Performance at ezine = 0?

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Hello,

we published our first article on ezine. After 2 days it has one view so far (and I guess that's either us or the editor who has viewed the article).
Is this normal?
0 views in the first 3 days?
And of course 0 traffic on our website from this article.

How about yours? How many views do you usually get in the first week in average?
How many visitors do you have on your website from this?

Thanks,
Chris
#main internet marketing discussion forum #ezine #performance
  • I've not had great success or reliable traffic from Ezine. Five years ago it was the BOMB... but now, it has fallen out of favor with Google.

    BTW...when was the last time you were googling anything normal (not IM related) and found an Ezine article on page 1?

    Its literally been years for me...

    How about this.. write your content.. then make a video using the content and post it to youtube.com...

    When was the last time you saw a youtube.com video show up on page 1 of Google?

    Thanks!

    Jeremiah
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    • Thanks, I like this idea and it's worked for me. Another idea would be to convert the main points of the article into an infographic and post to Pinterest or other infographic site. This should generate interest and traffic for any site being linked to or mentioned.
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    • I am with you on that too. I think it is a waste of time to use Ezine Articles or any article directory for that matter.

      Want faster and better results? Pay for your ads.
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      The irony of it! It was actually post-Panda that it became possible and convenient for article marketers to use it without the potential problem that that copy might rank well. For all the reasons explained above, that was when - and why - so many article marketers started using it again.

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  • The occasional article can still bring in the occasional visitor though it fell off a cliff a few years ago. Thnings aint what they used to be.......You might have a think about other options for stuff to do with your proposed articles such as document share sites, convert in to videos for YouTube, Daily Motion and similar and/or social media use.
  • I have two articles approved on EzineArticles and it has never sent a single visitor to my site. I just use them to make backlinks.
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    And the moral of the story is: don't try to use an article directory to attract traffic to your site. That's not what they're for, and it isn't how they work.

    For all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer wants to use an article directory to attract potential customer traffic to their own site.

    This thread explains how they work: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

    I don't check. That isn't what I'm putting my articles in EZA for.

    As few as possible, I hope.

    Thanks to all Google's "Panda updates", I'm now able to use Ezine Articles for its originally intended purpose without the risk that potential customer visitors to my site will ever find that copy and go to an article directory first (where I'd lose most of them) instead of coming straight to my own site.

    I hope that doesn't sound "mysterious", but if it does, the links above will clarfiy it fully.

    Sorry, but that's an even worse idea than what the OP's trying to do. Those are "craplinks", not "backlinks". You don't even need an article at all, to get a backlink as poor as those.

    Exactly the opposite is true. The Panda updates helped article marketers. (The forum's full of threads explaining this). After those updates, Ezine Articles is working better for us, for the purpose for which it's intended.


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    • Hi Alexa,

      I really like your detailed and informative posts about article syndication. I know that some other reputable Internet marketers, like Charlie Page of the Directory of Ezined, also insist that is the right way to go in order to get the most of your article.

      Kindly, there are two questions I wanted to ask you:

      1. What are the best sites / directories to submit articles to nowadays?

      2. Is there any post of yours that guides newbies how to create a great article that will actually get syndicated? How to choose the right topic? Build the article? Etc..,

      Many thanks and have a lovely weekend,

      Roni
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  • Chris,

    You are a little late buddy.

    A few years ago when Ezine articles was liked by Google, people were getting a ton of traffic through their own articles.

    Nowadays, not many people use it and to be honest with you, don't waste your time with them.
  • Back 4 or 5 years ago, EzineArticles yielded good traffic to my articles that were KW targeted. After it was slapped in the Google update, it is not a very good source of traffic. Rather than spend time on articles, you are better off to turn them into videos and post them on YouTube and other video channels.

    Don't spend time expecting EZA to send you significant traffic... at least that has been my experience of late.
  • These days people only use ezine for the sake of backlinking, or to rewrite some of their content for their websites..
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      No, sorry, Najat - none of this is right, at all. Nobody's using Ezine Articles for backlinks, these days: they've been worthless since about 2010. And it makes no sense at all to re-write content from your website before submitting it there: that would be giving an article directory "unique content", which nobody would want to do, for all the reasons explained throughout this thread.


