I have a question about writing articles. Lets say I take the time to write one very good article for three different "sub-topics" within my niche. Can I then reword each of those 3 articles and submit it for lets say 5 different keyword strings with ezine? Or is ezine going to reject those articles? That would mean I am submitting 15 articles that have all been reworded, etc in order to rank for 5 different keywords for 3 topics. So my question is will ezine reject them? If they will, how "different" do each article have to be? And if this is the wrong strategy, what is THE BEST strategy for submitting articles? I would appreciate any help. I am mainly a vendor but would like to be promoting my products instead of sitting around waiting for affiliates to do it all.
I wouldn't suggest using rewritten articles and submitting to Ezine's, they'll probably get rejected... This is what you should do if you are trying to do that approach. Write a quality and original article and submit that to Ezines then rewrite that article or spin it and add it to lesser article directories with links pointing to your Ezines article and your websites. Another tip when trying to find other article directories make sure they are dofollow cause many of them are nofollow. Ezine's is the or one of the top article directories and is known for quality. Also don't forget to social bookmark your Good Articles as well for this will bring you more traffic and hopefully some backlinks pointing back to your Good Quality articles. good luck!
You could always use google to check a sentence or phase to see if there is any plagiarism or it you want there is always copyscape. Rewrites are ok as long as they pass copyscape. I haven't got any article that is copyscape passed rejected as yet.
I post nearly all of my articles on one of my own sites or blogs first and let them get indexed there and then submit them (unedited and unamended) to EZA. And so do most of my clients. Contrary to popular belief, EZA does not require "original content" and never has done. They require only that you wrote it (or own the rights, if a ghostwriter wrote it for you). As long as your articles comply with EZA's editorial guidelines and were originally published on your site/blog in the same name as the name under which you submit them to EZA, you'll never have a problem doing this. After EZA publishes them, you can them submit them (changed or unchanged) to as many other article directories as you want, where they'll be worth a backlink at the very least.
That's really nice strategy. Till now I used to submit my articles to Ezine first and after they got published I add them on my site/blog. Does your method have some extra benefit over this one?
Great advise Alexa! Hmm, will EZA remove my approved article if I submit them to various article directory using various pen name after EZA approve? TIA
I believe it does. I want to promote and build up my own sites, and get the primary indexing done there, rather than build up EZA's site still more. It can be surprisingly easy to outrank EZA for long tail keywords, and I want the initial traffic directly myself rather than losing a proportion of it to EZA's Adsense. The short-term view is always to think that because EZA outranks your own site/blog, you'll get more traffic by giving your content to EZA before using it yourself. The catch is that as long as you continue doing so, you're ensuring that EZA will always outrank your own site for those keywords, and you're actually developing someone else's property rather than your own.
I think not, but I haven't tried it, myself: I use many pen-names (one for each niche in which I'm promoting products) but I'll never submit an article to two different places with two different names on it, and can't see the benefit of doing that at all.
Editorial policies are changing rapidly at EZA. If they suspect that your submissions are re-written PLR, they'll reject everything very quickly. They want original work (regardless of whether or not you've previously published it on your own sites/blogs - that doesn't concern them), not anything re-written. They're understandably and rightly determined to get rid of affiliate marketers who submit re-written, promotional material which they consider to be "derivative content" (their words, from their blog) linking to sites of "inadequately informative content" (again their words: they mean "sites designed solely to produce sales"). For these reasons, I don't think there is a "percentage figure" that can be a confident and accurate answer to this question.
I find it so much easier to produce a number of original articles than to rewrite existing ones. People sometimes ask me why I charge the same amount to rewrite an article that I charge to write it. Often, rewriting the article takes longer and is more frustrating than simply banging out another quality article about the same subject. Alexa, that is excellent advice about EZA! I've learned so much from you. I wish we could mind meld or something.