Complete newbie... Quick question about EzineArticles

13 years ago

You can, but you should always post on EZA first then to other article directories, because when EZA goes through their review process on your article, they'll check for double content via CopyScape or something.

Just to share, I just had EZA approve my 10 articles in 24 hours, and I used a brand-new Basic account!

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just do it

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Daryl Lim

You can, but you should always post on EZA first then to other article directories, because when EZA goes through their review process on your article, they'll check for double content via CopyScape or something.

Just to share, I just had EZA approve my 10 articles in 24 hours, and I used a brand-new Basic account!

how did you get 10 articles to get approved in 24hrs with a basic account.
It must of been quality articles

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Melvolio

13 years ago

EZA checks to make sure you aren't plagiarising your article. They don't care if it's elsewhere as long as you're the author.

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MWZ81

13 years ago

Ezine does not have a policy against having the same article published on another site.

I've read so many times here, "post your article on Ezine 1st", and I have followed this method for quite some time.

One time I forgot to publish my article on Ezine and continued my publishing. After 2 weeks of publishing a particular article to about 50 article directories I realized I forgot Ezinearticles.com......... I tried to publish the same article tp Ezine that had been published on 40+ sites at that point and guess what.....? Ezine published it.

I think this forum should have a "mythbusters" section because I've seen this one thrown around so many times it makes me dizzy.

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circlesquare

13 years ago

Originally Posted by MWZ81

Ezine does not have a policy against having the same article published on another site.

I've read so many times here, "post your article on Ezine 1st", and I have followed this method for quite some time.

One time I forgot to publish my article on Ezine and continued my publishing. After 2 weeks of publishing a particular article to about 50 article directories I realized I forgot Ezinearticles.com......... I tried to publish the same article tp Ezine that had been published on 40+ sites at that point and guess what.....? Ezine published it.

I think this forum should have a "mythbusters" section because I've seen this one thrown around so many times it makes me dizzy.

I know right?

I actually submitted an article to 5 different directories at the same time as EzineArticles and it still got published.

But then some really experienced internet marketer thats an admin in a membership I have says you have to wait until EZA publishes it first. So I got scared.

... I beleive you though having read the editorial guidelines. I think where you will get in trouble is if the article appears anywhere else with a different author name. Then it will be flagged as plagiarized material.

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Daryl Lim

13 years ago

Originally Posted by MWZ81

Ezine does not have a policy against having the same article published on another site.

I've read so many times here, "post your article on Ezine 1st", and I have followed this method for quite some time.

One time I forgot to publish my article on Ezine and continued my publishing. After 2 weeks of publishing a particular article to about 50 article directories I realized I forgot Ezinearticles.com......... I tried to publish the same article tp Ezine that had been published on 40+ sites at that point and guess what.....? Ezine published it.

I think this forum should have a "mythbusters" section because I've seen this one thrown around so many times it makes me dizzy.

I guess you're an exception. I just got mine rejected because I used a PLR article (8 others got accepted though).

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cindybidar

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Daryl Lim

I guess you're an exception. I just got mine rejected because I used a PLR article (8 others got accepted though).

EZA expressly forbids the use of PLR. They won't even let you write about using PLR, let alone publish an article that began life as PLR. No surprise yours got rejected.

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Teravel

13 years ago

Originally Posted by mattward

Somewhat related question: I've been posting articles to my site, waiting for them to be indexed, and then posting them directly to ezinearticles with minimal changes (basically, just removing my affiliate links and such). According to google webmaster tools, only 2 of my ezinearticle backlinks have been indexed. All of the articles themselves have been indexed in Google and some of them appear on autoblogs (not mine) verbatim, obviously ripped from the ezinearticles RSS feeds.

Is this just Google webmaster tools being funky or what's up with this? I should note that other backlink checkers (yahoo site explorer, etc) don't list any of them at all.

Make sure that you ping the article directories to make sure the search engine bots check the entire page. This should increase your chances of getting the link noticed. Also, you can use services like html2rss to create RSS Feeds from static pages (such as your articles on directories) and post them to RSS directories, which will increase the strength of the articles, and thus the links on them. Also, ping your new RSS Feed to get it noticed quickly.

This isn't a 100% way to get your backlinks noticed, but it should help speed up the process of getting your websites and links noticed.

Originally Posted by cindybidar

EZA expressly forbids the use of PLR. They won't even let you write about using PLR...

