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Ezinearticles is NOT Dead!

by mizesean
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First of all...I know this post is going to anger some people. That's okay. I believe what I have written is the truth...so I am sharing it.

I am writing this in response to all the people who are complaining because their traffic is down at ezinearticles, and making it out like it's a problem for everyone.

It's not.

It's a problem, in my opinion, for some people.

Here's the thing...for some people, traffic is down. For some people, it is not. If your articles have been written and posted in a way that is favored by the google algorithm, your articles will place more highly there. Of course, not all ezinearticles traffic comes from google. Alot comes from other search engines, from people who trust ezinearticles as an authority site, etc.

Now, before I show the next thing...I want to make it clear that I don't think anyone should be relying on one traffic source for all their traffic, especially if this is your living. You need to spread your risk. And any traffic source is a risk. Especially any that depend on other people.

Having said that...my traffic is NOT DOWN since the algo shift. Why? Who knows? But I think it is interesting that even ezinearticles traffic is only down about 10% over the last since months. Here is the proof:



Now, sure it's down more than that from a high 6 weeks ago. But you can't build your business on changes every six weeks. The key is that you have to build for the long term. And in the long run, I believe ezinearticles is a great choice for traffic. For years, they have consistently grown their traffic to OUR articles. I believe that will continue.

This is a hiccup.

That said...sure, you should diversify.

And if you want to stop writing articles because of a momentary blip...that's okay, because it will just leave more traffic for everyone who sticks with article marketing, to share.

Think about it.

For years people have griped about article marketing - it's slow (it is) - it is subject to forces beyond your control (it is) - it is not easy to create a lot of volume and still get traffic (people have tried spinning, writing trash, article writing software, none of that works to create human-readable and human-respondable articles).

But the bottom line is...if you write articles for HUMANS not for search engines, you WILL get traffic. And the beautiful thing about it is...the traffic will be HIGHLY targeted. Your traffic will buy if you have the goods to sell it.

My average subscriber from ezinearticles buys $30 and costs be about $2 to generate. How much is your average subscriber worth?
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  • Profile picture of the author BenoitT
    Their is ALWAYS an opportunity when something go wrong. The traffic doesn't disapear, it goes somewhere else and some figured out today their traffic are going to your articles instead of their .

    Great post.
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    • Profile picture of the author mikeroosa
      I actually posted 5 articles yesterday afternoon and already have 35 views. I really don't even know where the traffic is coming from (tell me if there's a way to find out), but that's more than I would have expected so soon.
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      • Profile picture of the author redrossero
        I didn't write an article for EZA in months. Too long to wait for their approval.
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      • Profile picture of the author mizesean
        Originally Posted by mikeroosa View Post

        I actually posted 5 articles yesterday afternoon and already have 35 views. I really don't even know where the traffic is coming from (tell me if there's a way to find out), but that's more than I would have expected so soon.
        Mike,

        Glad to see you are taking action!

        I don't know of a way to find out where the traffic is coming from...but I've millions of views to my articles, and my opinion is, as long as those views convert to clicks (they do) and those clicks convert to subscribers (they do) and those subscribers buy consistently (they do) I don't care where the traffic comes from.

        I just know if I write more articles...I get more traffic :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author Wills
      EZA is certainly not dead. They got hit hard at the last algo change, but it does not mean they are finished just yet.

      I actually welcome the changes and the flock of people leaving EZA. It means there is less chance of my articles being swamped in crappy backlinks articles.

      Things seem to have calmed down over there now and my articles are getting approved fairly quickly. So hopefully we can put all these "EZA is dead" and "the long EZA approval" threads to bed now. But I can't see it
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by Wills View Post

        So hopefully we can put all these "EZA is dead" and "the long EZA approval" threads to bed now. But I can't see it
        I'm afraid I can't see it, either.

        For me, the difficulty with all these "EZA threads" is that they inevitably end up with people talking at cross-purposes.

        That's because people are using article directories for fundamentally different purposes. Some are depending on them for traffic; others aren't at all. It's the difference between "article marketing" and "article directory marketing".

