After the Farmer Update: Will you use Article Marketing?
Now that Google has performed it's Farmer Update (aka the Panda Update), are you still using Article Marketing as part of your overall strategy?
If so, how valuable do you think it still is?
If so, what Article Directories do you think still have a value?
Thanks for the suggestions.
Article Spinning Software - Unethical and of Low Character?
This is my first post, so I may as well impress at least one person.
I think use of "article spinning software" is a mark of low character; is cheating; and is attempting to "game" the system in a way it was not intended to be used, and diminishes your relationships not only with your customer base but with yourself as well to use such tactics. Besides the fact that the results from article spinners are so typically god-awful, it is simply lazy and adds nothing of real worth to the community of Internet users.
It is alright to have the same article submitted to multiple locations ("meet your people where they are") - the myth of "duplicate content" penalties only applies to use of replicated content in a particular manner. We submit videos to many locations without penalty -- why would one think there is a penalty for good article content being disseminated to a number of locations? (The whole point of article syndication sites like EzineArticles and others is to have your article published in multiple venues.)
And if you are asked for an original article, what is stopping you from customizing your approach to sharing information through a re-write that puts a truly different viewpoint into the mix - all of my re-writes result in BETTER articles!
That is the key there -- are you producing good article content, or only "fluff" that is a regurgitation of lightweight information bordering upon being a mere spewing of platitudes?
That is my pet peeve. Everything about article spinning and flooding the 'net with articles just for backlinks smells of unethical practices, and "virtual" lying and cheating.
I hope plenty of people agree with me on this, but I'm open to hear why people do not agree.
Terry