Comments on: Article Traffic Vs Social Web 2.0 Traffic Hype

By: david

david — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:30:22 +0000

hey, i coud nt agree with Craig mre..ezine articles are still one of the most targeted traffic it ll bring.

By: Georjina

Georjina — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:28:42 +0000

Glad you’re back:)
I have the Stumble plugin on my Firefox browser but only use it to see what new sites are have been added for photography (not my niche, just like nature shots).

Article marketing works for me and I’ll continue to use it. Ezine Articles is good, but don’t forget the niche article directories out there. They are smaller but bring in very targeted traffic, maybe only 2 or 3 new subscribers a day but I have people from them that have been with me since 2006 - not bad.

By: Parimal

Parimal — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:52:08 +0000

I agreee with you craig.
But don’t you think it is very “time consuming” submitting each of your article to different article directories. There are software but still it takes time.
If you have to submit one article, you may have to submit to many different article directories.

Where as social bookmarkmarking posting is faster. You can use auto social poster or book demon that submits articles in a flash.

Each of them have pros and cons.

By: James A

James A — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:34:51 +0000

Good article Craig, I figured it would be the opposite between stumble and article marketing. And I have dabbled in both, but you have inspired me to rewrite my resource box and start shooting out some well thought out articles!

Thanks, James

and p.s.: anyone wanting some free preoducts, click my link, there’s my resource for you guys now!!

By: sky

sky — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:36:45 +0000

Very Nicely Done!

By: Stop Snoring Online

Stop Snoring Online — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:14:47 +0000

I tend to use onlywire for my social bookmarking needs

I must say that I agree with ‘affiliate marketing guide’s comment that the best traffic is the free traffic from the search engines. better conversions

I have not tried the Qassia thing mentioned by one of the commentors above but will give it a go, see what happens

By: James Nichols

James Nichols — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:30:40 +0000

Great info Craig, I think social bookmarking is a good thing, but it does take time if you don’t already have a bunch of colleages or friends that use them as well. But in time they can be an asset to your online business!

Thanks,
James

By: Making Money With A Biz Bum

Making Money With A Biz Bum — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:52:29 +0000

An illuminating post this one idol Craig. May you live to a thousand year!

By: George Grimes

George Grimes — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:39:01 +0000

It’s all in how put words together, I definitely enjoy reading your posts, I wish I could do what you do.

By: Paul Flood

Paul Flood — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:45:24 +0000

It still boils down to Dan Kennedy’s marketing triangle. Market-Media-Message. This is assuming you have a good handle on your customer profile as well as your company and product benefits clearly integrated into your Unique Selling Proposition (USP).

I see great value in social networking as a component of the marketing mix. Of course, the value is relative to the effectiveness and execution of your strategy.

What I particularly like about articles is that you have a visitor saying “I’m interested in hearing what you have to say” and if they like it, they may decide to take the next step in the sales cycle and move into your funnel.

Even knowing this, we still need to test each point of the triangle and what is effective today may fail tomorrow. That’s another powerful justification to creating an offline direct response marketing component to your business model.

What works best? Only testing will tell!