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Article sites - Does anyone actually read the articles?

by infomum
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As a writer, publishing articles sounds like a great line of work for me ... but does anyone actually read articles that are submitted to the hundreds of article sites around?

From reading various threads, and IM sites the main purpose I can see for posting articles to sites is so Google can find links back to your site in articles and thus increase your ranking. Am I correct in this assumption?

So, back to my question, do people actually read these articles? And if so who? I like to know my audience before I write so any suggestions on where I can find a breakdown of audience, and which sites are best to submit to would be most appreciated.

I don't actually have any active sites at the moment, although I have a couple of 3 tier content sites I have written and left gathering dust on my USB stick, so I wouldn't be writing articles for any traffic benefit at this stage. My article writing will be to build reputation/credibility in the non-fiction arena (my fiction writing is already published and has some credo).

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  • Profile picture of the author howinfo
    Yes, you are right, that is one of the main reasons people submit articles. When you submit an article to article directory, it is not only to gain one backlink form that particular article directory but you really want to get your article syndicated to many relevant websites or blogs and once that happens it can be beneficial in many way, it will improve your search engine rankings, increases traffic to your site, boosts your sales, news letters opt-ins and so on.
    　
    I read lot of articles. When I do search on whatever topic on Google I get information in many different formats like articles, blog posts or forum postings and I must say that I have found lot of articles that are very good source of information. To best target your potential readers you should do some keyword research and write an article based on that.

    And since you seem to be good at writing and you write a lot you should really start your own site or a blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author infomum
      Howinfo

      Thank you for your advice .. I do intend to get a blog started sooner rather than later. My biggest problem at the moment is paralysis of thought. I know I want to write .. and I know I can research and write on anything ... but I cant decide where to start.

      I do have a writer's blog, but that is purely for my fiction writing and publishing ... not really relevant to marketing as a business.
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      • Profile picture of the author flowers4love
        Originally Posted by infomum View Post

        Howinfo

        Thank you for your advice .. I do intend to get a blog started sooner rather than later. My biggest problem at the moment is paralysis of thought. I know I want to write .. and I know I can research and write on anything ... but I cant decide where to start.

        I do have a writer's blog, but that is purely for my fiction writing and publishing ... not really relevant to marketing as a business.
        I'm a writer myself and I know what you are talking about. When my mind dries up then I start reading books on a subject I'm really interested in and that inspires me to write. The subjects, which I have the greatest expertise in are those subject which I have studied and researched as a hobby on my own.
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      • Profile picture of the author tandren544
        Originally Posted by infomum View Post

        Thank you for your advice .. I do intend to get a blog started sooner rather than later. My biggest problem at the moment is paralysis of thought. I know I want to write .. and I know I can research and write on anything ... but I cant decide where to start.
        Don't worry about making your blog coherent at the start. Just start out by writing various articles related to the blog's theme - eventually the blog will take on a life of its own and you will know what kind of articles to write.

        Just express your thoughts and research. Don't force it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rich Struck
    I stumble across them a lot (especially EZA) but since most of them are pap I don't usually read them.
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  • Profile picture of the author J.M.Wilson
    Funny you mention that. I just googled a "how to do xxxxxx" and the third result was an ezinearticles post by someone who had written a decent article on the subject. I ended up clicking their link at the bottom and visiting their site for more information.

    So yes, it does work. And it will give you more authority in your market not only with google, but with your searchers too.
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      The answer has to be "yes" - people do read the articles.

      Some of my websites have a considerable amount of traffic from clicks on links in articles.

      Some of my articles have high click through rates. That can only be because people are reading all, or part, of the articles.

      For me, article writing isn't about backlinking, it's about driving traffic.

      I find the best sites are ezine, go articles and then places like articlesbase and article alley. I recently joined several new sites, but can't comment on their effectiveness yet.

      As to who reads the articles, I've no real idea, I just know that people do.
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  • Profile picture of the author miklanderson2
    Yes, people read them and click through to your site if they are interested in getting more information. The average person searching for a topic on the Internet doesn't know a thing about Internet Marketing or article directories. They stumble across an article and take what's said in it for what it's worth. They don't realize that most of these articles are written by people looking to make money off of them, and many of them are written by people that may not know what they're talking about. They read them for information and will click through to your site if they like what they see.

