I think I'm in love with Ezinearticles - is there a cure?

Why don't you write some of those articles and put them on YOUR site?

I think getting articles written for EZA has been my best IM investment to date! Its awesome

Wow kenj 900 articles! not bad, not bad at all!

As for the love/hate with Eza, well you know what they say, there's always two sides to a coin...but it's still a coin :-)

The reason that people put their articles on EZA is because EZA is tremendously search-friendly. I can write an article about the economy and put it on my own site and who knows what page it will end up in Google. Unlikely that it will be on page one.

However, if I write the same article and submit it to EZA, my article about the economy has a huge possibility of not only ending up on page one of Google, but could very well end up in the top three results.

THAT'S why people put their articles on EZA.

EZA is consistently my main source of traffic. If you look at your logs as much as I do, you'll thank them. If you've seen some threads around here taking Chris Knight to task, even there people agree that it is a great source of traffic. Make sure you diversify your link portfolio because all your eggs in one basket is never a good thing.

TomG.

Thanks. This post is useful.

I'm with you, Ken. Nothing performs like EZA... #2 is a distant 2nd. They're the Google (in a good way) of article directories.

Having said that, my experience has been that it depends a lot on what you're writing about, in terms of how many views/clicks you'll get. I've been a Platinum Author at EZA since 2004, and I've posted articles about all kinds of topics in dozens of niches. There can be a huge difference in results.

For example, I had a site about hairstyles (ironic since I have almost no hair, but it was my wife's baby, really).... anyway, I thought it would have little chance of doing well, but it killed. I sold it a couple years ago for over $8,000, and all I ever did to promote it was write articles and submit them to EZA. That's literally all I did, and within about a year it was making $800-$900, on average. During prom and wedding seasons, it did almost twice that much. And, the number of views and the CTR at EZA were the highest I've ever gotten (nearly 50% CTR).

I ghostwrote (is that a word?) a bunch of articles for a dog site owner, which is a very popular niche, and the results were still good, but not even close to the hairstyles site results. Go figure.

More recently I've been writing articles about article marketing and traffic building, and I've been less than impressed. Not as many views and a pretty average CTR. It's early yet, but I'm left to conclude that niche saturation has a lot to do with it. There are a lot of articles flying around about this kind of thing, so maybe it's a case of trees in the forest.

Anyway, I'm going on about this because I don't think it gets enough attention. I would caution newer article marketers not to see the number of views and clicks others report and use that as a benchmark. It will vary (sometimes widely) from niche to niche.

What every article marketer can and SHOULD do, however, is work on crafting articles that have the best chance of getting views and clicks, regardless of the niche. This means building a keyword list first so you're targeting phrases people actually search for, then writing compelling titles, & descriptions, informative article contents, and a strong call to action that follows the body seamlessly.

John

Imagine if you created 900 pages of original content for your own site or blog...

Man, don't people read these days? HE DID! He put them on his own site AND EZA!

Plus content doesn't mean crap if no one can find it.

I think the best cure for your rational way of thinking is to start drinking too much and saying that EZA take too long to accept your articles and what not. Seems to be the trend these days.

But under no circumstances are you allowed to stop using it. You have to keep using it and bitch about all the problems it has.

-Dan

The cure is realizing that filling the web with the noise we call 10-minute "articles" is not truly building value that will help you 2, 5, 10 years down the line. You could be using the time building a business that you can retire on and pass to the next generation, not counting the clicks from other marketers today.

Steven Waigenheim (SP?) makes most of his money from article marketing, and he makes a fair bit.

I'm pretty sure it's helping build his business, and I'm sure there are many more examples.

-Dan

I don't really like Ezine much to be honest.. they've never given me all that much traffic.. and it's definitely not consistent... have like 31 articles there and the rate they approve articles is just terrible. It's like 2 weeks! They're also very strict about the link you use... only allow top domain links? Then why does squidoo, hubpages and blogs get approved?

They aren't top domain links and my link isn't even an affiliate link.

If you're having problems with EZA just send them an email. I'd say 3/5 of my articles are initially placed in "Problem Status" but when I email them they fix it.

