Ezine Articles are good - if you get your article approved with them, submit your article to other high ranking directories. This will create more backlinks to your site as well as a constant flow of traffic for years to come as your article will remain there until you actually remove it. I thinks it's great that you can write about this topic for days. You can make a series of it. Write for days, then break it up into sections of 400-500 words and submit all the different sections. Give it the same title and add part 1,part 2, etc. I've found a free resource that's available about Article Marketing - it is a step-by-step guide from planning to research to submitting (and which directories to submit to) to tracking the success of your articles. Let me know if you would like to have a look at it. The benefits for people using your articles is that they get fresh content, but this also means that your backlinks are starting to appear on more sites, blogs and newsletters etc. etc.
EZA is nice for initial backlinks to get a new site going, but it does grow old after awhile. Plus you do not want to give away a ton of quality articles to a site that is not your own.
You submit your articles with backlinks to ezine articles, when ezine publishes them you get the backlinks from high PR site, further you also get traffic from people visiting your web page via your submitted ezine articles.
1) The amount of people who follow e zine articles is huge. 2) It's not all about the link and the back link but if your article is trust worthy and feasible enough huge number of people will automatically routed to your site. 3) as far as the goals are concerned once you achive a good repo on EA you won't have to worry about it . 4) popular articles automatically attract traffic What I feel is I treat EA as a great way to express my ideas and to express them in such a way that people automatically get curios to know, what I am talking about.
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I have submitted few articles in the past and found it useful... I am about to submit a 1400 words article on "increasing traffic to Blogs." Would I be able to have links within the article? or does it have to be only in the Signature?