    Being in the IM industry has made most of us skeptical about anything we see on the Internet...most people aren't as in tune to just how much of the information found on the Internet is put there by people looking to make a quick buck. As long as your articles are written well and give good information, you'll get some legitimate traffic from them. Even if your articles are poorly written, you might get some traffic. I've clicked through on a few of them just to see how bad the author's site is.
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    • Profile picture of the author wmcfer17
      Originally Posted by miklanderson2 View Post

      Yes, people read them and click through to your site if they are interested in getting more information. The average person searching for a topic on the Internet doesn't know a thing about Internet Marketing or article directories. They stumble across an article and take what's said in it for what it's worth. They don't realize that most of these articles are written by people looking to make money off of them, and many of them are written by people that may not know what they're talking about. They read them for information and will click through to your site if they like what they see.

      Being in the IM industry has made most of us skeptical about anything we see on the Internet...most people aren't as in tune to just how much of the information found on the Internet is put there by people looking to make a quick buck. As long as your articles are written well and give good information, you'll get some legitimate traffic from them. Even if your articles are poorly written, you might get some traffic. I've clicked through on a few of them just to see how bad the author's site is.
      To be honest, I am like of those people you made as an example. Your point is very strong and I agree with you. Those readers knows nothing about Im, as long as they like your post and they information, they will follow the link you referred to them, thinking that they can get more information. This viewers are eager to find more information. Thats the reason why they search for the particular keyword.

      As one of them before. If I dont like the article, I leave on the page. I dont want to stay longer on the page which dont gives benefits on my question or what information I was looking for.

      Those readers or viewers also referred your link on other blog/site like what Ive been doing before.

      Know, I am starting to learn and cope up with IM but still I cannot learn it all in one single night. I need time and time is more important regarding to our viewers.

      PS. Make sure that your next article is worthy while they read it. Most of users bookmarked the link where they read your article.
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        Lots of people do read the articles. I get a lot of views on my articles and quite a few clicks to read more.

        In a lot of areas outside of IM, if the site awards you expert status like at EZA, people will tend to believe that. And if you sound like an expert when you are writing, they will really believe it.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          People read the articles. At EZA, anyway. (Less so in other directories).

          Broadly, 2 different groups of people read them:-

          1. People searching inside the article directory. These aren't potential customers. They're competitors, webmasters, ezine/newsletter compilers, marketers and researchers. These are the people who can syndicate your work and produce high-quality backlinks (not like directory backlinks!) and targeted traffic for you, leading to future opt-ins and sales, and they're the ones I'm writing for. This is where the serious, long-term money is, in article marketing.

          2. People searching in search engines for your article's keywords, who can find your article that way if it ranks highly enough (much more likely for very long-tail keywords, of course). These people are potential customers, and your article needs to qualify them and get the genuine buyers among them to click on your link, go to your site and take whatever action you want there (opt-in and/or sale).
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          • Profile picture of the author keyaziz
            Yes..on ezine anyway...many of my articles get emailed to friends or commented on...so I know they get read
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          • Profile picture of the author TimG
            Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

            People read the articles. At EZA, anyway. (Less so in other directories).

            Broadly, 2 different groups of people read them:-

            1. People searching inside the article directory. These aren't potential customers. They're competitors, webmasters, ezine/newsletter compilers, marketers and researchers. These are the people who can syndicate your work and produce high-quality backlinks (not like directory backlinks!) and targeted traffic for you, leading to future opt-ins and sales, and they're the ones I'm writing for. This is where the serious, long-term money is, in article marketing.

            2. People searching in search engines for your article's keywords, who can find your article that way if it ranks highly enough (much more likely for very long-tail keywords, of course). These people are potential customers, and your article needs to qualify them and get the genuine buyers among them to click on your link, go to your site and take whatever action you want there (opt-in and/or sale).

            That pretty much sums it up.........between those two groups is where a majority of your article views and resource box click-thrus will originate from.

            I believe their is a third group which is a result of pure article reverse engineering. Those folks read the articles to determine why they rank the way they do so they can reverse engineer it for their own articles. They also will follow through the link in your resource box in order to see what your sales funnel is.

