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Oh joy - Another article question (regarding Ezines & HubPages)

by Ross Cohen
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So I have a two-part question.

1) I have 2 types of sites. 1 is a review site with reviews and posts. A review would be for example, "godaddy review", and the post would be, "how to pick the best web hosting". I've been putting the posts on ezinearticles, not the reviews. My goal is to direct the reader to my site.

My other kind of blog is all post-oriented. No reviews. It's in an evergreen niche. Would you, in my shoes, post all of these articles on ezinearticles? Would it be beneficial?

2) This question is about Hubpages. I want to post the posts as discussed above such as the "how to pick the best web hosting" on Hubpages... the same ones as on ezinearticles... but I know I can't embed anchor text when the article isn't completely unique. I don't seem to see a kind of "author bio" such as on ezinearticles where I could post a link. Is there a way to post a link to my site as to abide to Hubpages rules somewhere on the same page as the "hub"? I can't put it in the profile because I'd be posting information in many niches that's through numerous sites.

In advance, thank you very much! Happy cyber monday!

Ross
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  • Profile picture of the author Tricerra
    Originally Posted by resellcells View Post

    So I have a two-part question.

    1) I have 2 types of sites. 1 is a review site with reviews and posts. A review would be for example, "godaddy review", and the post would be, "how to pick the best web hosting". I've been putting the posts on ezinearticles, not the reviews. My goal is to direct the reader to my site.

    My other kind of blog is all post-oriented. No reviews. It's in an evergreen niche. Would you, in my shoes, post all of these articles on ezinearticles? Would it be beneficial?
    I can't speak to the hub pages question but on the first, I tend to produce one particularly good post or piece of content for my site and then create new articles about the post. I also use related items to write and post about as it the resource box may draw new people to my niche. In the sense of "godaddy" you could write articles for ezine that would touch danica patrick, website security, domain name registration, the value of different domain extensions, go daddy commercials and so on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    Thanks Tricerra - any other responses?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by resellcells View Post

    So I have a two-part question.
    Eew, it's the old "bipartite question trick" - I've seen this one before: the idea is to announce a "two-part question" and then sneak in another bijou little questionette or two while nobody's really counting any more?

    Originally Posted by resellcells View Post

    1 is a review site with reviews and posts. A review would be for example, "godaddy review", and the post would be, "how to pick the best web hosting". I've been putting the posts on ezinearticles, not the reviews. My goal is to direct the reader to my site.
    Got it ... all makes sense. That was the first question? The answer is "yes".

    And secondly ...

    Originally Posted by resellcells View Post

    My other kind of blog is all post-oriented. No reviews. It's in an evergreen niche. Would you, in my shoes, post all of these articles on ezinearticles? Would it be beneficial?
    It'll be beneficial if they're written for syndication, and that's the reason for posting them in EZA, and they actually get syndicated from EZA. Otherwise not. Don't post them at EZA just as a way of getting traffic from EZA or backlinks from EZA, though. The backlinks aren't anything worth talking about and you really don't want to send potential customer traffic to an article directory rather than to your own site.

    In other words, this questions's actually dead simple: submit them to EZA if and only if doing so would be using EZA for its intended purpose according to "how article directories really work": http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

    And thirdly ...

    Originally Posted by resellcells View Post

    This question is about Hubpages. I want to post the posts as discussed above such as the "how to pick the best web hosting" on Hubpages... the same ones as on ezinearticles...
    Just a question (because I was only bluffing and I don't actually have an answer at all ), but why?

    What are you hoping to gain from doing this?

    Please don't say "a backlink"! :p

    (Sorry, I don't know the answer to your HubPages question at all. Can I be really outspoken and provocative here, without offending you? I see no purpose or benefit in doing this at all. I used to do it, when I first started, but I stopped 2 years ago, and it's far less useful now, post-Panda, than it was even when I gave it up because it was a waste of my time. This isn't worth talking about: it's time you could be spending writing another article, tarting up your site, whistling in the dark, or whatever else it is you guys get up to over there ... ).