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  • EZine backlinking is a waste of time for now... It hasn't worked in years, as Alexa said. There are still several ways that you can make Ezine work for you, including through YouTube. However, I don't recommend Ezine articles for traffic. You would be better to look for a different form of free traffic, such as social media and viral marketing.
  • Thank you for your reply and we'll stop with ezine.
    Seems as if I found quite an ancient resource for getting some ideas on how to start.
  • Article Directories are DEAD. Take that from an "ex-article marketer".

    The top websites and blogs will hardly look for content in there.

    The article directory itself neither helps in your SEO nor leads to significant traffic.

    And by chance, even if someone does decide to publish your article in his site, he will probably not attribute it to your name.

    So, do you see how lose-lose situation you are playing in?

    Stop what you are doing right now, and look for alternate content marketing methods.
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      You're not an ex-article marketer, Ron. You're an ex article directory marketer who has never understood the difference between the two activities. It's been self-evident here, over many years, that you don't understand what "article marketing" is, and countless Warriors have said so, and tried in vain to explain it to you.

      Ezine Articles is far from dead, and that's why many successful article marketers are still using it regularly.

      This is just completely wrong: it's the first place many publishers look.

      Of course it doesn't. It isn't supposed to. That isn't how article directories work.

      They won't go out and do your shopping for you, either, but that has no more to do with it than what you're talking about.

      People who try to use article directories for purposes they can't serve and were never intended to serve are bound to imagine that "they don't work", while those of us who use Ezine Articles for its real purpose are continuing to benefit from it.

      You have, as ever, just no idea what you're talking about, on this subject.

      Sorry to word it so bluntly, but this has been going on, now, for years, and your totally mistaken perceptions help nobody. (Least of all yourself.)

      If you ever decide you want to learn something about how article directories actually work, and to see why many of us are still using EZA and benefitting from it, rather than repeating all this nonsense of yours, this thread will help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

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  • Ezine articles is dead,- links from them appeared in google webmaster tool as manual penalties due to unnatural links - and pretty much the whole article marketing industry.

    Try guest blogging instead, it's the same concept - placing articles on other websites - but it's a step up in the sense that you have to research and find a relevant guest blog that will accept your post, and also your article quality should be higher.

    You can do guest blogging for links or for traffic, or for both, as needed.
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      However many professional article marketers are continuing to submit copies of their articles for syndication to EZA, as their last-stage submission process, and benefitting from that, there just isn't a way to stop people from saying this, apparently.

      This is third thread in which you've alleged this, and the third time it's being pointed out to you that you've misunderstood what happened and drawn the wrong conclusion from it. But I suspect you don't look at the replies to your posts, so it's quite difficult to prevent you from misinforming people about it. The best we can hope for is probably just to inform others that you have it all wrong. In short, it wasn't because they were EZA backlinks. It was because of other spammy, automated/mass article directory submission those people had done.

      This is just plain wrong.

      Your problem, here (as in both the other threads in which you've posted entirely mistakenly about this subject) is that you've confused article marketing with article directory marketing.

      Your comments about guest blogging, however, are entirely correct: guest blogging is a classic and valuable form of article marketing.

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  • Hey Chris, I would dump the EzineArticles approach as you begin building someone else's business and not your own. Furthermore, it's not as powerful. If you really want to make an impact, I'd recommend posting it on your own blog and using the power of social media to spread the word.
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      That depends on how you try to use it, and isn't true at all if you use it correctly: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

      That's a plus, actually. It's not supposed to be "powerful". It's supposed to be "the first place that many publishers look for content", and that's what it is. How "powerful" it is has nothing to do with that at all.

      Nobody is using Ezine Articles to try to make an "impact".

      Clearly - nobody's going to submit unique content to EZA. All articles submitted there should be posted on your own site and indexed there first, for all the reasons explained throughout this thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

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  • Agree with most the others. Ezine no longer worth the effort.
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  • I only ever publish my articles in EzineArticles and iSnare. All the sales of my e-Book The Gems Report are a direct result of my article marketing efforts through these two directories. But then I write REALLY good articles. With me it's never about the numbers, it's about the quality. I look at an article as something that should first of all grab the browser with the title alone, and then making it interesting in content so that you convert your browser into a reader that reads your article to the very end... because it's an interesting read AND they come away with something. That's really all there is to it.
  • This type of content marketing is DEAD many years ago Ezine was great for Google. Not so much anymore.
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