            Rarely if ever is anything ever purchased by these marketers so no real value in the page views and click-thrus generated by their actions.

            Respectfully,
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            • Profile picture of the author Eastman
              I use articles a lot as content for sites that I look after - often this is automated ... I guess that is syndication too ...
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  • Profile picture of the author shuvo
    I read only the ezine articles in my niche as they are usually useful to read and they are high quality articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author King Shiloh
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    I won't be talking about sales if nobody reads the articles. I won't be talking about article views if nobody is reading the articles. I won't be talking about click through rates if nobody reads the articles.

    Great article marketing warriors like Steven Wagenheim, Allen Graves, tpw, Brad Spencer, Alexa Smith and so will not be wasting their time submitting articles to article directories if nobody cares to read them.

    Christopher Knight of EZA will not be proud of the benefits of using EZA if nobody really reads the articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      As I recall, article directories were originally intended to be a place to offer up your articles for use by webmasters and other publishers to find content for their sites. And, I suspect that people that still use the article directories in such a way may be the ones to have the best results.

      But, now, it seems most people use article directories for building backlinks from the directories themselves, and not for the purpose of actually getting read.

      I'm sure that the casual Internet user that finds them in the search engines may read them, which is unfortunate, especially for health-related topics, because, I fear, too many article marketers are more interested in pushing their product than actually helping people. But, that's another issue...

      The thing is that the article directories don't have any real gatekeepers. They don't review articles based on the quality of content, but rather on things like the number of words, the placement and number of outbound links, and so on.

      The truer gatekeepers are the webmasters who do review the articles and publish them on their websites. True, that's not a perfect system either, because there are plenty of webmasters that will grab anything related to their niche, just to put it up on their websites to look like an "authority" site on the subject.

      But, for those webmasters (individuals or companies) that have a brand and build a loyal following, they're going to look for articles that are actually credible. Mind you, many such webmasters may be writing their own content or hiring their own writers, but I suspect there would still be some tweeners that might still utilize article directories, especially if they find some writers that really stand out from the crowd with solid credentials and genuine expertise.

      And those are the ones that probably do quite well with article marketing, because they are not only getting the backlinks from the article directories themselves, but from the sites that republish them. And, if those sites are important sites, that can be all the more rewarding to the author.

      Sadly, I think that too many article marketers are focusing on quantity, looking for the most backlinks from the article directories themselves and any auto-blogs and the like that automatically grab their content, rather than on quality which appeals to a reader and offers them something of value, and makes the article worth republishing by some legitimate concern.

      Which was what the article directories were all about to begin with.
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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

        Yes.

        A lot of people go to article directories specifically to find articles they can republish on their own websites, which is what article directories are supposed to provide. This is what the people who started the first article directories wanted: a lot of content from a lot of people without having to write it themselves.

        However, since that initial plan, the search engines started saying "whoa, there is a lot of fresh and frequently-updated content on this site" and indexing it almost constantly. So people said "wow, you can get backlinks like INSTANTLY with these sites." And all the SEO guys started posting articles rampantly on the directories.

        And then, the niche marketing guys said "wow, we can go to these directories and spy on our competitors in this niche because those articles will tell us what keywords they target." So all the mini-money-site guys started searching frantically within their niches.

        And since comparatively few people were actually using the directory for its intended purpose now, the directories said "crap, we need to make our money some other way than charging people to republish articles" and they shoved ads all over the sites.

        So yes, the people who actually read the articles are massively outnumbered by the people who are doing keyword research. And the people who write articles to be read are massively outnumbered by the people who are writing for backlinks.

        It's very much like spam. The overwhelming majority of email sent and received these days is spam... but that doesn't in any way change the fact that people still use email productively and intelligently.

        Likewise, most modern article directories are created to get ad clicks from the people doing keyword research on the articles submitted for backlinks - but there are still plenty of good directories where people are writing good articles for people to read and post on their own sites.

        The initial intended use of an article directory still happens, it's just that you can't swing a cat these days without hitting someone that's abusing the directories.
        Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

        As I recall, article directories were originally intended to be a place to offer up your articles for use by webmasters and other publishers to find content for their sites. And, I suspect that people that still use the article directories in such a way may be the ones to have the best results.

