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Is posting articles (initially) in EzineArticles.com frustrating?

by sreejish
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Hi,
I posted my first article in Ezinearticles.com 10 days back on March 25th. I was expecting that article to be live soon, but, I got the message that my article will be live only after their review, for which it may take a maximum of 7 days.

They made an upsell of their platinum programme, so as to avoid queue. But, for me, I wanted to know whether they are ready to publish my article and if yes, I wanted to know how much traffic I will be getting out of that prior to posting more articles and invest in their platinum programme.

But, after 10 days also, they didn't complete their review (initial review is over). I now feel this waiting as tiresome. They may be No.1. But, they don't keep their word.

I think, I should set up my own blog soon and post in it and consider submitting articles to other article directories.

What do you think?
#articles #ezinearticlescom #frustrating #initially #posting
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

    They made an upsell of their platinum programme, so as to avoid queue.
    That'll be their "premium" program, not their "platinum" level. "Platinum" isn't for sale.

    Well, understandably they made a bad impression on you by telling they'd do something within 7 days and then taking 10+days over it.

    Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

    I wanted to know whether they are ready to publish my article and if yes, I wanted to know how much traffic I will be getting out of that prior to posting more articles and invest in their platinum programme.
    Of course you do - and they should know that.

    For what it's worth, they do speed up quite a lot anyway - even if you don't buy the "premium" program. New authors wait the longest.

    Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

    I think, I should set up my own blog soon and post in it and consider submitting articles to other article directories.
    You should, of course, set up your own blog/site anyway.

    But it has nothing to do with EZA's speed of review.

    There's no point in submitting articles to EZA without having published them on your own blog/site first and had them indexed there. Whatever sort of "article marketing" you're doing, this is absolutely axiomatic, for all the reasons explained here in such detail by so many successful, professional article marketers.

    I see that it's annoying at the moment, but it doesn't actually matter much how long EZA takes to accept articles, in the long run. If you submit one acceptable article there every day, they'll end up publishing 30 of your articles every month, won't they? Whether they take 1 day each (which mine do - and I didn't buy the "premium" package) or 10 days each?

    But definitely publish them all on your own site/blog first and get them indexed there before you submit them to EZA or to any other directory. Whatever your reasons are for using an article directory.
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    • Profile picture of the author sreejish
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      That'll be their "premium" program, not their "platinum" level. "Platinum" isn't for sale.

      Well, understandably they made a bad impression on you by telling they'd do something within 7 days and then taking 10+days over it.



      Of course you do - and they should know that.

      For what it's worth, they do speed up quite a lot anyway - even if you don't buy the "premium" program. New authors wait the longest.



      You should, of course, set up your own blog/site anyway.

      But it has nothing to do with EZA's speed of review.

      There's no point in submitting articles to EZA without having published them on your own blog/site first and had them indexed there. Whatever sort of "article marketing" you're doing, this is absolutely axiomatic, for all the reasons explained here in such detail by so many successful, professional article marketers.

      I see that it's annoying at the moment, but it doesn't actually matter much how long EZA takes to accept articles, in the long run. If you submit one acceptable article there every day, they'll end up publishing 30 of your articles every month, won't they? Whether they take 1 day each (which mine do - and I didn't buy the "premium" package) or 10 days each?

      But definitely publish them all on your own site/blog first and get them indexed there before you submit them to EZA or to any other directory. Whatever your reasons are for using an article directory.
      Dear Alexa,

      Thanks a lot. My coach (Chris Farrel) also told me the same (through CFM forum) 1 week back - to write 7 articles and then submit each everyday.

      But, I did not do it, because,

      1. I am very lazy.

      2. I wanted to know whether they will publish my first article or not and see the traffic it would generate, so that I will get the motivation to write more.

      If I want, I can write, say 30 original articles of mine in say, 1 week. But, the quality of those articles and the ability of those articles to drive traffic to my squeeze page / web site is something that I want to find out.

      So, I thought if Ezine will publish my first article, I will get enough encouragement to start writing my 2nd article and so on.

      Well, of course, there is only one intention for me to write my articles - to drive traffic to my website.

      Now, you told me to get the articles posted in my blog to be indexed first. How to do that?

      Actually, I am doing the ground work for my dream project - a great dating website, with all the bells and whistles - as it is not word press blog, even though it will have tons of content - I want a little bit of time to get it live.

