Good Ezine articles

Hmm.. I dont know. You'll need to find a way to reach people that like to read online. Most people read articles because they are looking for some specific info.

I think that you can get a Wordpress Widget that will let you do that.

Probably the Article Friendly script Is the most adaptable article directory script, at least you can more easily ban cheats.

It would be nice not having to read all of the articles but even the ones that you trust can change. Apart from that it's surprising how many make mistakes with their links so it's always worth checking to avoid dead links on your site.

Because I was getting overwhelmed with articles I experimented with removing the author sign up page on my article dashboard directory and invited new authors to submit their first article and sign up details by email. In 2 months only a handful were determined enough to start off that way as opposed to about 20 new authors every day with the sign up page intact. To be honest it was great getting quality over quantity and I had more time to work on my other projects.

I could be wrong but you could password protect a directory sign up page and only give out the password to authors that you trust. With article friendly you can choose to accept articles automatically and with article dashboard you can get an add on.

Thank you! I wanted to have a picture that gives people a good first impression.

PatriciaJ - thanks for the advice. I'll check out Article Friendly.
I have a guy in Bangladesh that does all the actual coding and stuff like that so I'll tell him about the script.

I personally don't think it's a good idea to use that domain. If I were in your position, I would just get rid of the domain and sell it off for how much you got the domains for. It's just not worth the risk of legal actions taken by ezine articles.

Hi Mathias,

For a couple of years I ran an article directory, and it was an absolute grind. Your domain name itself is worthless - unless - you put in the time to build lots of back links to increase your site's visibility and authority... and unless you manually check every article for quality.

I was using the Article Dashboard script, which is certainly good enough to do the job, but as PatriciaJ pointed out, you absolutely need to filter out the crap submitters. You have no idea how huge a percentage of junky, barely understandable articles you'll be receiving. I'd get literally a couple thousand a day, and there is no way in the world you can go through that many manually.

You can opt to accept everything, which will sink your directory under the weight of thousands of useless $1 articles and un-rewritten PLR dreck. Or you can finally just admit it's a losing business model and shut it down. That's what I finally did.

One good strategy, however, which I've seen work well is to specialize. Do a niche directory that runs only articles in, say, gardening or investing or dating. But you'll still have to check every single article. Unfortunately, the domain name you registered is not a good match for a niche directory.

And no matter which direction you choose, it's a good idea to refuse all automated submissions. Period. it's more work for you, but it's the only way to keep the quality up. Will you receive lots of complaints from guys wanting to pour a flood of junk into your directory? Sure will. But unless you keep 'em out, you and your visitors are the ones who'll suffer.

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles

charlesburke - thanks for the warning.

What if I only focus on Internt Marketing articles and only allow a few writers to post articles, then people can subscribe and get only "good ezine articles" in their email once per week...

I have some other projects going on, so I might just put this idea on the shelf...

I have my personal site broken down into sections with a somewhat generic name (Okay, I am rebuilding my web site with the different sections but still) and if you were to focus on different niches ... I think that would be the key there. I have to agree about the domain name though. If you do have a good way to promote it, you may get the traffic ... but just the thought of going through so many general articles every day ...

Just my two cents

Your domain name get good attention but beware that ezinearticles might take legal copyright action against yours if you caught their attention.

but it's ok if you share tips regarding ezinearticles and do a good review about them

I've emailed ezinearticles and asked what they think about the domain.
I'm not going to risk being sued over a domain name.

Hi Mathias,

Thanks for writing us.

If there is a likelihood of market confusion (which clearly there
would be), we would reserve the right to pursue all remedies
available to us by law to protect our mark.

In other words, most likely yes. We would take all legal action
necessary in order to protect our registered trademark
"EZINEARTICLES" Serial number 3125142.

I respectfully & strongly recommend that you consider a different
domain name that does not infringe on our registered trademark.

Regards
Christopher Knight
EzineArticles Submission - Submit Your Best Quality Original Articles For Massive Exposure, Ezine Publishers Get 25 Free Article Reprints

I still think I may be able to use the domain because if the "fair use" principle.

Come on, ezine articles?

It's like if I had a registered trademark that was called "dogblog".
That can't stop another person from making a "good dog blog"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_us..._trademark_law)

Does anybody here know a lot about trademarks and trademark protection?