        But, now, it seems most people use article directories for building backlinks from the directories themselves, and not for the purpose of actually getting read.

        I'm sure that the casual Internet user that finds them in the search engines may read them, which is unfortunate, especially for health-related topics, because, I fear, too many article marketers are more interested in pushing their product than actually helping people. But, that's another issue...

        The thing is that the article directories don't have any real gatekeepers. They don't review articles based on the quality of content, but rather on things like the number of words, the placement and number of outbound links, and so on.

        The truer gatekeepers are the webmasters who do review the articles and publish them on their websites. True, that's not a perfect system either, because there are plenty of webmasters that will grab anything related to their niche, just to put it up on their websites to look like an "authority" site on the subject.

        But, for those webmasters (individuals or companies) that have a brand and build a loyal following, they're going to look for articles that are actually credible. Mind you, many such webmasters may be writing their own content or hiring their own writers, but I suspect there would still be some tweeners that might still utilize article directories, especially if they find some writers that really stand out from the crowd with solid credentials and genuine expertise.

        And those are the ones that probably do quite well with article marketing, because they are not only getting the backlinks from the article directories themselves, but from the sites that republish them. And, if those sites are important sites, that can be all the more rewarding to the author.

        Sadly, I think that too many article marketers are focusing on quantity, looking for the most backlinks from the article directories themselves and any auto-blogs and the like that automatically grab their content, rather than on quality which appeals to a reader and offers them something of value, and makes the article worth republishing by some legitimate concern.

        Which was what the article directories were all about to begin with.

        Wow!! You guys are in my head!! How do you do that?!

        I need the tinfoil hat to protect myself.

        These two have said so much that I don't really need to add to this thread.
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        • Profile picture of the author Palusko
          You beat me to it, those two guys summed it up excellently.

          Obviously, directories such as EZA need to make money, but the amount of ads surrounding your article is just too much, I think. I guess that's the "price" you pay for submitting to free directories. Of course, private syndication does not have ads, but they do have monthly payments attached to the service.

          Even on WF you can read advice like "publish your best articles to your blog and maybe EZA, then spin it and submit it for backlinks to other directories". So clearly, article directories are considered to be backlink service for many.

          I say, use bookmarking, comments, press release etc for backlinking, but your articles should always be readable and provide value. The fact that you get a backlink is just an added bonus, and should not be the primary purpose of your article.

          Originally Posted by tpw View Post

          Wow!! You guys are in my head!! How do you do that?!

          I need the tinfoil hat to protect myself.

          These two have said so much that I don't really need to add to this thread.
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          • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
            Originally Posted by Palusko View Post

            Of course, private syndication does not have ads, but they do have monthly payments attached to the service.
            This is because you don't have to shovel through as much crap to find good articles.

            Cash is a proof gateway. If you say "it costs $50 to go through this door," nobody's going to do that unless they can get more than $50 on the other side of it.

            Which means all the tyre-kickers and backlink jockeys go elsewhere, because they don't know how to make more than $50 from an article.
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            • Profile picture of the author Adwello
              I read articles listed under the most viewed and most published headings I see under articles I write. If the article is well written and informative I may click through. Many articles I read seem to have been speed composed by writers to whom English is not their first language. Plenty of quantity, less quality. I set myself a daily task to write articles but I prefer to write about something meaningful and to include one or two punchy useful tips than just rack up my SEO rankings.

              We hear plenty about autoblogging (check out my blog, a robot writes it for me) - now how about introducing autoarticlewriting - or is this just a secret black hat activity?
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              • Profile picture of the author UKproofreading
                I was wondering the same thing. I was surprised, I didn't think my articles would get any views at all really. Within a few hours I had around 10 views per article, and a few click-throughs. I write my articles with a primary purpose of getting backlinks, but i'll always make sure my content is quality for the people who actually do read my articles.

                I find the ones that get the most views are articles helping others to improve their articles. A huge amount of people will stumble by the homepage to sign in and start submitting articles, many will be interested in improving their writing, and will click through to your article.

                Hope this helps.
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            • Profile picture of the author Palusko
              I agree. In fact, I think that the future of article marketing (not bum marketing) is in private article syndication networks.