Well this is just simply rubbish. I just went to EzineArticles and typed "Writing PLR Content" into the search bar. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,810 from ezinearticles.com for Writing PLR Content. (0.09 seconds)

The reason these myths such as "Duplicate Content on Article Directories is BAD" and "You can't do this on this type of website" or "You can't do that on that kind of website" is because people make assumptions before doing their due research. Please don't spout off random information that you believe may be true because you heard it from someone else on another thread/forum. Put forth honest and true information by taking a few minutes to do the research. It won't kill you, it will only make you smarter. (Not that I am calling anyone dumb... Learning makes people smarter)

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cindybidar

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Teravel

Well this is just simply rubbish. I just went to EzineArticles and typed "Writing PLR Content" into the search bar. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,810 from ezinearticles.com for Writing PLR Content. (0.09 seconds)

No, it's NOT rubbish. This quote from EZA's very own editorial guidelines clearly shows their stance on the subject.

MUST NOT BE AN ARTICLE YOU RIPPED-OFF FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OR BOUGHT (PLR). If you did hire a ghost writer to write your articles, you MUST have an EXCLUSIVE LICENSE that *only* allows your name to be associated with the articles produced for you. Do not waste your time or ours by buying article packs that have non-exclusive licenses as we reject those articles. Why do we do this? #1) It makes you look like a fraud because you're putting your name on someone else's works that already may have hundreds or thousands of other authors who already put their name on the exact same works and #2) we do not want more than one copy of any article in our directory.

And this is from their blog:

What's NOT OK:

If an article is promoting the use of PLR or resell rights for article writing, re-writing, or distribution as an author's original work, and as a good thing, it WILL BE rejected. - this is NOT OK. You must submit work that is 100% exclusively owned by you.

If you'd like to read the entire post, you can find it here: PLR = Article Vomit

Had YOU taken the time to do the research you mistakenly assumed I did not do, you would know this.

The reason you will find articles written about the use of PLR is because EZA at one time did allow it. Now they do not, but they don't go back and delete all the old articles.

And it's probably true that some new ones do slip in, no one is perfect after all.

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by cindybidar

And it's probably true that some new ones do slip in

They do.

I saw one about PLR that's only a couple of weeks old. :rolleyes:

It understandably annoys people when they're not consistent about their policies (I suppose this kind of thing happens when they're training new staff?).

But their anti-PLR stance is very, very firmly, clearly and repeated stated. They say they don't allow references to PLR at all. And in many cases they refuse articles just because the site linked to in the resource-box includes discussion of PLR. You can't get much more "anti" than that.
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- mad.hat 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Alexa Smith
  
  Buzzle is the only article directory that requires previously unpublished content.
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mad.hat
  
  Originally Posted by Alexa Smith
  
  Buzzle is the only article directory that requires previously unpublished content.
  
  Suite101 Writer FAQ
  
  Oh, for Heaven's sake! Suite 101 is NOT an article directory.
  
  An "article directory" is a depository of freely available content from which webmasters, ezine and newsletter compilers may source content for their sites/publications. All of the things that are expressly prohibited by Suite 101!
  
  There's a huge number of sites like that, obviously. But they're not article directories.
  
  People whose conception of "article marketing" is limited to being a way of posting their articles online to get backlinks and traffic from the places where they post them might imagine that "those places are all more or less the same thing", but that doesn't make it true at all, and it's a terribly restricting idea about what "article marketing" is. :rolleyes:
  
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circlesquare

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Teravel

Make sure that you ping the article directories to make sure the search engine bots check the entire page. This should increase your chances of getting the link noticed. Also, you can use services like html2rss to create RSS Feeds from static pages (such as your articles on directories) and post them to RSS directories, which will increase the strength of the articles, and thus the links on them. Also, ping your new RSS Feed to get it noticed quickly.

This isn't a 100% way to get your backlinks noticed, but it should help speed up the process of getting your websites and links noticed.

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Wow this sounds like an interesting strategy. Right now I'm implementing an article marketing plan where I submit 1 article a day to directories over 21 days (21 different articles). Would it be a good idea to start a RSS feed with html2rss and put all of these articles in it as I post them?

