EzineArticles Has Thousands Of Marketers Submitting Their Articles, But...

...if you have ever monitored their homepage, have you noticed that there are less than 100 articles submitted???

Same with the other artilce directories.

Well, supposedly, they have that many active submitters.

Kinda makes you wonder about some who say that they submit up to 20 articles a day on a continious basis. How can it be?

The numbers don't add up. Know what I mean?

I don't know...maybe Ezine doesn't show all of the submitted articles...

 

Where do you see only 100 articles submitted? You mean only 100 articles are submitted a day? That must be wrong. They get 1,000s of submissions a day some of which are not accepted but still a lot more than 100 are published each day.

 

You'd think, wouldn't ya?

It's less than 100. Look at their homepage right now. Count them up. It's been like that for quite sometime.


What am I missing here, if anything?

 

Those're the recently approved articles. They get many more than that. Actually, you need to wait for more than 7 days now to get anything approved with them. I waited 12 days for 1 article. LOL Only if you pay them they'll approve it within 48 hours.

 

Lotos1 is right - what you see on the home page are the most recently approved articles. If you browse through their categories, you'll see hundreds of thousands of articles. No article directory is going to put every article on their home page... that'd be crazy! Instead, just the most recent ones.

 

They are recently approved articles divided into 'Today approved" and "Yesterday Approved".
I also agree with the OP. They have a large number of articles but they are not including more than 50-75 articles to their directory daily.
This is what I think the OP is saying. In many SEO articles, which I have read, it is mentioned that you should not include too many articles to your website or blog daily for better SEO. This is what ezinearticles.com is doing.

 

That is for basic account. If you have platinum it is within 48 hours.

One way to get to platinum level is to write 10 articles no links. Just articles and submit to the ezine article directory! (please keep in mind that rule might have changed) but it use to be 10 now it may be 25. But you submit 10, and once they approve them, ask to get an upgrade on the account!

 

Thanks, everyone.

Yeah, I heard sometimes you have to wait over a week to get them approved.

But I have been watching the homepage for several weeks, and it is the same: Less than 100 articles.

So, they are indeed getting many more artices, but they are only showing X amount everyday.

So...with that said, these guys who say they submit up to and over 20 articles a day, and get $100 on up everyday from ClickBank....does that make sense?

See what I am getting at?

They are not all being shown at once. In fact, I have noticed that many categories, a lot of articles are not being shown, period.

I'm insinuating something, aren't I? heh So, are they really making that kind of money???

Kind of makes one think.

For shits n' giggles, check out Sunday's.

 

The article traffic has dropped from ezines. At least for me, and a friend of mine confirms. I am not sure if what you suggest is the reason.

But you can easily do a better job of driving traffic with one simple step. Post one quality article to a very active forum and you will most likely get a lot more response than ezine. It is easier to write 1 article than 100

 

Thanks for the reply, but that is not what I am talkling about.

 

If you look through the site itself, you can browse all the articles. For example if you click on an article and scroll down to the bottom, you'll see a bunch of related articles. You can also click on any author and view all the articles they've submitted. In addition, articles that have been submitted show up in search engines (if they've been optimized well), and can get traffic that way as well. I know because I've submitted articles there and had them show up in the SE's, so there's no reason why other people's wouldn't as well. In any case, regardless of what they're showing on the homepage, there are thousands of articles on the site.

 

I agree that traffic from ezine sites has dropped a lot. However, I think that the SEO benefit from putting an article on ezinearticles is still good as Google trusts that site for publishing good content and having excellent duplicate content filters etc

 

Um, guys, thanks, but, again, that is not what I am talking about.

But since you want to talk about search engines...

Very few articles make it to the first and second page of a Google search. Do a search on certain subjects to see.

But I am not talking about search engines anyway. On the homepage, Ezine shows less than 100 articles per day ("Recently Approved Articles"), even though many more have been submitted. I'm guessing, maybe, around 1,000-2,000.

It just got me to thinking that it doesn't make sense when some say they submit up to and over 20 articles a day, and get $100 on up to $500 everyday from ClickBank and maybe other affiliate networks.