              Of course, just like with anything else, not all networks will be created equal, and Google will have to "sort it out", but the same is true for free directories. After all, with the exception of a 3-5 top directories, the rest never rank any content at all, so clearly, submitting to those ones is only an attempt to get backlinks.

              We'll see how long is Google going to tolerate that, but I guess, one morning we'll wake up to "article google slap", like it happened to adwords.

              Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

              This is because you don't have to shovel through as much crap to find good articles.

              Cash is a proof gateway. If you say "it costs $50 to go through this door," nobody's going to do that unless they can get more than $50 on the other side of it.

              Which means all the tyre-kickers and backlink jockeys go elsewhere, because they don't know how to make more than $50 from an article.
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              • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
                Originally Posted by Palusko View Post

                I agree. In fact, I think that the future of article marketing (not bum marketing) is in private article syndication networks.
                The future?

                What do you think the AP and UP are?

                Paid syndication isn't the future. It's where everything started.
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                • Profile picture of the author Palusko
                  I guess you can call it coming the full circle then...
                  Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

                  The future?

                  What do you think the AP and UP are?

                  Paid syndication isn't the future. It's where everything started.
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                  • Profile picture of the author genietoast
                    Hi, infomum.

                    Warrior Forum deals primarily with internet/affiliate marketing sales techniques. So article writing -- rather article marketing -- is geared primarily towards funneling visitors into making a purchase.

                    What you're looking for is content marketing techniques and freelance writing to further your writing career and round out your marketing for your writing.

                    This forum does focus on marketing but not for writing.

                    So I'm going to recommend some blogs that help you with marketing your writing as well as help you build up your blog. These are top of the line.

                    Copyblogger.com (Content Marketing)
                    MakeALivingWriting.com (Freelance Writing)
                    Remarkable-Communication.com (Content Marketing)
                    Aliventures.com (Freelance Writing)
                    Problogger.net. (Blogging in General)
                    IttyBiz.com (Marketing/Small Business). Hope you don't mind a little bit of potty-mouth humor.

                    I'm also going to recommend Jade Craven at JadeCraven.com. She specializes in social networking with Twitter. Jade has the hook up on all the big bloggers.

                    So if you need to get some major big blogger exposure, talk to Jade.

                    Those sites I've mentioned above will give you a great head start.

                    Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by infomum View Post

    As a writer, publishing articles sounds like a great line of work for me ... but does anyone actually read articles that are submitted to the hundreds of article sites around?
    Yes.

    A lot of people go to article directories specifically to find articles they can republish on their own websites, which is what article directories are supposed to provide. This is what the people who started the first article directories wanted: a lot of content from a lot of people without having to write it themselves.

    However, since that initial plan, the search engines started saying "whoa, there is a lot of fresh and frequently-updated content on this site" and indexing it almost constantly. So people said "wow, you can get backlinks like INSTANTLY with these sites." And all the SEO guys started posting articles rampantly on the directories.

    And then, the niche marketing guys said "wow, we can go to these directories and spy on our competitors in this niche because those articles will tell us what keywords they target." So all the mini-money-site guys started searching frantically within their niches.

    And since comparatively few people were actually using the directory for its intended purpose now, the directories said "crap, we need to make our money some other way than charging people to republish articles" and they shoved ads all over the sites.

    So yes, the people who actually read the articles are massively outnumbered by the people who are doing keyword research. And the people who write articles to be read are massively outnumbered by the people who are writing for backlinks.

    It's very much like spam. The overwhelming majority of email sent and received these days is spam... but that doesn't in any way change the fact that people still use email productively and intelligently.

    Likewise, most modern article directories are created to get ad clicks from the people doing keyword research on the articles submitted for backlinks - but there are still plenty of good directories where people are writing good articles for people to read and post on their own sites.

    The initial intended use of an article directory still happens, it's just that you can't swing a cat these days without hitting someone that's abusing the directories.
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  • Profile picture of the author basstrackerboats
    Sometimes people will read your articles and click through... I have a decent CTR from ezine but for the most part, I write articles for the backlinks alone on the other article sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Rodney
    If you are smart you don’t write articles only to get some back links to your site. It may take month’s even years to make it to the front page in google and even that is not really a great win. Google accounts only for about one third of your traffic source that is if you are on the first page forget the second and so on. Write your articles for syndication to other websites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lilach
    I read some articles but I don't sign into Ezine for example to read articles.

