What's a good number of article syndications from EZA?

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Hi guys,

I started with IM two months ago, and have many, many questions. The one I'm asking in this thread is: how many ezine publishers are likely to pick up one of your articles on EZA? Or another way of putting it: how many syndications have you got for your articles and how long have they been up for?

I need cold, hard data!
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  • Profile picture of the author kiwiviktor81
    @Chris Kent: do you do article marketing then, at all? Sounds like you're not a fan of the idea. If you do do it, what is your approach?
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      Using EZA certainly is not the best resource for getting articles syndicated, but it is a good beginning. If your articles can't even get accepted by EZA, chances are they really won't be effective anywhere else. Keep submitting articles there and eventually it will pay off.

      Publishers looking for quality content for their websites, blogs, ezines, and newsletters often do source through EZA. You should consider also contacting bloggers and ezine publishers directly for using your articles after building up a small portfolio of published articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81 View Post

    how many ezine publishers are likely to pick up one of your articles on EZA?
    It's impossible to know, clearly.

    I think mine get picked up far more often by webmasters than by ezine publishers.

    It helps to find your own ezine publishers rather than relying on EZA as the sole avenue of syndication.

    The name "Ezine Articles" seems a little historical to me, to be honest: but you can't expect them to change their name to "Website Articles" just because more syndicators have websites now than have ezines?

    Of course, to be picked up for syndication at all, articles must, at least to some extent, be written for syndication.

    Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81 View Post

    I need cold, hard data!
    Really? I can't immediately see why anyone would, I must say.

    But clearly it isn't available, anyway.

    Many people syndicate articles from EZA without contributing to the "number of times published" figures at all, and one has to find them oneself.

    But as with most issues in internet marketing, quantitative approaches are fairly meaningless, anyway. What matters is the quality of the relationships you can build with the people who do syndicate your articles. That's what article marketing businesses are built on.

    I make several thousand $$ every month, now, from syndication of my work by people I originally "found" (over the last year or two) when they first syndicated my work from EZA. It's really quite a substantial chunk of my income.
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    • Profile picture of the author CatherineMay
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      It's impossible to know, clearly.

      I think mine get picked up far more often by webmasters than by ezine publishers.

      It helps to find your own ezine publishers rather than relying on EZA as the sole avenue of syndication.

      The name "Ezine Articles" seems a little historical to me, to be honest: but you can't expect them to change their name to "Website Articles" just because more syndicators have websites now than have ezines?

      Of course, to be picked up for syndication at all, articles must, at least to some extent, be written for syndication.



      Really? I can't immediately see why anyone would, I must say.

      But clearly it isn't available, anyway.

      Many people syndicate articles from EZA without contributing to the "number of times published" figures at all, and one has to find them oneself.

      But as with most issues in internet marketing, quantitative approaches are fairly meaningless, anyway. What matters is the quality of the relationships you can build with the people who do syndicate your articles. That's what article marketing businesses are built on.

      I make several thousand $$ every month, now, from syndication of my work by people I originally "found" (over the last year or two) when they first syndicated my work from EZA. It's really quite a substantial chunk of my income.
      Alexa, here's what I hope is a simple question. How do you find out someone - a website owner or ezine publisher - has published your article? I see that several of my articles have numbers beside them in the "Ezine Publishers" column, but support at EzineArticles said those numbers don't necessarily mean that that many people actually used the article, and that I have to develop my own methods of tracking my articles. She/he suggested using Google Alerts. Can you please share what you think is the best method and exactly how you go about it? Thanks so much!
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by CatherineMay View Post

        How do you find out someone - a website owner or ezine publisher - has published your article?
        It's true that the Ezine Publishers column at EZA doesn't tell you that people published it - only that they intended to. And it's even more true that some people syndicate by copy-pasting and aren't counted at all.

        In the case of ezines, you can't necessarily find out at all (though some ezines do have a copy archived online, which will show up on a website).

        You can either use Google Alerts, as they suggested, or just periodically paste a ten-word chunk of your articles (preferably comprising the end of one sentence and the start of the next) into Google, between "inverted commas". What's been indexed shows up. (I've used both of these methods but don't claim that either is totally reliable).
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        • Profile picture of the author CatherineMay
          Alexa, your answer leaves me really curious as to how you've managed to develop a syndication business that pays you thousands a month when even knowing who has re-published one of your articles is so problematic. ????
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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by CatherineMay View Post

            Alexa, your answer leaves me really curious as to how you've managed to develop a syndication business that pays you thousands a month when even knowing who has re-published one of your articles is so problematic. ????
            By building relationships with people, Catherine.

            Some of my EZA articles have been re-published multiple times online, and I've found those syndicated copies in the ways described above, contacted those people, offered them additional content, and added them to my network.

            In addition to all the pro-active syndication I've done. EZA is far from the whole story.

            Yes, it's true that someone can sometimes take your article from EZA and circulate it in an ezine without you finding out about it (and of course that's true of any article, published anywhere, online or for that matter offline!), but you can easily find out about it if they've put it on a website. I'm slightly surprised you regard that as "so problematic"? It's never seemed a problem to me.
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          • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
            Originally Posted by CatherineMay View Post

            Alexa, your answer leaves me really curious as to how you've managed to develop a syndication business that pays you thousands a month when even knowing who has re-published one of your articles is so problematic. ????
            Catherine, I was trained as an engineer. So one of the hardest things for me to accept was that my data gathering was always going to be less than perfect.

            Once I got it through my thick skull that I didn't have to have perfect information, and could do well just doing the best I could with what I had, things got a lot easier.

            Back in the "olden golden days" of EZA, publishing articles there almost guaranteed syndication if the quality and message match was there. Now, EZA is only one way to identify who might be interested in joining your private syndicate.

            For most of the folks posting here, EZA is just the tip of the iceberg. Most of the substance is below the surface, out of sight.
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  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    Originally Posted by kiwiviktor81 View Post

    Hi guys,

    I started with IM two months ago, and have many, many questions. The one I'm asking in this thread is: how many ezine publishers are likely to pick up one of your articles on EZA? Or another way of putting it: how many syndications have you got for your articles and how long have they been up for?

    I need cold, hard data!
    True "Article Marketers" view EZA as just one tool in their promotion toolbox.

    Before publishing your article anywhere outside of your control, you need to publish it on your own website / blog and wait until it has been indexed by Google. This is critical.

    Only then should you publish it on EZA, and a new strategy I'm currently testing, is to also publish it on ArticleBase. I used to use them more in the past, but more or less stopped. Over recent months I've been using them again, and I'm quite pleased with the results.

    You also need to take the initiative and approach other web publishers yourself and offer to "guest write" articles for them (with links back to your own website of course).

    I am also experimenting with publishing articles as videos.

    As for your question: how many ezine publishers are likely to pick up your articles? Impossible to answer. It depends heavily upon the niche you are promoting and the quality and depth of your articles.
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