Ezinearticles bio box backlinks

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by falcott

Ezinearticles has refused to publish them, giving the following message: "Problem: Your article links to a page that does not contain enough relevant informative content."

Yes indeed ... they're not so keen on that.

Originally Posted by falcott

Has ezinearticles changed their criteria?

They've changed the way they enforce their criteria, i.e. they now do so far more consistently, persistently and reliably. It's changed recently.

Originally Posted by falcott

Maybe I should just go to goarticles instead...

You can certainly "get away with" far more there, but it has very, very little value, really.

All article directory backlinks are non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks anyway. As the authors of the standard SEO textbooks were saying even before Google's algorithm devalued the article directories so much a little while ago, one would typically need something between 50,000 and 100,000 of those backlinks to confer the same link-juice as one backlink from a relevant authority site.

"Article marketing" (by syndication of high-quality content in front of highly targeted traffic) is flourishing: "article directory marketing" very much less so, to put it mildly.

Backlinking is mostly about quality and relevance, these days: quantitative approaches (unless you're submitting to your own, private, relevant blog-network and getting something like 500,000 backlinks per day, as one successful Warrior is!

) are of comparatively little value.

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thebitbotdotcom

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Yes indeed ... they're not so keen on that.

They've changed the way they enforce their criteria, i.e. they now do so far more consistently, persistently and reliably. It's changed recently.

You can certainly "get away with" far more there, but it has very, very little value, really.

All article directory backlinks are non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks anyway. As the authors of the standard SEO textbooks were saying even before Google's algorithm devalued the article directories so much a little while ago, one would typically need something between 50,000 and 100,000 of those backlinks to confer the same link-juice as one backlink from a relevant authority site.

"Article marketing" (by syndication of high-quality content in front of highly targeted traffic) is flourishing: "article directory marketing" very much less so, to put it mildly.

Backlinking is mostly about quality and relevance, these days: quantitative approaches (unless you're submitting to your own, private, relevant blog-network and getting something like 500,000 backlinks per day, as one successful Warrior is!

) are of comparatively little value.

It's even worse than that. They are PRNA...meaning that they are almost not even counted...;(

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falcott

13 years ago

Thank you (I think).

Another question then. Would a link in a relevant blog comment confer more "juice" than a link in an article?

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by falcott

Would a link in a relevant blog comment confer more "juice" than a link in an article?

Incomparably more than an article in an article directory. Not to mention that they can bring some targeted traffic, too, if you make insightful, appealing, value-adding comments.

One could be forgiven for not appreciating this, but in all the threads you can find in this forum with titles like "Article Marketing Doesn't Work Any More" and "Article Marketing Is Dead" (and there's a huge number of those, especially over the last few months) what's really being discussed (and bewailed and bemoaned) isn't actually "article marketing" at all: it's only "article directory marketing". A comment on a relevant blog/site has the same backlink as an article on a relevant blog/site, and that really is "article marketing".
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New Atthis

13 years ago

Originally Posted by falcott

Hi people,
I've started article marketing following the advice of John X Factor and John S Rhodes about how to get backlinks from your bio box in ezinearticles. Their advice is that the info and backlinks in your bio box don't need to match the article content.

I have an ezinearticles account (Platinum) with 20 live articles, all directly related to a micro niche site. I've just submitted additional articles targeting a popular niche with links to that site which is unrelated to the content in the articles. Ezinearticles has refused to publish them, giving the following message:
"Problem: Your article links to a page that does not contain enough relevant informative content."

Has ezinearticles changed their criteria? If not, and if other people are successful in following this strategy, how can I set up my bio box to get ezinearticles to publish my articles with these (unrelated) links?

Maybe I should just go to goarticles instead...

All advice appreciated, thanks!

Did you read the first or second of Xfactor's course? Because in the second (which I read first) the focus of his backlinking efforts are mostly centered on acquiring links from authority sites within each of his respective niches. Either by getting them picked up by webmasters perusing sites like EzineArticles for content or by proactively contacting other types of publishers with a request to have them publish an article in return for a link back to his site.

He doesn't concentrate on small sites any longer, and instead builds larger authority sites. He also doesn't highly suggest the efficacy of submitting articles to hundreds of article directories for backlinking purposes. Those links really won't help your site that much at all in the search engines.

