Yesterday, I concluded that I won't be "article directory marketing" for my sites any longer. Article marketing is when you submit an article to dozens of online article directories, guaranteeing duplicate content in your links. My reasoning for not doing it for my latest site is threefold:

1. Future Penalties. In the future, Google will probably be cracking down on article marketing, because most articles are useless, poorly written, and are generally just low quality links. Even if Google doesn't now (I think they might be a though, considering Josh Spawlding, one of the big "article marketers", just recently lost his #3 slot for "Make Money Online" and is now on page 5 or something. :P)

2. Bad Habits. I find that when I start article marketing, my writing slides downhill, and I'm writing just to get the link, rather than for the topic. I try to speed through it so I can write another article. This cheapish approach lowers my writing skill.

3. Guest Posting. Rather than write for cheap links, I'll just offer to guest post for other blogs, usually "small" pr4 blogs. Considering I'm basically writing about a topic where any blog that is ranked for "money" would be appropriate, it's extremely easy to guest write for relevant websites.

What about you guys? What do you think? Is article marketing worth it?

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