        I always think the "Big, Normally Unstated Key Concept" in this area relates to how people answer this question: "When a potential customer finds your article by putting one of your keywords into a search-engine as his search terms, what do you want him to find: the copy on your own website (bringing him immediately, with a click, to your own website, obviously enough), or the copy in an article directory (bringing him immediately, with a click, to an article directory full of AdSense, other distractions, and a future potential choice between a further click to take him to your own website ... or not)?"

        To me, though I submit to EZA every day, this question's a complete no-brainer. But not everyone does the same sort of article marketing as me. Some do only article directory marketing.

        Threads like this tend to assume that a decline in article directory traffic (whether there's actually been one, or not) is/would be a bad thing. To many serious, professional article marketers, it's a very good thing. And the evidence so far - though it's still early - is that (as so many of us have recently been pointing out in so many threads here) we're the beneficiaries of Google's recent algorithm change.

        One model of article marketing is a "rinse and repeat", "writing for clicks" model, in which one's dependent on directories, and on Google, to get one's traffic and one's income. The other model is a "build a business" model which sees the development of a genuinely asset-based business with increasing future residual income from work already done.

        Both models can involve using article directories, but very differently indeed.

        One involves "writing for clicks" and the other, to some extent, actually involves avoiding "writing for clicks"; and they typically have very different long-term outcomes, too.
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        • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
          My views, clickthroughs and ezine figures have all gone up since the change so for me it's been a good thing.
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        • Profile picture of the author mizesean
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          I'm afraid I can't see it, either.

          For me, the difficulty with all these "EZA threads" is that they inevitably end up with people talking at cross-purposes.

          That's because people are using article directories for fundamentally different purposes. Some are depending on them for traffic; others aren't at all. It's the difference between "article marketing" and "article directory marketing".

          I always think the "Big, Normally Unstated Key Concept" in this area relates to how people answer this question: "When a potential customer finds your article by putting one of your keywords into a search-engine as his search terms, what do you want him to find: the copy on your own website (bringing him immediately, with a click, to your own website, obviously enough), or the copy in an article directory (bringing him immediately, with a click, to an article directory full of AdSense, other distractions, and a future potential choice between a further click to take him to your own website ... or not)?"

          To me, though I submit to EZA every day, this question's a complete no-brainer. But not everyone does the same sort of article marketing as me. Some do only article directory marketing.

          Threads like this tend to assume that a decline in article directory traffic (whether there's actually been one, or not) is/would be a bad thing. To many serious, professional article marketers, it's a very good thing. And the evidence so far - though it's still early - is that (as so many of us have recently been pointing out in so many threads here) we're the beneficiaries of Google's recent algorithm change.

          One model of article marketing is a "rinse and repeat", "writing for clicks" model, in which one's dependent on directories, and on Google, to get one's traffic and one's income. The other model is a "build a business" model which sees the development of a genuinely asset-based business with increasing future residual income from work already done.

          Both models can involve using article directories, but very differently indeed.

          One involves "writing for clicks" and the other, to some extent, actually involves avoiding "writing for clicks"; and they typically have very different long-term outcomes, too.
          Alexa,

          I love what you just wrote...thanks for participating here! You are sooo right - if people write for the long term - for building a real business - instead of just driving "clicks" - they will probably benefit hugely from this shift...

          I have been predicting for several years that this type of thing would happen, and have been building for it...and it is so good to see the competing "trash" articles disappear (like spun, non-human garbage people are passing off as google fodder)
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        • Profile picture of the author mizesean
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          I'm afraid I can't see it, either.

          For me, the difficulty with all these "EZA threads" is that they inevitably end up with people talking at cross-purposes.

          That's because people are using article directories for fundamentally different purposes. Some are depending on them for traffic; others aren't at all. It's the difference between "article marketing" and "article directory marketing".

          I always think the "Big, Normally Unstated Key Concept" in this area relates to how people answer this question: "When a potential customer finds your article by putting one of your keywords into a search-engine as his search terms, what do you want him to find: the copy on your own website (bringing him immediately, with a click, to your own website, obviously enough), or the copy in an article directory (bringing him immediately, with a click, to an article directory full of AdSense, other distractions, and a future potential choice between a further click to take him to your own website ... or not)?"

