Performance at ezine = 0?

12 years ago

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?

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by jimvol

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

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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talfighel 12 years ago

Originally Posted by kingsuk

RIP eZine. Used to work awesome until panda update.

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.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by kingsuk

Used to work awesome until panda update.

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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Chris30K

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

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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Here's my main argument. I'm not saying article marketing is completely ineffective. If you do any money generating activity with daily consistency, you'll see results. However , if you look at trends, social signals are becoming more powerful.

Social Media is more powerful than article marketing, it has WAY MORE POTENTIAL. This is coming from a guy who, like you, has seen massive success with article marketing.

Things change, and I feel a marketer should spend most of their time developing personal relationships on Social networks, rather than just writing articles. Should you repurpose your content? Sure, hire someone to do this - but my focus would be social media.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

You have the advantage over me, there: I know nothing about Social Media, and am therefore entirely unable to compare its merits with those of article marketing.

All I'm saying, here, is that criticising an article directory for "not ranking" - which you did, to be fair - has absolutely nothing at all with assessing "whether or not it works", because (a) that's not its purpose anyway, and (b) it's actually better and easier to use for its purpose when it doesn't rank. Once you have the article anyway, it would be a bit silly not to put it in EZA as well as (and after) anything/everything else you use it for, given that doing so is free, trivially easy, and produces some additional benefits. Not too contentious, there, I hope?

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

You have the advantage over me, there: I know nothing about Social Media, and am therefore entirely unable to compare its merits with those of article marketing.

All I'm saying, here, is that criticising an article directory for "not ranking" - which you did, to be fair - has absolutely nothing at all with assessing "whether or not it works", because (a) that's not its purpose anyway, and (b) it's actually better and easier to use for its purpose when it doesn't rank. Once you have the article anyway, it would be a bit silly not to put it in EZA as well as (and after) anything/everything else you use it for, given that doing so is free, trivially easy, and produces some additional benefits. Not too contentious, there, I hope?

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I feel like you're arguing to be right and completely defending article marketing - and I'm simply bringing up facts to help you out. I think you should cut the emotional attachment to article marketing, re-assess, and figure out where time is most wisely spent. For me, I've found that it is social media, I mean Facebook & Twitter have disrupted DICTATORSHIPS. What's more powerful than that? I would re-analyze as I truly do believe you'll see more success. Don't take my word for it:

Article marketing for SEO is becoming obsolete. Matt Cutts says that social signals will increase in importance; after all - it only makes sense: Matt Cutts Explains How Important Social Media Signals Really Are | Search Engine Journal

I criticized EzineArticles.Com for not ranking because if it's not ranking as high, then it's not as useful for SEO as it was before. It may still be effective, but heck, so is advertising in the yellow pages - but the effectiveness is going down, and you don't want to be caught with your head in the dirt wondering: "What happened to my business?" - If you want to be relevant online, you're going to have to change to what's working. Right now social media is one of the strongest candidates, there are others, but I know of that one.

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Originally Posted by Chris30K

I'm simply bringing up facts to help you out.

Facts about social media aren't all that helpful, Chris, in a thread about article marketing. Have you even read the thread's original post? It's about an article directory, not about social media.

Originally Posted by Chris30K

For me, I've found that it is social media

I don't know the first thing about it. This thread's about Ezine Articles. Don't blame me, please: I didn't start it

Originally Posted by Chris30K

Article marketing for SEO is becoming obsolete.

That's like saying that pole-vaulting is becoming obsolete to novel-writing. The two things are unconnected. Article marketing has nothing to do with SEO. It hasn't, ever since I've been online (and I understand for at least quite a while before that, too). It's a targeted traffic-generation method that transcends SEO.

Originally Posted by Chris30K

I criticized EzineArticles.Com for not ranking because if it's not ranking as high, then it's not as useful for SEO as it was before.

It isn't much of an orchestral conductor, either, why don't you criticise it for that, too, while you're here? You might just as well criticise it for not cooking your steak and fries for dinner. You're criticising it for its "failure" to do something that it's not supposed to do in the first place. If I criticised social media for not talking your dog out for a walk, you'd think that a rather strange point to be making, wouldn't you? But that's exactly equivalent to what you're doing, in this thread. Except that this thread was never even about social media in the first place: you just kept dragging social media and now apparently even a totally irrelevant link to "Matt Cutts talks about social media" into a thread that someone started off to ask a specific question about an article directory? And you think I'm "arguing to be right"?!

Have the last word, by all means - be my guest. Knock yourself out (please).

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DireStraits

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris30K

I feel like you're arguing to be right and completely defending article marketing - and I'm simply bringing up facts to help you out.

No disrespect, but I just had the same impression of you about social media.

Originally Posted by Chris30K

I think you should cut the emotional attachment to article marketing, re-assess, and figure out where time is most wisely spent.

