I wish you could see the big smile on my face right now. Why is that? Because pretty soon, my competition in the article marketing arena is going to drop to a fraction of what it is…and it couldn’t come any sooner. Yes, the days of submitting trash to article directories is over. Reports are coming to me from many marketers that articles that were once accepted with no problem are now being rejected. They can’t help but ask why. Well, I don’t have a definitive answer to this as I am not a mind reader, but I’m going to take a stab at the reason. I think you’ll agree with my logic here.

Back in the early days of article marketing, when directories were first getting started, there were really no guidelines or rules. Nobody knew what to expect from the search engines, especially Google. In fact, some directories were so desperate for content that if they saw your article online and liked it, they’d add it to their directory and invite you to become a member. They were literally starved for content. But then something happened on the way to the prom.

Some rocket scientist decided to tell the whole world about article marketing. I actually wrote my first book on the subject about three years ago when things weren’t quite so crazy. Suddenly, everybody and their grandmother jumped on the bandwagon. And when Bum Marketing came out, that was it…bedlam ensued. Articles were being pumped by the hundreds of thousands. It was an avalanche of content. And unfortunately, much of that content was just pure garbage.

Now, imagine a prospect for information looking for articles on a subject and that prospect finds nothing but trash. What do you think that person is going to do? They’re going to complain. And I don’t know how, but somehow, the search engines find out about it. I am sure Google has a way of knowing what people do and don’t like. So now, we have all this junk online and Google is not happy. So, they contact these article directories and say, “Hey, the stuff that you’re accepting is NOT acceptable to us. Clean up your directory or we’re going to slap you into the next galaxy.” Again, I am just speculating here.

Well, the directories have no choice but to clamp down on submissions, even going as far as removing old articles from their directory that don’t stack up. It’s either that, or they lose their PR and everything else that they worked so hard for. Let’s face it, the article directory gets hit in the rankings and people will stop using it so much. That in turn means less articles which in turn means less AdSense revenue.

News flash folks…this is a business. And this business isn’t there so YOU can make a few bucks Bum Marketing some crappy content all over the Internet.

And what kills me is that as this is happening, people are bitching and complaining about it, as if they’re owed something from these article directories.

Anyway, there you have it. So you’ve got two choices. Either shape up and start writing content that you’d actually let your kid read or put it up on your own blog. Hey, if you don’t mind graffiti on your own VRE that’s fine.

Just don’t put it on somebody else’s site.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

Want to write articles that get people’s attention and can earn you up to $200 per article written? Then check out my Complete Article Writing And Marketing Guide that you can find at http://www.honestincomeprogram.com/tcawamg.html – This is my own book that I wrote from over 30 years of writing experience.