I have heard a lot about Ezine, but I don't quite understand how it works. From what I understand, you create an account, and you can submit your articles. From that point on, I'm lost. Can someone elaborate? How would this benefit me (I have a blog)?
you can use ezine for article syndication. you can submit articles with resorce box with author info where you can add your site URl and anchor text linking to your desired URL which will give you backlink. depending on the site you submit, you might get some traffic to your blog as well
If your talking about the ezinearticles website or any other ezine for that matter and to answer you question: The quick benefits that first come to my mind are: 1. To contribute with good content to those ezine readers 2. To create a relationship with them through several articles where they get to know you and respect you 3. And to ultimately direct them to your blog/website for additional info where you'd have a chance to sell them your goods/services or subscribe them to your own newsletter, this last one is quite valuable, as you can imagine. 4. An additional benefit is the fact that to include your website link on a site that's high traffic, helps your blog with the search engines favoring it a little more each time. I hope that clarifies your thoughts a little bit.