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What's up everybody?

Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 66 of Ask Pat, where I answer your online business questions five days a week.

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slash pat. So ziprecruiter.com slash pat. Thank you for that. Now today's question comes from

Ray and it's about an old school marketing tactic and he's sort of wondering if it's still working

today. So let's hear from Ray. Hi Pat. This is Ray Prince from the UK.

Many congrats on the new podcast.

Really love the content.

Listen in the car all the time.

My question is very straightforward in terms of article marketing.

Do you still think this is a valid strategy in light of Google's crackdown on backlinks. In particular,

we submit to EZing articles and then we submit via submit your article into more article directories. Thanks very much. Keep up with the good work. Ray, thank you so much for your question. And it's

interesting because I actually used to do a lot of article marketing. And I used to submit

articles to directories as a primary method of pretty much what I was doing was trying to

game Google, trying to show Google from writing these articles and then having links at the end of

those articles, point back to my niche sites. I was trying to show Google that my site was worth

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