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Directory Traffic: Eza vs others.. EZA is dying..

by Adie
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I had a little experiment here.

A customer ordered 10 articles to be posted into his EZA new account and I did it last 2 days. Honestly, EZA rejected all articles and said the destination ,or the promoted URL does not make sense. My client couldn't do nothing since he can't change his whole site in favor of EZA. because the articles were already written, I suggested if we can submit to other top directories and he agreed.

Okay, I submitted all 10 articles to:
Amazines (pr4, alexa 7,265)
Articlesbase (pr5, alexa 1,750)
Goarticles (pr6, alexa 2,889)
Articlealley (pr4, alexa 11,948)

I submitted one article to EZA under my own personal account and tweaked the URL. to my surprise, EZA accepted the article.

After nearly 48 hours of acceptance in all mentioned directories, the result are the following (same articles only - not mentioning other articles on the group)

Amazines - 36 views
Articlesbase - 17 views
Goarticles - 26 views
Articlealley - 12 views

EZA - 14 views (pr6, alexa 342) - only 2 views difference with articlealley

Isn't it look like pathetic? I am really surprised with the result. All 4 directories I mentioned are not as tough as EZA to get accepted yet they deliver better result...
#directory #dying #eza #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author icoachu
    It's going to continue to go downhill if the Google update rumors re Content optimization and specificity turns out to be true.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Originally Posted by Adie View Post

    I had a little experiment here.

    A customer ordered 10 articles to be posted into his EZA new account and I did it last 2 days. Honestly, EZA rejected all articles and said the destination ,or the promoted URL does not make sense. My client couldn't do nothing since he can't change his whole site in favor of EZA. because the articles were already written, I suggested if we can submit to other top directories and he agreed.

    Okay, I submitted all 10 articles to:
    Amazines (pr4, alexa 7,265)
    Articlesbase (pr5, alexa 1,750)
    Goarticles (pr6, alexa 2,889)
    Articlealley (pr4, alexa 11,948)

    I submitted one article to EZA under my own personal account and tweaked the URL. to my surprise, EZA accepted the article.

    After nearly 48 hours of acceptance in all mentioned directories, the result are the following (same articles only - not mentioning other articles on the group)

    Amazines - 36 views
    Articlesbase - 17 views
    Goarticles - 26 views
    Articlealley - 12 views

    EZA - 14 views (pr6, alexa 342) - only 2 views difference with articlealley

    Isn't it look like pathetic? I am really surprised with the result. All 4 directories I mentioned are not as tough as EZA to get accepted yet they deliver better result...
    Adie, you really should have paid more attention in math class...

    You submitted 10 articles to ArticleAlley and got 12 views, for an average of 1.2 views per article.

    You submitted 1 article to EZA and got 14 views, for an average of 14 views per article.

    In other words, EZA outperformed AA by more than ten times.

    Oh, and your client did have an option. He could have commissioned articles where the destination url did make sense.
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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      Adie, you really should have paid more attention in math class...

      You submitted 10 articles to ArticleAlley and got 12 views, for an average of 1.2 views per article.

      You submitted 1 article to EZA and got 14 views, for an average of 14 views per article.

      In other words, EZA outperformed AA by more than ten times.

      Oh, and your client did have an option. He could have commissioned articles where the destination url did make sense.
      No. I submitted 10 articles but the data I provided is just for 1 article and not for 10. Please review my post. The views I presented is not a collected data but for just 1 common article similar for all directories mentioned.
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      Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post

      Adie, no disrespect, but I think you and your client both need a refresher on what article directories are actually intended to do.
      This. Exactly.

      For heavens' sake, Adie, you know better than this, surely? The less potential customer traffic an article directory article gets, the better it is for the article marketer (on that front, anyway!).

      For all the reasons explained at such great length and in such detail, with examples, in this post, no article marketer wants to use an article directory to attract potential customers whom he could instead choose to attract directly to his own site and not lose most of them!

      It will perhaps help your client to read this thread and its links, and understand what an article directory is and how it's intended to work and what purposes it can and can't beneficially fulfil for him, because at the moment he hasn't grasped that at all, it seems: he's trying to use it for a purpose he shouldn't even want it to fulfil (and it can't, anyway!). http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

      The undoubted decline in EZA's traffic has made it better suited to article marketing, not worse suited. Articles are submitted to directories for publishers to find, not for customers; for people searching inside the directory to find, not for people searching in Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author Manie Amari
    Originally Posted by Adie View Post

    Directory Traffic: Eza vs others.. EZA is dying..
    Not again...
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    This will NOT be up for long. Get it now whilst You still can. Btw it's FREE...
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  • Profile picture of the author marketinguk
    I totally agree with Alexa, John and Jay on this one and when I saw the heading of the thread I thought "not another newbie speaking more junk about how EZA is dead/dying". Adie is of course anything but a newbie so was very surprised to see that you have written.

    We don't yet know anything about what your niche is, how much competition and demand there is in the topic, how well you have written it and a host of other factors.

    Please Alexa try to stay calm at this thread, imagine a newbie wrote it lol.

    Yawn!
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by Adie View Post

      No. I submitted 10 articles but the data I provided is just for 1 article and not for 10. Please review my post. The views I presented is not a collected data but for just 1 common article similar for all directories mentioned.
      Gotcha. I tripped over the use of plurals to indicate a single article out of the group. My bad...
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  • Profile picture of the author WeavingThoughts
    Does that mean that article directories are best suited for quality backlinks?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by WeavingThoughts View Post

      Does that mean that article directories are best suited for quality backlinks?
      No.

      Article directory backlinks are close to worthless.

      Even before all the 2011 Panda updates decimated the linkjuice value of article directories, authors of established, respected SEO textbooks were explaining why something like 50,000 - 100,000 of those "backlinks" would typically confer about the same linkjuice value as that from one backlink on a relevant, quality site.

      Article directory submission has only one real benefit to article marketers (albeit that it's a huge and very important one): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

      To announce that "EZA is dying" because it doesn't fulfil some other, unrelated function which it was never intended to fulfil in the first place (and hasn't been able to for a long time, either) is ... well, let's say that it's "a little less than optimal", shall we?
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  • Profile picture of the author captainron4
    Well while I understand how article directories work, and understand that the sample size is small, I have looked at the numbers and see them all in the same realm. I don't think "dying" is a term I would use anyway. When, oh my, one article directory gets almost the same views as another, let's not freak out. The sky is not falling. At most EZA has a slight case of the sniffles.

    I mean after all if we are going to react in this manner, what difference does it make...the world is ending on December 22nd.
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