    If I'm looking for information on a particular subject and I do a search and my question is answered in a article then that's great.

    I do read articles on a daily basis but don't use Ezines as a search tool if that makes sense.

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  • Profile picture of the author helenaldin
    I agree, people out there do read articles. I write articles on my blogs and people do comment on them. I also use ezine to submit articles too.
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  • Profile picture of the author 82ana
    I only read e-how, about and wiki.
    Rest of them (including eza) have a LOT of noise. Full of regurgitated info...
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  • Profile picture of the author Az Ozegbe
    Ofcourse I believe people do read articles.You can't tell there are millions of people around the world that are reading those great contents on those article directories.
    I see that the only reason why you are looking that way is because you are the one
    doing the article writing.
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  • Profile picture of the author yankforlife41
    I read many various articles throughout the day to expand my knowledge.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Rodman
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    Even before I was in IM, I never read articles that were on Article Directories. Mostly because I think the first 10 or so I came across were all short and fluff. I just painted all articles on those sites with a broad brush. And now, I DEFINITELY don't put too much stock in articles placed on directory sites.

    But I'm sure people do read them. Ever since my Brother In Law tried to prove a point he was making by sending me a website (that was a salespage), I never underestimate where people spend their time online.
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  • Profile picture of the author King Shiloh
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    There are about 6 billion in the world today. So, if this figure is true, I'm sure that it's true that, at least, 1 billion people all over the globe are always looking for information on how to solve one problem or the other. It's also true that articles contain such valuable information.

    In fact, I read an article by Christopher M. Knight this morning because I was looking for an answer to a question.

    In summary, if people are actually looking for answers to life's questions, then they must be reading articles related to such annoying, frustrating, life-threatening questions.
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  • Profile picture of the author HaiFu
    IMHO, you are perceiving the wrong way. I think that is why many of us don't make money because we think everything we know is also known by majority of population.

    But think of it like this: When you Want to know something, would you read an article about it? Especially if you are desperate to digest some info on the subject?

    The answer is yes, people do read articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mrs S
    I'm sure that "normal" searchers out there read the articles. But if I'm actually looking for some information and I accidentally click on an EZA listing in Google I get out of there as fast as I can since I have no level of trust whatsoever in those articles. EZA says it only takes quality but most of them are just badly written by IMers trying to score a backlink.

    Shame really because I'm sure there are some diamonds buried in there somewhere.
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  • Profile picture of the author infomum
    Thank you everyone for your input. I guess I was looking at it from the wrong perspective .. ie people submitting 50+ spins of the same basic article to every article directory they can find.

    I never thought of content sites and blogs as being a bunch of articles gathered in one place around one topic.

    Thanks particularly for your words genietoast. You reminded me that I used to visit copyblogger and problogger on a regular basis a year or so ago. I guess it is time go revisit.

    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author AffiliateAdviceAndTips
    It's 50 - 50. Some read, some don't. People are more inclined to view a video on you tube on the same content then they are read some wacko's article. They are great for the backlinks, but you already know that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Franck Silvestre
    I read articles on directories when I want to learn a new subject.

    And believe it or not, but whenever I have a new coaching client, most of the time, I learn about his niche on EZA and get everything I want in just minutes.

    Sometime, you can find EZA articles better than Abou.com or other websites.

    Yes, people do read them. I like Alexa's post above by the way.

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  • Profile picture of the author sierraandmo
    At EZA, people read the articles. I have to admit that I have gone there to do a minor thing and end up reading about 10 articles (some in my niche and some that just strike my fancy).
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  • Profile picture of the author tandiono
    I read every article very carefully and even observe if there any grammar mistake. but sometimes there are words that i don't understand so i used a dictionary to looks up for the word.
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  • Profile picture of the author LetsGoViral
    To be honest - I don't think many people read them. At least once they are aware that sites like EZA are basically lairs for affiliate marketers. At least I know, I don't. Blog posts - that's another question.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    It depends on the article’s quality. If your article is good, everyone will read it, no matter where they may find it online.