          To me, though I submit to EZA every day, this question's a complete no-brainer. But not everyone does the same sort of article marketing as me. Some do only article directory marketing.

          Threads like this tend to assume that a decline in article directory traffic (whether there's actually been one, or not) is/would be a bad thing. To many serious, professional article marketers, it's a very good thing. And the evidence so far - though it's still early - is that (as so many of us have recently been pointing out in so many threads here) we're the beneficiaries of Google's recent algorithm change.

          One model of article marketing is a "rinse and repeat", "writing for clicks" model, in which one's dependent on directories, and on Google, to get one's traffic and one's income. The other model is a "build a business" model which sees the development of a genuinely asset-based business with increasing future residual income from work already done.

          Both models can involve using article directories, but very differently indeed.

          One involves "writing for clicks" and the other, to some extent, actually involves avoiding "writing for clicks"; and they typically have very different long-term outcomes, too.
          Alexa,

          Here's another comment on what you just wrote...I agree with you that folks should be focusing on the long run and that they should be focusing on the quality of traffic, and in building a relationship and a community, not just trying to push for some number of clicks.

          As you know, if you are simply writing to meet people's needs, and COMPLETELY ignoring the search engines - people who need YOU will find you.

          And that's what it's all about.

          The article directories are just a tool.

          The search engines are just a tool.

          Even advertising is just a tool.

          But it is the act of solving people's problems that brings business and traffic to your site.

          Thanks again, Alexa~!
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        • Profile picture of the author Kierkegaard
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          I'm afraid I can't see it, either.

          For me, the difficulty with all these "EZA threads" is that they inevitably end up with people talking at cross-purposes.

          That's because people are using article directories for fundamentally different purposes. Some are depending on them for traffic; others aren't at all. It's the difference between "article marketing" and "article directory marketing".
          AGREED

          A kind of madness descends over article marketing threads.

          Imagine a pub banning the wearing of football shirts. Fred Blogs, wearing a football shirt tries, to get inside but is rejected. The next week, when his friend turns up with a football shirt on, he'll say "football shirts are banned." This makes sense because the statement is true in this particular circumstance. But if Fred's son puts on a football shirt to go for a kick-about in the park, saying "football shirts are banned" would be simply wrong.

          Imagine other pubs in the area start banning football shirts. Fred can tell all his drinking buddies that going out in football shirts is a bad idea because they won't be able to get in most places. This is true in this circumstances.

          Another guy, named Johnny Websites, may choose to go to a pub that does allow football shirts. But he's going in the hope of picking up a woman. Fred may tell him that it's not a good idea to wear a football shirt. This could be (a) because Fred knows it's harder to pick up women if you've got a football shirt on or (b) because Fred thinks Johnny may want to go somewhere else later that evening but his choice of shirt will severely restrict him.

          One day Fred and Johnny may fancy a walk into town but decide that putting on their football shirts today would be a bad idea because there's a big match on and the police are hassling/moving on anyone wearing team colours.

          Fred may look wistfully at his old football shirt and say out loud that the days of wearing football shirts are over. Passing by the window at that very time is Wayne Rooney. He hears this insight and the next match day runs out of the changing room in a shirt and tie 'because the days of wearing football shirts are over'.

          Threads about articles run into problems because - as with the football shirts above - unless we know the circumstances and what you in particular intend to do we can not give relevant advice. And unless you know our circumstance and what we do in particular any advice given is next to useless.
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          • Profile picture of the author mizesean
            Originally Posted by Kierkegaard View Post

            AGREED

            A kind of madness descends over article marketing threads.

            Imagine a pub banning the wearing of football shirts. Fred Blogs, wearing a football shirt tries, to get inside but is rejected. The next week, when his friend turns up with a football shirt on, he'll say "football shirts are banned." This makes sense because the statement is true in this particular circumstance. But if Fred's son puts on a football shirt to go for a kick-about in the park, saying "football shirts are banned" would be simply wrong.

            Imagine other pubs in the area start banning football shirts. Fred can tell all his drinking buddies that going out in football shirts is a bad idea because they won't be able to get in most places. This is true in this circumstances.

