Is Ezine that much better?

[Slave1]

Hi guys, just wanted to get your opinion...

I manually wrote an article on Ezine, then a few days later it shows as a back-link when I checked. (awesome)

Next I decided to outsource some article writing here on WF and they spun the article and submitted it for me.

Even though I pinged/indexed the list I cannot seem to get any of those back-links to show when I run the same check.

Is my article on Ezine that much more "visible" compared to these other lower ranked sites that they would not even show??

Thanks!

[Kevin Marshall]

Originally Posted by cadmo

I recommend Hubpages instead of Ezime bcoz Hubpages gives you instant and sustainable rankings in Google through quality backlink.

Terrible advice...

Why would I want to submit my article to a site where they only want unique content? I would rather submit my article to my own site first.

Ezinearticles is great because this is where other people go to get syndicated content, and that means you can get various links to your site from people who syndicate your content on their sites.

This doesn't happen with most of the thousands of other article directories. Most backlinks from these other article directories don't show up in Yahoo site explorer or other tools that show backlinks to a domain.

Yes...Ezine is that much better than most of the other directories.

The only reason to submit a spun article to thousands of other directories is for backlinks. No one ever reads those articles in the junk directories.

[36burrows]

Just hire someone on Fiverr to write you a hubpage for $5 for a link from there, but EZA is by far the best as far as article directories go.

[Kevin Marshall]

Originally Posted by 36burrows

Just hire someone on Fiverr to write you a hubpage for $5 for a link from there, but EZA is by far the best as far as article directories go.

As much as I bash Hubpages these days, it is actually worth it to pay someone $5 to do it if you can make your money back in Adsense money.

I don't regularly submit content to Hubpages anymore, but my top Hub has done very well for me over the years.

[Rukshan]

Now I don't see a big benefit from EZA. Try to publish spun articles for many directories.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by patco

Ezine will give you a VERY GOOD and QUALIFY backlink.

Not so at all, unfortunately.

As even EZA's owner has been openly commenting for several months.

Like every article published in every article directory, regardless of the page-rank of its own home page, you'll get a non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlink out of it. How could it be otherwise? Nobody is born with an understanding of article marketing, and no new web-page is born with any page rank.

Originally Posted by patco

Ezine has a nice Alexa Ranking and great PR too.

That's the PR of their own home page. That isn't where your articles are published. Websites don't "have page rank". Pages have page rank.

Originally Posted by patco

They will help you not only gain a good PR on your blog/site, but also receive a great number of visitors

Fortunately, this one also isn't true.

You wouldn't want to get your traffic from an article directory? When a potential customer finds one of your articles by putting one of its keywords into a search engine as his search terms (which is exactly what potential customers do), the last thing you want him to find is an article directory copy, because if he finds that copy then even with (say) a 30% click-through-rate from your article, you'll still lose the other 70% of the traffic, whereas if he finds the copy originally indexed and published on your own site, instead, you'll get 100% of that traffic. So as you can see, simple logic and arithmetic dictate that you wouldn't want your potential traffic going off to an article directory. Article directory copies are just for potential syndicators to find. They're for people who search in article directories (which customers don't), not for people who search in Google. This is why it's essential not to "write for clicks" or try to sell/promote in the articles, but to write for syndication instead.

Article directories are stepping stones. There's no point in trying to use them for their own traffic (which you wouldn't want, that way, as you'd lose most of it) or for their own backlinks (which are only non-context-relevant PR-0 backlinks). And that isn't (and never was) what article directories are there for at all, of course. Many people do try to use them that way, but those are all the people who end up six months later starting off all the threads you can find in this and other forums with titles like "Article Marketing Is Dead" (imagining, typically, that what they've been doing was actually "article marketing"!).

I can hardly believe some of the misinformation "down here" about article marketing, in contrast to all the threads on the subject in the "Main Marketing Forum".

In case a few threads covering the (widely misunderstood!) basics of article marketing are helpful to anyone ...

This very good but very long thread explains in detail why it's so important to publish articles on your own site first, before submitting them anywhere else (and a lot of the indicental chat in it touches on other "basic article marketing questions").

This one explains a lot of stuff about "spinning", and what you really need to know about it.

This one explains why it's seriously bad news to create backlinks to article directories.

This one explains a bit more about article directories and writing for syndication.

This one is about "unique content" and a bit about link-juice.

This one is about writing for syndication. And this one covers all the basics of article marketing by syndication.

And in this excellent little article an expert writer/marketer explains to perfection the reality of "duplicate content".

[Slave1]

Thanks Alexa, I will take a look at those reads!

[rattan007]

Originally Posted by cadmo

I recommend Hubpages instead of Ezime bcoz Hubpages gives you instant and sustainable rankings in Google through quality backlink.

To get dofollow links from hubpages, you need to maintain the hub score or your profile score. score should be 75+, else all the links will get nofollow. Which I think is not sustainable, if you doing it for the purpose of link building. You can get high popularity though, for this you need high quality and regular blogging..