Then you have the ones selling BS e-books on how to make money with article marketing.

In order to get readers, all those articles everday have to be shown in the first place, be it the homepage and or in the "Article Categories."

If these are not being shown in the first place, or if, maybe, 10% of them are being shown how are they, supposedly, making that kind of money?

Get me?

If I am missing something here, please correct me, but I do believe this is a good clue to getting to the truth about article marketing for big bucks.

 

When I've heard people talk about article marketing, they mostly recommended doing keyword research and optimizing your articles so that they show up in search engines, not so much from getting traffic from the article directories themselves. When I've done article marketing myself, that was what I focused on (search engine traffic). So I can't really comment on traffic coming from the article directory. I wouldn't be surprised if traffic coming directly from the article directory itself is minimal.

Even so, relying on traffic coming from the homepage of somewhere like Ezinearticles.com wouldn't be a great strategy anyway, because the articles featured there get pushed off the page constantly as new stuff is published. So your article would only be there temporarily. I'm not sure if that's a strategy that's recommended in article marketing ebooks, but it's not what I see people talking about on places like the Warrior Forum. They talk about optimizing your articles for search engines.

"Very few articles make it to the first and second page of a Google search. Do a search on certain subjects to see."

It depends on the keywords. Yeah, you're definitely not going to get an Ezinearticles piece on the fron page for something like "marketing" or "car insurance" or any other broad term. That's why people recommend doing keyword research and finding long tail keywords with low competition, but which still get a good amount of searches. Those keywords you can (and I have) definitely rank on the first page for.

 

So whats the alternative to article linkbuilding then for getting one way links if its becoming less effective.....?

 

I believe I have some proof that you are totally incorrect in your assumptions. Please check this google search showing how many pages are being discovered and added to the index each day for ezinearticles (less the author pages)

That is for the 24th which was a Monday, now if you change the date you'll see that over the week different numbers of articles get indexed showing fewer articles being submitted - sunday's generally being the lowest. Given that EA is constantly being spidered these articles were likely submitted on the same day they were added to the index.

How else would EA get over 4 million indexed pages?

Do you see my point?

 

It ca't be that EzineArticles have less than 100 articles submitted a day. Have a look at their traffic rank.

Ezinearticles are #4 for keyword 'article', can you imagine how many article submitters they've got...

 

Ezine Articles approved me as Expert Author on my very first article which was nice. Although it didn't help my website traffic at all nor my serp.

 

I don't know what you all have been smoking, I've been using ezinearticles (as a platinum user) for a while and the effects are great. My articles get approved (usually) within 1 hour and then google caches/indexes them within another 1-2 hours. For some reason these newly indexed/cached articles appear on the FIRST PAGE of google results for whatever keyword phrase I use, sometimes with 2-8 million other competing pages.

These are my results and yours will probably vary a little, do it right and you'll experience results like mine, and yes, it is really worth it to pay the dough to become a Platinum Author.

 

To see actual stats visit http://twitter.com/Ezinearticles - there are pages of tweets but they often tell you how many articles they approve on a particular day, in a month etc.

To read about how EZA actually works you should visit http://blog.ezinearticles.com - it's actually very interesting. I've been using EZA a long time but I still learn something new every time I visit it.

Thousands of articles are approved every single day, and only the most recent are showed on the home page. For instance if I schedule an article to go live at 3pm it will probably only show on the home page for about half an hour before it's buried by articles that went live after mine. That doesn't mean it's buried in its category though - it will be seen in the "Other Recent EzineArticles from the XYZ Category:" for alot longer (a few hours at least) and then on the category page (which shows the 30 most recent articles) for most of the day. Yes, after that it will be buried in Ezinearticles, which is why I make sure most of my articles rank well in Google.

You really should try taking a look at the individual categories - I have one category that I submit 6 articles daily to that gets over 200 new articles a day (I know because I've subscribed to that category). Categories such as weight loss probably get more than that in a day.

The best way to see how EZA works is to actually use it for yourself - try submitting a few articles and see what happens.