If you were to conduct a study amongst online marketers to find out what is the best traffic generation method you’d be shocked to find out that the vast majority of the internet marketing community still considers Article Marketing to be numero uno.
However, considering the fact that it’s super popular, Article Marketing still struggles to overcome one major flaw-time investment.
In order to generate a lot of traffic with Articles you need to, and here’s the kicker: Write Lots of Articles! Period. And with all the today’s spinning software still not capable to cope with basic syntax and 4 grade level 300-500 articles, it’s a real pain trying to come out with unique content.
Of course, you can always outsource. Let Raja do it (no offense Raja) and forget about it, right? Well, it depends? When you’re outsourcing article creation, what makes it different from PPC? You’re still spending money on coming up with content (and in some cases on submitting it to EZA and other directories) which makes you think – is it REALLY worth it? I mean, most of startups can’t afford paying $5 per article, especially if they have no idea of how to monetize the incoming traffic. They will be out of doe faster than you can say “I should have listened to my mom and gone to medical school”.
So, what’s left? Media buys? banner ads? facebook? Well, not necessaraly…
