An ezine publisher picked up one of my articles from EZA

by kiwiviktor81

Posted: 13 years ago 12 replies

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...and I can't find anything in the EZA resources about what happens next. Do I get told which ezine it appears in? Or do I just sit back and wait for some traffic (if any?)

#articles #eza #ezine #picked #publisher

JaySchmidt 13 years ago

Just wait a week, then do a Google search for a unique sentence contained in the article. If he published it on the 'web, it might show up in G (probably outranking your original, lol).

If he really does publish an E-Zine or newsletter, you're probably not going to discover it.
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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81

An ezine publisher picked up one of my articles from EZA

Well done. Always nice to see someone successfully using EZA for the purpose for which it exists (hence its name, of course).

How do you know it was an ezine publisher?

Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81

Do I get told which ezine it appears in? Or do I just sit back and wait for some traffic (if any?)

You get told nothing. :rolleyes:

You sit back and see if you get traffic.

Periodically, you might want to paste a ten-word chunk of your article (preferably comprising the end of one sentence/paragraph and the start of the next) into Google between inverted commas and that'll show you whether it's been syndicated to any other websites. Possibly including an ezine, because some ezines do have a copy archived online, too. (And doing that will also show you if anyone's taken it without the resource-box, as well, and allow you to "correct" that).

You need to try to contact the person who's taken it, because s/he might (and probably will) take more of your articles, too. People who want content, want content. And you can get targeted traffic out of it (without having to do the targeting yourself) and sometimes top-quality backlinks, too.

Make sure you have an opt-in on the page/site to which the traffic's coming, to build your list. (Sorry ... I know you didn't need anyone to say that, really, but others reading the thread might).
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- kiwiviktor81 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Alexa Smith
  
  How do you know it was an ezine publisher?
  
  I'm open to the possibility that something else may have occurred. All I can say for sure is that my "Ezine publisher" stat on the EZA dashboard went from 0 to 1, which technically means "number of times epublish link has been followed", and not "yay your article is published".
  
  That's all I know. If you can blast away some of my ignorance on the subject (I'm new to it all) feel free.
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81
  
  If you can blast away some of my ignorance on the subject (I'm new to it all) feel free.
  
  Nah ... there isn't a lot more to know about that aspect of it. Or, if there is, it has passed me by.
  
  It might be someone with an ezine; might be someone with a website.
  
  You can also get them syndicated without that statistic ever changing, because people can copy/paste, and so on, so it is worth checking (as outlined above). And always worth contacting them, if you can.
  
  There will come a day when you'll find one of your articles re-published without your resource-box. Just bear in mind, when that happens, that the best outcome is to get your resource-box added to it. Getting the illicit material removed (easily done) is only the second-best outcome.
  
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WDM 13 years ago

Great job, let us know how it works out for you. Just out of curiosity, how many articles have you published on ezine?
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- kiwiviktor81 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by WDM
  
  Great job, let us know how it works out for you. Just out of curiosity, how many articles have you published on ezine?
  
  Thanks. I've only just started, so I've got a grand total of three (plus one pending), and the article in question was my first one written.
  
  I also have no clue as to how often one should expect an article to get syndicated. Can anyone tell me what percentage of their articles have been syndicated like this?
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81
  
  I also have no clue as to how often one should expect an article to get syndicated.
  
  Without specifically writing for syndication it's rare. But if you've hit a niche in which webmasters are looking for content, you can get lucky.
  
  All of mine are syndicated before I ever submit them to EZA (and some get syndicated further from there). Many of the people to whom they're "already syndicated" are people I've contacted because they've syndicated a previous article of mine from EZA, though. One gradually builds up a network of people looking for content. This is true article marketing, not just "article directory marketing".
  
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  kiwiviktor81 13 years ago
  
  OK, related to that point: I just had one of my other two articles picked up. It's in the same niche, and I strongly suspect it's the same ezine publisher.
  
  This means that I'm in a good position to follow in your footsteps, Alexa, and write for them some more.
  
  But how do I contact them? Do I wait for them to contact me or do I Google my own articles to find who published them and then search their website for their contact details?
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81
  
  do I Google my own articles to find who published them and then search their website for their contact details?
  
  This ^^^^ ... exactly.
  
  And if you find one without apparent contact details (it can happen, rarely), try things like "admin", "info" and "support" at theirdomain.com and you'll eventually reach them.
  
  I have a standard pre-written email I send out ... "Thanks very much for re-publishing my article <title> from <source>. I'm just letting you know that there are a few others on closely related subjects, and I'd be happy for you to take a look at them and see if they're any use to you, provided you include my resource box with them. No charge, of course. I'll also be writing more, over the next couple of months, and can offer them to you before they go into <source directory>, if you like?" Something like that, anyway.
  
  (Anything I ever send them will already be published and indexed on my own site first, of course, but I don't specifically tell them that, because if they know the game, they ought to assume it, anyway ... and if they don't, it's not relevant to them and there's no point in burdening them with it).
  
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  Alan Ashwood 13 years ago
  
  Maybe I've got the wrong end of this, but as I understand it, one of your articles has been used, and you think it's by an ezine publisher.
  
  Alexa gives the best answer here regarding whether it's an ezine publisher or not.
  
  Assuming it's not, and it now resides on a website somewhere, isn't this exactly what you wanted? The more your articles are picked up, the more your name is spread around te internet (as long as they give you the credit for it). If they idn't credit you for your work, and have simply published your article verbatim, then I expect Google will pick it up, and they won't like it.
  
  I'd spend less precious time worrying about this, and more time publishing more articles.
  
  Cheers
  
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  AnniePot 13 years ago
  
  Another method I employ to track all my articles, uses Google Alerts. Cut and paste one unique sentence from your article into an alert set-up, either [like this] or "like this".
  
  You will then receive an email every time Google discovers the sentence you set up published.
  
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celente 13 years ago

Had this happen a few times, so you just proved to us yet again that quality gets results.

There is a debate that you just need to pump out articles and spin them and get them out there. Easiest way to go broke and get no results. no one wants junk these days.

1 quality article is far better than 50 crappy spun articles than do not make sense, the web is full of them.

Concentrate on quality and after a while you will see results like this.
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