Want to know the ironclad truths about getting good rankings in search engines? It's certainly not promoting your site with article marketing. Back in the day, article marketing was the truth when it came to getting free exposure to sites and boosting long-term SEO. After many Google panda and Google Penguin updates and quiet algorithmic changes, Google and other search engines no longer give preference to article directories. Why? Many article marketers in the past have used black hat SEO automated article submission software with spun pre-written content, meaning they used automated software to take an article to spin words and phrases around to make it look unique to search engines. Google and other search engines caught on to this and quietly performed content comparisons to match content that sounded alike across the web.
If someone in another country quietly scraped another person's content off of a blog, website, or published article and attempted to use automated article submission software to spin the content and publish it as their original works, Google and other search engines would quietly compare that content scouring the web across the world to see who sounds like it. When Google and other search engines found similar content, it would most likely de-list the article or rank it in the back of search engine listings pages, resulting in little or no traffic to the published article whose content was allegedly spun.
It makes the job for dedicated content creators harder because there are people who genuinely write and submit articles to article directories were genuine in heart when producing unique content. And though these people earnestly write from their hearts in sharing valuable information with their target audience on whatever niche topic they discuss, very little do they know they're wasting your time submitting articles to article directories.
Another downside to submitting articles to article directories is not having the ability to include either more than one late to a specific page in a blog or website or include an affiliate link in the body of the article. Article directories are very funny about article marketers who include direct affiliate links to sales squeeze pages. The good news is there's an alternative to article marketing that still effective today and you can use it to your positive advantage not only to get better search engine rankings, but also boost long-term search engine rankings and include affiliate links in the body of your content.
Document Sharing is The SEO Boosting Way
What's the alternative to article marketing that's more powerful than submitting articles to article directories? It's called document sharing. Document sharing allows unique content creators to perform an array of tasks. Document sharing allows content creators to share eBooks, legal documents, scholarly papers originally written by the publisher, and a unique way for marketers to promote blogs, e-books, websites, YouTube videos, and affiliate links in the body of the content by hyperlinking to the text. The beauty of document sharing is having the grand ability to include images in the header, center, or footer of the document which adds value and keeps readers engaged. Document sharing allows unique content marketers to include an unlimited amount of links pointing to any page in their blogs, websites, affiliate links, and YouTube videos. However, you may want to watch how many links you include in the body of the content as you don't want to seem spanning to Google.com, YaHoO.com, or Bing.com by Microsoft.
A really good document sharing site you can create a free account on to use as a means of promoting affiliate links, blogs, e-books, kitchen recipes, and YouTube videos is Scribd. Scribd is used by government agencies, Martha Stewart, billion-dollar corporations, and businesses of all sizes. It's not that hard to create a free account and upload a document. If you don't have Microsoft.com Word installed on your PC you can go to Google docs and create your first document. You'll need to have your document in Microsoft Word format because thats pretty much the format will only accept. Unless you create a .PDF file that may possibly be acceptable.
Scribd.com not only allows you to hyperlink to any text within the body of the content and include image, but you can also possibly include a live video. You may want to check with Scribd's policies concerning that if you can possibly include and make live video work in the body of your document. Having live video in the body of your document adds to rich value and will entice people to click some or possibly all of the links in the body of your document giving you free exposure to your blog or website and possibly increase affiliate commission potential.
If you were using article marketing in the past as a means of promoting your website and possibly making money in affiliate marketing, just know that old way of thinking is now obsolete. YouTube, document sharing, and meaningfully engaging with people on social networks does more good for business than submitting articles to dull article directories. If you're looking to increase your content output potential you may want to invest in a quality speech recognition program to help you achieve your daily content marketing goals such as creating documents, writing blogs, and getting more term papers done all by way of using the awesome power of your voice.
Content marketing, document sharing, video marketing, and writing content consistently is the weay to improved SEO, affiliate revenue and closer to "side hustle millionaire" status. Do the transformation business work and "stay the course."