
bauss
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I don't submit articles, because I rather spend my time posting the content on my site instead. It's seems like a waste of time to me to spend time writing unique articles for other sites.
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Matt Cutts has clearly stated in his latest blog post that Google is against article marketing. They are taking measures to prevent article marketing.
Yes, at this point, article marketing is counterproductive. Mass submitting of articles even more so. Besides, the established article sites such as Ezine Articles no longer rank as well as they once did.
It's much better to put those efforts into the strategies that are working today, in the aftermath of so many Google algorithm updates. Social media is still effective, and can bolster your rankings as Google takes "social signals" into consideration in ranking your site in the SERPs.
Yes, at this point, article marketing is counterproductive. Mass submitting of articles even more so. Besides, the established article sites such as Ezine Articles no longer rank as well as they once did.
It's much better to put those efforts into the strategies that are working today, in the aftermath of so many Google algorithm updates. Social media is still effective, and can bolster your rankings as Google takes "social signals" into consideration in ranking your site in the SERPs.
I would completely accept Google's terms on using contextual linking, if I could direct traffic to a particular page. For example, if a keyword is remotely connected to my niche and Google recognizes it as such, visitors going to the same page for all those keywords will definitely hold more importance for me at that juncture.
Having said that, I would certainly use synonyms closely connected to my keyword phrase. I don't use more than 20% of my keyword for marketing any article.
I do article submission, though I have read that it is not a good practice I have got results from article sharing. And so I continue doing it.