EzineArticles is a waste of time for ONE backlink

Why submit one to EZA and then write a different one to be spun for mass submition? Why not just submit the EZA article to 1000 other places? There is no need to write articles just for EZA and then write other articles for everything else.

You should be getting as much mileage as possible out of everything you write. Take your EZA article and spin that one. Then mass submit to article directories. Then also use any web 2.0 site or free blog platform that allows you to post content and submit your article there too.

The good news is that if you've been writing just for EZA all this time you should have a bunch of seed articles that you can now spin for more backlinks.

we can get quality and target traffic from ezine.

I think you're not understanding it correctly.

Why you should use EZ

1. Very strong website and will give you link juice to your site. Very hard to measure the seo impact but lets use this example.

A link from EZ could be equivalent to 100 backlinks from low quality websites. (Just an example) I don't know how competitive your keyword but it will always help towards yoru seo campaigs.

2. EZ supposedly gets MILLIONS of visitors a day or month, can't remember which one it is. Use that fact to write a wicked call to action in your resource box.

More traffic right?

Thats how you should use EZ, goarticle, articledashboard and a few other ones.

Think of EZ as the mother of article backlinks aswell as traffic.

I can't think of any other article directory that can give you both a GOOD backlink and traffic...maybe goarticles?

Understand it better now?

Michael

I use EZA to see those articles ranking high for competitive terms where i want to rank. In second place, i appreciate the backlink it gives to my sites but my main goal is to see those articles ranking high. My 2 cents.

I'm going to quote myself

So, what you really need to decide is what you want most - visitors/views or backlinks. Use EZA for the former, UAW & similar for the latter.

You can get a whole lot more mileage out of that ezine article if promoted properly through other sites.

You're not really thinking about this the right way. Sure, EZA gives you 1 backlink for your 1 article (a nice backlink, from a higher PR site, by the way). However, if your article is good, it WILL get picked up by other people -- all generating more backlinks for you in the process. I've had articles get picked up by dozens of other website, meaning that 1 article gave me dozens of backlinks by the time all was said and done. Heck, even publishing that 1 article on some social bookmarking sites can generate more backlinks for you.

And, don't forget, a great article will generate traffic to your site, so there's alot more to be gained than just 1 backlink.

But again, this is all based on having a great article. There are plenty of people who think that publishing 250 words of sub-par content is good enough to get a quick backlink. However, those people are also missing out on all of the other benefits that can come with publishing something that's great.

Its not only Ezine Article site that we can submit our story there still other reputable article submission site. Regarding with your concerns about Ezine Article submission maybe you overlooked at something try to regain again on how you do those process for you to realize.

I couldn't have said it better myself howinfo.

I think Ezine is a very powerful tool to use; your links will get out there don't worry!

The value in EzineArticles isn't in the one directory - you need to submit that article to multiple other directories. You have to slightly modify it to have it not be seen as duplicate content, though. And Ezine does do a check - so it may be in your best interest to hang around and then submit down the line.

Thanks everyone for your responses. I appreciate getting a bit of feedback on my thoughts.

I was having a bit of a 'head clearing' moment last night (well, early this morning) and just got mad at myself because I was worrying about EZA in my backlinking campaigns at the expense of writing more for auto-submitter services and looking for link swaps etc.

EZA is worth including in my efforts, I'm sure it is, but I've now relegated it to a much lower priority in the pecking order when it comes to what I'm focused on.

I think a couple of you get it, but as evidenced from a few of these responses and a lot of what I read about EZA etc on the forum so many of you don't understand what EZA is best used for.

@kposs said it best, "So, what you really need to decide is what you want most - visitors/views or backlinks. Use EZA for the former, UAW & similar for the latter."

This means if you're learning IM understand that EZA is used by a lot of marketers as a substitute for having their own site to get search engine traffic. If you want search engine traffic for your own site, then promote your own! Heck, I don't want to be targeting a keyword for SE traffic and find that my EZA article outranks my own site!

@chloetaylor; @ddev & @theseoguy - just to clarify, I'm not particularly interested in traffic from EZA or other article directories. I'll take it but my goal as an SEO is to get MY content to the top of the SERPs not EZA's so it's the anchor text backlink I'm interested in.

So, what's a backlink from EZA really worth?

@Michael Nguyen - "A link from EZ could be equivalent to 100 backlinks from low quality websites".

This is FALSE.

A link from a page on EZA with no page rank (ie YOUR article if you don't promote it to give it juice) is worth about the same for SEO as a link from any other page with no page rank. It is certainly not worth 100 other links. I think this is a problem that a lot of marketers have in their way of thinking and it might be keeping your efforts back as it has been for mine. SEO is a different kettle of fish than a lot of people think.

@AdamV - mate, you've hit the nail right on the head as I came to see it last night.

