ezinearticles, squidoo, or hubpage - which one!?

[Simon Stanley]

Hey all

I am looking to get into article marketing, ezinearticles looks alot less hard work, simply paste my unique article and away I go. Squidoo looks like alot of designing would be involved etc.

Anyway how do you guys determine which property you will use to host your articles?

Thanks

Si

[ss442]

All of them!

[DeePower]

Use them all. Squidoo and hubpages are not difficult to put together. There's no programming (except if you want to add html links to another site). It's copy and paste your article into a text module and then add a few other modules. Once you have the articles written you can put together a squidoo or hubpage in 10 minutes or less.

Dee

[Harry Behrens]

EZA and Squidoo are awesome, Hubpages though, if you go there make sure to make your hub does not sound or look "commercial" in any way or it can get flagged and deleted fast. The Hubpages community is particularly trigger-happy with that kind of thing, I've found.

One trick I found is instead of having a single link pointing to your page (which is sometimes seen as spam by hubbers no matter what else you do on the page), make a list to important sites in the topic and just slip your own link in there in the middle. Makes it a lot more likely that you'll be allowed to stay (and actually gives more value to the reader which isn't a bad thing).

[Simon Stanley]

ok thanks, but i'm trying to find out what criteria you would use to help you decide which one property you would use when trying to rank high for an article for a long-tail keyword?

[ikontent]

Originally Posted by ss442

All of them!

And more...

[petevamp]

I use all of them myself

[Kevin Marshall]

I also use all of them. Hubpages will generate some small Adsense revenue for you. When I say small, it might be $0.02 a day! Personally, I point my articles to Squidoo.com, and then I put my affiliate link on my squidoo page.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by scadwal

Anyway how do you guys determine which property you will use to host your articles?

HubPages has been driving me crazy lately since they've been strict about affiliate linking so I shy away from them.

EzineArticles and Squidoo....Really you can't go wrong with either one. Personally, I see which one has less competing pages for my keyword phrase and then I just go with the one with less competition.

[d0rhk]

EZA has sent me quite a bit of traffic to be honest. I was surprised to see some of my articles getting 5-10 hits a day several months after they went live

[homebasedmom]

Originally Posted by ss442

All of them!

Yes, I agree to that.

[D89]

Would you recommend using the very same article on all 3 of the sites?

[petevamp]

More on to this I use squidoo and hubpages for the ability to make money off of the article I post on them. I use eza because it gets more traffic to my articles which means possibly more traffic to my page. Also eza is extreamly seo friendly. I choose my target group vs just choosing tags.

[petevamp]

Originally Posted by D89

Would you recommend using the very same article on all 3 of the sites?

If you do this make sure you publish the one on hubpages first wait for it to get approved then publish at the other 2. At hubpages it will come up duplicate if done otherwise.

[Kevin Marshall]

You can also rewrite articles you have already written. I have done this many times with multiple article sites. With that said, I would re-post your exact same article on some sites, but I would not do this on any of the three sites we are discussing now. You want your original articles to be on the best article sites that typically generate the most traffic.

[ragnartm]

All and interlink - I've been to lazy too lately and all my articles have flopped, so learn from my mistakes

[Simon Stanley]

thanks for your help, I am looking to use GoArticles to host my articles and backlink to it, but it seems people are recommending rewriting my goarticles, and hosting them on EZA, squidoo and hubpages. Would you link these pages to my goarticle? then underneath that link to my website too? Would driving traffic to my goarticle from the other properties increase search engine rankings?

[pearlydean]

I am using the Newbie Workbook from Bryan Zimmerman to get started in Article Marketing. He suggests using the following - Squidoo, Blogger, Wordpress, Hubpages, Social Marker, EzineArticles, Go Articles, Articles Base, Article Dashboard and Buzzle.

Its hard work as you have to write different articles on the same niche to be effective but he says it works so am following his advice! Will let you know how well it works.

Cheers Keith

[Blondmoo]

Right now I am redirecting article traffic (such as ezine) to my squidoo lenses.

What I am concerned about is am I diluting the CTR by having them have to click twice, once to get to Squidoo and then again for the offer???

Should I have BOTH the affiliate link (redirected through my domain) and the Squidoo article link in my bio box, and which if so, should come first for most conversion success?

[JAIDEEP2959]

Ezinearticles has become stricter.

Hubpages and squidoo does not bring decent traffic, I request you go for CPM methods.

[willzoboy]

I generally just submit to EZA due to the ease of doing so. I have done pages on squidoo and hubpages too but find them a bit tedious so I occasionally outsource the job.

[RebeccaL]

All of the above.. you should be using as many sources as you possibly can. Slightly rewriting for each site is the best strategy.

[dndoseller]

I think article marketing on your own blog or site is the best. No matter what platform you use to publish your article, you are going to have to get backlinks to your article in order to beat every one else in PR for your keywords to rank in the SERPS - so you might as well be building your own asset in the process.