Questions about Ezine Articles

article base and goarticles are right up there with EZA in my opinion and they respond very well to angelas/pauls backlink

EZA still works the best for me.

ArticlesBase and GoArticles are also good, and you should submit your articles to all 3 (at least).

The sample article I wrote for my course ended up having both EZA and ArticlesBase on the first page.

In theory, if you submitted to enough places you could have multiple listings on the first page and get a lot of traffic.

I submit my articles to all of those directories, and although EZA occasionally gives me problems, I still feel they are the most powerful. It's worth the extra trouble.

I personally like GoArticles. Instant posting and allows aff links.

I know this is a historical post and yet EZ is still the biggest on the net. I write for clients all the time and this is my first port of call. Next is article base ( top tip you can submit the same article and it will get ranked though no backlink)
From less than 50 articles and one squeeze page in 9 months I built a list of 400. Small by some standards and this was an offline niche.

So perhaps a long winded way of saying EZ rocks!!.by the way they now get over 15 million unique hits a month. So well worth putting yourself in the flow of this traffic.

Thanks

Denise

Ezine are still the most powerful, but more and more often I'm seeing articlesbase sites ranking higher than ezinearticles. I don't think articlesbase can offer much of a challenge just yet, but as it grows and becomes more powerful, who knows. Obviously, the other drawback of articlesbase is the nofollow linking.

I do use article base..go article..ezine ...and many more..!!

I use and still love ezine articles and have been able to get tons of 1st page listings for my articles. Use ezine, go articles and article base, you might even want to try ideamarketers to submit your articles.

Remember submitting to article directories is not the only option, you can search google for submit articles, with your keyword niche in the search query and come up with tons of places to submit your writings.

When you are able to write for other blogs and submit free content to sites with your same niche family topic you get more related links and higher rankings.

But then again a link is a link keep building them.

Its all about the traffic. Submit to as many article directories as you can.

Ok, let's start with the premise that EZA is far from perfect (like most organizations), but there's a lot that they deal with behind the scenes that would make your head spin. Some of you are forgetting that it's not just about getting into the SERPS, it's also about getting exposure. Yes, some people actually read the articles that you write for two simple reasons:

1. Roughly 99% of the Internet-surfing population has never heard of EZA and wouldn't know it's marketing benefits if it hit them in the face. They're just looking for information.

2. Your article(s) get used by webmasters who put them on their sites. Yes, I realize some of them don't use your resource box, but a lot of them do. Over time this can create large amounts of long-term traffic.

Frankly, what specificaly is EZA doing that they should be crucified for? Because they have to deal with a bunch authors who submit crap to them and can't be bother by reading the TOS and the rules, so they have to come up with ways to protect themselves? I'm the first to admit that it has caused me an inconvenience or two, but that's the price of doing business with them. I think you're way off base. If you can look at this from a business owner's perspective and not just as a publisher/ author, you would be a lot more understanding.

What a lot of people are missing in their articles isn't just quality, but creating enough interest and desire so that the reader will want to click on your resource box. Did you know you can probably DOUBLE you CTR on your resource box if you write it in a way where it looks like it's part of the article?

There are many great directories and networks out there, but they are just tools, it's all on how you use them. Here are a few others that I've grown to like, each for different reasons:

Buzzle.com
AssociatedContent.com
GoArticles.com
Website-Articles.net
SelfGrowth.com (excellent if this suits the niche you're in).

I've had very little issues with EZA because I've actually read their entire TOS and if I had a question about it, I contacted them about it. When I've had an article suspended because it didn't fit their guidelines, I would just go in there and handle it. I'd like to think it's because we write original, quality articles that people like to read. Maybe it's just as simple as that.

Lastly, EZA shouldn't be more than 2% of your overall promotional strategy. You should be putting articles / content up on your own blogs / sites. You should be putting up videos based on certain keywords and distributing them. You should be releasing at least one press release every quarter. When it's within your budget you should be looking into PPC, CPV, media buys, etc. And of course, there are other directories and other ways to use your content.

RoD

You also have the right to shoot yourself in the foot.
Good luck.

Hugh

I have found EZA to be most professional and effective for traffic generation.