How interesting, 6 million people look at ezine articles? I wish that amount looked at my websites, that kind of traffic is fantastic, but as Micah said, the stats have been cut off at that mark to give you that impression.

Concentrate on writing and submitting articles to them, and piggy back some of that traffic.

Hope this helps.

What about when people publish content? Their only automated system seems to be a Wordpress plug in of some sort.

And where else can one grab EZA content? From the RSS feeds? Those things publish mere snippets of content. You aren't suggesting that people import feeds willy-nilly without actually visiting EZA and reading what they're broadcasting, are you?

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Vintage Research Inc., Jupiter Research, and my own personal results from having thousands of articles on EZA under different pen names. That's where. The latter being the most relevant to this forum.

RoD

Or you're using EZA for traffic when a lot of successful people use EZA for what it's mean't for - Getting your articles published on blogs/websites/Ezines Etc.Etc, that actually have interested readers, often your target customers.

Why do people think that all their prospective purchasers spend their days trawling EZA for solutions to their problems? Do you? I certainly don't.

The only proof in the pudding is that you haven't used article marketing in every way you could, in fact you've barely started if you thought article directory traffic was what article marketing was about. For your information, I don't use directories for traffic either but I get an awful lot of traffic from article marketing, my definition is just different to yours.

You should still bother, but not by just throwing articles up on EZA and hoping for a RBox click through. Use them to get syndicated on sites that people actually frequent, and approach site owners to synbdicate your content, until you can get some sites that want your articles regularly.

RE: those traffic stats, I was surprised that Go Articles only gets 147K uniques a month now. WOW, that's a heck of a drop.

Well where would you want prespective customers going?

1. To your article on EZA where EZA's sole goal is to get your prospective customer to click on the AdSense ads.

2. To the site they visit all the time, because they're fans of it, like you do here, and get an endorsement from the site owner, recommending all your prospective customers to read your article and visit your site.

I like 2 better.

That's not the point though. The thread is about whether or not the traffic is in decline. Whether or not it's been a sensible place to get targeted traffic, whether EZA's traffic has been going up, down or sideways, at least for the last few years, is another arguement altogether.

Not at all. I guess it's good for syndication which equals backlinks, but other than that article marketing is just not worth my time anymore. I've focused that time on other methods and my business has greatly increased by leaving article marketing where it now belongs - by the wayside.

There's no question that EZA traffic has declined hugely and is continuing to decline slightly.

To those who misuse article directories by attempting to use them for their own traffic (I know that will sound pretty loopy to the successful article marketers here, but there are honestly people who completely misunderstand what an article directory is and why they exist), that might be some sort of "problem". (And that's why there are so many threads here with titles like "Is Article Marketing Dead"?).

To those of us using EZA every day for its intended purpose, of course, it's a good thing rather than a bad thing, because it reduces the risk of our potential customers finding an article directory copy of one of our articles rather than the one we want them to find, which was originally published and indexed on our own site, while still enabling us to list our work there as "available for syndication" - which is of course why article directories exist.

Here are two scenarios to compare (a click-through rate of 25% from EZA is assumed in these examples) ...

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.

It's not a very difficult decision to make, is it?

But to do that, you have to understand how article directories work and what they're there for, and NOT try to use them for their own traffic (nor indeed, for their own backlinks, which is - if anything - even more misguided! ).

Articles don't go into EZA to be found through Google!

All explained here, anyway ------> http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

Quick tip...

When you send the notice cc: the host. Not blind bcc:, put that right in the open. While you may never get a direct response, you might be surprised how fast you get action.

Noticed your sig.... I thought teens got pregnant the same way as everyone else....

You may be right. EZA isn't exempt from the flow of evolution. What won't change is the model behind it, the same as the model behind search engines. If EZA goes the way of DMOZ, something will take its place.

Nature abhors a vacuum...

Bigger bigger question: Didn't you see the other two threads on the "death of eza" on the front page before you went to dig up this one? Aye dios mio. :rolleyes:

Not sure how much plainer I can make this, but Google just shat all over the age-old premise of article marketing. Ezine articles is but one piece of the drain it's being flushed through.

I'm betting they won't, and could care less. I don't think they're that keen on what Internet Marketers htink in the first place. We can say what we want, but they are making tons of money off Adsense.

It is an article directory; and always has been. What did you think it was?

If your intent (or anyone else's intent) is to use ezinearticles for it's own traffic, you are going about things the wrong way! The point of EZA, and all article directories really, is to act as one of many platforms for getting your content syndicated.

Take a look at the posts made by this lady, she explains this more than once a day it seems.

Worry not, you didn't strike a chord with me. You may want to look at what you are saying though; and research it a bit further. If you are trying to get traffic from EZA itself, well then you are missing the point.

Then again, your business. Not mine. :rolleyes:

Nothing sad about that, Chris, really. In the long run, it's a good thing, not a bad thing, for your business.