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Hogre

13 years ago

Originally Posted by circlesquare

Wow this sounds like an interesting strategy. Right now I'm implementing an article marketing plan where I submit 1 article a day to directories over 21 days (21 different articles). Would it be a good idea to start a RSS feed with html2rss and put all of these articles in it as I post them?

Yes, but this is where i became suspicious!

Isn't it amazing? I spend three to four hours a day just browsing through different topics. I can't get enough of the great advice offered here!
This time next year, we'll be millionaires!

I wish you all the success!

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Teravel

13 years ago

The biggest thing to remember is to post your Articles on YOUR OWN WEBSITE first, and let them get indexed by Google. That way, the search engines see you as the first source of this new content and gives you authority over syndicated versions. You do not have to change the wording in order to post it to article directories, and even buzzle should follow these rules. Just make sure that you use the same Author name on your website as you do on the Article directories. (If you use a pen name on one, you must use the same pen name on the other)

I think this forum should have a "mythbusters" section...

I very much agree. New marketers deserve honest information, and a Mythbusters section sounds like the place to be!

This is along the lines of the Google "Duplicate Content" Rules, which is how all these useless Article Spinner programs started. You don't need to spin your articles into an unreadable script of jibberish, you just have to keep the authors information and give them credit, where credit is due.
Lets say you grab an Article from an article directory that you like, and you publish it to your site and include the authors information and links. Do those links hurt your websites business? Or is it showing that you got legitimate information on your topic and decided to provide that information to your readers? Besides, that author might find the article and borrow one of yours as a nice link back to your website! It's a Win-Win for marketing, so why fight it!

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outsourcetous

13 years ago

It is always good to start with Ezine Articles....then submit to others that 'accept' duplicates...I guess Goarticles does. EZA is good because it has a high PR. So once the articles are in ezine articles trying posting them in other places...maybe try changing the title a bit.

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imkevintan

13 years ago

I think the safest approach here would be to first submit your article to the directories which are not very clear on the duplicate content point. They may accept duplicate content and they may not. So, submit to them first and then you can submit it anywhere else that you want.

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LetsGoViral

13 years ago

A good rule of thumb is to post your content on ezines first. This way you will be avoiding it getting marked as duplicate on Ezines and will be able to use it on other sites as well.

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idlplumb

13 years ago

What are the other popular sites to submit too once you submit to EZA?

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Teravel

13 years ago

Originally Posted by imkevintan

I think the safest approach here would be to first submit your article to the directories which are not very clear on the duplicate content point.
They may accept duplicate content and they may not.
So, submit to them first and then you can submit it anywhere else that you want...

Originally Posted by LetsGoViral

A good rule of thumb is to post your content on ezines first. This way you will be avoiding it getting marked as duplicate on Ezines and will be able to use it on other sites as well.

I'm sorry, but this is simply incorrect. The only time the "Duplicate Content" rule applies is when you have the same information multiple times on one domain. When you publish an article on your own site, then post that same article to 1,000+ article directories, it isn't creating duplicate content. It's creating syndicated content.

Post the Article to your own domain first so you are seen as the authority. Then syndicate the article by posting it to article directories, once your domain has been indexed.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

With apologies for bluntness ... as Teravel rightly says, some of the answers above are just plain wrong.

Buzzle is the only article directory that requires previously unpublished content.

It makes absolutely no difference at all to EZA whether you submit to EZA first (which I never now do, myself), or early, or second, or in the middle, or late, or last. There is just no issue there at all. I invite you to take it from someone who does this for a living, has researched it in great detail and has over 1,000 articles on EZA (almost none of which were submitted there first).

It would help many who posted above to read all the incidental conversation in this thread. Those few who are really willing to make the time to read it slowly and carefully, and to think about it (and that really will take some time), will benefit greatly. That's all.

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circlesquare

13 years ago

Thanks guys I really can't see where people are getting this "myth" from, that you need to post to EZA first, having read their editorial guidelines. I wrote my conclusion in the forum I'm a member in as follows:

Originally Posted by CircleSquare

George I've been trying to get to the bottom of this whole EZA duplicate content issue. I checked their editorial guidelines and I don't see anything about you not being able to post an article that is posted elsewhere. The closest thing it says is:

"MUST BE AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT YOU WROTE. If you work for an author as an employee or contractor and are submitting the article, please submit the article as if it was from the original author including his or her email address and name.

To me, that seems way different then Buzzle which straight up says, "You can not post an article that is posted any where else."

