Ezinearticles Dead?

This (and half the other comments appearing here) is just nonsense.

Not even "another one".

This one's from August: it's one of the "same ones again".

Factual information (not that many people contributing to this thread seem to be interested in it) is here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

Something's not right...

In short a big yep!

A hit to my site is a hit simple as that. I can leverage EZA authority and get a ton of FREE traffic which I then turn into an email list ... nothin not wrang wid dat as my lovely Jamaican wife wud say

Alexa as much as i acknowledge your contribution in this area of discussion, you are absolutely incorrect to believe that Ezine does not get direct traffic apart from what it gets from the search engine. Let’s assume that Ezine only gets its traffic via the search engines, it still does not debunk my original point that it is still a good source of traffic irrespective of the fact that it is a secondary source of traffic.

Ezine Articles is not the source of that traffic.

Google (and/or another search engine) is the source of that traffic.

Potential customers search in Google, not in the database of Ezine Articles. When they do search in Google, it's up to you whether you want them coming from Google to your site, or going from Google to EZA's site, where you lose (typically) a big proportion of them. For those of us making our livings through article marketing, the decision's a no-brainer.

The statement above is absurd. What do you mean by "it is up to you whether you want them coming from Google to your site or EZAs sites". As long as you choose to publish your article on EZA, you have no control on what Google chooses to do with the search traffic. Google may choose to route the traffic directly to your site or via EZA. Your only control here is to not publish your article on EZA.


Yes, a large and growing number of us.



Hardly beneficial at all, apart from a relevant backlink. But there's no downside, either. And fortunately there are others, too. Not to mention ezines. It's called Ezine Articles for a reason, hello?

I didn’t put you down as one that considered a backlink from Ezine as worth anything. You have stated on many occasions how worthless those backlinks are so not sure why that should come into any consideration. Although I happen to believe the backlinks are worth something. And yes there is a downside to publishing on EZA, there always is in life, and this is no exception, I have stated them on my previous post..

Some of the ezines whose publishers regularly syndicate content from there have tens of thousands of targeted subscribers.

If that isn't "targeted traffic", I don't know what is!


I am sorry this is just opinions and speculations; since we are dealing with facts here, a supporting reference to the above statement would be appreciated.



LOL, you don't have an easy case to argue there, trying to convince large and growing numbers of people making their livings this way about that perspective.

I am afraid I do have a valid case to put forward here, despite your opinions to the contrary. There is no absolute truth in any topic of discourse, and this is no exception.


Not people who understand that "duplicate content" and "syndicated content" are two totally different things. And not people who are making their living that way. Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing

Syndication and duplication are not different within the narrow context of discourse we are having here. Yes in actual fact syndication should really hold summaries of the main article source and not the full content. However, we are talking about syndicating published articles in directories, and how it is done in the real world. In the real world, which you have mentioned in this forum a number of times, it is certainly taking published articles from the article directories and publishing them verbatim elsewhere. So yes those republished articles or syndicated articles are duplicates, whether you agree with it or not.


These threads are weird.

The comments from all the people saying "Ezine Articles is dead, for me: I can't get decent traffic that way any more" are like threads in a classical music forum debating the merits of a pound of apples from the supermarket, with a whole succession of people posting saying "Well, I don't know: if you ask me, these apples are damn all use for anything: they can't play the Beethoven piano concerto, they can't play the Stravinsky violin concerto and they can't even play Barber's cello concerto ... I've been doing this for 3 years and I'm telling you I can't get a tune out of those suckers at all." If you try to use something for totally the wrong purpose, for a purpose for which they never came into existence to fulfil in the first place, for a purpose they never claimed to serve, for a purpose unconnected with what they're aimed at, then guess what: they're not going to be much use to you, are they?!

As much as I disagree with the OP I do understand and appreciate the diverse view held by many. It would be a very sad place if we all held the same views.



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Look... there is no question that money can be made, traffic can be gotten by writing articles and publishing them to EZA and other article directories. I know because I've done it before.

Ten articles a day submitted to 10 - 12 article directories with a resource box linking to a cloaked affiliate links (301 redirect) can work.. althoug EZA checks links and they might boot your article back at you for one of many different reasons.

Anyhow! It can be done. It has been done. It can make you money. Is it a sustainable business model? Not really in my book. I got burnt out from doing this after a while. I would get writers block and not be able to write a coherent article for a week or more. Sales would suffer and I'd kick myself in the ass and make myself write again to keep from going under. It was not an option not to write.

The point is that there are easier ways. It is not a question of whether or not it will work to publish articles to EZA. It is just a pain in the a$$ and you WILL get burnt out.

I know there was a guy one the forum that used this as his business model and he proudly thumped his chest that he could churn out a 300 - 350 word article in 15 minutes or some crap. He did ten articles a day and was making $1400 a month. He ain't around anymore and I assume that he crashed and burned somewhere along the way to "ramping things up".

Everyone can do what they want. Run your business how you see fit. It really doesn't affect me. This is why I hadn't been posting much over the past few months. I needed to focus on myself and my business. Just know that there is a ton of bad information out there by people who wish to appear to be authorities on any given aspect of traffic generation. There ARE a few people on this forum that really know their stuff... even better than me... much better than me! Try their stuff out and see for yourself... take their advice and see what happens...

As far as duplicate content... sorry, I've built blogs and loaded them with free PLR scheduled to publish to my site at a rate of one post every 12 hours or so along with a smattering of my own unique content. The site got great traffic and had a PR of 3 before I used to like a whor3 to join a blog network to try to get some decent backlinks to another site that I was working on so... my experience doesn't come from the Google blog or something that I read on a forum. It comes from my own work and testing.

No, really, who doesn't want to read about how one site on the Internet works every single day?! Who also doesn't want to read what the definition of an article directory is every day as well?? I know I do! I love repetition! It sure beats reading the Terms of Service and doing research of my own! I need to rely on others' views, interpretations and such! And from the same people each day! People need something to do and sell, you know?

You have my dear

Thanks for the reply. So, it seems to be the case with most people where EZA is not working well itself in terms of SEO. To be honest, I only see lots of leechers ripping off my EZA articles almost on the same day that I publish but hardly any of them leave backlinks to EZA. At least in the last one or two years, I find more leechers using EZA articles WITHOUT leaving any backlinks to the articles rather than actual reputable websites with due credit. So, there is not much luck in that too nowadays it seems.

PR is not the only factor in SEO. Website/Domain authority and relevant links also matters a lot. And I can say that from experience. EZA had massive authority in the past due to which a couple of backlinks easily entered in the top 100 or at times in the top 20 of Google. It still works for Bing and Yahoo. But it seems that it is not much of an authority site anymore in terms of SEO for Google. Anyways would need to find other ways for quality backlinks but it seems offisite SEO is only becoming more and more limited with time. Most SEO methods have already lost or are losing their power with time. IM would also become less effective as affiliate sites are being kicked by each Panda update it seems. So, it ain't becoming easier for any normal webmaster. Only brands are becoming bigger and have gained the most with the updates. Most of us are already established with old sites which are not much effected. But I am worried about how would webmasters even emerge or enter in such a problematic scenario.