The best link you're ever going to obtain is one from a relevant authority site within your chosen niche. From all I have read before getting started on this, the power in using a site like EzineArticles is in getting other site owners to republish your articles because the content of the article is outstanding.

And so if you're articles are not getting published by EzineArticles, rather than move on to another article directory with lower standards, it may be best to up the quality and value of the content both submitted to them and on your site. That's how I would take a rejection like what you received.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by New Atthis

The best link you're ever going to obtain is one from a relevant authority site within your chosen niche. From all I have read before getting started on this, the power in using a site like EzineArticles is in getting other site owners to republish your articles because the content of the article is outstanding.

This is absolutely right, for sure: that's the purpose and function of article directories, and the publishing demand they were set up to supply with content.

Originally Posted by New Atthis

And so if you're articles are not getting published by EzineArticles, rather than move on to another article directory with lower standards, it may be best to up the quality and value of the content both submitted to them and on your site. That's how I would take a rejection like what you received.

The problem with this approach is that if an article isn't acceptable by EZA, then it's also very unlikely indeed (to put it mildly) to be syndicated from anywhere else where it is acceptable.

In general, changing what one submits to EZA, to comply with their editorial guidelines, actually offers far better chances.

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falcott

13 years ago

Originally Posted by New Atthis

Did you read the first or second of Xfactor's course? Because in the second (which I read first) the focus of his backlinking efforts are mostly centered on acquiring links from authority sites within each of his respective niches. Either by getting them picked up by webmasters perusing sites like EzineArticles for content or by proactively contacting other types of publishers with a request to have them publish an article in return for a link back to his site.

He doesn't concentrate on small sites any longer, and instead builds larger authority sites. He also doesn't highly suggest the efficacy of submitting articles to hundreds of article directories for backlinking purposes. Those links really won't help your site that much at all in the search engines.

The best link you're ever going to obtain is one from a relevant authority site within your chosen niche. From all I have read before getting started on this, the power in using a site like EzineArticles is in getting other site owners to republish your articles because the content of the article is outstanding.

And so if you're articles are not getting published by EzineArticles, rather than move on to another article directory with lower standards, it may be best to up the quality and value of the content both submitted to them and on your site. That's how I would take a rejection like what you received.

I actually wasn't aware that X Factor had a second course. The one that I read was focused on small sites and using article directories for backlinks.

I also haven't been aware that article directory marketing had changed. It's been quite a few months since I paid attention to advice and trends in IM. On top of that, I'm a very small player still learning the ropes. I had the idea that I had found a strategy that would work for me -but of course we know that the goal posts keep moving.

The quality of the articles that I have submitted are actually quite high, with the intention of having people syndicate them. That strategy thus far has worked quite well - and although I have only a few articles published, most of them are being syndicated, and those articles are not in a highly popular niche.

The idea, that some people might have missed here, is that I wasn't concerned with getting warm clicks from a bio box. I was looking to use well-written articles in a popular niche to gain links for a micro niche I've been working with. My sites show up on page 1 or 2 of Google for most keywords that I targeted, and I was hoping to increase my ranking via article directories and syndication.

Anyway, as a result of what ezine has done and of the resulting comments and advice here, it seems that I need to revisit my strategies and devote my efforts to other things...

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by joseph7384

Does anyone have any thoughts on street articles

Hi Joseph - it's been discussed here several times recently. The search function may help you.

I'm aware that an "article marketing course" of some kind has recently been advocating using it, and that some of the subscribers have either been misinformed about it, or have perhaps simply assumed that it must be an article directory, or perhaps don't quite appreciate the difference between an article directory and a non-directory article submission site, but as discussed here in some earlier article marketing threads, Street Articles - interesting site though it is - isn't an article directory.

Originally Posted by joseph7384

they don't provide a resource box but instead allow you to insert two links within the article it self.

So, wouldn't that be considered a contextual back-link meaning it would have more value then a link from a resource box?

No. "Contextual" doesn't refer to the few words around your backlink, Joseph: it refers to the nature and content of the website within which the page carrying your backlink appears. If it's a website specific to your niche, that gives the backlink some value.