-Dan

I love ezinearticles. I'd marry ezinearticles if I could. They give me tons of traffic, they help my sites rank well, they even sent me a nice coffee mug. And I have not been able to find any other sites that send me as much traffic as ezinearticles - although associatedcontent.com has been a close second.

Wow, 900 articles that's impressive!

In terms of SEO I can only imagine what the results would be with 900 backlinks from all your articles! How long does it take you to write an article?... Anyways that is very impressive and it motivates me to start writing articles for myself. Have a great day!...


Regards,

-Alex Kaplo

There is some very good information here. Thanks to everyone for your participation.

Michael Cruz

Who told negative things about EZA?

Also, getting clicks/traffic through this service is cool -- but, do you make money -- how , and what's your conversion ratio?

I really struggle with writing articles. I don't think that I am a very good writer. I am just learning the internet business. Is there any easy way to perfect my writing skills. I hear about 10 minutes articles and such, but it takes me sometimes at least a couple of hours to write one article. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Marilyn Earls

Thanks, Kenj. That does help alot. I never thought about doing it that way. It does break it up into more manageable proportions.

Marilyn Earls

I think it's that if you don't target the right popular keywords you don't get enough visitors to make any money sometimes. Obviously if you keep the quality up you're bound to hit a goldmine keyword if you're writing is good eventually.

I have an idea that when i find a good article that is making me money i'm going to socially bookmark it across about 40 sites and then use linkvana to build it up through the ranks.

I just had an article accepted and i thought it strange that i had 3 views and 2 clickthroughs already but when i read it i realised i'd written a cracking article which benefited from being 250-300 words long.

I just hope the keyword is good enough to attract visitors. I can't wait for the day i finally see how ezines can make me money. Up to now i've failed but i've not written that many articles.


Well that's my story

1000's of visitors for almost a 1000 articles, I definitely hope you mean 10.000's or 100.000's of visitors or it would be a very poor deal.

Sounds like you've build up a lot of traction form the sheer volume of articles.

You might want to think about distributing them over several accounts though (if you haven't already), just in case ezine gets funny and zaps your account.

This is a thread from 2008! Unless you are using Ezine articles for syndication you may find that the love affair finishes very quickly

I bet this love affair ended in divorce.

EZA could provide you a lot of traffic and totally agree it often depends on the niche you choose, I used to write about Relationships and was getting a lot of clickthroughs from them. However I can't like 900 articles and won't be paying someone to do it for me. I just utilized their Most Viewed section. I used to make my articles go viral quickly and rank them in Most viewed section and used to get atleast 10-15 clicks daily from a single article. It went on for a good no. of months. Then they removed that section entirely after the Panda update.

I am also in love with ezinearticles, most of my article had highrank in there. Crowd will use Google, but smart people will use ezinearticles, you will solve your problem faster by searching in ezinearticles instead of Google.

Are the articles on EZA different from the ones on your site? Are they spun, at least a little? I was just wondering about duplicate content and how that might be effecting your Google reputation.

I was reading this thread and it never occurred to me I was reading a 2008 thread. lol!

I was just about to get excited about eza, and start testing it again.

But as for duplicate content - you can submit the article to your website first, then submit to EZA. The same exact article, as-is. Not spun! (In fact, it's recommended)

I was puzzled with that question for months but I tested it, once the Article Marketing experts on this forum explained how to do it correctly - I tested it and it worked 100% percent of the time.

I don't do article marketing much these days but you should always submit to your website first.

I thought EZA was resurrected when i read this thread title lol. But a 2008 thread let me know why the thread was created in the first place.

Combine EA with Video, and get as many views as you can very fast and you will see your clickthroughs even skyrocket more.

I'm one person that said negative things about EZ because they refused my well-written and informative articles simply because they were written about PLR and my link was to my plr website. Evidently the topic is a big no-no in their book, even though many people use plr articles in many ways to help build their business. I thik they were totally not fair to try and keep people from learning about plr articles and the various uses they can be put to! Worse still, some of the other kinds of articles found on EZ are so poor grammatically that you have a job to work out what is being said. Mine are not like that. I am still annoyed about it!