I've been living in a mindset for a long time now thinking that I should care about EZAs precious no dupe spiel. I'm over it. Because I don't use EZA for traffic, just backlinks, I've realised it's not as valuable for me as it might be for others. If my account did come under a cloud because of it then no great loss.

@kposs - it's just the backlinks.

I've been under the impression that EZA was a better backlink than somewhere else like @Michael Nguyen - maybe because EZA is so often revered by internet marketers and many people on this forum - but as I've grown in experience in this game I've realised it isn't.

@NicoleBeckett - EZA doesn't give you a 'nice backlink from a high PR site'. Sure, there's a little juice flowing around the site, just as there is on a profile link from a high PR site, but the backlink is on a page with no PR (your article).

If I want a backlink from a high PR site I'll go for a home page link on a site with PR by negotiating a link swap or a blog comment link on a post with PR etc. These would be nice backlinks.

As for getting my article picked up 10-50 times. See @Tom Goodwin because he is absolutely right.

Scrapers are the ones getting the major benefit out of my EZA content as far as I've noticed and they don't link back or care a hoot. Anyway, 10 extra links doesn't compare to the 500 I get from auto-submitters.

As I said, I'm not entirely discounting EZA, GoArticles, ArticlesDashboard, ArticleTHISORTHAT> I was last night, but a little sleep is a magic thing. I've just gained a little more 'perspective' and rearranged my priorities. As an SEO things are different now for me than when I was looking for traffic in other ways. I think that's the thing.

James.... love the transparency.. I've thought about it before, but never actually figured it out. Thanks for all the great posts!

I have wrote for EZA, now i remember i need to edit my site's links since i have a new website address. Thanks for reminding me!

I agree with you instead of submitting article on that site, you can focus on different method of link building that I assume to be worked

Articles published in EZA aquire PR easily and this have a big impact in your SEO campaign. What I am doing is to optimize the article I submitted to EZA so that is can get PR faster. Also, I don't spin the articles. What I submit to EZA is also the article I submit to other articles directories.

Actually with ezine you can get 3 links out of each article.

You are allowed 2 in your bio and one more in the content as long as it is after the 4th paragraph.

Thats 3 links for each article not just 1

I put articles on EZA so that the (hopefully) 1,000's of people that use EZA for content are grabbing my article for their website and I get backlinks from all these sites.

To get most out of your articles, you should do a UAW submission for your ezine article. Drip feed the articles at about 5 or 10/day. This will increase the ranking of the actual article and the power of the backlinks that you have on the actual article to your money site.

First of all, you can submit the same article to different directories. If ezine is your priority, submit there first I guess if you're paranoid but it doesn't really matter. Of course, you can get higher quality backlinks if they come from orginal content, so I often do a few rewrites like three for the top 3 sites and then one for all the others. Not necessary but can help with your backlinks. It may sound like work, but I can usually do a decent rewrite in like 5 minutes just change the sentence structure a little, change the order of content, add/remove bullets and of course phrase somethings a little differently.

When you've done it a little while it's not nearly as much work as it sounds.

As a few people have pointed out, it's a quality over quantity thing. Yes, mass submission can provide hundreds or thousands of backlinks, but EZ provides strong links, which counts for a lot. Plus it's human edited, which give sit more weight with Google. And, it can provide traffic. All good reasons to continue putting the time into EZA in my opinion.

James, have you ever noticed how an article on Ezine gets a very good PR within a few months? I have seen several of my articles basking in PR2-4 within a few months of getting posted. Even though that article page has several outgoing links, there is a good chance of link juice flowing from that article to your submitted links.

BTW, I think it's 2 links that you can place in a single article, I had been doing that for so long and there had been no discrepancy over that with EZA.

As some one already said to spin the article, I do it religiously. Yes, as soon as I submit the article to EZA, I run over myself and create a spyntax version from which I make more than 30 spun article and go on to manually submit to several article directories. Good links from high PR sites pointing to my sites.

BTW, I do provide article spinning service. So, if you need any kind of help, just PM me for more info or check my thread in the signature.

It is a good site but there are other good sites too which helps in getting good backlinks..

Articles are very important !

EZA is not only a way of get single backlink.Its a great way to get link juice and traffic.

Just so you guys know... Some guy with one post came in and revived a thread that was a year and a half old, probably to come back later and get a backlink in his sig.

If you still wish to discuss the topic then by all means continue but I just want to make sure that everyone realizes that this is a very old thread.

Yeah, I was reading all this worn-out crap and wondering why Alexa hadn't been in here to nuke it yet. :rolleyes:

I like Ezine Articles. I've had several articles page 1 google for many years that still earn me $...and that's without having to worry about any SEO for them.
Shayman

Ezine allows two links. What am I missing??

yess you have to use EZA.. its very powerfull article marketing strategy..

write article as mush as you can do, then wait the traffice explode..