Step By Step - How to get the MOST out of an Ezine Article!

[WinsonYeung]

I have just submitted articles i get approved in ezinearticles to the 10 article directories that you have listed. I used the same resource box just that i added the ezinearticles link to my articles.
I'm worries that my articles will not get approve because they are edited by human...

[imamrktr]

So tell me your opinion of article submission software. Does it hurt you to submit one article to multiple sites? Does that go again most of the rules governing article submission?

[Jeffrey Louis]

My opinion on article submission software is that I have never tried it. I have always submitted my own articles myself.

[hyderkhan]

Jeffrey,

I had a question about #10 on your list of 10 article directories:

Hot Article Directory (pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/index.html

This seems to be some journal for chemists.

I created myself an account.

But it's asking me to choose which "journal" of chemistry to submit my article to.

Not sure what to do....!?????

Thanks!!

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by hyderkhan

Jeffrey,

I had a question about #10 on your list of 10 article directories:

Hot Article Directory (pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/index.html

This seems to be some journal for chemists.

I created myself an account.

But it's asking me to choose which "journal" of chemistry to submit my article to.

Not sure what to do....!?????

Thanks!!

This article directory has changed and I would no longer suggest using it.

[TonyG2160]

No longer suggest using this particular directory...or your list of directories?

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Louis

This article directory has changed and I would no longer suggest using it.

Originally Posted by hyderkhan

Jeffrey,

I had a question about #10 on your list of 10 article directories:

Hot Article Directory (pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/index.html

This seems to be some journal for chemists.

I created myself an account.

But it's asking me to choose which "journal" of chemistry to submit my article to.

Not sure what to do....!?????

Thanks!!

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by TonyG2160

No longer suggest using this particular directory...or your list of directories?

No just this directory: pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/index.html the other directories will still work like a charm.

[jimcal]

Good info. How long do your articles usually run? Do longer articles do better?
Thanks,
Jim

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by jimcal

Good info. How long do your articles usually run? Do longer articles do better?
Thanks,
Jim

Most my articles are around 300 words if that is what you are asking. I have found that shorter articles with longer resource boxes perform better then alternative article writing methods.

[freedom25]

Thank you for this post. I like your list of article directories. My faves are ezinearticles and searchwarp. They consistently deliver the most traffic to my sites.

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by freedom25

Thank you for this post. I like your list of article directories. My faves are ezinearticles and searchwarp. They consistently deliver the most traffic to my sites.

Your welcome hope it helps!

[moneymaker1206]

Thanks so much for this. I was just recently learning about article marketing, and I have like 4 articles I just need to tweak a little bit, and then I will try this method. This should definitely increase traffic for me.

[Kevin Marshall]

I have been real busy with my J.O.B., but today I called in sick. My boss won't pay me for taking a sick day today because I have to be employed there at least 90 days before I have sick time! That made me so mad that I decided to spend the day working on my Internet Marketing business! I really want this to be my full time business eventually. So far I have made $3.40 on Google Adsense and $40.00 on clickbank.

Before my J.O.B. started taking up all my time, I was working on this method, and today I am moving forward to get my articles published on all 10 of these sites.

I just wanted to mention here that to post to Isnare.com, your article must be at least 500 words long. Some of my articles aren't that long, but you'll need to find another article directory site to get to 10 submitted articles if your article is shorter than 500 words.

[sradd1959]

Hello,
Can someone give me some info about getting leads, that is FREE lead daily from skype using a program? Have anyone seen such a program or know of any program that can do that?

[Kevin Marshall]

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking for. Can you be more specific?

[jrsencio]

I think the main reason that the article on ezine ranked well was because of all the other links pointing to it found on the other article directories you submitted that same article to.

It makes us reflect upon the purpose of the article being submitted to EZA, is it for the link or are you trying to get referral traffic, because if you have two links on your resource box, chances are you have a 1 out of 2 chance that you get someone annoyed at clicking a link only to find himself on the same article and may simply click out.

Why not test this.. testing is important. Check your EZA stats to see how many clicks your article got, and compare it to your Google Analytics settings and see how many page lands you received from referral traffic from EZA.

