my Ezine travel article made no1 on Google after only 12 hours !

That would be some good money as far as those keywords are concerned because that search term looks like it gets VERY few searches per month.


but here is the problem that makes it even less profitable. Whatever visits you get are not to your site but to ezinearticles. You now have to take into account that only a small percentage will click your author link.

This is what people don't learn about when they are taught to rank "their article" on an article site. You have not ranked. You have only helped ezinearticle to rank in return for a link that gets a fraction of the traffic. Depending on your conversion you could see as little as five visits per hundred that ever get to your site.

For that reason for a very low competitive term you are better off trying to rank your own site than an ezinearticle post. Personally I would only go for a search term with 20,000 or more searches per month and a very strong competition when using an article site but thats me.