There is a lot of debate around the web as to whether article marketing 101 should focus on traffic or more on getting search engine rankings. The truth of the matter is that your article marketing methods should focus on doing both.
All the SEO experts will tell you that article marketing is about blasting thousands of low quality blogs and article directories with short articles that don't say anything. The point of all of these articles is to get backlinks to your site, and increase search engine rankings.
The fact is that these don't really do you as much good as they claim. Yes, they can help you rank for low search, no competition keywords that may eventually bring you a little bit of traffic.
The problem here is that out of the...