My point being, if your EZA stats tell you 100 people are clicking your link, but you are only getting a handful of referral visitors from EZA (according to Google Analytics or any tracking program)then it shows a majority of the people clicking the link on your article don't bother to click the other link that points to your site or offer.

I used the word "offer" because I look at it at a sales perspective, with the main objective for putting up an article to getting targeted traffic to see offers on your site and hopefully convert into a customer.

If there is testing and statistics to show, we would be able to conclude whether this method helps bring you visitors or simply shoos them away.

Today the focus is not merely on high rankings but rankings that convert.

I don't know what other SEO's position on the matter is but for me top rankings on SERPs are meant to be there to get conversions and not simply to rank. Just my 2 cents.

[jrsencio]

Originally Posted by sradd1959

Hello,
Can someone give me some info about getting leads, that is FREE lead daily from skype using a program? Have anyone seen such a program or know of any program that can do that?

I hope you do not mean spamming skype users with unwanted propositions. I get a lot of that.

[Kevin Marshall]

If you want to submit your articles to more than 10 directories, simply do a google search for article directory lists. One of the first links I pulled up had a list of many article directory sites. I am going to use articleclick.com as one of my ten article submission sites.

[Kevin Marshall]

I do have a question about this method. I have 11 articles posted on Ezinearticles.com. Which articles should I post to the other 10 article sites? I took my article with the least number of clicks and posted it to the 10 other sites. Next, I was thinking about taking my best performing article on Ezinearticles and doing the same thing. Does it really make a difference which article I submit to other directories?

[hyderkhan]

Buzzle banned my account... I'm guessing it's because of their "duplicate content" rule. They supposedly go out and proactively look to see if this article is already there on the Internet....

Any quick and dirty ideas on how to circumvent this problem?

[hyderkhan]

Hey everyone....

Here is a list of the "top 50 article directories":

List Of Top 50 Article Directories By Traffic, PageRank:

http - www - vretoolbar - com / articles / directories.php

(sorry... the forum won't let me post this link naturally since I'm a newbie to the forum.)

Since some of the article directories on Jeffrey's original master list of 10 directories tend to be problematic eg) requiring a minimum of 500 words, requiring only unique content, being a chemistry journal, only allowing one link, etc., I'm sure we can have a field day with this "master list" of 50 article directories.

Imagine if we could get our articles duplicated on as many of these 50 as possible! Imagine how much potential traffic we could get!!!!

[michaelmac]

Hi Jeffrey,

Awesome post...thanks for sharing some of your article writing and submission tips.

I was wondering how to get the link juice to my already approved EZA articles until you revealed all. You see i tried to submit an article for editing to EZA with an already approved EZA article url sitting as a link in the resource box - they said no way! Your method is guaranteed so i now plan to take my approved EZA articles and with minor adjustments, submit them with links pointing towards my income producing articles on EZA. I will use the list of directories you have provided plus the 2 aboutallah added in his post.

This should increase traffic to my site and hopefully sales also.

Thanks again Jeffrey

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by michaelmac

Hi Jeffrey,

Awesome post...thanks for sharing some of your article writing and submission tips.

I was wondering how to get the link juice to my already approved EZA articles until you revealed all. You see i tried to submit an article for editing to EZA with an already approved EZA article url sitting as a link in the resource box - they said no way! Your method is guaranteed so i now plan to take my approved EZA articles and with minor adjustments, submit them with links pointing towards my income producing articles on EZA. I will use the list of directories you have provided plus the 2 aboutallah added in his post.

This should increase traffic to my site and hopefully sales also.

Thanks again Jeffrey

Great I'm glad I could help!

[absolutelee]

This is really great stuff. I've got a ton of articles on EZA that rank anywhere from spots 5 to 25 on Google. I've been experimenting with various ways to SEO these articles. I'll try this. Thanks!

[jhongren]

Thanks Jeffrey for your terrific tips. This is in fact my first time hearing this. I am going to test it out now. =)

John

[biz_online]

Great Idea!

But I think just from a content value perspective, if you're going to submit to only 10 other article directories, why not change the title and the first paragraph prior to each submission?

