Hey! How do I write the ULTIMATE Ezine Article ??

In my experience, using the right keywords in your article is what will get you the most traffic. The next focus should be on content. Quality content is what keeps reader's interest and of course an interesting topic helps. I don't think you got that many views from a boring topic such as "arm pit fungus" :-)

Some people might say that one is better than the other. However, I know that high views are received by articles that encompass each of these elements.

It sounds like you have a good network of writers. Keep up the good work.

Write for a specific audience AND help them solve a problem. All the other things you mention are secondary -- necessary, yes -- but, secondary.

Write in that way and you'll find you'll always get tons of page views on your articles.

- Jay

Oilman,

I'm not very knowledgeable about ezinearticles.

However, I do love your picture. That was such a damned good movie!

Write more articles. It's hit or miss for the most part. But to give you an answer: TITLE!

What about outbound links. Is it bad to have three?

Hi there, Mr. Daniel Day Le... errr... Oilman.

The following audiences comprise the views that eZineArticles submissions normally garner...

1. Webmasters who are looking for content to republish. The quality level of the articles a webmaster would need depends on the orientation of his website. A website that relies on PPC earnings, for example, might settle for articles that can serve as fodder for the search engine spiders. An affiliate website might desire an article that can help pre-sell a product or two.

2. Ezine publishers who are looking for articles they can use for their newsletters. Naturally, they'd want articles that are highly informative and, as much as possible, authoritative with the facts they will convey. Ezine publishing is all about providing value for one's subscribers, after all, and few things are more valuable than hot information.

3. Users who stumble upon the eZineArticles entry via related search engine queries. The eZineArticles entry would've appeared prominently in the results page because of its selection and usage of the right keywords. To craft such an article would require knowledge of basic SEO.

4. People who search eZineArticles itself for information. How they will find your article would depend on two factors: a) the keywords you have attached to the article upon its submission; and b) the date of your article's publication, as newer articles are displayed more prominently than older ones.

The success of an entry submitted to eZineArticles would depend on many things such as the demand for its subject matter, the number of other resources catering to the same, the size of the market interested with the topic, the time of the year when the entry was submitted (if demand for the topic is seasonal in nature), and others.

These are market factors which are, more or less, given. We cannot change them. We just have to work with them.

The writing of the article, on the other hand... alas! That is very much within our control. Based on the types of audiences we have previously enumerated, we can come up with the following characteristics that can help us write an article that has the best chances of succeeding with eZineArticles.

- The article to be submitted should be highly informative. As much as possible, it should share novel information that would be difficult to find elsewhere.

- It would greatly benefit the article if it were authoritative, meaning, any statistics and conclusion it will share will come from the author's own studies and experiments. This way, websites will link to it instead of the article having to provide links to its sources. Additionally, this can potentially make the article viral, which can only provide good news for your online business.

- The article to be submitted should possess high value which must be immediately apparent. Clever writing techniques, particularly in the crafting of the title, can help achieve this goal.

- The article to be submitted should use the right keywords. Keywords are still the breadcrumbs of the internet which will lead interested people to your content. Use the right keywords to populate the article itself. And use the right keywords to identify your article when it is submitted to eZineArticles.

Hope this helped.


- Yohann

There are 2 ways to use Ezinearticles:

1. Write compelling title and content that focus on attracting article publishers to host or publish your articles.

2. Write keyword focused title and content to attract search engine attention and try to rank well on the search engine. <= You need to build some back links to your article if you are targeting some competitive keywords

Both ways will get your article a lot of views...

What would you folks say the ideal keyword density is?

Wha do you mean by

You need to build some back links to your article if you are targeting some competitive keywords

how do you so that?
thanks

Thanks Daniel, you're the man. Great link

I am guessing that the TITLE of the article made some people very interested in reading the article. It can also be that the article got #1 for a very searched keyword.

That is my own view on this.

Tal

this is a great thread! I've been using that method but wut happens when you you do do keyword density throughout ur article and get placd in the SE for your long keyword tail search, only to find out that 4 people above you and 4 people below are also on the same page with their own Ezine Article?!