I can tell you one thing: there are some major holes in this logic.

Foremost is the ridiculous assumption that everyone doing what you suggest will reach the same conclusion. You might be convinced of it but others surely aren't, and there are good reasons for that.

Pragmatism is doing what works, not "emotional attachment". If you see it that way, your implicit success with social media must mean you're suffering the same affliction - and, if nothing else, that sure smells like hypocrisy.

There are hoards of people - certain demographics - that don't use social media; and many more that do but not nearly well or often enough to be reachable. I've been among them in spite of my age making me a prime candidate for social media usage. They're not all illiterate cave-dwelling hermits cut off from the world, but pursue news and information through other channels. As do users of social media, I'm sure - partly because it's unavoidable if one is to get more than a very rudimentary handle on a subject. Perish the idea that the world now thrives and bases its decisions exclusively on pithy one-liners, showboating nonsense, fart humour and pretty pictures.

The bottom line, really, is that you'll still capture plenty of those social media people through traditional article marketing, but not many of the others through social media.

But if you want to whitewash over them, be our guest - just as long as you appreciate they're so often the educated movers and shakers in this world as opposed to a mob of boisterous social media braggarts just out for a good time.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by DireStraits

They're not all illiterate cave-dwelling hermits cut off from the world, but pursue news and information through other channels.

You say this as if I'm stereotyping all article marketers & their readers?

Originally Posted by DireStraits

But if you want to whitewash over them, be our guest - just as long as you appreciate they're so often the educated movers and shakers in this world as opposed to a mob of boisterous social media braggarts just out for a good time.

And then stereotype social media marketers?

I'm not sure if I should call that hypocrisy, but that statement has forced me to remove myself from this discussion.

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myob 12 years ago

Social media actually can be a very powerful tool, especially when used in combination with best practices in article syndication marketing techniques.

I have used EzineArticles.com extensively over the years for promoting niche article portfolios by marketing through social media and several other online/offline methods.

But as observed by Michael (and from my own experience as well), there are hoards of people who don't use social media or are not effectively reachable for many of the most lucrative niches.

IMNSHO, the widely popular and most common practices of using EZA for SEO or expecting results from passively submitted articles are actually the least effective marketing methods of all time.
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zimzalabim

12 years ago

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.

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BGRC

12 years ago

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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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris8080

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).

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

Originally Posted by Chris8080

How many views do you usually get in the first week in average?

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

Originally Posted by Chris8080

How many visitors do you have on your website from this?

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.

Originally Posted by BGRC

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.

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.

Originally Posted by kingsuk

RIP eZine. Used to work awesome until panda update.

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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RoniShwartz

12 years ago

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,

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by RoniShwartz

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.

Ooh, yes ... Charlie Page is definitely "one of the good guys", too - and very helpful.

Originally Posted by RoniShwartz

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

I think this recent post covers "where to submit articles", if it helps.

My own policies ...

(i) Never give any article directory "unique content";

(ii) Once an article is in Ezine Articles, there's no additional gain from having it in other directories too (an obvious exception to this would be a niche-specific directory that's therefore particularly relevant to your own niche, but I've almost never found one, for any of my niches, and I think there are very few);

(iii) Never try to use an article directory in an attempt to generate potential customer traffic from the directory to your own site (we all lose most of that traffic, and it's traffic we could choose to keep, instead of losing, with different planning). It's easy to imagine that you're gaining something by getting traffic from a directory when what you're really doing is making that traffic go to a directory (instead of straight to your own site, where you don't lose any of it by definition) and eventually getting only the traffic accounted for by your CTR at the directory: explained further in posts #2 and #6 of this thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5075780

This is how I find places for article submission.

And this is how I ask people to re-publish my articles with a link to my landing-page.

Originally Posted by RoniShwartz

2. Is there any post of yours that guides newbies how to create a great article that will actually get syndicated?

Not many specific posts, I think, Roni - sorry.

This post contains some comments on "How to write for syndication": http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3188316

And this post gives a general overview of "how the process works" for me: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

(It's not all quite as much as it looks, because some of the posts above, when you get to them, probably link bank to each other, as well, and might even contain a bit of duplicate content as well - shock horror!).

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RoniShwartz 12 years ago

Many thanks Alexa, and have a wonderful weekend,

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perryny

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

(ii) Once an article is in Ezine Articles, there's no additional gain from having it in other directories too (an obvious exception to this would be a niche-specific directory that's therefore particularly relevant to your own niche, but I've almost never found one, for any of my niches, and I think there are very few);

Hi Alexa,

If I post an article to Ezine, with the intention of it being found by bloggers in my niche looking for content, wouldn't I benefit by also having my article in additional directories to increase my chances of having my article found and picked up for use?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by perryny

If I post an article to Ezine, with the intention of it being found by bloggers in my niche looking for content, wouldn't I benefit by also having my article in additional directories to increase my chances of having my article found and picked up for use?