An article that doesn't comply with EZA's minimal literary and editorial standards has no chance of being syndicated from EZA to any quality websites or ezines which can produce targeted traffic for the author - so there's nothing lost at all. And without any syndication from EZA happening, there's certainly no other point (from its author's perspective) in having the article sitting there, anyway.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

I completely agree. The writing quality is just horrendous, and I can't imagine anyone who's serious about building an online reputation wanting their content sitting next to anything in that collection.

Yes, I think they'll survive well beyond that.

Having known Chris 'Sparky' Knight since around 1996, as one of
the smartest online entrepreneurs of my acquaintance, I'd be
willing to bet it'll not just "survive the next year" but do a lot
more.



All success
Dr.Mani

That's true for many of us, Stephanie. But for article marketers, that's an advantage, not a disadvantage.

No article marketer wants their potential customer traffic going from a search engine to an article directory rather than from a search engine to their own site: those are not the people for whom articles are submitted to directories at all. :rolleyes:

Who'd want their own site to be outranked by an article directory? That isn't what article directories are there for, at all.

Thanks to the benefits of the Panda updates of 2011, we can now submit copies of our articles to Ezine Articles without the danger of that happening. It's made it much easier to rank our own sites for ourselves instead of EZA's site for them, and it's now easier for us to use article directories for the purpose for which they exist.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5075780

"Should be"? It is.

Successful article marketers are submitting their work to Ezine Articles only after first publishing it on their own sites (and thereby building up their own sites, and acquiring the cumulative SEO benefit of all the initial indexations), and often having it syndicated to other relevant sites, in ezines, and so on. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...eza-first.html

Submission to EZA is just a potential "little extra", at the other end of the article marketing process. Depending on it for its backlinks is clearly of virtually no value. And depending on it for customer traffic is actively counterproductive and most unwise. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Yes, I hear you there.

They've been taking on a lot of new editorial staff, and I suppose they have to go through some sort of on-the-job training processes ... but it does make some of the acceptances pretty inconsistent and unreliable while it's going on. :rolleyes: :p

The author you saw could have had ten articles at one point, three of which were subsequently removed without taking away his "Platinum" status?

Or of course it can be a pen-name. Once your account is "Platinum", if you start a new pen-name, that name's first article will show "Platinum author: 1 article" (which is always a give-away that it's a pen-name).

Admittedly, Ezinearticles does have quite minimal editorial standards. As far as I know, this has always been so. However, barely coherent content is more of a problem for the authors, not EZA's editorial staff. Dysfunctional writers perhaps may be the ones primarily affected by this decline in overall traffic. Throwing up mediocre generic garbage sprinkled with keywords just doesn't have the pizazz like it used to, does it? :rolleyes:

The ill and handicapped are not qualified to make such a diagnosis.

I don't doubt that as article marketing analysts go, you're an excellent carpet cleaner. I'm only going to say this once, and it's my last reply to you: you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

That's not a "problem" at all: as explained in post #82 above, for article marketers that's actually an advantage, not a disadvantage. Nobody in their right mind is trying to use article directories for ranking.

Not if it's an article directory, no.

That's what article directories are there for.

By submitting your article there, you're authorizing anyone to syndicate it.

The articles generally need to be written for syndication, though, for people to want them.

While directories like EZA may be losing search traffic, I don't think the major, established directories will fade away completely. Rather, they will find their natural level as they fulfill the role for which they were created.

Regarding the secondary and trivial directories, without the support of publishers and website owners, you may be correct.

Hard to argue with this, as it's one of the main premises behind the practice of content syndication for targeted traffic. Given the way many syndicators operate, posting to directories is actually the final step in the process. Our quality content goes on our own sites first, then it's distributed to our syndicates. Finally, a copy is posted to one or more directories for whatever passive syndication benefit there may be.

To achieve further syndication of one's articles.

That's the purpose for which article directories exist ...

... to provide relevant niche sites, authority sites, ezine publishers and others with their content needs, and to enable authors to announce the availability of their work for syndication, in order to get them (and their link) in front of the maximum possible quantity of already-targeted potential customer traffic without depending on search engines. That's what an article directory is.

It's not an either/or - naturally one does both those things first.

The mechanism (including the place of Ezine Articles in the overall scheme of article marketing) is explained in this post: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

No article marketer, for all the reasons explained in this post, would want to try to use an article directory to get potential customer traffic visiting their own site via an article directory at all (we all lose most of that traffic: the article directory makes its own living from the people who don't get as far as our own sites, after all). That's not who those copies are there for.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

The undoubted decline in potential customer traffic to article directories is actually a good thing for article marketers, not a bad thing.

Here are my current stats from EzineArticles.com as of today. Just shy of 42,000 clicks from 362 articles. I don't get near the traffic today as I did before the Panda debacle (and yes, I understand that many people feel that I should be looking for traffic from syndicators and not from EZA). There was a time that I was getting quite a bit of traffic from two syndicators though never anything like the traffic I got straight from EZA at it's peak.


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