{"id":1116,"date":"2012-07-13T03:37:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2019-10-23T04:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:30:40","slug":"should-you-delete-all-your-online-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/2012\/07\/13\/should-you-delete-all-your-online-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Delete All Your Online Articles?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nShould You Delete All Your Online Articles?<\/b>
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Is article marketing truly dead? Has this marketing strategy
\nbecome totally ineffective, especially in regards to SEO?
\nBut perhaps, what you should be asking yourself…<\/p>\n


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\nShould You Delete All Your Online Articles?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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\nI have always been a great fan of article marketing and have
\nhundreds of articles on the web on various sites. Along comes
\nthe Google Penguin Update and these articles\/backlinks may now
\nbe considered webspam in the eyes of Google. In other words,
\ninstead of helping others with your articles and content, you’re
\nnow creating unnatural or inorganic link schemes with these articles.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Penguin slaps your site into oblivion and unless you remove the
\nmajority of these inorganic links flowing to your site, it will
\nstay in no-mansland. This poses a serious question:
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\nShould I Delete All My Online Articles?<\/b>
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\nSince Penguin, many webmasters have done just that, closed any
\narticle directory accounts and removed all their articles. These
\nwebmasters have also contacted other sites displaying their articles
\nand have asked for the articles\/links to be removed. Some major
\nsites, Buzzle comes to mind, have removed all articles from their
\nsites, users can still submit content but without links.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Removal of all your articles may not be the best move if those
\narticles are still bringing in traffic to your site. Sure, Google
\nis probably not counting these articles\/links for ranking purposes
\nbut is the traffic flowing from your articles worth more than your
\nprevious Google search traffic? That’s the main question here,
\nif your Google traffic numbers were much greater, you may have
\nto consider removing all your articles.
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\nShouldn’t You Wait For The Google Disavow Link Tool?<\/b>
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\nIf my traffic from my articles are too beneficial to lose, couldn’t
\nI just wait for the promised “Disavow Link Tool” and keep my articles
\nand traffic, while dismissing those backlinks in Google? Wouldn’t
\nthis be a much better route to take, especially if you have been
\nbuilding up your article traffic for years?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bing has come out with a “Disavow Tool” but that doesn’t mean Google
\nwill also give us one. Google and Matt Cutts are all on record saying,
\nsuch a tool is coming in the next few months. I am keeping my fingers
\ncrossed because, while I have no problem removing articles\/links which
\nbring in no traffic, removing articles which bring in targeted leads
\nand sales is not a good marketing strategy. Besides, removing all
\nthese viral articles is a complete nightmare and almost impossible to
\ndo, especially when sites hosting your articles refuse to remove them.<\/p>\n

My only other dilemma, I like article marketing… it is a great way to
\nintroduce yourself and your site. Plus, for years, article marketing has
\nbeen a vital part of my marketing funnels… present a well written and
\nwell informed article in article directory like Ezinearticles and you
\nget a steady stream of potential targeted customers\/clients flowing
\ninto your site and marketing funnels.<\/p>\n

In addition, a well written unique article on other high quality sites
\nis still a great way to get traffic and valuable one-way links. And no,
\nI am not talking about article spinning or using scraped content for
\nthe sake of getting links. Spun articles, for the most part, are usually
\nunreadable and a complete joke. You should not be doing of this in the
\nfirst place.
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\nSo does article marketing still hold any value at all?<\/b>
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\nPerhaps the biggest question, does article marketing still hold any value
\nas an SEO strategy? Yes, I believe it needs to be repeated, a well written
\narticle or post on a related quality (non-article directory) site is still
\na good way to get traffic and backlinks. Just make sure you’re not using
\nthe same anchor text in these article and try to keep the backlinks from
\nany given site to one or two links – just to play it safe.
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\nIs article marketing still effective in Google?<\/b>
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\nWhere Google is concerned – probably not! And in some cases, it can now
\ndo your site serious harm or damage. Google has to look at patterns and
\nwrite formulas \/restrictions to its algorithm to weed out what it believes
\nto be link schemes and sites manipulating its index, if a few high quality
\nsites or content get affected or thrown out in the process, Google doesn’t
\nreally have to worry UNTIL web searchers STOP using Google and quite frankly,
\nthat is simply NOT going to happen any time soon. So you simply have to play
\nby Google’s rules, or go home.
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Here’s a Matt Cutts’ video from a few years back warning of the pitfalls
\nof article marketing.
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Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy?<\/b>
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Kind Regards,
\nTitus Hoskins<\/p>\n

www.bizwaremagic.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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