Originally Posted by falcott

I was hoping to increase my ranking via article directories and syndication.

Syndication can increase your rankings dramatically (though that's obviously a side-benefit of syndication rather than its primary purpose).

The backlinks you get from article directories themselves won't do that (unless you have - literally - at least hundreds of thousands of them) but the context-relevant backlinks you can get from sites to which people can syndicate your articles from directories can do that.

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H.Miller

13 years ago

First of all that is a very bad strategy. Why would you want to get people reading your article only to send them to a site that has nothing to do with what they just read? If your title talks about saving a marriage and your bio box offers them more information about car parts, do you really think people will click thru to your site? Put yourself in their shoes. Would you click thru? Probably not. You would probably be turned off by it and just exit out of the article.

By doing this you might get some traffic but not very much. Your bio box should be related to your article.

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grover69

13 years ago

Originally Posted by H.Miller

Why would you want to get people reading your article only to send them to a site that has nothing to do with what they just read? If your title talks about saving a marriage and your bio box offers them more information about car parts, do you really think people will click thru to your site? Put yourself in their shoes. Would you click thru? Probably not. You would probably be turned off by it and just exit out of the article.

By doing this you might get some traffic but not very much. Your bio box should be related to your article.

Exactly this. Your article and bio box are a combined one-two punch that build interest before they ever get to your site. Pointing to a non-related site seems a bit pointless.

And I'd listen to Alexa. Goarticles doesn't really count for much at all these days. EzineArticles tightening up their submission guidelines has actually proved to be a good thing imho.

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susb8383

12 years ago

Originally Posted by H.Miller

First of all that is a very bad strategy. Why would you want to get people reading your article only to send them to a site that has nothing to do with what they just read? If your title talks about saving a marriage and your bio box offers them more information about car parts, do you really think people will click thru to your site? Put yourself in their shoes. Would you click thru? Probably not. You would probably be turned off by it and just exit out of the article.

By doing this you might get some traffic but not very much. Your bio box should be related to your article.

Well, I disagree with this. I understand what you're saying, and this makes sense if you want the reader of your article to click on the link. But with X Factor John's strategy, that's not the point of the resource box. His whole reason for it is strictly to get a backlink to help SE ranking, not to get the reader to click on it.

I've been following X Factor John's first course for a while now and have had great results. All of my articles are totally unrelated to the links in my resource boxes, and some of my sites ended up on the first page of Google.

I've probably done close to 40 articles this way where the resource link has nothing to do with the article content, and have had great results. But I took a break for many months and just started submitting articles again. I got the same error, which I've never had before. So maybe this is a new policy for them. They didn't seem to care in the past. Bummer because this really is a key strategy for John's first course.

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randypore

Banned 12 years ago

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Dean Shainin 12 years ago

Yes, EzineArticles has changed many aspects...

Here are some tips for creating your resource box for success.

Your author's resource box is the ONLY element of your article that allows for promotion, so it's vital that you create a compelling resource box that invokes a call to action and entices every reader to follow through by clicking on your links.

With sites like EzineArticles, you are able to create multiple resource boxes, choosing one that compliments each article that you write. You can also create multiple authors’ accounts so that you can cover a large number of topics, all within one account.

Use your resource boxes wisely, and make sure that you offer your reader with an incentive to click through.

One way of doing this is by offering a free giveaway in your author's resource box that is relevant to the topic or market that your article is focused on.

Here's a couple examples of resource boxes I use for my article marketing niche.

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If you are not sure what you can offer within your resource box, here are a few things I have used successfully for over a year now:

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Newsletter or Ezine subscription

Free ebook

Free sample of a paid product

Free Trial Membership

When creating your author's resource box, make sure to use anchor text whenever possible. This will help you rank for specific keyword phrases within the search engines. That's what I've done with the first example bio above.

While not every article directory permits anchor text within author resource boxes, whenever possible include various keyword phrases pertaining to your market.

You also want to incorporate a strong call to action, directing your reader to click your link and explore your website.

You should also limit the number of links contained within your resource box to only one or two, so that your reader is given a clear message, to click on your link and visit your site, rather than being confused with multiple options.

Your overall article should tie in with the website that is featured within your author's resource box.
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