I have used EZA for many ventures and I found it extremely fruitful. There are ways where you can manage and avoid your content being duplicated, but for such things, I don't recommend you to completely quit it. Having said that, I found the true potential of EZA when I worked on Internet Marketing related products, but in other niches, the results were not upto the mark. So, my advice to you would be to stick to it until you know the ins and outs of promoting your product/service using it, but don't make any hasty decision because it has got a lot of potential.
I started with Eza a few days ago. However, I am not really happy with the click through rate. I have more traffic from DP than Eza, and most traffic from search engines. I find that the number of words do not really matter as much, it's the topic that draws in the crowd. "10 tips to happiness" perform better than yeast infection articles.
EZA is still a good source for traffic and backlinks. It is not their fault that the syndication has removed your link. That is bad but not all the guys do it. We got 100,000 visits on a particular aticle at EZA bringing in about 20000 visitors. Here is the case study on it. http://knol.google.com/k/article-marketing-a-case-study
Why give your content away on Ezine when you can keep your copyright with other article sites and make big money from adsense too? I'd delete all your ezine articles. If your article which has been copied by another site without giving you a link is generating adsense from your content you should report them to google and get them banned from adsense. Some of my articles on a PR5 site make £100 per year and send traffic to the sites I promote in them.
hello guys. Here's an update. I've been somewhat lazy and post about 15 more articles since this thread.I haven't gain anything. I've literally only received a handful of click. Mere trickles. I tried to diversify a bit and see if it was my niche so I started to send some traffic to my hubpages via the linkwheel method. So yesterday I was chillin on hubpages, just reading and browsing. I was viewing one of my hub and you know how hubpages list "related hubs" on the side? Well, I clicked on one of them and what do you know. That hub was a direct copy of one of my articles I posted on EZA. I contacted the hubber and he told me "Hi, I dont steal anything. Stop complaining and do you job. Bye" Wow........ So I reported him to hubpages and hopefully it gets taken down and he gets punished. Knowing they would probably slap his wrist, I reported his hub to adsense and hopefully they will take more action and ban him from adsense. This experience have left a cold, bitter taste in my mouth... again. I understand that content WILL be copied. That's the internet and I know. What really puts me off from EZA is it's nature. It seems that EZA is a breeding ground for mother fuckers that want to steal and spin your articles. Why write your own articles when there are hundred of thousands of them on EZA for free! Put them through a spinner and bam. It's "Unique." I read all post and I suppose some have had good returns on EZA. Currently, I can conclude that EZA is a complete waste of time. Little traffic, diluted backlink quality, and welcoming others to steal your articles? No. Not for me any more. Even if the guy that stole my work gets the worst, gets banned from both hub and adsense, that does me no good. I don't gain anything from it. This feels like an arms race. You know what they say about arms vs armor? Arms will always be one step ahead of armor. All I am doing is defending myself and my work. No more EZA for me. At least if I post my articles on hub, I'll get some of the adsense. Even better my own site, I can keep the whole thing. That backlink doesnt seem worth it to me.
I would stick to articles around 400 words long and ensure they are properly optimized for your target keyword. Some articles bring plenty of traffic while others do not. If you keep cranking them out you will not go far wrong. Ezine is the best article site in my opinion.
I posted an article on ezinearticles the other day for a competitive keyword, and the article ranks #2 in google 2 days later for this term. So anything is possible.
Im so sad that you have this kind of problem with Ezine. But hope this wont stop you from doing what is right, and that is marketing your articles! I dont recommend writing articles for the sake of ezine. Publish your hard written articles at your own site. Make a spun version by using free spinners like the one I found at easyarticlespinner.net and get it published in Ezine. This is more efficient in the long run.
i can see people have mixed opinions, but Ezine Articles is a powerful directory, if you use it intelligently. Build links to you articles for instance.
The same has happened to me, but what can you do? There is nothing stopping the same person from lifting the content straight for your website - what would you do then? no more website? I think not. Theres scumbags everywhere that will try this type of thing but at the end of the day it is them that will fail and wonder why.
I have to say, as the owner of an article service...repeat clients only REPEAT if they get business. I have written THOUSANDS of articles over the past several years. The fact is, quality content that gets read and gets posted to other sites, WORKS. A strong call to action in the resource box, a tight title, like a HOW TO or TOP 10 etc. You can get thousands of hits using EZA alone, but...why use it ALONE? Post to Eza, get accepted, then post to Onlywire.com or something else that can blast your stuff out there a little wider still. The biggest differential IS quality..if you write crap, just to get back links or hope that someone decides that the crap doesn't matter but will still hit your link, good luck. Practice, test the variables, and keep at it. I have had articles that ranked for YEARS. Like they say about AA..."It works if you work it!" Ok...I need a beer... Mac the Knife
Ezine Articles is a great way to get traffic and improve your sales. But use it wisely and effectively.