[biz_online]

Originally Posted by kevinmarshall80

I just wanted to mention here that to post to Isnare.com, your article must be at least 500 words long. Some of my articles aren't that long, but you'll need to find another article directory site to get to 10 submitted articles if your article is shorter than 500 words.

Good point about ISnare. I would also like to point out that ISnare provides an article submission service, but they take weeks to get your your article approved!

[Kevin Marshall]

Originally Posted by biz_online

Good point about ISnare. I would also like to point out that ISnare provides an article submission service, but they take weeks to get your your article approved!

As I post to other article sites, I'm finding that some of the other 10 original sites recommended also require at least 500 word articles. For my shorter articles, I am using other sites now to build up to 10 articles to link back to my original Ezinearticle.

[ashtonuk]

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Louis

I am constantly reading the posts on here and everyday (usually multiple times a day) people have article marketing questions. There is no problem with asking questions. Questions are how you learn.

What I'm about to share with everyone is a step by step method how article marketing has worked for me, and I hope it can benefit everyone. If you don't implement it, maybe it can give you some new ideas of your own.
This is my opinion on how to get the most traffic from an article.

Okay - this method is assuming you submit all of your articles to EZA, with a good title, good article content, and a good resource box.

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1st Step: Open up Word Pad - or whatever you like to use. The program you use must be easy to copy and paste that is really the only requirement.

• Type out the keywords you are going to target in your article and separate them with commas. -- press enter a few times
• Create your title --- then press enter a few times.
• Create your article summary --- press enter a few times
• TYPE THE ARTICLE ---- and press enter a few more times.
• Then of course type up your resource box.

Each part of writing an article is equally important do not neglect anything. Once you are done SAVE YOUR ARTICLE TO YOUR COMPUTER.

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2nd Step: Submit your article to EZA. (ezinearticles.com) This should be easy because you just saved it to your computer. (The reason for pressing enter a few times between the different parts of the article was to help you stay organized.)

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3rd Step: Wait one week - my favorite step for my method to market an article

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4th Step: After that week has passed you are going to do some more with that article. Go back to your original article which you saved on your computer and copy your resource box. Then yes you guessed it press enter a few more times and paste it below the original one.

You are going to make some slight changes - on this resource box make one of the links point to your approved EZA article, and let the other still point to your webpage. Once you have completed this...

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5th Step: Submit your article with your new resource box (the one with one link pointing to your EZA article and the other pointed to the site that you are trying to promote) to the following 10 sites:

1. Go Articles (goarticles.com)
2. Articles Base (articlesbase.com)
3. Search Warp (searchwarp.com)
4. Article Dashboard (articledashboard.com)
5. Buzzle (buzzle.com)
6. Article Alley (articlealley.com)
7. Amazines (amazines.com)
8. Isnare (isnare.com)
9. Article City (articlecity.com)
10. Hot Article Directory (pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/index.html)

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Wrap up: Ok I know what you are thinking submitting your article to all these sites is going to be time consuming... Really it is not too bad once you have your username and password to all of these sites.

You have everything at your fingertips because your article is saved to your computer!

The traffic that ends up going to your EZA article and ultimately the website you are trying to promote grows exponentially and it is definitly going to be worth your time. I wish good fortune to everyone marketing online and I hope everyone has success.

Happy Halloween!

cant you use other article directories using this method other than those directories you listed or is it not advised?

thanks

[Norma Holt]

Jeffrey thanks for this valuable advice. I have been doing EA for some time and have many stacked up on my computer. I did not know that we could use the same articles elsewhere.

It will go to the test today.

God bless

Norma

[wordwizard]

Thanks Jeffrey,

I'm going to get right to it.

I think I'll try to link to related articles rather than to the exact duplicates though.

Also I have a couple of additional thoughts:

1) Since EZA is okay with 300 word articles and some others require 500, that opens the way to solve the duplicate content issue right there... Just expand the rticle by a couple of points, especially at the beginning, change the title some and presto: new article!

