Article marketing was an excellent source to spruce up your SEO efforts for many internet marketers. Also, we recall when there were times when products were sold on Internet Marketing forums like Warrior Forum on how to make money online with simple article marketing techniques. We presume it’ll be a thing of the past now.

The recent changes in Google’s Algorithm: Panda Update has changed the rules of the game for all of us and left a big question unanswered

Is Article Marketing Still worth the Effort?

• Although this question cannot be answered at this point of time, one thing is sure that Article marketing has merely been reduced to a method of obtaining backlinks.
• The panda update was an effort to hit out on content farms (sites that contain huge amount of data).
• The algorithm change affected all kind of Article Marketing directories – moderated, unmoderated, good and bad.

The links you’ve built up from Article directories will mostly drop in value, for a while at least and the focus shifts on delivering quality content on your site. This Google Algorithm update brings open the fact that you’re article marketing efforts should be restricted to the top few article directories.

Your link building efforts should be more of “natural progression” – deliver quality content and the sites out there will link out to you anyways.

Content will always be King as Google will constantly change their algorithm to deliver best results to their users. Hence, our goal should be to become an authority in the niche you are with the right kind of SEO practices.

Do let us know your thoughts on how the recent Google Algorithm Update affects your article marketing efforts?

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In my earlier post, we spoke of the importance of deep linking .Deep link is a link that points to a specific page instead of that website’s main or home page. The process of creating such deep links is called deep linking. Here’s how you can deep link your blog posts through 4 great ways:

1. Blog Commenting

a. CommentLuv

The commentluv plugin  is a widely used plugin by many bloggers. It provides a very easy way of linking to your selected blog post. The way it works is by visiting the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve a selection of their last blog posts, tweets or Digg submissions which they can choose to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit. If the blog is a do follow blog, then you will be able to get maximum benefit by directing the juice to your desired URL.

b. KeywordLuv

In continuation to wordpress plugins, many bloggers also use the KeywordLuv plugin. It’s purpose is to let you choose your keywords as your anchor text freely with your desired URL. This is the best way to deep link through blog commenting as you get to input your choice of keywords as well as your desired URL.

c. Use your target post URL to comment

Using your target keywords and individual post URL (rather than blog homepage URL) to comment on blogs is another way to deep link. Though many bloggers consider this as SPAM, it would be best to check with the blog owner before doing so. These days many bloggers have a comment policy as well, you could also refer that.

An awesome way to deep link your blog posts through blog commenting would be finding blogs that use CommentLuv & KeywordLuv in combination.

2. Article Directories

Submission of articles with the targeted URL & Anchor text to moderated article directories is a great way to deep link to your blog posts.

However, I would suggest that you read Google Algorithm: Panda Update before doing so.

3. Forums

There are many forums where you can register and update your profile with your targeted URL’s and Anchor text. You could use such opportunities to do quality deep link building.

4. Interlinking your blog posts

Interlinking your blog posts with the right keywords is probably the most important factor from an SEO point of view for deep linking. If you link from your home page (generally has a PR) to your posts and pages, you might end up passing some of the link juice benefits to those posts & pages that will eventually rank higher for those targeted keywords.

Interlinking your blog posts can be done using Insights Plugin & SEO Smart Links Plugin.

Please feel free to share your strategies to Deep Link your blog posts to help them rank higher is SERP’s?

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