Shocking News About Ezine Articles Authors!

eggzactly!!

and my thoughts are that your secretly working with John to help people realize hes released a wso. hehe j/k

I completely agree. The reason why most newbie marketers do this is because it is cheap (free) and anyone can do it. Plus, given the fact that nearly every marketer on this forum suggests it (and they happen to have a product to show you how) doesn't really help either.

Then again, real marketing gurus don't do half the things that are suggested to the herd of wanna-be's. Best case scenario is that they find the how-to's out for themselves as they cruise down the path. Worst case? They go out and "advertise" the same old same old that doesn't work all that well so more newbie marketers can follow down the same path.


Yeah, it seems like everyone and their uncle are intent on becoming the "next big make money" wonder. What they fail to realize is that the world is so much bigger than that and the real money isn't even in the make money niche.

I differ with that. You could be a guru and just outsource the article marketing to ghostwriters.

I am Platinum member at EzineArticles and the article that I submitted yesterday is already approved so it takes less than 24 hours if you are platinum member. It was actually very easy to get to Platinum. :rolleyes:

It won't - there are debates like this at least once a week. I think there's more than enough proof out there that article marketing works - not everyone is willing to put in the work though.

Your right Dan, I don't know that they wasted their time. If nothing else, I'm sure they've learned something from their experience. Or maybe they weren't even writing to make money. Some people write just because they like to do it.

Also, if they've found someplace as good as or better than Ezine Articles I wish they'd let me in on it. I've been searching since 2005 and haven't found anywhere that comes close to Ezine Articles.

There is one directory that produces better results for me than Ezine Articles, but only for one niche and that's SearchWarp.com.

Exactly. Maybe they just wrote a couple articles on a lark. Maybe they ran out of ideas for more articles. Maybe they found a better way to promote their stuff. Maybe they wrote 100 articles but only a few have been approved. Maybe they just started yesterday. Maybe they have more articles under another name. Maybe the stats you're looking at are wrong.

You wouldn't find any articles under my name either - doesn't mean I haven't got articles out there though. Most people use pen names.

Don't think for a second that they don't have some articles over there. It may be under another pen name but, they have articles over there.

John Reese does for sure... You can look it up

Nice to know there's not much competition out there.

Lambert

AL Your right, my statements were made based only on the stistics that I've found at EZA. Maybe my question should be, what is your opinion on why almost 100,000 authors out of 116,000 at EZA have never submitted more than 10 articles?

Thank you. The packet that's coming out on Saturday is the best one so far; most sites are in the 7,8, and 9 page rank brackets.

I totally agree that patience and hard work is part of the game in article marketing. There is no such thing as short cut if you really want to make that money online. It took me almost more than a year to submit more than 1000 articles before seeing the profit. But after that , hard work really pays off and the money online came in almost auto pilot but still continue article marketing for maintenance purpose.

In fact, I almost gave up halfway but with persistence, finally see the light of some profit. All thanks to the information and help obtain here in the forum.

You know what I think is sad. John, you've been a member here for 3.5 years,
you're averaging about 1 post a week and now you come here with this and
son of a gun, there is a WSO in your sig for article marketing.

There's nothing else to say.

Still don't see what's so "shocking"?

Personally...

..Articles if I'm not mistaken is to get traffic to our website and some
people have to pay to get articles written sometimes it works and
sometimes it don't..

The majority heck mostly all businesses are designed to earn money
one way only and that is to the owner of such business..Why people
don't have businesses where everybody involved earn money from
such businesses beats me..

Now, there is such businesses like Affiliates marketing, Network Marketing
etc..but then again for the most part only a few make money because
they thing that recruiting people in both industries is the way without
thinking that it's sales where the money is..

I'll get to the point in a little while..

I gotta give this tips what I did when I was writing Articles to get
subscribers to my Personal Development Newsletters. I bought a program
that all I had to do is punch a button and it would distrbute to mostly
publishers of ezines and some directories..

My articles came from mail order salesletters..I edit them and presto
some real and unique arcles since mail order usually were about new
and uniques products etc..

Of course, I was in the mail order business so I was in very list and
boy did I have files of salesletters and they were free right?

Back to my point of articles. they should be monitized in a way like
and affiliate program or netork marketing program but, since sales
is the key to become rich and it's easy mind you one person with
10 articles would equal ten sales instead of ten affilaites but maybe
just one sale each..hence 10 times ten would eaual 100 sales..

And hey, not to mention everybody making a decent earnings to start
and a lot of business for article writers and a lot of traffic to our websites
with a rule that we must click on links in such articles etc..

It don't have to be an affilaite or netork marketing program for such articles
we certainly can come up with a unique program especially for articles only..

rey

Article marketing is what helped me get started and become a full time marketer. Heck, I'm selling a course that teaches people how to get started online with article marketing. The real point that I was trying to make is that like anything else related to Internet marketing...

Article marketing does not work! - "Unless it's done right"

To be successful with article marketing you need to learn how to do it right, practice and not give up.

I based my opinion that most people must be doing it wrong because almost 100,000 people haven't written more than 10 articles. That is also the reason that I guessed that they must have not made any money, because why would they not do more of what they found to be successful? I assumed (just a guess) that they were giving up and quitting before giving it enough time to learn how to do it successfully.

This thread has created quite a bit of controversy, but I want to make one point for anyone just getting started with online marketing...

Article marketing works

PPC (pay-per-click) works

List building works

Forum marketing works

Membership sites work

eCommerce works

Most all online business models work

But not for most people. To be successful with online marketing you need to learn and develop your core skills. Learn the basics first, persuasive writing, basic market and niche research, keyword research, content research and conversion skills. Article marketing is a good place to start learning these skills. Whatever you choose you need to focus and practice on one thing until you become good at it. I don't really know why almost 100,000 people out of 116,000 stopped submitting articles to EZA. I just gave my opinion and I asked you what your thoughts were.

The bottom line is I think people give up too soon and they don't focus on and practice one thing until they are good at it.

John

I'm glad someone finally mentioned just outsourcing the articles. Consider it a monthly expense and after 1 year you have plenty of articles to make money with.

As for the shameless self promotion in this thread...

While it may not be blatant spam, it is a spammish tactic to utilize controversy about whether article marketing works or not to draw attention to the wso listed in your signature about that same subject. But to each their own.