The next guideline states:

"MUST NOT BE AN ARTICLE YOU RIPPED-OFF FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OR BOUGHT (PLR). If you did hire a ghost writer to write your articles, you MUST have an EXCLUSIVE LICENSE that *only* allows your name to be associated with the articles produced for you. Do not waste your time or ours by buying article packs that have non-exclusive licenses as we reject those articles. Why do we do this? #1) It makes you look like a fraud because you're putting your name on someone else's works that already may have hundreds or thousands of other authors who already put their name on the exact same works and #2) we do not want more than one copy of any article in our directory."

The last line:

"#1) It makes you look like a fraud because you're putting your name on someone else's works that already may have hundreds or thousands of other authors who already put their name on the exact same works and #2) we do not want more than one copy of any article in our directory."

...I feel like draws back to the "MUST BE AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT YOU WROTE."

It can't be PLR articles or something like that, or obviously an article that isn't yours..

Having talked to people on The Warrior Forum, it seems that the real issue here is that you submit an article that YOU have 100% ownership of, and has in no way been posted to EZA buy you or anyone else before. Therefore, you will only get in trouble if your article appears elsewhere under a different author name. Then it will be counted as plagiarized material.

Simply put.. you can't go grab an article off someone's website and post it to EZA under your name. That's not "AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE OWNED BY YOU."

One warriors member said:

"Ezine does not have a policy against having the same article published on another site.

I've read so many times here, "post your article on Ezine 1st", and I have followed this method for quite some time.

One time I forgot to publish my article on Ezine and continued my publishing. After 2 weeks of publishing a particular article to about 50 article directories I realized I forgot Ezinearticles.com......... I tried to publish the same article tp Ezine that had been published on 40+ sites at that point and guess what.....? Ezine published it.

I think this forum should have a "mythbusters" section because I've seen this one thrown around so many times it makes me dizzy."

I just started submitting my articles, but my first EZA article was accepted about a week later even though I submitted it to several other directories at the same time.

... I really want to get to the bottom of this because it's a lot more work if you have to submit the same article to directories on different dates.

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circlesquare 13 years ago

... and btw I just got 2 more articles accepted to EZA even though they appeared on on other article directories first.
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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by circlesquare

I really can't see where people are getting this "myth" from, that you need to post to EZA first

It's just one of those countless "urban myths of internet marketing".

In their introductory article marketing course (sent out to all new authors opting in for it) EZA explain that it's nonsense and specifically invite articles previously published elsewhere - but even that doesn't stop people from believing it.

People believe it because so many say it; and they say it because so many believe it. It's exactly the same as the theory that "a .info domain is harder to rank than a .com"; the theory that "there's a Google penalty for duplicate content"; the theory that "if a Clickbank product has high gravity, it must be selling well" and a whole load of other totally fictitious nonsense.

"It must be true: I read it on the internet".
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Matt Ward

13 years ago

Somewhat related question: I've been posting articles to my site, waiting for them to be indexed, and then posting them directly to ezinearticles with minimal changes (basically, just removing my affiliate links and such). According to google webmaster tools, only 2 of my ezinearticle backlinks have been indexed. All of the articles themselves have been indexed in Google and some of them appear on autoblogs (not mine) verbatim, obviously ripped from the ezinearticles RSS feeds.

Is this just Google webmaster tools being funky or what's up with this? I should note that other backlink checkers (yahoo site explorer, etc) don't list any of them at all.

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gkideas 13 years ago

Regarding Buzzle...it's true about their unique content requirement, but I've always gotten more traffic from them than through any other article directory, including EzineArticles.

I think it depends on the type of article you are doing because I know other people that have had no luck with them at all.
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Matt Ward

13 years ago

Another thing... I don't know if hubpages is considered to be in the same category as "article directories" but I just got one of my pages removed and a warning email that I can't have links to my site if the content of the hub isn't unique to hubpages...

If your Hub's content appears anywhere else on the internet, then you may NOT add links to sites or offers you are promoting. This means that you can not have any promotional links on hubs that appear elsewhere on the internet.

On the upside, my ezinearticles account was also just upgraded to platinum. Whoopie.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by gkideas

Regarding Buzzle...it's true about their unique content requirement, but I've always gotten more traffic from them than through any other article directory, including EzineArticles.

