Generating traffic with article directories

Good place. Yes you will get a little traffic from the network itself! The strong advantage when your going after the serps is they have a lot of authority. When the spiders see a bridge between you and ezine if makes you more powerful and you will climb in the ranks.

Make a really good article and optimize with your keywords and get a lot of others to share your article over time.

I have about 30 articles posted there for upteen years now and I get
about 1 or 2 clicks per month from that directory. After one of the
Google updates article directories like these got dumped. They use
to generate a lot of clicks but not anymore. I don't know if there is
any possibility of coming back to the same level as the old days.

-Ray Edwards

The point of article directories is not to drive traffic to your site, it's to give site owners a place to find good content. These are the majority of people browsing an article directory. If you want to use articles to drive traffic or increase rankings then contact websites directly to see if they're looking for content, then give them something great their readers will love and they'll accept more of your articles in the future.

Article directories kind of went out of style once they got hit by all of the Google updates. I haven't used them in years (literally). Since that time, social media has become a big deal for getting traffic, so I'd go that route instead. You've just got to figure out which social media sites the people in your niche tend to use the most.

Joey

Ezinearticles is a wrap. If you want to get traffic from your content then consider:

1) A blog

2) Guest blogging

3) Turning your content into a Youtube video (not a video-article though)

4) Turning your content into a podcast.

You can still use EZA for healthy traffic; but better newbie-friendly routes to article syndication exist, and actually always have. Steve B offered some great insight for you, OP.

Step in my Delorean

The highlights of what you used to do:

1. Select 1 low-competition keyword.
2. Include it in your title.
3. Plop it at the start, the middle, and the end of your 300 to 500-word article.
4. Also plop it in your custom author bio for that article.
5. Ensure your author bio reads like a continuation of your article.
6. Use typical article writing know-how to elicit a desired reader-response.
7. If you were keen (not usually necessary) get half a dozen link-backs (keyword: anchor text).

The above, when EZA had Google Juice, should be good enough to rank you page 1, position 1 within hours - within 48 hours at the most. If it failed - and, like I say, you were keen - you'd build more links.

Those who made real money wrote around 10 articles per day through their premium accounts and used the traffic like this:

EZA Article > Squeeze Page > Monetized Thank You Page > Follow-Up Series.

And I'll tell you - big money was made.

Ah.

And then the Google update happened that singled out directories. People had been submitting trash to EZA and easily getting ranked and this resulted in the SERPs looking like a rather untidy demilitarized zone. Something had to be done. And it was.

Goodbye EZA ranking juice!

Step Back in my Delorean and Welcome Back to 2015

Article syndication is big business and actually newbie-friendly in many respects. The key principle to understand: find out where your target audience hangs out, supply them with information - not salesy information, but real information - and let the modern internet do much of the work for you. What I'd suggest is digging deeper into the subject. It's a big one, but worth the time.

- Tom

Start your own free article directory and add it to a list. Thanks for giving me the idea!

yes it helps but not only Ezinearticles there are many more which helps you for traffic.

Sites like that still work as a great source of traffic. Also backlink however now as strong as they used to be. Definitely good for traffic.