      That is why I did not create a blog in these 10 days (Well, I created my first blog in 6 hours - with a lot of content - so it is not really a big deal)

      Regards,

      Sreejish

      PS: You are so sweet and kind.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

        I thought if Ezine will publish my first article, I will get enough encouragement to start writing my 2nd article and so on.
        I hear you.

        But this is going to be a veeeee-e-e-e-e-rrrry slow way of doing it!! :p

        Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

        Now, you told me to get the articles posted in my blog to be indexed first. How to do that?
        The more often you update a site, the more regularly it gets indexed. I've heard people say that building a few backlinks to each article may help Google to index them more quickly, when you start off. And I have no problem believing that. (But don't ever build backlinks to the EZA copies, of course!).

        I would just write 10 EZA-acceptable articles and put them on your site, and after they're indexed, add a resource-box on them and submit them all to EZA. And you'll be done in about 10% of the time it's going to take you doing them one at a time.

        Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

        I am doing the ground work for my dream project - a great dating website, with all the bells and whistles - as it is not word press blog, even though it will have tons of content - I want a little bit of time to get it live.
        I see ... well, good luck with this extremely competitive niche (I have no experience of it!).

        (Is EZA ok about "dating articles", or is it a problem for them? Is it one of their recently announced "problem niches"? I can't remember ...)

        Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

        PS: You are so sweet and kind.
        I don't always bring my flamethrower ...
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        • Profile picture of the author sreejish
          Dear Alexa,

          Thanks a lot. I understand that this approach is slow now; but, initially 10 days back, I thought that they will publish my first article (that is not about dating but about making money online) in one single day.

          But, I think the whole system of mine is going to speed up really fast - on wednesday, my advertisement in newspaper will be published - seeking 4 trainees.

          Once, I appoint those 4 trainees (1 for sure - others should agree to the meagre stipend I will give to them). Well, the Boss can't be that lazy. Right? (Last 10 days or so, I had this addiction problem of spending a lot of time in Yahoo Answers, watching / reading articles of World Cup Cricket (I am from India)).

          So, do you mean that Money Making is not a competitive niche? I am pretty sure that in dating, the competition will be less anyway.

          PS: Yes, surely I will go through the threads / articles you suggested. Thanks a lot.

          Regards
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          • Profile picture of the author Richnana
            While you are waiting for EZA to approve your article, start writing more articles and submit them to the other article directories. EZA may be the most popular for getting backlinks but it is not the ONLY game in town. Rewrite your article and submit everywhere. If you are doing article marketing you need to submit a lot of articles - don't get stopped by EZA
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            • Profile picture of the author sreejish
              Originally Posted by Richnana View Post

              While you are waiting for EZA to approve your article, start writing more articles and submit them to the other article directories. EZA may be the most popular for getting backlinks but it is not the ONLY game in town. Rewrite your article and submit everywhere. If you are doing article marketing you need to submit a lot of articles - don't get stopped by EZA
              Hi Richnana,

              I will surely consider doing that. But, anyway, the articles that I give to EZA could not not be submitted to the other article directories. Right?
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              • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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                Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

                But, anyway, the articles that I give to EZA could not not be submitted to the other article directories. Right?
                No - not right at all.

                They can all be submitted to as many other article directories as you like (with just one exception: "Buzzle", the only one which requires previously unpublished content). And there's absolutely no need to wait until EZA approves and publishes them, or to re-write them in any way, before submitting them anywhere else you like in the same name/pen-name (after publishing them and having them indexed on your own site, of course).

                The more places you submit them to, the more backlinks your own site will get, but they're all very "low class backlinks" (non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks), including the EZA backlinks, so don't expect too much SEO help too quickly, for your site, by doing this.
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                • Profile picture of the author sreejish
                  But, but, Alexa......
                  My Coach , the great Chris Farrel teaches us otherwise. He told us in of his training videos that Ezine, as they are No.1 will never accept articles published elsewhere.

                  May be Chris is wrong?
                  :confused:
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                  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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                    Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

                    But, but, Alexa......
                    My Coach , the great Chris Farrel teaches us otherwise. He told us in of his training videos that Ezine, as they are No.1 will never accept articles published elsewhere.