            Another guy, named Johnny Websites, may choose to go to a pub that does allow football shirts. But he's going in the hope of picking up a woman. Fred may tell him that it's not a good idea to wear a football shirt. This could be (a) because Fred knows it's harder to pick up women if you've got a football shirt on or (b) because Fred thinks Johnny may want to go somewhere else later that evening but his choice of shirt will severely restrict him.

            One day Fred and Johnny may fancy a walk into town but decide that putting on their football shirts today would be a bad idea because there's a big match on and the police are hassling/moving on anyone wearing team colours.

            Fred may look wistfully at his old football shirt and say out loud that the days of wearing football shirts are over. Passing by the window at that very time is Wayne Rooney. He hears this insight and the next match day runs out of the changing room in a shirt and tie 'because the days of wearing football shirts are over'.

            Threads about articles run into problems because - as with the football shirts above - unless we know the circumstances and what you in particular intend to do we can not give relevant advice. And unless you know our circumstance and what we do in particular any advice given is next to useless.
            Well, I agree with you as well - there are many and varied purposes for writing articles - and for each purpose their might be a preferred (or multiple preferred or possible effective) method (s) of achieving that purpose.

            I think that back to the purpose of this thread..simply being to refute the idea that "article marketing traffic is down 90% since the recent update..

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      • Profile picture of the author Rob Bright
        A great post, yes article writing is laborious, yes it takes time to see results, yes it is beyond your control sometimes. Does it work absolutely, that tip of write for humans I know will help me out a little. Cheers Rob
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        • Profile picture of the author mizesean
          Originally Posted by Rob Bright View Post

          A great post, yes article writing is laborious, yes it takes time to see results, yes it is beyond your control sometimes. Does it work absolutely, that tip of write for humans I know will help me out a little. Cheers Rob
          Rob,

          Thanks for commenting...but you are right ..it works!
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      • Profile picture of the author mizesean
        Originally Posted by Wills View Post

        EZA is certainly not dead. They got hit hard at the last algo change, but it does not mean they are finished just yet.

        I actually welcome the changes and the flock of people leaving EZA. It means there is less chance of my articles being swamped in crappy backlinks articles.

        Things seem to have calmed down over there now and my articles are getting approved fairly quickly. So hopefully we can put all these "EZA is dead" and "the long EZA approval" threads to bed now. But I can't see it
        Wills,

        You are right...they are NOT finished yet! And the thing is, with fewer articles - that means more visitors for those who do write articles.

        And personally - I hated to write this post :-) but I had just read one too many threads about how they're traffic is down 70% or 80% -90% so had to show the screenshot of the truth:



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    • Profile picture of the author mizesean
      Originally Posted by BenoitT View Post

      Their is ALWAYS an opportunity when something go wrong. The traffic doesn't disapear, it goes somewhere else and some figured out today their traffic are going to your articles instead of their .

      Great post.
      Thanks - you are right :-)

      The thing I really wish people could *get* (that you obviously do) is that it's not chance that some people articles are not getting as much traffic, and others are. They (google) wants content a certain way - and there is a formula for it - it's not like some monsters are dining people personally...its a computer algorithm!!!!

      Meet the requirements of the algorithm- get high rankings and traffic! Don't...and don't :-)

      Anyhow, thanks again !!

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  • Profile picture of the author phil.wheatley
    It all comes back to two things 1) Putting good content out there and 2) NOt trying to game the system.

    As Google/ezinearticles/Youtube (etc) get more and more clever, they reward people who just provide the visitors with what they want...relevant information.

    Also, it is always worth promoting your site with a variety of things, videos, press releases, articles, bookmarking and so on, and they real people will find your content and pass it around.

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    • Profile picture of the author mizesean
      Originally Posted by phil.wheatley View Post

      It all comes back to two things 1) Putting good content out there and 2) NOt trying to game the system.

      As Google/ezinearticles/Youtube (etc) get more and more clever, they reward people who just provide the visitors with what they want...relevant information.

      Also, it is always worth promoting your site with a variety of things, videos, press releases, articles, bookmarking and so on, and they real people will find your content and pass it around.