I can see that this is relevant to you, if you're using "article marketing" in the very limited sense of getting your traffic directly from an article directory. It's a "fast traffic, high clicks, fast sales, rinse-and-repeat" business model. It can work, for some people, I know. There's also a very different model of "article marketing" in which you and others syndicate your work from article directories to context-relevant websites (including some high-PR, well targeted, authority sites), from which you build a business through subsequent high quality backlinks, traffic, opt-ins and sales at your own sites, build high quality, responsive lists and make gradually increasing income from work already done as your articles become more widely syndicated (none of which you can do by "writing for clicks"). For this purpose, as article directories go, EZA is (according to me and according to many others doing the same) the hands-down winner over Buzzle. The attraction of EZA in this regard is that it's the one other people use, in the literal sense, as an "article directory", i.e. it's where they go for content. This very different model of business makes the quantity of traffic you can get directly from a Buzzle article more or less irrelevant.

Originally Posted by mattward

Another thing... I don't know if hubpages is considered to be in the same category as "article directories" but I just got one of my pages removed and a warning email that I can't have links to my site if the content of the hub isn't unique to hubpages...

HubPages is not an article directory.

Originally Posted by mattward

On the upside, my ezinearticles account was also just upgraded to platinum. Whoopie.

Indeed. Well done. Do well with it!

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Matt Ward 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

HubPages is not an article directory.

Alright... well, I was just a bit taken aback, because I was just submitting my articles to the top article directories as listed on a webpage I found elsewhere on this forum, and now that I checked again it does label hubpages as an "article directory" -- I guess this is a lesson learned, then.
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circlesquare

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I can see that this is relevant to you, if you're using "article marketing" in the very limited sense of getting your traffic directly from an article directory. It's a "fast traffic, high clicks, fast sales, rinse-and-repeat" business model. It can work, for some people, I know. There's also a very different model of "article marketing" in which you and others syndicate your work from article directories to context-relevant websites (including some high-PR, well targeted, authority sites), from which you build a business through subsequent high quality backlinks, traffic, opt-ins and sales at your own sites, build high quality, responsive lists and make gradually increasing income from work already done as your articles become more widely syndicated (none of which you can do by "writing for clicks"). For this purpose, as article directories go, EZA is (according to me and according to many others doing the same) the hands-down winner over Buzzle. The attraction of EZA in this regard is that it's the one other people use, in the literal sense, as an "article directory", i.e. it's where they go for content. This very different model of business makes the quantity of traffic you can get directly from a Buzzle article more or less irrelevant.

HubPages is not an article directory.

Indeed. Well done. Do well with it!

This forum is amazing.. so responsive

Alexa I have one question for you. Right now I'm starting an article marketing plan which is like the latter you explain- using EZA. Actually it works like this:

-I have 9 articles on my website that each target a different keyword (9 keywords in total).

-I create 18 additional articles for the purpose of posting to article directories and creating backlinks to my 9 pages (2 articles for backlinking to each of the 9 articles on my site)

-Each day over the next 18 days I post one of these 18 off-site articles to 3-5 different article directories (so not too many links come in all at once and it looks unnatural to Google).

*So this is my question:

If Article 1 on my site targets "Betta Fish Care" should the article I create to put in article directories to create backlinks for this page also be optimized for "Betta Fish Care" or is it only important that it is about betta fish care and that the resource box targets "Betta Fish Care" in the link?

The reason I'm asking is because I'm wondering if I have to tell my article writers that write the 18 additional articles for me to optimize the article for the phrase (i.e. "Betta Fish Care") OR if I could simply tell them to write an article about Betta Fish care... then I can simply take it and put "Betta Fish Care" in the resource box as a link.

Hope I'm making sense... thanks!

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Hogre

13 years ago

Originally Posted by circlesquare

This forum is amazing.. so responsive

Alexa I have one question for you. Right now I'm starting an article marketing plan which is like the latter you explain- using EZA. Actually it works like this:

-I have 9 articles on my website that each target a different keyword (9 keywords in total).

-I create 18 additional articles for the purpose of posting to article directories and creating backlinks to my 9 pages (2 articles for backlinking to each of the 9 articles on my site)

-Each day over the next 18 days I post one of these 18 off-site articles to 3-5 different article directories (so not too many links come in all at once and it looks unnatural to Google).

