I've just started a new blog, and I'm looking for ways to "get it out there". I've seen several people mention ezinearticles.com. I had a look, but I can't understand how that gets you traffic to your blog? You just add a link to your blog in your article somewhere? Thanks (apologies for the noob question).
Asking questions is how you learn so dont feel like a newbie. Write about topics that interest you and at the bottom link to your site in the resource box.
First of all I would like to welcome you to DP.I would like to extend on tiger325 comment.If you are directly trying to monetize from the blog then I would advice you to direct your article link in the resource box to a Squidoo lens or Hubpage.This way you could achieve some link juice and future search rankings.If you have a website follow the above method but this time link from your blog to your website.Hope this helps you.Everyone has been a newbie some point of time.Keep asking if in doubt.
ezine has been good to me for some of my sites but there is no doubt I worked hard to put some very quality submissions up there. I happen to enjoy that challenge so no big deal. I would think you would do better though by blogging some good stuff and try to naturally get picked up by other bloggers. I am doing that right now with my blog and i am seeing good results as long as I keep putting up interesting things for everyone to read. Use ezine when you have nothing left to do.
Hi there, thanks for the welcome...I'll need to post a "new member" thread in the introductions forum... The blog is to give me an interest and see if I can make anything from it at the same time. So ezinearticles are in now way linked to your blog posts? You have to write the article in ezine? Do people write the same article on ezine as the posts they have on their blog? or something different? I'm not up to scratch on squidoo or hubpage...I think I've got a lot of reading to do! Thanks for the help
Just had a look at those 2 sites...Am I correct in saying they are similar to ezine whereby you need to write articles on their site...and you can't just link articles from your blog like Technorati?
the articles in ezinearticles get a good search position in google. That is how you get traffic. Somtimes websites will copy your articles to their sites, they have to include your link. People use the keywords and phrases they most want to be found for in search and work those into their article too. Joining blog groups like mybloglog, bumpzee and blog catalog are good ways to build traffic for a blog. A lot of bloggers actively help each other get more traffic. These are blogging social sites so make friends there. Also join socialauthority.ning.com it is a free network of active bloggers and web 2.0 marketers run by Jack Humphrey who also writes the Friday Traffic Report Blog Commenting other blogs that are like yours is a great way to get traffic. join google alerts and they will send you the latest search results for blog activity in any keyword of phrase you select. So if you blog about pizza you can get notice of any new blog posts about pizza then you can comment that post. join technorati and "claim" your blog there. That will get you started. One big thing that always works too, post post post. I see recent stats and I get 450 visits from 330 keywords and I know that is from the content of posting. It may seem like a lot to do but to get a jump start, if you post 3 times a day for a month you will see a lots of searches. Oh and set up google analytics so you find out what people search for that gets them to your blog.
ezine works great, just make sure all the articles you submit are unique, don't fall into duplicate content, even if it is on your blog.
Thanks for the helpful replies! Ok, so I'm just starting out...can I take a post I have written on my blog, and re-write it on ezinearticles? Or should I try to avoid this altogether?
Ideally the articles should be related, yet unique, so a thorough re-writing is good. Some people say Google can spot synonym-substitution very well so I try to kind of re-write the topic with a slightly different focus or viewpoint. Dofollow social bookmark links are great for getting backlinks to blog posts with good anchor text to see what kind of terms you can easily rank for, but the Squidoo pages & ezinearticle links will gain more PR over time. For the best results on an EzineArticle, it should probably be something thorough and unique that will make other webmasters want to publish it. Although you can only put three of your links in the footer, imagine if that article gets published 50 times. That one article could be worth more than 10 other articles that only got re-published once or twice.
You could take a posts topic and write on that topic. Say your site is about snoring and the post you made is about the best snoring relief tips, write an article on the snoring relief tips topic but try not to make it to similar to your post
when you submitting article to ezine article it will give you back link and traffic and also your article gets good pr also.
I've submitted articles from my blog and site to EzineArticles and have been approved. On Ezine articles, you put your link url in the "resource box" which will show up at the end of the article after it's published. Make sure that the description about your site that you enter into the "resource box" is well worded so the people who read your article(s) will want to visit your site as well. Try submitting atleast one or two new articles a week to Ezine Articles. I have been doing that for a few months now and the other day I received a free coffee mug in the mail as a gift from them. Goarticles.com is another good site for you to submit your articles and to add your site.
When I first wrote some articles for ezinearticles I was skeptical too - I thought "This is ridiculous. People will just take the articles that I wrote for ezinearticles and take off my resource box and I'll never hear anything else." However I had absolutely no traffic to my website at that point - so I wrote some articles...and as soon as the articles got published I started getting traffic. Now, it took me 43 articles on ezinearticles.come and 10 on associatedcontent.com to actually get to the point where I was getting steady traffic...and at first it is very frustrating because every time you stop writing the traffic dies down. But then Google and the other search engines start giving you good rankings and traffic picks up and people start finding you through Organic Search. As for how I did it: I write short, informative articles, 300-500 words. As an example - for an affiliate product that I briefly promoted, for www.courtrecords.org - I wrote an article on why you should do a background check on your nanny, I wrote an article on why it's better to hire a national search company than to try to look up court records yourself...in the resource box, I give them a reason to link to me by showing them that there is more information that they need. "For more information on the best way to do a criminal background check, visit (my website link.)" Or..."Are you worried about hiring a new nanny? Get peace of mind today and get the answers you need at (mywebsite.com)."
Ezine Articles gets you traffic in these ways: 1) Direct traffic from the article directory 2) Traffic from the search engines 3) Traffic from your articles when they are republished on ezines/other websites It's definitely a cool website to get tons of traffic from Fabian