Free traffic from Enzinesarticles

Whoa, I haven't heard that name in a while. I'm curious to see if anybody still gets decent traffic from EzineArticles. If your article ever gets approved can you report back?

I had submitted few articles and it is approved. but the traffic is very low. We should not depend on ezinearticles traffic to achieve our goal.

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is Enzinearticle still alive? What is the value of article directories now a days?
Curious

I haven't used EzineArticles in years...

However, when I was using them - what I would do is submit an article to them - then I would spin the article and submit it to 3-5 more article directories. Each one getting a "unique" spun version of the article.

EZA will be slow - but you can spread your articles around to get more traffic.

You might also consider turning your articles into a PDF and submitting the PDF to sites like www.Scribd.com. This will get you some more traffic trickles as well.

Hope this helps. Good Luck.

Cheers,
Coby

Google killed Ezine years ago !! and remember good thing are not free and free hings are not good ,you want to have a business treat it like one buy traffic or get a job so you can

The complaint is that you want to use the site for free always - you don't want to upgrade to premium paid status - and you want fast approval?

Premium members get priority - top writers get fast approval. You will not get priority over those EZA contributors. That is reality.

Article submission that is like old school cause is not as effective as it used to be with the new methods of traffic generations that has spring forth. Moreover article directories have now wished up. Most of them will only accept Original content.

Ezine articles does not rank as well in Google as it used to be 5 years or so ago.
Also they have taken strict policies against website links in these articles. Affiliate links will
just not work.

I would not recommend EZA,it is too slow to drive traffic.I have submitted one article on it,but it was useless.

Yes,google banned this site,so it will not helpful for SEO.

I also face same problem so i left ezinearticles. Pay some money on facebook and it will give you good traffic.

Thanks! It's great to know about that.

So i can spend more time, focus at the things that is more effective!

Tell that to a homeless person who hasn't eaten in days.

Brent

Don't waste your time with Ezine Articles. That's so "2008."

When I first started out I did article marketing. I have over 100 articles published on EZA and last month I got 2 visitors from there.

It's too bad because before Google slapped them upside the face I had quite a few articles ranking on the first page. Some of my articles on there were even in the first position. I can remember getting 50-100+ targeted visitors per month from just one of my articles to a $67 Clickbank sales page "back in the day." That single article alone used to make me anywhere from $100-$150 per month in commissions.

Oh the good old days... Before Google decided they owned the Internet. How I miss them.

I can remember back in '07 how you could still set up an Adwords campaign and direct link right to a Clickbank sales page and make good money.

Everything was so much easier before Google launched it's brutal assault against Internet Marketing.

I know it wasn't personal, however. Google doesn't care if you make money online. They only care that they get enough of a cut of the money you make online.

It reminds me of some of the mafia documentaries I watch all the time.

If you don't "kick up" enough of a tribute to the "Big G," your business is liable to get "wacked."

I haven't used them in a long time. Aside from the long approval times, I've found the quantity and quality of traffic has gone way down. To the point I don't find it even worth it anymore.

That ship sailed

Hi there are directories which give fast approval as long as your content has quality. Try AuthorSream and SooperArticles. The latter even has direct links to enable you to promote your article to social media platforms- StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Facebook to name a few. Cheers

Ezine Articles is very strict in the recent years.

And even more so since it is one of the sites being hit by Google updates.

They no longer want quantity but quality of your articles.

As to whether it is relevant to what people are searching for and can help them solve a problem or answer their needs and wants in mind.

And they have a system and way of knowing whether your articles are truly original or spun from other sources.

before 2014 ezine was accepting the articles with some low policies but right now the ezine is very strict in their posts.

Time change and things change

I used to got leads long time ago with engine, and those leads are really targeted and engage

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EzineArticles is still alive, although it's a shell of what it was during the "Bum Marketing" boom.

I can't speak about other article directories, because most of the ones that were popular during the boom are either gone or no longer open directories.

Where EZA still has value is in the tough editing standards they've gone back to since the Google slap.

If you're a writer, your EZA author page can be a good portfolio or samples page, with a touch of social proof added in. Most publishers or potential freelancer clients see the "expert author" designation, and/or the "Platinum" badge and assume it means more than it does.

If you're a publisher, particularly an email publisher, EZA can be a source of content. I don't use it nearly as much as I used to, but when I do, I'm not looking for particular pieces of content. I'm scouting for talent. If I found someone promising, I'd use one or two of their articles. If I got a good response, I'd add them to my list, and either hire them directly or recommend them.

I remember "back in the day", I used to get an average 50-100+ targeted visitors per day from each of my articles. The average is actually much higher now, but my traffic has never come directly from EZA nor was it ever dependent upon Google. My strategy has always been to leverage the genius of EZA, my account profiles, and article portfolios for syndicating content to tens of thousands of niche-relevant ezine publishers and websites.

In my not so humble opinion, there still is (and always has been) a huge upside for getting articles published on EZA. And this has never been (nor ever will be) because of Google nor does it have anything at all to do with getting direct traffic.

Publishers always have and at least for the foreseeable future will continue to source EZA for content filler in their ezines, newsletters, and websites. No other article directory that I am aware has ever had the prestige among publishers as EZA. And there really is a perceived intrinsic value of articles on EZA; often simply because they were accepted by EZA. Coupled with the authors designation as Diamond, Platinum, or even "Expert" an aura of credibility is established.

However, this awesome marketing leverage was usually twisted and spun into impotence by amateurs and the misguided, then wasted and spammed as search engine fodder for ranking and traffic. This was called "article marketing", which never was actually either one. Writing articles that appeal to search engines is not marketing. Surprisingly, such nonsense concepts still persist to this day, right here on the WF.

Articles appearing in multiple publications are syndicated; a proven marketing concept used in the offline world for more than two centuries. This concept is incredibly powerful, but overlooked and drowned out by the "bum" mentality that has taken over the WF. Except for the few who have tried over the years to teach this concept of getting articles syndicated rather than feeding garbage to the search engines, hardly anyone here seems to get it.

90% of people just visit ezine to copy articles :p

Since EZA was conceived and launched as a place publishers could get content without violating copyrights, and a place for writers to have their work spread to places they couldn't reach on their own, this is not surprising.

This is how EZA was meant to work from the beginning.

free traffic usually takes time and money. oh wait. that wouldn't be free at the end. my bad.

Elizabeth, thanks for the tip re Sooperarticles and AuthorStream. I'll check them out.

Thanks for your comments, John. I used to write a LOT for Ezinearticles, and have more than 400 quality articles there. So yes, it serves as a nice portfolio for me and I've gotten several quality clients by sending them there to check out my stuff. I have not published much there recently, but think I'm going to send them an article every few months going forward, to stay on their "active" list.

I really do appreciate what they do, and I still enjoy my mugs (and my Ezinearticles wall clock!)

I once was even featured as one of their top 10 platinum authors (though I'm a diamond author now). I'll go back there to find out what their latest status is...

Thanks for the reminder.

Using ezinearticles for traffic is a very out dated strategy. They can still provide a little bit of traffic, but there was a time when they were the go-to. No longer do they get the Google Love they once received.

My advice, forget putting articles on someone else's website. Start a blog and build it with content your way.

Benjamin Ehinger

There's no way around it. Editors approve or disapprove based on quality of articles. You can upgrade your level for free overtime, but you need to upload on a consistent basis. Hope that clears things up.

You're better off writing content for your own website. In fact, it would be even better to INVEST all of your article writing/marketing abilities and create writing gigs on Fiverr.

Article submission sites do not have any value in these days. You better do the Guest posting on high authority websites relevant to your niche. I hope it will work better than article submission sites.