      Phil
      Phil,

      Thanks for commenting on this...you are right, your remarks are right on...do it the way the ask, and you will be rewarded with high quality traffic :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author cellington
    As has frequently been the case, the spammers came in and influenced things. They did it with email marketing. They did it with pop-up marketing. They did it with blog-comment marketing. They did it with article marketing. Content didn't matter. Reads didn't matter. Any link was a good link.

    When I launched Article Marketer, the doors had been open for about (literally) 7 minutes when we received our first spam article. It was, of course, rejected by our systems.

    And over the years, there have been many complaints from spammers about how strict our review process is. How they can't promote themselves. How their article was rejected because it was overly keyword stuffed. They complained because their unreadable spun articles weren't accepted.

    They hated that we enforced a 400-word minimum on article length. And we routinely heard "But this same article was accepted at EZA!!" (generally accompanied by the requisite foul language). They demanded that we "just send it!!" We, of course, did not.

    So we are THRILLED with the Farmer update, and VERY happy to see EZA raising the bar and adopting the same standards. They've also redesigned their pages to scale back the ads and focus on the content. These are all good changes. Chris Knight is making all the right moves - moves that are good for everyone.
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    • Profile picture of the author ZerosToHero
      Count me in as someone who now has to write less articles but get more views and clicks. Sure, it takes me a week to get them approved but I don't care because I write them nearly every day.

      Now some of the people who were submitting junk articles every hour are now gone so when my articles go live I benefit a lot more. Now I've been able to focus on writing quality articles instead of shorter, crappy articles to keep up with the masses.
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      • Profile picture of the author marlon
        Hi,

        I don't see the April update yet on the graph in my
        ezinearticles account.

        But to date, everything is straight up without even a dip.

        Sean, I think you are the perfect person to lay the
        "ezine articles is dead" myth to rest.

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        • Profile picture of the author mizesean
          Marlon,

          Thanks for contributing here.

          That's why I wrote this...I just got so tired of hearing about how much traffic has dropped off - and I'm just not seeing it.

          Sure, for people who were spinning a lot just for the links...I can see it, in fact for some people who were spinning articles just to get links, they might have lost everything.

          But for people who write for humans...I think article marketing is just as strong as ever, in fact judging from some of the posts I am reading, some people believe it's even better now than it was - because there is less competition.

          It's always been frustrating to compete against people who are spinning out trash...now we have less competition.

          Thanks again

          Sean


          Originally Posted by marlon View Post

          Hi,

          I don't see the April update yet on the graph in my
          ezinearticles account.

          But to date, everything is straight up without even a dip.

          Sean, I think you are the perfect person to lay the
          "ezine articles is dead" myth to rest.

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          • Profile picture of the author Rob Howard
            Originally Posted by mizesean View Post

            Sure, for people who were spinning a lot just for the links...I can see it, in fact for some people who were spinning articles just to get links, they might have lost everything.
            That's the biggest point I think - article marketing has never been about getting a link - but that's what a majority of people see article marketing as - link bait.

            You know, we should coin a new term - content marketing. (I'm sure it's been thought of before) Because that is what it REALLY is - free content, in front of human eyeballs, that does 3 things:

            1. Proves to people who don't know you from Adam that you ACTUALLY know what you are talking about. (Authority)
            2. If you can do it in a way that relates to them, you gain immense trust right off the bat.
            3. Provides highly qualified traffic and when OTHER sites love the article too, you start to go viral with content syndication.

            You may never rank in the search engines. But just 2 or 3 well written articles can be leveraged like crazy.

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            • Profile picture of the author mizesean
              Originally Posted by ccmusicman View Post

              That's the biggest point I think - article marketing has never been about getting a link - but that's what a majority of people see article marketing as - link bait.

              You know, we should coin a new term - content marketing. (I'm sure it's been thought of before) Because that is what it REALLY is - free content, in front of human eyeballs, that does 3 things:

              1. Proves to people who don't know you from Adam that you ACTUALLY know what you are talking about. (Authority)
              2. If you can do it in a way that relates to them, you gain immense trust right off the bat.
              3. Provides highly qualified traffic and when OTHER sites love the article too, you start to go viral with content syndication.

