What's so special about Directory of Ezines? and ..

LOL, I can see why that might have been deleted. :p

Better than what? Better than an article directory? You can't compare the two at all. One is a single article directory. The other is a list of ezines (not of article directories). (You appreciate that "Ezine Articles" isn't "an ezine"?).

Ezine Articles is a mere afterthought for article marketing. It's just a way of announcing to publishers of ezines (and webmasters in your niche) who look there for freely available content for their publications (or sites) that your work's available - with your link included - for that purpose. It has no other purpose. It's for potential "passive syndication" only. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

The Directory of Ezines is an advisory membership service (run by a very good guy called Charlie Page, and his staff), and an accompanying publication - with ongoing updates - of an authoritative list of ezines to which you can submit your articles for publication in front of the already-highly-targeted subscriber-traffic you're trying to attract to your site. It lists the ones which take "paid inserts" and the ones which takes "free inserts", too.

For anyone intending to have their articles syndicated to ezines, it's really more or less the "sine qua non": everything else is a pretty poor substitute, by comparison. (It's also effectively a lifetime, permanent membership for a single payment.)

Does this post help, Lisa: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6575732 ?

I have often recommended using the Directory of Ezines as a tool for finding publishers who are likely to be receptive to niche-relevant article syndication. It has proven to be an effective resource to me for quite a few years in dozens of niches. However, this is not the intended purpose of the DOE.

Publishers who list their ezines are really after subscribers and advertisers. It is not intended as an article directory at all, although in addition to advertising rates (often including a free ad for new subscribers), listings indicate whether or not publishers accept articles.

Using the Directory of Ezines for its unintended purpose (article syndication) is nothing more than just thinking a little bit outside the box. Other sources that I have used quite successfully for article marketing are "Writers' Market", Magazines.com, and USNPL.com (list of newspapers in the US).

You can extrapolate this yourself by reading Turn Words Into Traffic by Jim and Dallas Edwards, "Elements of Style" by William Strunk, "Brand Against the Machine" by John Morgan, and perhaps "The AP Stylebook". Seriously, these are minimum core essentials that I demand for all of my writers.

When composing an article for syndication, always consider not only what actionable results you want from readers, but also the standards expected by publishers. Good writing includes considerations not only of reader expectations such as article length, grammar, spelling, syntax, context, etc., but other similar and often more constraining standards expected by publishers.

And now, more than ever before, publishers really are hungry for quality content. This marketing model of article syndication is a dynamic, asset-building process. It does take time to grow, but over time it can become a powerful traffic-generating tool with virtually unlimited scalability. For any given commercially viable niche, there may be hundreds or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of online/offline publication outlets suitable for syndication.

Excuse me for this preamble rambling, but actually I can barely resist poking a bit of fun and going into a tirade of proper word choice in your question. I'm sure what you meant was for me to "'splain a bit" how I use Writers' Market, magazines.com, and usnpl.com to find syndication partners. Well, assuming you have marketable articles, the task of article marketing can begin.

Most editors listed in these publication directories are quite used to a "query" format, an unsolicited proposal for an article. In addition, nearly all offline magazines and newspapers have article submission contact information. An excellent tutorial for querying editors is given in "Writers' Market", which also includes current contact information and article submission guidelines for magazines and newspapers. Generally, you can approach publishers who have a subscriber base aligned with your target market with a query similar to this sample: Sample Query Letter to Magazines.

In a query, it's important to cite your experience in the niche and it would be quite helpful to also mention a few relevant articles that have been previously published. If you're not yet published, or even if you're just starting within a new niche, the best way to begin IMO is with ezines (read Alexa's posts and references in How to Find Article Syndication Partners?.

A good writer can still break into virtually any niche, no matter how stiff the competition may be. In stark contrast to SEO, where one must search for "low competition" keywords/phrases to rank, the more competitive niches generally provide greater opportunities for article syndication publication. The most difficult concept for writers to understand (including my own employees) is the real conversion power of words, and the difference between just using the right words for SEO ranking and choosing the best words for effective conversion.

Could it perhaps be John Morgan from The Wurzels ("I Am A Cider Drinker", etc), British pro golfer, a comedian, or ...?

You've confused ezines with article directories.

An ezine is a newsletter which is sent out to its subscribers by email. It has nothing to do with Google at all.

No - it isn't a much better directory, nor a much worse directory: it isn't a directory at all.

You're thinking of things like "Ezine Articles", which is an article directory, not an ezine. It's called that because it was set up to provide publishers with articles for ezines, not because it's an ezine (which it isn't!).

You're trying to draw a distinction (and a perfectly correct and valid one) between article directories with an editorial approval process and those with autosubmission. But those are two different types of article directories. They're not ezines, which is what this thread is about. The "Directory of Ezines" is a publication which lists available ezines (email newsletters) to which authors can syndicate their work. It has absolutely nothing to do with article directories at all.