2) I was wondering if it might not be even more effective to do that link posting thing gradually and not all on one day. i.e., post them all to one ezine a day (and then ezine #2 the next day, etc.) for a couple of weeks or so, because I think Google likes links even better when they seem to grow "organically"

3) If you have a whole bunch of old articles (as I do), you may want to consider focusing on the well-performing new ones first, to help them get into EZA's top ten listings. Because if you manage to get one (or more) into that territory, they'll draw many more readers to yuor other articles as well! (and they're only eligible for the top 10 within the first 90 days of their "life" at EZA.

Anyway, I can't wait to put it all to use! And btw, I do use iSnare as well -- just don't count on them for speed, but they do get lots of views, almost as many as EZA, plus they get them published them elsewhere too. So for 1-2 bucks a piece, that's good deal in my view.

Thanks again,

Elisabeth

[Shevd]

Hi

Would you recomend changing the title of the article slightly everytime you submit or leave the title the same everytime you submit.

Many Thanks

[wordwizard]

Originally Posted by Shevd

Hi

Would you recomend changing the title of the article slightly everytime you submit or leave the title the same everytime you submit.

Many Thanks

Some people do, though I would recommend to change more than the title if you
do change the title.

Here's what I'm aiming for (though don't always do):

Have one version at EZA.

Expand (and change title) of the version I submit to iSnare. That's because
they're a submission service in addition to being a directory, and they spread
the article all over the place (and I have discovered that GoArticles has published
quite a few of my articles by way of iSnare).

The nice thing is that you can follow the trail of your articles if you do that.
I.e., I can see which ones have been distributed through iSnare.

Then, if you can, change the article again for an additional set of directories
(or re-use EZA version, or iSnare version, depending on word count
requirements.)

I don't tend to submit to a lot of additional directories though (i.e., in addition
to iSnare and Amazines). iSnare takes care of some of that for me.

The main additional thing I've done is submit them to a relevant niche directory or
two. And I have never submitted to Buzzle because of that original content
thing. No need to get banned.

Now that I have this system though, I'll add a few more directories to my
line-up, but I probably won't change the articles beyond what I've described
above/below. Especially since I'm not going to send the links to the exact
same articles but to related ones.

Speaking of which... I've already gotten a few extra readers that way it seems!

So basically, the more different versions you have floating about out there,
the better, but it helps to have some actual different content as well -- so I'd
expand them by adding a couple of actual extra points etc.

Good luck.

Elisabeth

[romanmt]

Thanks, Jeffrey!

[Jeffrey Louis]

Answering a lot of your posts... Changing the title if it makes you feel better you can do, I'm just not so sure of what that will do for you long term.

[Notarealdoctor]

That's awesome information. I'll give this a try.

[jacksonlin]

It's easy to get around the issue of the same article twice.

You just need 2 articles.

Article 1
Article 2

Step 1:
Submit Article 1 to EZA (EZA Article 1).
Submit Article 2 to EZA (EZA Article 2).

Step 2:
Submit the EZA Article 1 to another directory, but this time post a link to EZA Article 2.

Submit the EZA Article 2 to another directory but post a link to EZA Article 1.

Step 3:

Now people who read your EZA Articles on other directories will be linked to a fresh new article if they click on your link. You also get to keep the benefit of having good PR backlinks.

Nice!

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by jacksonlin

It's easy to get around the issue of the same article twice.

You just need 2 articles.

Article 1
Article 2

Step 1:
Submit Article 1 to EZA (EZA Article 1).
Submit Article 2 to EZA (EZA Article 2).

Step 2:
Submit the EZA Article 1 to another directory, but this time post a link to EZA Article 2.

Submit the EZA Article 2 to another directory but post a link to EZA Article 1.

Step 3:

Now people who read your EZA Articles on other directories will be linked to a fresh new article if they click on your link. You also get to keep the benefit of having good PR backlinks.

Nice!

There we go!

[Allen Graves]

How in the world have I not seen this thread?!

This sounds like ANTI-SCAM to me...well...a close variation of it. This technique has been passed around under the bleachers for a while. Unfortunately, as things like this hit the mainstream information pool, they quickly lose their effectiveness.

Over the last several months, as this technique has slowly become less and less effective, I have found that Google is looking more for the entire article to be published on other authority sites...not just a link to it on an article directory.

