Need some help with my Ezine article

I wouldn't suggest using UAW or something similar, no; not at all.

There are a few hundred threads here with titles like "Article Marketing Is Dead" and "Article Marketing Doesn't Work". The members who start off those threads (and many of those who join in the conversations) are all actually talking not about article marketing at all, but about article directory marketing. They have the name wrong (typically, I suspect, because article directory marketing is the only part of article marketing of which they're really aware), but their conclusions are entirely right: what they're doing really doesn't work, for most people, most of the time. And there are very good and valid and logical reasons for that. And what they're really doing usually comprises trying to use article directories for their own traffic and/or their own backlinks. And the way they're usually doing it comprises spinning and/or submission software. All of which I would avoid like the plague.

All articles in all article directories are published on non-context-relevant, PR-0 pages. 100,000 of those backlinks and $3.50 will get you a cappuccino at Starbuck's. Seriously, even before Google's "Panda update" SEO textbook writers were saying that one would typically need something between 50,000 and 100,000 of those backlinks to confer the link-juice equivalent to one backlink from a relevant authority site. That vague, large number's very clearly a lot higher, now that Google has - thankfully, finally - knocked the article directories senseless from the SEO perspective (as even their owners are so openly complaining).

There's no downside at all to using a mass-submitter to plant backlinks to your own site, but there's precious little benefit, either. And to do it to build backlinks to an article directory copy is ... well, I struggle to be polite about that idea. It's "not an optimal method of article marketing", to put it very mildly indeed. It's not just a waste of time - it's worse than that: it's something that can actually damage your business.

Key question: when a potential customer finds one of your articles by putting one of its keywords into a search engine, what do you want him to find: the EZA copy (from which you get 25% of the traffic, perhaps, 30%?) or the copy on your own site (where you get 100% of it)? A bit of a no-brainer, isn't it?

"Building backlinks to your backlinks" is not what article marketing's about: it's about getting high-quality articles in front of highly targeted traffic.

Further information ...

This very good but very long thread explains in detail why it's so important to publish articles on your own site first, before submitting them anywhere else (and a lot of the indicental chat in it touches on other "basic article marketing questions").

This one explains a lot of stuff about "spinning" and why most professional article marketers think it's a waste of time, and based on fallacies and mistaken beliefs about "duplicate content".

This one explains why it's seriously bad news to create backlinks to article directories.

This one explains a bit more about article directories and writing for syndication.

This one is about "unique content" and a bit about link-juice, I think.

This one is about writing for syndication.

And in this excellent little article an expert writer/marketer explains "duplicate content" to perfection.