              You may never rank in the search engines. But just 2 or 3 well written articles can be leveraged like crazy.

              Rob
              Rob,

              I agree with you...and I think people don't monetize article marketing the way they can because they don't realize how targeted the readers are and the bond created by reading the content.

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  • Profile picture of the author pizzatherapy
    I just checked my stats for my views and click through rate for my submitted articles.

    Honestly, I was astounded at the per centages. I was also amazed at the number of times my articles have been re-published in other blogs, and websites.

    When the number 1 producer of articles at ezine articles says:

    But the bottom line is...if you write articles for HUMANS not for search engines, you WILL get traffic. And the beautiful thing about it is...the traffic will be HIGHLY targeted. Your traffic will buy if you have the goods to sell it
    You need to listen.

    Thanks mizesean, for an incredibly helpful and insightful post.

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    • Profile picture of the author mizesean
      Albert,

      Thanks!

      Sean


      Originally Posted by pizzatherapy View Post

      I just checked my stats for my views and click through rate for my submitted articles.

      Honestly, I was astounded at the per centages. I was also amazed at the number of times my articles have been re-published in other blogs, and websites.

      When the number 1 producer of articles at ezine articles says:



      You need to listen.

      Thanks mizesean, for an incredibly helpful and insightful post.

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  • Profile picture of the author Rob Howard
    About time someone posted some REAL evidence of "ezinearticles so-called 'demise'".

    What? 16% drop in traffic. That is a FAR CRY from the stupid ridiculous claim of 80-90% drop in traffic.

    Thanks bud, great info and proof to back it up.

    Rob
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    • Profile picture of the author ZerosToHero
      Originally Posted by ccmusicman View Post

      About time someone posted some REAL evidence of "ezinearticles so-called 'demise'".

      What? 16% drop in traffic. That is a FAR CRY from the stupid ridiculous claim of 80-90% drop in traffic.

      Thanks bud, great info and proof to back it up.

      Rob
      Ya know, I'd almost rather have people believe the traffic dropped 90% because that would be even less competition.

      It's funny how many more websites have picked up my articles too because they're staying at the top longer instead of getting pushed down by junk articles. I guess I now know what Alexa Smith was talking about when she said syndication.

      Go ahead people, keep believing that it's dead over there. I almost have a feeling the people that were pushing the "EZA is dead" rumors are the people that have been quietly making a lot of money over there the past month!
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  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    Originally Posted by mizesean View Post

    For years people have griped about article marketing - it's slow (it is) - it is subject to forces beyond your control (it is) - it is not easy to create a lot of volume and still get traffic (people have tried spinning, writing trash, article writing software, none of that works to create human-readable and human-respondable articles).

    But the bottom line is...if you write articles for HUMANS not for search engines, you WILL get traffic. And the beautiful thing about it is...the traffic will be HIGHLY targeted. Your traffic will buy if you have the goods to sell it.
    I think you've hit the nail on the head. Article marketing takes (gasp!) work. Whatever shortcuts, spinners, automated programs, and robots are out there, they just aren't good enough to cut it. In reality, they never have been, but they're even more ineffective now, in light of the Panda update. IMO, the people yelling the loudest about EZA being dead are the ones who didn't put in enough work to begin with.

    I would be willing to bet that if those people took a hard, long, unbiased look at their own content, they would realize that it's not good enough to captivate readers, impress search engines, and lead to sales. Instead, though, they're just going to proclaim the death of EZA and article marketing as a whole :rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author ratracegrad
    Article marketing does take work. It does pay off. My articles have been viewed over 25,000 times and I am the top author in two different categories on ezinearticles. I normally write my articles for my website first and then after I have a couple I put them up on ezinearticles. I have many people that pull my articles off my website and put them on their website. I recently had a problem where someone took an article off my website and put it on their brand new website without putting my name as author, when I submitted it to eza it was rejected because they said this person wrote it. I had to call the owner of the website and have them put my name on the article and eza accepted it then.