                    May be Chris is wrong?
                    If he said that he's unquestionably 100% wrong, Sreejish.

                    This is one of the "urban myths of internet marketing". It's actually never been true, and it's not true now.

                    Like many professional article marketers, I have over 1,200 articles at EZA and all of them had previously been published elsewhere before I submitted them to EZA.

                    I'm really surprised, if Chris Farrell actually said that. In fact I'm absolutely astonished that he could be so wrong. Are you sure that's what he said?!

                    It'll help you enormously to read this thread.

                    And this short thread from yesterday will perhaps help you, too.
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            • Profile picture of the author Malius123
              lots of interesting info for new starter like me thanks guys
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    • Profile picture of the author georgewoodman
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post




      There's no point in submitting articles to EZA without having published them on your own blog/site first and had them indexed there. Whatever sort of "article marketing" you're doing, this is absolutely axiomatic, for all the reasons explained here in such detail by so many successful, professional article marketers.
      Many thanks for that link Alexa, just read it through. Loads of good info on it - all 13 pages Well mostly good !!

      George
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  • Profile picture of the author laurenswuyts
    It always takes a long time for ezinearticles to aprove your article. Contact them and ask what's going on!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by laurenswuyts View Post

      It always takes a long time for ezinearticles to aprove your article.
      It simply doesn't, Laurens.

      Platinum and Diamond authors who submit articles regularly typically get all their work reviewed and published there within 24 hours. (And I'm not talking about people who pay for the "premium" package).
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  • Profile picture of the author Victor Edson
    It speeds up once you get 10 articles approved without problems, then you'll get an upgrade status and you'll get approved faster.

    If you haven't submitted 10 yet, I'd say work on that and make sure everything is original and grammatically correct before submitting it.

    There's also a lot of other article directories and sites out there that you can submit to for traffic, like hubpages and squidoo and lots more.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Indeed ... submitting 10 all at once can get you to "platinum" very quickly, too, as long as they're all acceptable. As my friend recently found out.

      Just make sure you've published them yourself first, though!
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  • Profile picture of the author tobyR
    I've occasionaly had them take a long time to approve but in those instances Ive emailed them & got it sorted petty quickly. I now find mine are approved within 48 hours usually (work days obviously)
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    • Profile picture of the author sreejish
      Wow!

      These many helping people! Thanks a lot to you all. I got this information earlier that warrior forum is not a good forum, as there will be a lot of abuse, flame, etc. - from at least 3 sources.

      But, so far I find other warriors here to be very friendly and very helping.

      So, why should these people (at least 3) make false allegations against WF? What is their take in it?

      Oh! I need not care.

      Regards,
      Sreejish
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  • Profile picture of the author sreejish
    Alright warriors,

    to speed up the whole process, if I am investing in the premium membership of EZA, is it worth the money? What is your experience?
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  • Profile picture of the author sreejish
    Dear Alexa,
    Yes. I am pretty sure that Chris said that. I need not replay that video.

    I read your thread about that Russian girl. That is inspiring. Surely, I will go through all the threads you suggested me to read.

    Ok, your 1200+ articles were published elsewhere - elsewhere means - your blog(s) or other article directories (at least some of them) ?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by sreejish View Post

      Ok, your 1200 articles were published elsewhere - elsewhere means - your blog(s) or other article directories (at least some of them) ?
      Yes - they were all published and indexed on one of my blogs/sites first, and some of them were in other directories (after my site but before EZA) as well.
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      • Profile picture of the author JRCarson
        Knowing that there is a trial period of 10 articles for EZA, I think it's a good idea to crank out 10 articles that are of great quality and submit them.

        Don't worry about ANYTHING else until this is done.

        Might as well not complicate it anymore than it needs to be at this point.
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  • Profile picture of the author davechan
    We've been using e-zine articles for three years now. I found it to be extremely frustrating in the beginning as well, but we now have over 5000 articles on various topics and author names. If you only write a few articles then it is probably not worth your while. But, if you're going to write thousands of articles this is the place to be since there are lots of real people who read these articles and lots of traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Halbert
    I find it sometimes (for the most part) frustrating cause they lay down some strict rules yet try the same stunt another day...and it passes without issue. EZine are unique that way. However for the most part I find them difficult to write for and the worst part is...they are overrated for sure cause I dont much of anything in the way of traffic from them.
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