as ezinearticles but didn't see any great uplift in either page rank or referred traffic. I may be being too naive but we are just concentrating on getting the right content and communicating on the right forums to generate our traffic.

I didn't see any huge benefit for my site either. The benefit there was came mainly through slight enhancements to Google's positioning of important key words.

I've used key word anchor text linking within my "resource box" a lot on my GoArticles - I understand Google's now much less happy than they used to be about this technique. Damn!

Curious to know if the second article made any difference to your page position?
I've written my first article (ezinearticles), so far no discernible result.

Yes, that is true. In fact, there was one big network which was closed. BMR, you heard of it?

BMR is one of a few private blog networks that Google's penguin algorithm update is supposed to have dealt with by de-indexing them.

The whole idea of self built links is really under attack from Big G

Article writing is worth doing if the articles are not good. The articles whatever you are going to submit in directories should be correct and unique. Every company want's good contents writers.

I think that's not the case. Article marketing still works.

Article writing still works, it can improve your search engine ranking and also bring your website more traffic from people reading the article. Top article directories like ezinearticles.com provide stats so you can see how many people have viewed you article and how many have clicked through to your website.
Some of my articles for clients have produced thousands of views and up to 35% click thru rate (CTR).

I always summit my original article to ezinearticles.com first and then create different versions to submit to other directories. As Gilesfuchs says, just focus on the top 10.

Make sure you have a good headline, quality content and a call to action in your bio box for a good CTR

all the best

I'd agree in the fact it works as part of an overall marketing / link building plan.

Article marketing, based on unique content can indeed be valuable and I've seen decent improvements when I've coupled it with other elements of 'SEO'.

On a site of my own, selling luxury Christmas crackers, I used the technique on site launch, doubled up with a yahoo dir and best of the web dir sign up (plus a couple others) and chartered the ranks over a period of three months.

The site for that keyword moved from outside the top 100 results to its current position on Google UK of 6th (at last check and in case your checking the site is uniquely crackers). Its fluctuating around and moving up slowly now, but great progress and proves that it does work (in this particular niche).

Your correct in that - I wouldn't look to re-spin. I'd first add the article to the site, then re-write and post unique versions on a few of the top sites.

Moving away from article directories altogether, I've found that guest posting has more traction and more often than not the content you create can be picked up and added to lots of different blogs from the one unique blog you originally guest posted for - that is if you wrote the article for a decent high traffic blog in the first place.