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

[Allen Graves]

Originally Posted by jacksonlin

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

J,

You are going to get the backlinks from the articles anyway, right?

So you want to do #1. But you also want a killer SEO'd Landing page as well. This way you are getting traffic from SE's directly to your landing page and via your articles as well.

AL

[Mark Hess]

Great info, most people don't bother with article marketing because they consider it to be to time consuming. Which is great because that leaves more FREE traffic for me.

[Pat Ordenes]

excellent post. simple things always work the best. thanks jeff!

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by Pat Ordenes

excellent post. simple things always work the best. thanks jeff!

No problem hope it helps you out!

[stevecl]

Great Post jeff, Would submitting all your article rss feeds to rss directories push up the ezine article rankings as well when using your strategy?

Steve

[OmarNegron]

Hey everyone. I was able to make a quick video on some of my ezine article stuff and how I write em....

Enjoy!

YouTube - Article Marketing Strategy - Get Free...

[Gunter Eibl]

Omar,

cool video, thanks for sharing. I also found your EZA article stats interesting. Some would say a CTR below 10% is bad but for the saturated IM niche it's still good.

Gunter

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by stevecl

Great Post jeff, Would submitting all your article rss feeds to rss directories push up the ezine article rankings as well when using your strategy?

Steve

No I do not think it would boost your rankings, I just think you would get more traffic to your site initially when the RSS is given out about your article to the RSS subscribers if that makes any sense???? haha

[jacksonlin]

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

J,

You are going to get the backlinks from the articles anyway, right?

So you want to do #1. But you also want a killer SEO'd Landing page as well. This way you are getting traffic from SE's directly to your landing page and via your articles as well.

AL

But if you had a killer SEO landing page, wouldn't your EZA articles be competing for the same keyword traffic?

J

[Allen Graves]

Originally Posted by jacksonlin

But if you had a killer SEO landing page, wouldn't your EZA articles be competing for the same keyword traffic?

J

Yes, there is no reason you cannot have more than one of your pages/articles on the first page of Google. Happens a lot actually.

I was just reading through another forum where an article marketer had, like 3 articles and 3 pages from her website and subdomain on the first two pages of Google for a killer keyword phrase.

AL

[rlshaw]

Thanks for the information...i needed some tips on article marketing...

Ricky

[Tactical Execution]

Thank you, Jeff. The links pointing to EZA push it higher on the search engines. In the end, the other sites don't really push that much traffic anyway. I the top 12 article directories last year and EZA pushed 86% of the traffic I got from articles. This strategy could push that even higher.

I also think you can take your article, modify it slightly and publish it as a blog post, bookmark it on DIGG and Delicious, submit it to BlogCarnival, make it into a PDF for the free e-book directories and record it for a YouTube video or podcast. Leverage your content.

Internet marketing is all about leverage and working smart. Don't reinvent the wheel. Take the content you're creating and use it in as many different places as you can. Good luck, everyone.

[kevin1mil]

Thanks for the information, good article marketing tips that I can practice

Kevin

[ashtonuk]

OP would you use a Article Submission program?

[simoni]

Thank you Jeffrey and thanks for the informative video Omar.

George

[dexthor]

I don't know if this question has already been asked before, but I'm gonna ask it anyway, at the risk of being pointed to some place where it has already been answered. (what an awkward intro)
How many articles one can post to EZA per day? Can I post 10 articles in one day, and if I can would that influence the approval time somehow?

Thank you Jeffrey for this thread.

[marktheonlinesurfer]

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Louis

I've never used any program to spin any of my articles. I actually have never paid anyone to write any of my articles either so I would not know.

Great post Jeff! Very useful information.

Quick question- do you rewrite the articles before you submit them to the article directories that link to your EZA link or do you only change the resource box?

[dotslash]

Originally Posted by dexthor

I don't know if this question has already been asked before, but I'm gonna ask it anyway, at the risk of being pointed to some place where it has already been answered. (what an awkward intro)
How many articles one can post to EZA per day? Can I post 10 articles in one day, and if I can would that influence the approval time somehow?

Thank you Jeffrey for this thread.

I don't think there's a limit and like most article directories they actively encourage volume. Your articles just get put in a queue, I've posted 10 in day quite a few times and never noticed any difference.

Neil

[wordwizard]

Hi dexthor,

as Neil said, there's really no limit, though I would suggest you pace yourself
a bit for maximum visibility because when you have too many articles come
out on the same day in the same category, they may not all make it to the
New Article feature section. So if you write on different things, post just one
or two per topic per day.

The only thing where there's a limit at EZA is at the beginning, when you
have to start with submitting 10 articles (preferably spaced out a bit), and
then apply for an upgrade. Once they've upgraded you to Platinum, you're
good to go. If they only upgrade you to Basic Plus, you only get to write 25
more and then you can apply for another upgrade (to Platinum).

One little tip: If you're new to EZA and speed is important to you, you may
want to upgrade to premium, if only for the first month.

