good point…

Its a powerful tool, but most people abuse it and/or dont have a clue how to make the most of it.

Thank you for a useful and informed comment (even if you were kinda mean!), I will address one point here and then subsequent points when I have had more of a chance to digest all of your issue(s) with my article.

I thought from my first paragraph that readers would realize that I was specifically talking about article marketing as it relates to obtaining backlinks – you will notice I purposely overused the quote ‘building quality, one-way backlinks’ . The article was specifically direcetd at the plethora of bloggers who simply regurgitate this viewpoint because some other more popular bloggers once mentioned this.

You said: “Your whole explanation is centered around 1 way backlinks from external sites to your sites/blogs, which if you knew WHY it’s important to do article marketing, you’d have understood it better.”

The article was NOT about why it’s impotatnt to do article marketing, it was about why it’s a wasted of time for obtaining backlinks. I will admit one mistake (maybe more to come )for now and that was I should have titled this article ‘Why Article Marketing is a Waste of Time (for Backlinks)’ – I thought I made it very clear that the backlinks issue was what I had the problem with and not Article Marketing, itself.

I probably will have more to add on this later and maybe turn your comment into an entire future post! Thank you again for reading and I hope that you do return. It’s good to have readers take you to task every once in awhile and I appreciate that your comment was related to my actual post and not about selling Viagra or promoting online casinos – LOL (Thank goodness for Aksimet!)

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But rather, the article is targeting the 6 word phrase “How to Flirt With a Guy”…Type that into Google WITH Quotes and you’ll see that out of the top 10 results, two articles by a “Sarah Nichols Smith” made the first page, and upon further investigation, reveal a link to an affiliate product.

Thus, this marketer was able to write an effective article around the highly searched phrase “How To Flirt With A Guy”, which according to Google was searched 39,900 WITH quotes last month…

Therefore, I’d say after wasting 3 minutes reading your frustrated article writing venture, I can see that you made no reference what so ever to the importance of keyword research and implementation. No mention of it, no anchor text, nothing related to it.

Your whole explanation is centered around 1 way backlinks from external sites to your sites/blogs, which if you knew WHY it’s important to do article marketing, you’d have understood it better.

Also, the whole point of article marketing is massive targeted traffic from the search engines, branding, preselling and 1 way backlinks from authority article directories such as EZA (PR6), NOT from random sites who use the articles.

I’d also venture to say that you apparently have little knowledge of SEO and/or have never heard the term slave pages/sites, which is pretty much what an article is when it comes to backlinks.

I could go on, but *sigh*, what a waste of time was it reading this post!

Thanks for a good ‘chuckle’ though..now if I could only get back those 3 minutes of my life!

Jack Griffin