Is it normal to get Expert Author Status with Ezine Articles after first two submitted Articles ??

EZA gives you expert status after your first article accepted.

After 10, you're platinum.

Expert really doesn't mean much over there.

And these days, platinum isn't worth what it once was either.

When Steve makes suggestions, pay attention. You're welcome, Steve

If I have a soapbox issue when it comes to article marketing, it's this: Too many writers take a "quantity over quality" approach, which is truly shooting yourself in the foot. Essentially, there are two things you must get good at with article marketing. First, you need great titles so you get a lot of readers. Second, you need to know how to finish an article so a high percentage of readers click the link to your site.

The final piece of the puzzle is maximizing conversions at your site. This is overlooked by a lot of otherwise good article marketers, which is a real shame.

I advise people who ask me (and lots who don't!) to spend less time writing and blasting as many articles as they can force themselves to write, and spend more time testing and tweaking. Analyzing how your current articles are performing and how your site converts will pay off so much more than neglecting those activities in favor of just writing and submitting over and over again, willy nilly.

It always comes down to a pretty simple formula:

Title (getting more readers) + Call To Action (getting more click-thrus) + Site Conversion (turning a higher % of visitors into buyers) = $$$

Once you get it down, you'll discover that you don't need to write and submit as many articles to produce steady income. You'll have more time for other important aspects of your business, as well as leisure time.

From talking to lots of other AM'ers, what seems clear to me is that good writers and serious business-minded folks can often nail the first two (good titles and good calls to action), but fewer figure out how to convert a higher % of visitors to buyers. To be honest, if you get REALLY good at the titles and calls to action, and if you are gifted enough and have the time to write a lot of quality articles, you don't really need to have better on-site conversions. But imagine if you did take the time to ramp that up as well. Marketing Nirvana, baby.

John

Just dont mention Black Hat - that naughty phrase really gets em going!!

Funny thing is I went to Plus because of keyword density. I wasn't trying to do that, it was the outline headers that had the keywords. OOPS. Considering the stuff I was competing with, I was highly offended at the time, I remember.

TomG.

Good thread.

I too had a new account quickly approve 8 new articles without problem, putting me expert status, and they took about 2days to go live.

Another of my accounts, which has had articles rejected in the past, is still in the first stage of review for articles submitted on the same day as the new account - nearly 7days now.

Yes, there are many reasons to use Article Marketing. Ezine articles is a good vehicle - but you should also use the other ezines also. Naturally, a good keyword selection along with keeping your article focused on helping the reader will ultimately increase odds of your reader wanting to know more. Good Luck.

Last week I had an article approved on the same day by ezine as i posted it. Whether they had employed more people or it was a quiet day for them I will never know lol. I do agree though that rather than posting lots of articles it is better to check the number of people are reading them. That way you can get a feel for what will catch peoples eye and the sort of thing they are looking for.

It is pointless writing 20 articles that get read by 40 people in total when you are capable of producing one article that may be read by 70+ readers. As they say quality is always better than quantity

Duh! I've just been congratulating myself for getting Expert Status after my first approved submission (previously rejected + one other rejected twice)... There's me thinking my website will be going kerching kerching because Ezine Articles also told me that it would be a featured aticle on their front page within 48 hours.

Maybe they should invent a Super Expert status, or a Super Dooper Expert status, or perhaps they should elect us Gods of Super Dooper Ezine Articles. I am a GSDEA ....Yeeeehaaaa!!!! Now bow down before me you lowly warriors!

yeah even crappy writers get the expert author badge.... They want you to be so proud of your badge that you will slap it all over your site to "prove" you are an expert... Oh and the fact that they want the backlinks ....

The funny part is I see some top marketers slapping that badge on their site ..LOL Yeah they have a PR6 site that they would charge out a bazooka for you to add a link on but yet they link to EZA free .... LOL!!!!!

James

Yes - it's a good thread.

I got platinum status straight away by submitting 10 articles that were about interesting subjects - nothing to do with selling anything, and with no links. I did this to make sure I got the status without any trouble. But as someone said above Platinum Status isn't worth as much as it was but it is still nice to get to it within 10 articles, rather than 25. So my advice is to do what I did.

Yeah they do bump up your author level very quickly over at Ezine, I wouldn't pay too much attention to what level author they have you at to be honest!

When I submitted my first article to EA and they told me that I was an expert author I thought: ‘They could recognize that I’m an expert only by reading my first article!’ I thought that EA’s team was excellent because they could easily understand that I’m a very good writer.

However, I soon realized that everyone is named an ‘expert author’ there once their articles are approved, even if they are not real experts or real writers. I laughed very much!

You should stick with it and keep submitting your articles to this top article directory. Ezinearticles is my main traffic generating method. Many of the articles I wrote in the beginning of my carrier online (2007) are still regularly sending traffic to my websites. And they were not as well written as my last ones because I had practically forgotten the English language for not using it for years.

Once you become a Platinum author, your articles are approved the next day. Some of my articles are immediately approved once I submit them because I’m a top writer in the category they belong to.

That's funny, I was thinking the same thing as well. I opened up an account and submitted a few articles which are still being reviewed but I noticed at the very bottom when you edit it does have expert. I totally agree with one other poster that said, expert over there doesn't matter much..that's alright keep writing.