eZine Articles question?

That's a poor and inappropriate way to try to use an article directory, Rob.

For all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer would want to get potential customer traffic coming to their site from an article directory. That isn't who those copies of the articles are there for, at all.

Yes, clearly and definitely.

This thread will help you: it explains how article directories work: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

And this thread (read carefully!) explains in detail why you shouldn't submit to an article directory any content that hasn't previously been published and indexed on your own site: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

That's the last thing you should want to do. That builds their business instead of yours.

All Google's "Panda updates" of 2011 did the article marketing community a huge favor by making it very much harder for that to happen to article directory articles, thus greatly facilitating our using directories for their intended purpose, while retaining all the SEO benefits for our own sites.

People who try to do that are the ones starting off all the threads with titles like "Is Article Marketing Dead?" For them, it is. What they're doing isn't actually "article marketing" at all. It's article directory marketing. That doesn't help them. It can even damage their businesses. These are people who mistakenly imagine that Google's recent updates were "bad for article marketing" (which they weren't at all). They end up with sites that can't even outrank an article directory, little realising that in fact "they did it to themselves" by misusing article directories.

Ezine Articles has a good, significant and important use, but that isn't it.

The threads linked to above (and the additional links inside them!) will help you a lot, I think. Plenty to read, there, and it will answer your question - and closely related ones - in great detail.

Alexa is right. Your articles helps EZA rank high in the search engine. Your links may be there but it may rarely get clicked on.

I would rather create my own blog and write articles there.

EZA has a large number of writers and they make their money from those Google adsense ads.

You can try squidoo and hubpages for better results. Those places are really great to get some direct traffic.

EZA will help rank your articles higher in search engines but do not expect your links to clicked on that much. Try using squidoo or better yet, make your own blog site.

Alexa is spot on. Besides I think I remember reading somewhere that after panda, EZA now admits you would need a significant amount of articles (somewhere in the thousands range) in order to see a decent amount of traffic to your site.

Seems hardly worth it to me. Your best bet is to start your own blog, and send traffic directly to your site