*So this is my question:

If Article 1 on my site targets "Betta Fish Care" should the article I create to put in article directories to create backlinks for this page also be optimized for "Betta Fish Care" or is it only important that it is about betta fish care and that the resource box targets "Betta Fish Care" in the link?

The reason I'm asking is because I'm wondering if I have to tell my article writers that write the 18 additional articles for me to optimize the article for the phrase (i.e. "Betta Fish Care") OR if I could simply tell them to write an article about Betta Fish care... then I can simply take it and put "Betta Fish Care" in the resource box as a link.

Hope I'm making sense... thanks!

A-ha! Another fellow NPC warrior!

How awesome is this forum, eh?

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circlesquare 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Hogre

A-ha! Another fellow NPC warrior! How awesome is this forum, eh?

Haha, what gave it away.. the betta fish?

Yes this forum is MUCH more active than the NPC forum.
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Banned 13 years ago

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by kingofseo

I would do ez first because they are very picky.

They're not picky about whether it's previously been published, though (as long as it was by the same author/pen-name, obviously).

They specifically invite the submission of articles previously published elsewhere. This is simply factual.

Originally Posted by kingofseo

They also do not have anything against it but they still dont allow.

This is just completely, utterly wrong; sorry.

This very recent little thread may interest you.

Originally Posted by mattward

I was just submitting my articles to the top article directories as listed on a webpage I found elsewhere on this forum, and now that I checked again it does label hubpages as an "article directory" — I guess this is a lesson learned, then.

I know. And even more embarrassingly I listed that link here myself, yesterday, and again today (I did mention, though, that some of its inclusions are not actually "article directories" within the usual meaning of the term).

I'm not suggesting HubPages is no good. I've used it myself, in fact. But different considerations apply!

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thinkahead

13 years ago

Originally Posted by circlesquare

Hey Warriors,

I made a site and am starting to do article marketing. My question is this:

Can you post articles to EzineArticles and other article directories as well? I know Buzzle doesn't accept articles submitted anywhere else, but one person told me EzineArticles is the same way.

However, I cannot find anything in EzineArticles editorial guidelines that forbids you from submitting an article that has been submitted to other articles directories.

What is the truth on this?

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As far as I can see, there's nothing to stop you submitting your articles elsewhere as well as EZA. Personally, I have used submityourarticle.com which, in addition to others, submits to EZA. It's worked well for me in the past.

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Randy Daugherty

13 years ago

You can definitely post the articles approve by ezine people to other article directories that accepts articles that was publish before. Or you may post the articles published on ezine to you main site...That is what I do...

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Teravel

13 years ago

Originally Posted by circlesquare

Wow this sounds like an interesting strategy. Right now I'm implementing an article marketing plan where I submit 1 article a day to directories over 21 days (21 different articles). Would it be a good idea to start a RSS feed with html2rss and put all of these articles in it as I post them?

Lets say you post all 21 articles to your own website (Which would be the best choice), and let them get indexed. You then put 1 article per day on 20 article directories. If you created an RSS Feed with 20 copies of the same article, do you think it would be an interesting feed?

The idea with creating RSS Feeds is that you post different articles on each feed in order to create a new feed that all links back to your website/money site/squeeze page. If you posted 21 articles to 20 directories, and created 21 RSS Feeds that were all similar (but had different directories) you could ping them all and get a better chance of people adding that feed to their Feed readers. This would bring in traffic, as well as leading search engine bots to your article directories, which would strengthen your backlinks, and help index those backlinks. It shows the search engines that your articles are popular enough to have multiple people creating feeds about your content. Just don't put the same article on your feed multiple times.

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BonganiS

13 years ago

Yes, you can. What is important is that whatever you post in EzineArticles should be yours. You should be the author of the article. Never post someone else's work.

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13 years ago

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EcommerceBusiness

13 years ago

I've never posted my articles to my own sites before, or even after, posting to article sites, I thought it was a no-no. I've always had great success regardless. Does it really matter?

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Hogre

13 years ago

[quote=Alexa Smith;2903541]Yes.

In the long run, it can matter hugely. Your great success may be only a proportion of what you could have achieved in the same time with the same material, I'm afraid.

Hi Alexa,
One question if I may...
How can I apply that advice of yours if I have 10 articles targeting the same keyword? I mean, I can't post them all on my blog cause they are all more or less on the same subject, just laid out differently. Some are more aggressive, some more informational, some are a combination...

I'm confused...