Here's why: They normally take their sweet time with reviewing your
articles. And once you've got 10 approved, you have to wait again
until they tell yuo if you've been upgraded to Platinum. Once you're
at Platinum, they usually review your articles within a couple of days
or so, so that's not too bad.

BUT if you upgrade, they'll review your articles within a few hours
instead of a week or more, and you could make it all the way to
Platinum in a matter of a few days rather than several weeks!
That's worth it if you want a jump start.

I wasn't sure this would be working that way but I've tested it out
now with two of my clients and it worked for both of them like a charm!
Even the upgrade to Platinum that normally can take a week took her,
what, maybe an hour or so from when she sent in her application.
Sweet!

Once you're at Platinum, you may or may not decide to keep it. One
big advantage once again is that you can actually schedule when you
want your articles to go out, and so you can prevent them from going
out all on the same day. That's very useful. Last time I checked, you
get three months for the price of two, just FYI.

Some of the other article directories do have limits, though. iSnare
only lets you submit 5 per day (and if you're a Platinum or whatever
it is over there member, then you can submit up to 10/day).

Searchwarp I think only lets you submit 3 articles/day.

And SelfGrowth lets you submit 5 I think, but they all have to be in
different categories.

Good luck!

Elisabeth

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by marktheonlinesurfer

Great post Jeff! Very useful information.

Quick question- do you rewrite the articles before you submit them to the article directories that link to your EZA link or do you only change the resource box?

I only change the resource box

[dexthor]

Originally Posted by wordwizard

One little tip: If you're new to EZA and speed is important to you, you may
want to upgrade to premium, if only for the first month.

Here's why: They normally take their sweet time with reviewing your
articles. And once you've got 10 approved, you have to wait again
until they tell yuo if you've been upgraded to Platinum. Once you're
at Platinum, they usually review your articles within a couple of days
or so, so that's not too bad.

BUT if you upgrade, they'll review your articles within a few hours
instead of a week or more, and you could make it all the way to
Platinum in a matter of a few days rather than several weeks!
That's worth it if you want a jump start.

Thank you for the info, Elisabeth.

[jacksonlin]

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Yes, there is no reason you cannot have more than one of your pages/articles on the first page of Google. Happens a lot actually.

I was just reading through another forum where an article marketer had, like 3 articles and 3 pages from her website and subdomain on the first two pages of Google for a killer keyword phrase.

AL

That sounds great.

So I'm going to try and get both my EZA articles and my own landing pages all over page 1 of GOOGLE for the keyword!

HOORAY

Thanks for your advice!

J

[4by8air]

I'm going to try this, Thanks!

[sublerjr]

Originally Posted by Mark Coverdale

First of all, thanks for sharing the info. BUT

If I was looking for information and clicked on an article to end up at the same article in a different place I would just leave the page. (maybe even a little annoyed)
So would this give more article views at ezine without really giving you url clicks.
I would rather a small amount of views and a high ctr.

Do you just use this method to get your ezine article to rank higher in google and make it stick?

After all, its about making sales more than getting a LOT of views right.

Not trying to pick the crap out of the method, just trying to understand its ultimate purpose.

Mark, sorry to say but you are wrong. Getting raked is what's it's all about because Google will always have more traffic than all the article directories in the world. Worry about getting higher rakings before sales.

[Jeffrey Louis]

No problem guys I hope it helps out!

[peter zwegert]

Thanks for the detail explationation, do you think that using Article Submission service will save you a lot of time?

[e-genius]

Hey thnx really good post. I also saved the info.

[Jeffrey Louis]

Originally Posted by peter zwegert

Thanks for the detail explationation, do you think that using Article Submission service will save you a lot of time?

It may save you time, but I do not think it is as effective as submitting manually.

[RandyW32]

This is seriously the best method. It really works!

[multimastery]

I thought you had to submit a unique article version to each article site(?)

[rafaelapolinario]

Thanks for sharing Jeoff, I will surely put it to work.

I just want to ask, but by submitting the same article in the rest of the 10 article directories doesn't it looks like spamming?

Rafael Apolinario III

[Allen Graves]

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Louis

It may save you time, but I do not think it is as effective as submitting manually.

You're right on target there - because it isn't more effective.

And you are wasting your money doing it. IMO

Submitting manually doesn't take long. It only takes about 3 minutes at each directory. And since you don't need to submit to 6,500,000 article directories in the first place, you can be done with it in minutes and maintain complete control and integrity!

Allen Graves

[wordwizard]

Hi amki,

Just saw your question about tracking submissions... without a spread sheet.

A few years back, when I was submitting a whole lot of poems to a whole lot of
magazines and needed to keep close track of them all so that when one of them
was accepted I could write all the others to withdraw mine, I developed a system
with index cards that I might actually reinstitute for my articles, come to think of it.

I had a card for every poem (i.e., now, article), and a card for each magazine (for
directories, you'll probably need more than a card -- maybe a small booklet will work
better, especially once your numbers go up quite a bit).

And then I would note on each poem card the magazine I submitted it to, and vice
versa. Always cross-referenced. Worked great. Should be easy to translate into Word
documents too, and that would help with the size problem.