And for what it's worth, I'm seeing some freaky things from Google since January 1st...not just with articles but with my affiliate sales sites as well.

Allen Graves

[Jeffrey Louis]

Allen,

I'm so glad you finally made your way to this post. I knew you would have something to say. Thank you for contributing.

Allen is right, although it depends... It's weird and I'm not sure what is going on but as soon as I figure it out I'll be sure to let everyone know.

Some of my articles are doing great, while others are falling. It never used to be like that. Pretty scary. I have a good feeling they will be back up in the SERPS top 10 more sooner then later though.

My motto - NO Worries

Jeffrey Louis

[Allen Graves]

That's a great motto!

I should also disclaim, the post I made above is based on data that I am actually seeing (since January 1st). It is not just a personal opinion or a guess.

Allen Graves

[TLTheLiberator]

Originally Posted by kkchoon

I use similar method:

1. Submit to ezinearticles. Wait till approved.
2. Rewrite the article and use article syndicate service to build back links to the ezinearticle's articles.
3. Boost Ezinearticles ranking and views, if hit most viewed in the category...

bam, all the traffic flood to my site...!

If you can't afford the article syndication service right now, isnare will be happy to post your article to at least a couple hundred places for only $2.

Hope This Helps!!

TL

[jacksonlin]

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

That's a great motto!

I should also disclaim, the post I made above is based on data that I am actually seeing (since January 1st). It is not just a personal opinion or a guess.

Allen Graves

Allen,

What do you suggest the best way is to make your article rank well in terms of SEO?

Can you give us tips and pointers?

Thanks!

[Allen Graves]

Wow, Jackson. There's just so much and there are so many variables regarding your audience, your niche, your writing style and dozens of other things.

You can liken your articles to your website as far as on-page and off-page optimization.

The best thing to do when you are just starting out is to set a baseline of articles out there and analyze their performance, then start testing with different variations to your articles, both on-page and off-page.

It takes time, but once you begin narrowing down your particular process, the time spent is so well worth it!

Allen Graves

[Alkody]

Great idea Jeff. I believe this method will be a big help for me to get more viewers to my articles. Will try it out and a big thanks, man.

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by Alkody

Great idea Jeff. I believe this method will be a big help for me to get more viewers to my articles. Will try it out and a big thanks, man.

No problem man I'm glad I could help!

[jacksonlin]

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Wow, Jackson. There's just so much and there are so many variables regarding your audience, your niche, your writing style and dozens of other things.

You can liken your articles to your website as far as on-page and off-page optimization.

The best thing to do when you are just starting out is to set a baseline of articles out there and analyze their performance, then start testing with different variations to your articles, both on-page and off-page.

It takes time, but once you begin narrowing down your particular process, the time spent is so well worth it!

Allen Graves

Allen,

I know you mentioned a lot of things I could do, but perhaps a basic one would be this?

Offsite - I should just try and get backlinks to my articles from different places such as Web 2 sites and other article directories like I would normally do to SEO a static web page?

Onsite - ensure my keyword appears in the title, the first 50 words, somewhere in the middle and somewhere near the end of the article?

Ta

J

[oyruhere]

Nice one mate. I'm already using a similar method but I like the clarity of your process I will adapt mine in keeping with your own.

By the way have you got 'Roboform' it really saves loads of time with all those pesky logins.

[Allen Graves]

Originally Posted by jacksonlin

Allen,

I know you mentioned a lot of things I could do, but perhaps a basic one would be this?

Offsite - I should just try and get backlinks to my articles from different places such as Web 2 sites and other article directories like I would normally do to SEO a static web page?

Onsite - ensure my keyword appears in the title, the first 50 words, somewhere in the middle and somewhere near the end of the article?

Ta

J

Yes, that's a good start. Except that you only really have to have your keyword in the article once.

AL

[jacksonlin]

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Yes, that's a good start. Except that you only really have to have your keyword in the article once.

AL

Allen, so what do you recommend:

1. Making SEO articles so that they rank highly for search terms and funny traffic through to your site that way

2. Make perfect SEO landing pages so that they themselves rank highly for search terms instead of the articles and have backlinks just to get backlinks?

Thanks!

J