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Goran

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Hogre

Hi Alexa,
One question if I may...
How can I apply that advice of yours if I have 10 articles targeting the same keyword? I mean, I can't post them all on my blog cause they are all more or less on the same subject, just laid out differently. Some are more aggressive, some more informational, some are a combination...

That doesn't stop me, Goran.

My starting-point is that I'm trying to build up my site and get as much content on it as possible. I want to be the owner of what Google thinks is the "authority site", not for EZA to be the "authority site", and that's my long-term purpose in putting all my content there first, and everything else is secondary to that aim.

Nobody says you have to publish them there "prominently" or even so that people can necessarily find/read them. But it helps your site's SEO over the long term (actually it helps it a lot) if they all go there (somewhere!) first. So, one is doing this for search engines to find them, rather than primarily for readers to find them (though I don't mind that either: if someone comes to my site from an article directory and actually stays long enough to be able to say to themselves "Hey, just a minute - there are another 8 articles here very similar to the one that brought me here", then they're a very welcome visitor indeed, because I've set it out so that they'll have to find a lot of other stuff before they get as far as realising that).

Clearly when you submit them to article directories, you wouldn't want to link back to another copy of the same article someone's already read, or even to a strikingly similar one. (I mention that only because I've seen people here saying that the reason they don't publish all their all articles on their own site first is that they don't want people who've read the article directory copy finding another copy on their own site when they get there!!

Not only is this nonsense showing that they really haven't quite appreciated the long-term significance of developing their own property, but it's also very easily avoided anyway, of course!

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(As a subsidiary point, if you really don't want to put them all on your blog, there's nothing to stop you from putting half of them on your own blog and dividing the rest between other little bloggy sites which are used only as part of your backlinking strategy, to "point at" your own site - similar to what people refer to as "linkwheels". This is also so trivially easy to do that even a technophobic incompetent like me can manage it.)

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Hogre 13 years ago

Alexa,

That makes so much sense. Just now I'm starting to comprehend what you've been saying earlier. Thank you so much!

I would have thanked you, you know, officially, but I don't know how. I can't find the damn button anywhere!:confused:
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circlesquare

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

That doesn't stop me, Goran.

My starting-point is that I'm trying to build up my site and get as much content on it as possible. I want to be the owner of what Google thinks is the "authority site", not for EZA to be the "authority site", and that's my long-term purpose in putting all my content there first, and everything else is secondary to that aim.

Nobody says you have to publish them there "prominently" or even so that people can necessarily find/read them. But it helps your site's SEO over the long term (actually it helps it a lot) if they all go there (somewhere!) first. So, one is doing this for search engines to find them, rather than primarily for readers to find them (though I don't mind that either: if someone comes to my site from an article directory and actually stays long enough to be able to say to themselves "Hey, just a minute - there are another 8 articles here very similar to the one that brought me here", then they're a very welcome visitor indeed, because I've set it out so that they'll have to find a lot of other stuff before they get as far as realising that).

Clearly when you submit them to article directories, you wouldn't want to link back to another copy of the same article someone's already read, or even to a strikingly similar one. (I mention that only because I've seen people here saying that the reason they don't publish all their all articles on their own site first is that they don't want people who've read the article directory copy finding another copy on their own site when they get there!! Not only is this nonsense showing that they really haven't quite appreciated the long-term significance of developing their own property, but it's also very easily avoided anyway, of course!

).

(As a subsidiary point, if you really don't want to put them all on your blog, there's nothing to stop you from putting half of them on your own blog and dividing the rest between other little bloggy sites which are used only as part of your backlinking strategy, to "point at" your own site - similar to what people refer to as "linkwheels". This is also so trivially easy to do that even a technophobic incompetent like me can manage it.)

Hi Alexa,

What about the concept of "cannibalizing" your own keywords by having multiple pages competing for the same keyword.

I guess in the end all the matters is results and no theory and I'm sure you're speaking from results.

The program that I and Goran follow recommends creating 10 unique articles for your blog and then getting 21 separate articles created solely for putting on article directories and creating backlinks to your 10 pages.

On one hand it seems like a waste to not have those 21 articles on your site as well... but on the other hand I trust the creator of the program and the 10 pages pretty much target all the keyword phrases those extra 21 articles would target anyways (but then of course there are long-tail keyword phrases they probably don't).