I honestly think not, Rob.

Ezine Articles is so much better known (and slightly higher quality, overall) than most other directories that it's the place people go to first, to look for content. People wanting content have all heard of that one for much the same reasons that you and I have. People do get articles syndicated (sometimes) from two or three other relatively well-known ones, but (I think) only people whose articles were in other ones but not in EZA.

I'l tell you how I "know" this ...

For a period of nearly two years, I used to put each of my articles (across a wide range of completely different niches) into 7 different article directories. "Don't do this at home" - it's a waste of time! I used my "punctuation trick" (typically substituting one semi-colon for one comma, in a different paragraph of each copy, so that when I found the syndicated copies, I could tell where they'd come from, and "get it right" when I routinely contacted the publisher to thank them and offer them more articles). It was always the EZA copy that had been re-published. In every niche. Eventually I stopped using all the others, feeling a bit embarrassed that I'd done it for so long and gained absolutely nothing from it at all. Granted, that's only one person's experience, but it was relatively high-volume experience, and my feeling is that "it tells the tale".

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perryny

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

For a period of nearly two years, I used to put each of my articles (across a wide range of completely different niches) into 7 different article directories.

It was always the EZA copy that had been re-published. In every niche.

Isn't testing so much better than guessing.

Thanks for doing that, and for sharing your results.

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talfighel

12 years ago

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.

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dejoliet31

12 years ago

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.

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Najat Engineer

12 years ago

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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Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Najat Engineer

These days people only use ezine for the sake of backlinking, or to rewrite some of their content for their websites..

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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Phil Steptoe

12 years ago

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.

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Chris8080

12 years ago

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.

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schttrj

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris8080

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?

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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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Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by schttrj

Article Directories are DEAD. Take that from an "ex-article marketer".

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.

Originally Posted by schttrj

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

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

Originally Posted by schttrj

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

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.

Originally Posted by schttrj

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

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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Ferzy

12 years ago

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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Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ferzy

Ezine articles is dead

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.

Originally Posted by Ferzy

links from them appeared in google webmaster tool as manual penalties due to unnatural links

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.

Originally Posted by Ferzy

and pretty much the whole article marketing industry.

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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Chris30K

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris8080

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

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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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris30K

you begin building someone else's business and not your own.

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

Originally Posted by Chris30K

Furthermore, it's not as powerful.

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.

Originally Posted by Chris30K

If you really want to make an impact

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

Originally Posted by Chris30K

I'd recommend posting it on your own blog

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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Chris30K

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

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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First off, if you don't want your business to impact the lives of other, then you need to quit pretending to be an entrepreneur and just be happy with a nice, comfortable 9 to 5.

When was the last time you've seen ezinearticles.com on the top of the SERP's? Times have change - and we must adapt to those times. Social Media is a much more efficient way to advertise your content. Why? Two words: Social Proof.

I understand the idea of "content repurposing" as you're proposing, but why not go for the big guys like Huffington Post?

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Originally Posted by Chris30K

When was the last time you've seen ezinearticles.com on the top of the SERP's?

Almost never, and it probably won't ever happen again, and that's a GOOD thing for article marketers.

As so many of us have been so patiently explaining here for so many years, to be fair.

That means we can safely use EZA for its original purpose without the worry that that copy can ever rank and suck away any of our potential customer traffic. That helps us.

Nothing personal, but it's difficult for us even to discuss it productively, if you imagine that the fact that EZA articles don't rank (and I agree that it is a "fact", more or less) is a bad thing and an argument for not using it. If it helps you, this post explains in detail why no article marketer wants to try to use EZA to attract customer traffic from the article directory to their own site - that isn't what article directories are for, at all!

Your contention that "EZA is worse than Social Media because EZA articles don't rank at all" is as logical as saying that "EZA is worse than Social Media because EZA doesn't go out and do your shopping for you": you're assessing it in accordance with something it's never going to do for you, that you shouldn't want or expect it to do for you, and even something that would actually be counterproductive for you, anyway, if it did.

Originally Posted by Chris30K

why not go for the big guys like Huffington Post?

I do. That's exactly the kind of thing I do.

But I still benefit, after the article's been published in <wherever - HuffPo is an ambitious example, and you know it!>, in putting a copy of it in EZA as well, for the occasional publisher who looks there for extra content. Nobody's suggesting that it's a "business model in its own right". But there's no downside to it. It's free. It can help you. It's actually something of a no-brainer, for a serious article marketer, to do this!

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Supafly

12 years ago

Agree with most the others. Ezine no longer worth the effort.

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Anthony J Namata

12 years ago

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.

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cyberzolo

12 years ago

This type of content marketing is DEAD many years ago Ezine was great for Google. Not so much anymore.

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