Accepted by EzineArticles

Well, if you are wondering, "what is the grin about?" Let me share the good news with you all.

I submitted my very first article to ezinearticles.com. They have accepted the article, and will be added in their directory.

Moreover, I was so excited about the so called "Expert Author Status" until I was told that EzineArticles places everyone that is accepted as an expert author.

Submitting three more today..

 

Create a "google alert" for your name and wait three days, google will index your author info and send you the link.................

 

Congratulations! You can also submit your articles at http://www.ReadEZArchive.com where you're not only an expert author, but a trusted friend.

 

How do I create a google alert?

Thanks read, will check it out.

 

Oosha, go to Google and Google " Google Alerts" or use this link http://www.google.com/alerts you might to to set it up to send them to non primary email as you will get "alerts" once a day.

 

did you get any traffic from this article? is anyone actually reading it?

 

WoW, I bet you must be a really talented writer here, keep up the good work.

 

hmm sounds interesting

 

Set up Google alerts. Appreciate the help, FHI.

 

I wrote a bunch of articles for Ezine and I can count the number of visits to my 'blog on one hand.

For me, it's been a total waste of my time. Plus, I've got zero control over my content on there, and I don't get a penny in ad' revenue.

If you want to spend your time writing stuff, publish it on your own 'blog or website, then at least you can monetize it.

I've since re-published nearly all of those articles on my own 'blog...

 

Good point about the ads Octane. While we try to promote our sites with articles that are surrounded with ads. I wonder how many people click on the ads instead of visiting our sites?

 

I think it depends on the article itself. If the article offers the information for which someone searches, then the reader will go to the links to find more info.

If the article makes it to the first couple results in the search engines for popular terms, then the article will receive many targeted readers and subseqently people will look further. Readers that come from the search engines are usually people who are looking for something specific so they will look further by going to the author's website.

If, on the other hand, articles are regurgitated, self serving junk, the author cannot expect to receive any traffic from the article.

The key is to present the correct information to someone who needs it.

 

I think it depends on the information provided in the article. If the article is well researched and well written, the readers will trust the writer.

I've been told by several marketers that the key to getting traffic is to make sure the articles are educative and informative. Several marketers claim to have done very well using article marketing.

Octane, I'm actually experimenting with this. My plan is to submit one article every day, linking back to my website, and see how it goes.

 

I hope you succeed, I really do!

Be careful, though. They have a policy regarding links above the fold.

I asked them for a detailed chart of the screen sizes of their visitors, which I felt was required, or how else would I know where the fold was?

They refused to comply and simply kept insisting that I keep all links below the fold, which is just idiotic.

Without knowing first where the fold is, there's just no way to know where to start adding links...

 

Articles are nothing more than a gate way for you to gain quick ranking on certain keyword to your site on search engine. Beside that, they are useless

 

I suppose at the very least it will provide you with a backlink.

Good luck on your experiment.

 

Thanks guys! Let's see how it goes. If this doesn't work, I'll have to look at other paid options.

 

Octane, you don't know where the fold is?

Well! I don't know WHAT it is..."ignorance is bliss"..

 

When you open this thread the fold is under your first post on my computer. You generally want to good stuff above the fold.

I just checked and one of mine is showing up as "Most Published EzineArticles" in my category--not sure what that means since I only published it once.

 

It must depend on the article, I get some traffic from my articles. I just checked my stats and Ezine is in my top 10 for link traffic. This would exclude forum traffic since my stats track forum traffic by the post (I need to set some filters).

Every link that we create and every blog/article that we create is a chance for traffic that might turn into a lead/click/member/sale.