Ezine Articles: Do I wait Before posting elsewhere

Well done for putting it on your own site first!


You don't have to - no. You can if you feel there's a good reason for it, though (such as stuff in it that doesn't make too much sense when read on someone else's website, or whatever). Not necessary though, usually.

Again, you don't necessarily have to - no. But a lot of people do, it seems. If you're a Platinum author, it shouldn't take too long to be approved and published (and subsequently indexed) anyway, so you shouldn't be waiting too long.

If I'm not mistaken Ezinearticles.com only accepts unique content. They will kick it back if you've got it published anywhere else. So, to answer your question, publish first there. Having said that, I would recommend keeping content on your website unique to you, and submit different content elsewhere.

DireStraits is right...you can submit the exact same content to EZA as you do to other directories. Now EZA would love for you to submit UNIQUE content only to them, but you don't have to and why should you?

I personally write nice unique articles for MY website. Then I write a different article for the directories. I put the exact same article on a hundreds of directories including EZA.

As Dire said, you do have to be sure to use the same pen name.

Thanks, just trying to develop a system and a process to follow

The articles I submit ( from the blog post ) should link back to the blog post right?

I post to my blog first and then to EZA and I have had no problems. I don't know about posting to other directories first though, that's something I'll have to try in the future.

Well done - good start!

It's entirely up to you; but there's no need to do that. All I ever do is add a resource-box (which I don't need on my own sites, of course).

It's still possible (in fact, likely) that in the short term, the EZA copy will rank higher than the original copy on your own site. But in the long run (which is obviously what matters when you're building a business), your own site will be the winner for having everything indexed there first. Just be careful to build any backlinks you're building to your site's copy rather than to EZA's copy.

There's absolutely no need to do this at all. However slow EZA is to publish it, and wherever else they may find a copy of it (with the same author's name/pen-name, note!), that isn't a reason for rejection, as they don't require unpublished content anyway.

Personally, I tend to create a "second version" of each article, changing the title, keywords and resource-box, and use that second copy for multiple submissions to other directories, and the day or so I'm taking to produce that second version overlaps with the day or so it takes EZA to publish it anyway, but I'd lose no sleep at all over EZA publishing it last, unlikely eventuality though that is. (I say "multiple" but there's only really a small handful I use, myself).