I played around with ezine a little bit, mostly for backlinks I have luke warm feeling about it. The following is a description of my experience with it. I wrote about a dozen articles (600 words edited by professional writers) linking to dozen different sites. A few of the articles were popular subjects and get a few hundred readers a month with about a 3% click through rate. So maybe 20-30 visits a month? So the traffic is not worth it to me. The backlinks from Ezine seem farily weak with little value and now when I put urls in the search engines tons of spammy sites have pasted the articles in their sites. Most all are junk so the backlinks are worthless. The backlinks are weak and seem to have little or no weight. By the time I write and edit and article it takes an hour or 2 with that amount of time I can get much more powerful and juicy links for a site. If you buy links and articles someone buys an article for $5-$10. to submit they can buy a more powerful backlinks for $5-$10. All and all I don't regret submitting articles to ezine but I wouldn't waste much time on it. I think there are better more powerful SEO techniques that can be implemented with the same amount of time and effort.
It'll take a lot more than 10 articles/links to get your site ranking and getting decent traffic. You'll want to constantly be building links to the site to get it to rank.
I'm currently fighting a little battle with EZA over some editorial changes they made to one of my articles. It was submitted with 17 short paragraphs and published with 4 long ones. When a ticket was submitted about the matter, the editorial staff informed me that my article was "improperly formatted" and they altered it to better fit the look and feel of their site. First of all, you don't get to tell me my article is improperly formatted. It's my damn article, and you don't get to do squat without my approval, because my name's on that article and I have a right to artistic integrity. Second, I don't give a flying leap how it looks on your site, because I'm publishing on EZA so others can republish that content on their own sites. They don't get to reformat it to look right on their site, so you don't get to reformat it to look right on yours either. And third, I've been over the article as published, and I can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that these changes were made by a script and not a human being. In fact, I question whether a human being saw the article the way it was originally submitted at all. I don't really give a damn if EZA tells me where I can stick it, because I'll just go somewhere else. What I want to know is whether this is one editor using his computer to edit articles, or the general policy at EZA. Because if it's general policy, my .357 Article Method needs to tell people that EZA are a bunch of pigf*ckers and you should make sure to submit your articles somewhere else. (Which is why the release is delayed, incidentally, and has been for the past two weeks. I was recommending EZA as the article directory of choice, but if they're going to be a bunch of twats about this, I'll find a different place.)
you should look to write a least 1 article per day just having 10 articles won't get it done. submit 1 (at least) article per day for the next 90 days and you will see a difference an traffic
I think people get hung up over EZA and worry too much. If you are an intenet marketer... everyone here. you should use EZA position to get traffic to your sites... not your sales page but to a pre-sell page or squeeze page. Don't sell straight away it's too blunt. Writing 800 words will kill your productivity. That's why most people give up. Just write to the 250 minimum... if you write more like 300 don't worry about it! Your Title needs to grab the reader by the balls. You need to format the article... there are so many with huge block of text.... unreadable! 2/3 sentence paragraphs are ideal. use bullet points. use sub-headlines. use bold. You want to guide the reader down the page to your resource box and click on your link for more info. That's the whole point, right? Send them to a squeeze page - offer a free ebook / video/ etc... Often link leads to no where because they cancelled their domain or to a crappy blog with a couple of posts or just this morning a half completed membership site!! Waste of time. Send them to a squeeze page. If they are serious they will sign up. Once they are in the funnel you can market the good stuff to them.
That should be very smart. But sending prospect to Squeeze page look unfriendly to me. Just place a free ebook on your site with your opt in. If you have something captivating, they opt for it.
I have over 1500 articles on ezine and write no less than 5 a day to get published on that site. My CTR is a tad over 20% to my sites so I get some nice targeted traffic that converts well. Writing is pretty easy for me so it is a good way to promote my sites and the backlinks are not bad to have either.
How do i can get traffic for my site if i writte articles? I have been reading about adsense, adwords, CPA but, articles ?' how do it function' Sorry , im newbie, i think this is the term. Have a nice days.
Dont worry about the duplicate - google will just ignore the others, just so long as google finds your one first you are ok. I would stick with writing good quality articles, although I would maybe trim them down just slightly - many readers do not stick with long articles. I guess it also depends on the subject - I've seen short articles that have little content and just waffle, where as other long articles if well written will keep the readers attention. My personal experience is that I have never had much traffic as a result fo articles, but then I'm the first to admit that my writing skills are not the best.
What you're after is links from the article to your website. You may or may not get a lot of readers, but you can build links over time. Make sure and comply with terms of service. Also, check out the American Chronicle. They allow more links than ezines.
Why do people say EZA is for real authors? Do I be Ernest Hemingway or something? I'm going to change my strategy a bit from now on and report on it in the future. Writing my long 800 word articles are getting me burned out with little reward. I am using EZA to promote my sites that I monetize with adsense, not affiliate marketing so the "squeeze" page is out of the question. @CDarklock, I believe the first interest EZA has is themselves. If your article stands out from their google ads, they will format it to make them money. Whatever artistic idea you have, if it doesn't convert for them, they won't accept it or will change it. I suppose this is why they don't like hard line breaks and it separates your article from their google ads sandwiched between the article.
EZA has the same problem television and radio broadcasters have. Their consumer is not their customer. The consumer is the person who actually comes to their site and uses it. The customer is the person who pays them money. There is one outstanding example in the field which has this problem and has NOT sided with the customer over the consumer: Google. Everyone who sides with the customer over the consumer ultimately fails, because the customer isn't buying your site - the customer is buying access to your consumers. Drive those consumers away, and you lose the customers, too.
I've written above 50 articles on EZA. Well it's a great site where you can get more readers and gain more traffic. so keep go on and you will get what you want.
Agreed. And don't get hung up on people "stealing" your content. It happens all the time. You'll never be able to stop it. But don't worry about. Sites that steal your content like that (and by steal I mean not giving you credit), are crap sites anyway that probably don't rank that well. Travis
There's no duplicate content penalty here. EZA is nothing BUT duplicate content. They want people to publish articles. If that were a duplicate content penalty, the whole premise of sites like EZA would fall apart. You should get a higher SERP for the site that publishes it first. Stephen C
Maybe because limited number of people are searching for articles on your topic, or maybe because they found what they were looking for in the article itself. And don't need to check author's site. Just a thought as I believe Ezinearticles is not a waste of time when used properly. I've also faced this problem in past, and was not able to find any solution. Hopefully, Google will sooner or later devalue blogs that copy content without linking to author. Don't really solely on article marketing. It's good, but if you can manage to do other things then focus on them as well. Manage your time and efforts
EZA will be effective if the articles we submit are unique, informative, and the titles of the articles are eye-catching..