    Originally Posted by Tricerra View Post

    you could write articles for ezine that would touch danica patrick
    "Touch" her? If you try and dress them up with any slightly more emotive language, I'm sure you could bring her to tears, if you really wanted to ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    Thanks Alexa

    Well, no, the point I'm doing it isn't for backlinks. It's to potentially drive people to my "money site" that wouldn't have found it otherwise. If they're reading the particular articles, I assume they're potentially interested in the subject, and therefore could become potential buyers. For example, if you're reading a post, "what is web hosting?"... you might be looking for web hosting.

    Hopefully this isn't the worst idea you've ever heard But then again, whether it is or not, I'm sure you've heard it (more than) countless times!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by resellcells View Post

      Well, no, the point I'm doing it isn't for backlinks. It's to potentially drive people to my "money site" that wouldn't have found it otherwise.
      A most noble and laudable ambition!

      But maybe not the ideal way to do it ...

      Originally Posted by resellcells View Post

      If they're reading the particular articles, I assume they're potentially interested in the subject, and therefore could become potential buyers.
      But you want them to read those articles on your site, not on someone else's site where they'll have to click through again, to get to your site?

      Let's assume you have a 25% click through rate from EZA, ok? Now compare these two different scenarios ...

      Scenario A: 100 people put into Google a keyword from one of your articles, and they find listed in the SERP's an article of yours in EZA. They click on the link in Google's SERP's and that takes them to your article inside EZA. Whatever happens to them from there (i.e. whether they read all or some or none of your article, whether they click on an EZA AdSense advertisement, whether they get distracted by something else there, whether they read someone else's articles too, whatever ...) we know that on average 25% of them click your resource-box link and arrive at your website, and that the other 75% don't. You lost the other 75%. Only 25 people out of the original 100 ever arrived at your website.

      Scenario B: 100 people put into Google a keyword from one of your articles, and they find listed in the SERP's an article of yours on your own site. They click on the link in Google's SERP's and that takes them to your website. 100 people arrived at your website.

      Both scenarios start off the same way, with 100 potential customers, but scenario B gives you four times as much traffic as scenario A.

      The reality is that, by going about it the right way, you actually get to choose which copy they find in Google's SERP's: the one that brings you 100% of the traffic or the one that brings you only 25% of the traffic.

      Not a very difficult decision, is it?

      The point is that those people, your potential customers, aren't looking in EZA or HubPages. They're looking in Google. And when they look in Google, you need to draw them to your site. Not to EZA's site and not to HubPages' site.

      HubPages and Squidoo and Blogspot give you nothing that you can't get for yourself, elsewhere, without needing them, and without needing to worry all the time about their poxy changeable terms of service and whether they can suddenly lock or delete your pages.

      Originally Posted by resellcells View Post

      Hopefully this isn't the worst idea you've ever heard
      It's nowhere near.

      There are a few current/recent threads where people are asking for recommendations for "the best article spinner" or "the best mass article submitter". Now those are bad ideas ...
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      • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
        Kind, helpful words as always.

        Well here's my dealio.

        I decided to start my "ambitious ambitions" with ezines, goarticles, & articlebase. I know the articles I put there would be most beneficial to me if found on my site because of that whole click-through dilemma... and for the most part if someone types in, for example, the name of my article, mine should come up first therefore me getting that traffic. But... these 3 sites do get some "decent" traffic just because of their popularity... and there's the chance of the articles getting syndicated to be "out and about" online... so my hopes are that many of the people that come to my site through the articles posted elsewhere would not have found my site otherwise. Know what I mean?

        In that sense, it's kind of like affiliate marketing offering high commissions... you could offer someone 90% commission, for example, because it's the assumption that the potential buyer would not have found your product otherwise.

        These are also niches that are pretty popular... web hosting, security software, email marketing, you know... so dominating search engines with the articles on my sites alone would be a pretty hefty job... especially considering how thin I've spread myself with the many sites I have. "stick with 1 site"... I know, I know... I sort of threw up a bunch of balls in the air and am just seeing what sticks, I suppose.

        Talk soon!
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