    However, your title has to be very appealing and manage to beat the competition. This is the point. You may write excellent articles without managing to attract enough readers because your competitors won’t give to your articles any chance to have a good ranking online. Or, because you didn’t choose the right keywords, your titles are not appealing enough, etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author Quester104
      Originally Posted by clever7 View Post

      It depends on the article's quality. If your article is good, everyone will read it, no matter where they may find it online.

      However, your title has to be very appealing and manage to beat the competition. This is the point. You may write excellent articles without managing to attract enough readers because your competitors won't give to your articles any chance to have a good ranking online. Or, because you didn't choose the right keywords, your titles are not appealing enough, etc.
      I believe that this is correct - so much of having the article read really depends on the title - some content is excellent but most are poorly written. Ezine has turned into something else - take their course or pay them a monthly fee and you are published in hours -
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  • Profile picture of the author Ninawa
    Yes, I see many people commenting and sharing those articles, so I guess they are read
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Powers
    Of course they read the articles, while, if the title of article is attractive , I think it may attract more people to read them.
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  • Profile picture of the author GrowTallerNiche
    I can't read EZA because it hurts my eyes. And most of the quality articles are on peoples own sites or hubpages +infobarrel.
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    • Profile picture of the author wealthydon
      Hmmm! If nobody is reading my articles I won't
      be stupid submitting articles to article directories
      daily, weekly, or yearly.

      Case Study

      There is this website of mine I abandoned one year
      ago. When the domain name came up for renewal,
      I quickly wrote a keyword rich article and posted to
      one of the big article directories.

      The Outcome

      One week after submitting and publishing the article,
      I made 3 affiliate product sales totalling $68.04
      commision. And there was no sales for 10 months running
      from that site.

      Tracking script simply showed where the traffic and sales
      came from i.e. article directory.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetSuccess001
    Yes, people do read articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author tandiono
    I dont read since im illiterate so i ask other to read it for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author tclo43
    People read articles, where do you think the revenue comes from.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Originally Posted by Greg Wildermuth View Post

    I use EZA when I need quick and dirty basic info on a topic I know nothing about. It's really easy and convenient for that.
    Depending on the topic, this could be dangerous. A lot of the writers in some topic areas seem to be following the same approach.

    Too many of them are too busy cranking out backlinks to be bothered with minor details like factual accuracy...
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    • Profile picture of the author ZaraK
      Personally....I start with a Google Search for anything I want to know, and if I happen to hit an article in an article database through that search, I either ignore it or back out of it.

      Because I know 9/10ths of them are just a thin candy shell of marketing.

      Before I started ignoring/backing out, I can honestly say I never found anything of use in articles, and quite a few of them so badly written as to be laughable.

      I guess they are working on somebody, just not me.
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    • Profile picture of the author TimG
      Originally Posted by Greg Wildermuth View Post

      I know it... you've got to kind of have your BS Detector on. It's a good strategy for the ol' "Benefits Of..." articles when you need ideas, but you've always got to make it your own. There is tons of utter crap on there, though.
      Unfortunately those articles are no better then the blog comments that are there merely for the sake of obtaining a backlink.

      However, there are some writers that do put the time and efforts into research prior to writing an article and they are the article marketers that reap the rewards and see a higher ROI from their article marketing campaigns.

      Thier articles end up getting syndicated and published by webmasters that search EZA for high quality articles to use on their website or in their ezines.

      Also, speciality article directories offer a bit better quality in the articles submitted ot them. For example a pure poker related article directory would rank higher in terms of value in my eyes for poker articles over EZA's poker articles even if in the eyes of Google EZA's content ranked higher.

      Respectfully,
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    Well yes they do..Errm or at least I do? That is what basically articles are for. Right? Ezine wont be checking it and putting up some guidelines if they are not going to show it and let everybody read your content.


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  • Profile picture of the author marketwarrior06
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    i can't agree with you bro. there are thousand of people who read to learn. and when an active man or woman find any problem then he at first try to find articles in article sites. i do this and i think most of the people do this too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Millercus25
    I agree, people out there do read articles. I write articles on my blogs and people do comment on them. I also use ezine to submit articles too.
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