Lots of Questions about EZA and Article Syndication! EXPERTS NEEDED FOR ANSWERS PLEASE!

Those days are long gone.

Thankfully for article marketers, all Google's 2011 Panda updates have made quite sure of that, and we can now rank our owns sites far more easily, and we don't have any of the former problems some people had in that an article in EZA might sometimes outrank the one on their own site, and their potential customers might go from a search engine to an article directory (and of course most of them would never reach their own site at all!).

I understand that it's not quite so easy to rank squeeze pages, because of their relative lack of content (though some people seem to manage it anyway). But to try to rank a page on Ezine Articles means only that you'll lose most of the traffic that gets there. It's a bit like pouring water into a bucket with a big hole in it.

Why not just put up a little site of your own, and do what article marketers do: publish your articles on your own site first, and get the traffic there instead of at EZA, and link to your own squeeze page?

(Ezine Articles is probably not going to like your linking to a squeeze page, anyway. Eventually, they'll only - understandably, from their perspective - start declining your articles, as they sometimes do, on the grounds that "the site linked to in the resource box contains inadequate original content for our readers").

Respectfully, it makes very little sense to try to do it the way you're suggesting, for all the reasons explained in the posts linked to in my post just above. You'll just lose most of your traffic unnecessarily to EZA's AdSense ads and other distractions. You'd be trying to use an article directory for a purpose for which it's never existed in the first place.

This is what all the people who have started off all the threads here with titles like "Article Marketing Is Dead" have been trying to do.

Obviously they're wrong about it being "article marketing" (it isn't, at all) but they're right that it's dead! For them, anyway, because they're trying to use an article directory in a way they don't work.

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

Well, I'm not Alexa but I'll do my humble best. My own responses are in red.

Fixed that for ya.

I did too :-(

Well, 986 to be exact.

And all those of us who are making plenty of money this way, Dave? How's that happening?!

Those "duplicate content rules" you speak of have absolutely nothing to do with this at all. Unlike Google, you're not distinguishing between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content". This little article will explain the whole thing to you, if you're willing to read it (but it seems that you never have been in the past, whenever we've had these conversations, so I'm not too optimistic): Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing

Looks like Stephen answered all the other questions, above, for myself as well as himself, really ... thank you.

The thing I do a little differently is that I'm linking back from my resource-box to my landing page, not to another article. I have no problem with people wanting to read another article, of course, but I generally want to show them my home page (which I use as the landing page for this traffic) first, because that's the page on which I so prominently incentivize the opt-in and set their expectations for opting in, and I do see the primary purpose of my websites as being to get the opt-in.

Yes ... article directories do not require previously unpublished content.

Explained in detail here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post4309204

You can, but there's little point. Three is really too many. (For me, anyway). If you're after syndication, Ezine Articles is "the place to be". (You could try GoArticles and ArticlesBase, too, I suppose, if you really want - there's certainly no point in submitting it to more than those, unless you know of some special, niche-specific one that's relevant to you).

My advice would be not to raise your expectations too high as far as EZA and getting content syndicated. If that's your real goal, you need to be more proactive and go direct to the websites which would be likely users of your content.
I see submitting to EZA as a very passive activity, it takes 5 minutes to do, so it's worth that amount of your time, but it doesn't yield much. It's a bit hit and miss in my experience. If you want to make a living out of this I wouldn't put much trust in EZA or any of the other 'big' directories, start writing to people direct.

Read this thread again, including the links for additional references, tools, and guides. It's all been covered quite well right here.

The ebook I suggested above by Paul Myers walks you in great detail through the process.

Also, as Alexa wisely suggested above, subscribe to the Directory of Ezines.