    I recently got approved for their diamond level membership and my articles are getting approved the same day I submit them now.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by JamesAggie View Post

      It's funny how many more websites have picked up my articles too because they're staying at the top longer instead of getting pushed down by junk articles. I guess I now know what Alexa Smith was talking about when she said syndication.
      James, I've worked both sides of the fence (both writing articles for syndication and using syndicated articles on sites I control). EZA used to be my favorite spot for finding writers who put out the kind of content I could use.

      Then the whole 'links from digital manure' craze hit. Decent content scrolled off quickly, and easily got lost among the dreck.

      It sounds like I may be able to put EZA back on the list, and I'm glad because it would make that part of the business much easier again.
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  • Profile picture of the author gar
    you really cant say yet, lets wait some couple of months more.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dann Vicker
    Even though ezinearticle marketing obviously took some beating these past few weeks, that does not in any way imply its death or even the inefficacy of article marketing. I have always had used articles as my number one source of free traffic, because it works.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarah Bosen
    I like Ezinearticles, sometimes. I have noticed a trend in some of the articles and they just don't have a well rounded amount of quality information in too many of their articles. Sometimes they are great.
    But if you are relying on ezine, make sure your articles stand out a lot and have real solid information.
    Writing is my profession, and sometimes I get people who want articles that are flooded with keywords and don't care about content. Thats not the way to go. Always have quality and your traffic won't go down but improve.
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  • Profile picture of the author jgant
    My syndication rate from EZA is exponentially increasing since the Google algo change. I have far more instances of syndication than articles published. This means that for every article I publish it's syndicated more than 1 time. That's free backlinks and more readers.

    I didn't appreciate the value of syndication until I started reading the threads about article marketing on WF. After reading all the pure gold info on this forum, I thought I'd give article marketing a go for syndication. I'm delighted with the results, which took a little bit of time to materialize. Syndication is backlinking and traffic generation on auto-pilot.
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    • Profile picture of the author O0o0O
      But the bottom line is...if you write articles for HUMANS not for search engines, you WILL get traffic.
      This statement is almost true. You can only get traffic on your EzineArticles article when:

      1. It appears on the first page of EzineArticles when it is first published
      2. When it shows up at the top of search engines
      3. When webmasters publish your content to their website.

      If you build it for humans only, then you will likely not get any search engine traffic, and therefore your chances of people finding your article to publish and subscribe are minimal. If you want search engine traffic, then you've got to write for search engines. If you want non-search engine traffic, then you'll have to write it for humans AND search engines so the webmasters can find it and publish it to their sites.

      Either way, you can't escape the fact that most of your traffic will originate from the search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rob Marr
    Do you guys get your articles read all the time? or it's just been schemed through until they find a particular line of sentence that interest them. It would be interesting to see where they are mostly looking at by using a heatmap.
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  • Profile picture of the author cellington
    When webmasters publish your content to their website.
    Article directories today are not what article directories were a in 2007. Back in the day (ahh, the good ol' days ) an article directory was a clearing house for ezine publishers.

    These days, they have become content farms. They aren't niche'd or focused. They are generalized, and they are fine. We still have article directories in the DYA Content Network.

    But the trends are shifting, and more and more Google-love is being lavished on tightly focused content sites and niche blogs. Our members are reporting terrific results by being listed as a "guest blogger" and having their articles under their name on sites that are relevant to their content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    You've got to be careful relying on Alexa.com to identify statistical trends, especially when researching a website in the Internet Marketing industry.

    When the owner of the website says they have lost 30% of their traffic, before the algorithm was/is even rolled out worldwide, then you cannot deny the fact that they've taken a substantial hit.

    But even with the hit, that leaves 70% of a boatload of traffic, right? LOL

    I write for a few different niches at EZA. It appears to me that they've taken their hits based on niche or industry. My articles in a couple of different niches have completely lost most or all of their traffic since the update. At the same time, I have articles in other niches that see no difference at all.

    To make it even more confusing - the articles (that were syndicated or submitted elsewhere) that I lost traffic from at EZA have been seeing more traffic at other websites. Strange - if they didn't like the content at EZA, why would they like it better now somewhere else????

    This Panda is a tough nut to crack - and very picky.

    The problem I am seeing is that folks see what has happened to them at EZA and then proceed to lay down blanket statements - believing that since it happened to them, it must have happened to everyone else across all niches.