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valleytech

13 years ago

I good spinner program will help you out with rewriting those PLRs

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Teravel

13 years ago

Originally Posted by EcommerceBusiness

I've never posted my articles to my own sites before, or even after, posting to article sites, I thought it was a no-no. I've always had great success regardless. Does it really matter?

Lets say you write a really great article that gets a lot of readers. If you post it to your site and get it indexed, the search engines will see that you are the author and primary source of the article. If you post it to an article directory, the search engines will see them as the authority behind the article and give them the best rank. So, would you rather be listed as the primary source, and be ranked above the article directories. Or, do you want to make those Article Directories stronger by giving them your hard work for free?
Ezine Articles has a high PR because there are so many people that post original work there, before they post it to their own sites. Search engines then see them as Authority sites instead of Article Directories, and give them more power than the original author. This is effectively giving your work away for free, and taking the scraps that are left.

Originally Posted by mohamed.hammad

It can be done, and I have done it myself 10000 times, but just post the articles to EZA first then do what you want with the articles after the approval

I'm not sure who you are responding to, but you should ALWAYS post the article to your own website first. For an explanation as to why, re-read the above response.

Originally Posted by valleytech

I good spinner program will help you out with rewriting those PLRs

There is no such thing as a "Good Spinner Program".
Example 1: You write an average article that gets viewed by a good number of people during its first weeks. You then spin the article and publish it. This spun version of an average article is much harder to read, and much harder to understand. It wont get the same results, if any, as your first article.
Example 2: You write an amazing article that gets hundreds of readers for months. You then spin the article and republish. Again, you have made something that is harder to read and harder to understand. You won't get the same results.

In both cases, you will get back-links. The question you have to ask yourself is "If so many people are spinning articles and making crap for money, why would I not want to be different and only publish good content that will make money?"

You can't spin crap into something useful. You just spin crap into more crap, and a dirty cycle begins. Feel free to spin your articles and have them sounding like you hired some Indonesian that barely speaks a lick of english writing your content. I want my readers to understand and respect what I write. I want my readers to know that when I write content, it is going to be worth the time they take to read it. My readers will return to read other things that I have posted, while your readers will read crap and not want to return to decipher more of your internet clutter.

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Affiliate Superstar

13 years ago

The key is to submit different versions of the same article to multiple sites. I do this and teach my team to do this. I have the same article in diff versions on many directories including ezine.

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diyakapoor

13 years ago

First submit your content at ezinearticles, after that in other article directories.

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Matt Ward

13 years ago

Several of my ezinearticles posts rank on page 1 for the keyword while my website's version is on page 2 or lower. These are almost 100% verbatim articles on ezinearticles directly from my website, and yes I let them index first before submitting. I'm not really sure how I feel about this, but they are getting traffic and clickthroughs to my site, although not at a high rate. I wonder if I'm shooting myself in the foot here, although I didn't do any backlinking whatsoever to those specific articles on my website nor ezinearticles. Easy way to rank on specific keywords?

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by mattward

I wonder if I'm shooting myself in the foot here, although I didn't do any backlinking whatsoever to those specific articles on my website nor ezinearticles.

You might want gradually to build backlinks to the copies of those articles originally indexed on your own site? In the long run, you're not shooting yourself in the foot at all, as long as you build up the ranking of your own pages. And specifically, if you're submitting to EZA articles which others will syndicate, your site will gain backlinks (including some higher-PR, context-relevant backlinks, highly valued by Google) that way, which EZA won't gain. A few months from now, you may easily outrank EZA for all your keywords. One has to take a long-term view.

It seems to me that you're doing nothing wrong, but could perhaps do with some SEO for your own site.

But well done on not building backlinks to EZA: this is what can shoot people in the foot over the long term!
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- igorGriffiths 13 years ago
  
  I always add my article to ezine first and use their preview function to proof read it for me.
  
  Once their system finds no fault with the text I copy it into article marketing robot, submit to ezine and set the robot submission running.
  
  This way any small stupid errors are removed prior to becoming widespread stupid errors.
  
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Dosty

13 years ago

Read Teravel and Alexa Smith's posts again. Great content you two!

Place the articles where they will help you most. If they are just for building links and not as 'suitable' for human consumption then you obviously will not place them on your money making site. If they add valuable content to your site then certainly add them.

Also keep in mind the difference between duplicate content and syndication.

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