Originally Posted by
Johnno
One version of article marketing (also called bum marketing) was in fact all about getting direct traffic from articles that ended up ranking high for targeted search terms.
It appears that the Google Panda update has killed this method off.
The question then is whether the links from articles submitted to article directories are still helpful for ranking your own website.
As Habbakuk said, it is pretty hard to assess this because most sites have a mix of links from different sources.
So it appears that there is no definitive answer to whether article marketing still works or not...........