    Yes, I saw that 90% hit in traffic to some of my EZA articles, but at the same time I also saw no hit at all to others.

    Good luck!

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    • Profile picture of the author mizesean
      Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

      You've got to be careful relying on Alexa.com to identify statistical trends, especially when researching a website in the Internet Marketing industry.

      When the owner of the website says they have lost 30% of their traffic, before the algorithm was/is even rolled out worldwide, then you cannot deny the fact that they've taken a substantial hit.

      But even with the hit, that leaves 70% of a boatload of traffic, right? LOL

      I write for a few different niches at EZA. It appears to me that they've taken their hits based on niche or industry. My articles in a couple of different niches have completely lost most or all of their traffic since the update. At the same time, I have articles in other niches that see no difference at all.

      To make it even more confusing - the articles (that were syndicated or submitted elsewhere) that I lost traffic from at EZA have been seeing more traffic at other websites. Strange - if they didn't like the content at EZA, why would they like it better now somewhere else????

      This Panda is a tough nut to crack - and very picky.

      The problem I am seeing is that folks see what has happened to them at EZA and then proceed to lay down blanket statements - believing that since it happened to them, it must have happened to everyone else across all niches.

      Yes, I saw that 90% hit in traffic to some of my EZA articles, but at the same time I also saw no hit at all to others.

      Good luck!

      Allen
      Allen,

      Thanks for commenting on this..you are absolutely right on all counts. I guess that was the point of my post in the first place...not necessarily to defend ezinearticles or even article marketing - but to set the record straight that it isn't a 90% problem.

      But for some niches, who knows it may be, and like you infer, it could be that some niches are getting MORE relevant traffic now - who knows?

      Anyhow...I hope that clarifies things on my part...I don't want to be as wrong to say "NO DECLINE" as the person was that said "90% loss" :-)

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  • Profile picture of the author Will Edwards
    ... no, it's pining!

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  • Profile picture of the author talamoth
    Hello

    This is a great thread and very informative. As a person who is new at article writing, I actually had no idea that there was a perceived problem with Ezinearticles being ineffective. I'm glad I wasn't around in 2007 when Ezine was apparently in their prime.

    I'm currently publishing articles on Ezine and have been really pleased with the results. The click through rates are good and there have been a lot of people who have read my articles. How exactly they find them is beyond me though. I have tried to locate a couple of them by searching with no luck.

    I appreciated the comment about how, if you write content for humans instead of search engines, you will get traffic. I've always found that using keywords and balancing the us of those with providing useful content is a delicate matter.

    My method is to write the entire article first, without worrying about keywords. I try and focus on actually helping the reader to learn something or provide something that is useful. Then I go back and fit the keywords in as often as I can without tainting the original communication.

    This thread is thought provoking and is moving me to do a more extended research on article writing altogether. Thank you!
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    • Profile picture of the author mizesean
      Originally Posted by talamoth View Post

      Hello

      This is a great thread and very informative. As a person who is new at article writing, I actually had no idea that there was a perceived problem with Ezinearticles being ineffective. I'm glad I wasn't around in 2007 when Ezine was apparently in their prime.

      I'm currently publishing articles on Ezine and have been really pleased with the results. The click through rates are good and there have been a lot of people who have read my articles. How exactly they find them is beyond me though. I have tried to locate a couple of them by searching with no luck.

      I appreciated the comment about how, if you write content for humans instead of search engines, you will get traffic. I've always found that using keywords and balancing the us of those with providing useful content is a delicate matter.

      My method is to write the entire article first, without worrying about keywords. I try and focus on actually helping the reader to learn something or provide something that is useful. Then I go back and fit the keywords in as often as I can without tainting the original communication.

      This thread is thought provoking and is moving me to do a more extended research on article writing altogether. Thank you!
      Wow! I wish everyone would focus on what the reader needs instead of keywords, like you do! Keywords are SOOO everrated (ooh...I can hear some feathers rising on that one!!!)

      But I believe it..bring it on!!!!

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  • Profile picture of the author Honest Abel
    I think the future success of EZA is more closely tied to how it chooses to interact with authors and publishers than in how Google ranks it.
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