It’s no secret… I’m a big fan of article marketing. Ever since I learned how to turn this talent into cash for me and my clients, I’ve been singing its praises far and wide.
After years of running an article site using ASP that I wrote from scratch (my development language of choice as the time – as there weren’t many on the market at the time), I decided to start running with one that had more of the features I was looking for already built in, rather than having to develop them all from scratch.
I’ve started dropping my old Type A habits and picking up some help here and there to get me through some of the stuff that doesn’t require my specific attention. With all of that said, my Editor brought this article to my attention. I was flummoxed by how horrible it was.
It was as if someone shoved a perfectly good article into a paper shredder at the same time as a thesaurus. There is a popular product out there for randomizing your content called Content Spinner, or something like that. This article looked like Content Spinner got ahold of it. When I searched for the content on the page, very few actual results came back — so I’m thinking that the bulk of the articles posted in this manner were not accepted or have been deleted. It would appear that some article marketers believe it’s more important to get links without any effort than it is to actually get links.
I’ve already deleted this flotsam from my Article Directory out of repulsion, so you won’t be able to find it there, but I found it elsewhere. Read the article for yourself — You absolutely HAVE to read this .
http://www.allbestarticles.com/family/hobbies/extreme-basics-of-indoor-gardening.html
So…
- If you decide to run an article directory — which you may very well, even if it’s simply to drive traffic to your local business site, never ever let an article like this get on your site. Absolutely everyone will hate you for it. Children in Bosnia are crying because AllBestArticles.com (sic) posted that tripe. You don’t want to make the children cry, do you?
- If you decide to give article marketing a shot, and you don’t hire me to handle it for you, absolutely make sure that you never end up with articles that look like the one above.
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As a copywriter, I have to admit, the linked article is pretty bad.
I guess that’s what happens when folks who run blogs post ads asking for 400 word articles that they’ll pay a whopping $4 for.
Oh man, after the first line of that article you linked to I had to stop reading. No wonder you hated it
A good ghost-writer/author is worth their weight in gold! Spoil your (ghost)writers rotten!
OMG – that is horrible!! Like Josh, I didn’t get past the first couple of lines. Looks like it was computer generated somehow don’t you think? I have a hard time believing that any human being could have actually written that!! Thanks for a fun chuckle
Wow…That’s all I really can say. Very bad. I write my own articles but submit to places that will keep my bio intact. And I am a newbie…LOL… I know my articles are better than that.
Is that some sort of Finnegan´s Wake for vegetables?
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