Newbie question about submitting articles to Ezine?

If you are submitting an article to ezine from your blog, there's no problem with. The only thing that you will be declined is when you submitted a duplicate article. Meaning, you copied someone's work, then just put your name as the author, and submit it to ezine articles.

But if it's from your blog, and it was originally written by you before with your name on it as the author, then you can submit it also to ezine articles as it is not a duplicate content.

Hi Fanyun,

If you submit duplicate content to EZA, it will be rejected - 100%

If you re-write it, it should be accepted as long as the new article is sufficiently different. Don't ask me to define "sufficiently different" though

Take a look at EZA's editorial guidelines...

Editorial Guidelines For Submitting Quality Articles To EzineArticles.com

The easiest strategy would be to post your original articles to EZA first, then when approved, stick it on your blog (and submit it to other article directories too).

Cliff

I agree with Cliff_Truss, additionally think about why you are submitting to an article directory like ezine. It's should be more than just getting a backlink. Make sure you offer something new to the readers.

Haven't ever really tried to submit my own already published article to ezine, and the reason is quiet simple: It would annoy readers to read your article on ezine, and then follow the author bio link and end up into the same identical article (I bet you would get annoyed too).

What I would suggest you to do is to rewrite the article or even write a completely new article on that topic that would "tease" the readers and make them want to find out more (from some split tests I have done, I have increase CTR at around 3% by writing teasing articles and linking to the more indepth one).

Just my 2 cents.

May I ask another newbie guestion, please?
Just imagine, that I submitted my site using one free submitter to 20 different search engines. Does it make sense to repeat this procedure every day using different free submitters? Will this help to faster promote my site and to increase traffic?

Traditionally, Ezinearticles has rejected content that is posted anywhere else first. Places like articlesbase.com does not. However, sometime in the last few months, Ezinearticles came out and said if the original source is YOURS and on your domain that it will accept it, but I haven't seen too much truth to this yet.

My advice to you (and we submit hundreds if not thousands of articles to article directories for our clients each month) would be that if you want to publish on Ezinearticles.com that you wait until it's approved and live there before you post it anywhere else.

The first place that content is published, Google considers the authority. Everywhere else is considered a repost. There is nothing wrong with reusing your content, just be aware of the sites that do a scrape of the web looking for it first. A lot of people confuse the reality of Duplicate content hits. It's really only an issue on a root domain OR obviously on sites like Ezinearticles that requires the content to be unique.

Often times the articles I submit to articlesbase.com will outrank Ezinearticles, but someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't articlesbase a no follow link while Ezines is a do follow? Anyway, either way, I have found a 50/50 split between the two and following up the submission with link love from pinging, rss feed submission and social bookmarking to be very beneficial.

Good luck!

~Shelby

Hey!

I just saw your follow up question. You should think of these backlinks in two categories. Quality and Quantity. When you submit through a mass-submitter, you're basically tossing it out there and seeing what sticks. Each successful submission is a backlink to your site. This strategy is all about quantity.

For more quality backlinks that have a better chance of ranking well in the search engines, you'll want to choose a few high quality directories and submit them manually and THEN follow up that submission with some promotion of the link through pinging, rss submission and Social Bookmarking. These are each backlinks to your site as well, but in addition, they'll have a far better chance of ranking and also grabbing some targeted traffic into your funnel.

Good luck!

~Shelby