It was actually a very motivational tracking system -- kept me motivated to keep those
poems circulating. I'm sure it'll do the same thing for articles...

And then you can also have another column or something for the cross-promotions, i.e.,
where you advertised each article (made a link to it).

I started a big file for that too...

Because I prefer not to link to the exact same article but always to a related article, to
add value to the reader, and it works at least as well link-wise, and probably a whole lot
better than just linking to the exact same thing.

Thanks for reminding me of that little system that has just turbo-charged my article submission motivation!

Elisabeth

Originally Posted by amki

This is the kind of post you hope for when you do a search. Thank you very much. You even (inadvertently) answered my search question: how do you organize all of those articles?

I was hoping for something other than a spread sheet; I don't get along with those too well, and I'm waiting for someone to talk about a searchable database--or any other method of organization that does the job efficiently. I have a horror of submitting the same article twice because I haven't done a good job of keeping track of my activities.

[kevin1mil]

Thanks for the easy step by step explanation!

[bluerose]

Thank you Allen for the post and info, I'm going to give a try and post back.

Sandy

[EricGiguere]

Here's another EzineArticles tip: link to your author profile and your extended author profile. Every author has them, and both profile pages link to all your EzineArticle approved submissions. It's a simple way to get some extra link juice going.

Also, the more articles you publish on EA, the more link juice your articles get from these pages, because each article also links back to the main profile. Just look at the list of most prolific expert authors and look at the PageRank of their author profiles.

Don't neglect the extended profile, it lets you add links to your own websites, too, which helps spread the juice....

[EricGiguere]

Originally Posted by theyoungmarketer

Hehe then take that and runa backward link search through yahoo and you get..

Yes. Perhaps the simplest way to success with EzineArticles is to publish new articles constantly and consistently, with enticing anchor text in your resource boxes. Sheer critical mass from your own articles and from their being republished on other sites will promote many of them to the front page of Google. Once you do that, there's a positive feedback loop that kicks in as some of your articles start showing up in the "most viewed" section for their category, giving them a big boost across ALL the articles in that category....

Simple, but takes a lot of time and writing!

[lavaleekathy]

Hi Jeffrey thanks for your information, especially useful for newbies! A very thorough guide and answers many of the questions I've had! Thank You!

[marcus passey]

Great I will try this out cheers

Marcus

[JonathanBoettcher]

Originally Posted by DonaldOng

Thanks for the detail explationation, do you think that using Article Submission service will save you a lot of time?

Cheers,
Donald

Depends on how many directories you want to submit to. If you're just doing 10 as he talked about in the original post, then no, I don't think it would be worth your while. However, if you wanted to hit 100 or something like that for each article, then yeah, for sure it could help.

[Samuel Lee]

A very good post Jeffrey. Thank you for the great step by step instructions, I've always wondered which article sites were the best ones to choose, you've nailed completely! Thanks!

[Joshua McCoy]

Great post!

I too had a few ideas for linking to your ezinearticles.com content.

You could also link related articles together, so the reader doesn't read the same article twice and get confused. For example, submit a different article to all the other directories and link them to your ezine article, kind of like a one-two punch!

Or better yet, write some sort of prequel for your ezine article, with a "to be continued..." theme to improve click through rates, and send that article to the other directories. But the ezine article could still seem like a stand alone piece of content so it wouldn't be lacking anything for the people who view it by itself.

[meisters]

Great info you have there Jeff. Well..... I'm still learn to write article in english becuse my bad grammar but I'm gonna try it.

[Phil Murray]

Thanks for the great tip. I will definitely be putting this to use in the near future.

[misterlmno]

thanks for the post! glad I found this as I am about to submit my first articles!

[trinigirl]

Great information here, I will definately try out this method and see if it works for me as well, thanks for sharing.

[mattcross]

Jeff

Thank you so much! This was great information. I just wrote an ebook and I'm not sure the best ways to promote the book - due to the fact I don't have a large mailing list at all. Any other suggestions besides articles?

Thanks, Matt

[JonathanBoettcher]

Originally Posted by mattcross

Thank you so much! This was great information. I just wrote an ebook and I'm not sure the best ways to promote the book - due to the fact I don't have a large mailing list at all. Any other suggestions besides articles?

Thanks, Matt

Hey Matt, another strategy that works well and complements article marketing quite well is video marketing. If you're not that familiar with video marketing, don't get scared off just yet - you can use basically powerpoint slideshows and still get great results. Very little editing involved, and you can basically use all the articles you've written, just re-purpose them as a video script.

Then you upload those videos to as many different video sharing sites as possible (I prefer using Traffic Geyser though you have to pay for it).

It can be quite effective, and provides long term traffic.

[kitch29]

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)

Great sites!!!! thank you for sharing!!!!

[profitgenie]

Thanks for sharing this,

I have started to use this method and am getting more views than normal, I am trying another thing i found a article site that posts your articles to 30 blogs all slightly rewritten to avoid duplicate content.

Using the above method would adding your article to 30 blogs help or harm if there is pointers back to your eza article as well as your website.

PG