Now That EZA Is History, What Are You Going To Do?

Banned 14 years ago

I'll do what I've always done: post to my own blog. I can get more traffic that way anyway. Besides, I've found that niche forums are FAR more effective than article directories.

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mikeroosa 14 years ago

I'm still going to use EZA for now. I actually still have some articles there that are ranking very well and still driving me some traffic and conversions. I'm not quite ready to give up on them yet.
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petelta 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Joshua Rigley

Besides, I've found that niche forums are FAR more effective than article directories.

Joshua

Far more effective!!!!!

Right on here Joshua.
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14 years ago

Originally Posted by Joshua Rigley

I'll do what I've always done: post to my own blog. I can get more traffic that way anyway. Besides, I've found that niche forums are FAR more effective than article directories.

Joshua

Right on Joshua. For the most targeted traffic possible for your chosen niche a forum on the topic would be a great place to start. Also keeping your own unique content on your own blog is probably a very sensible move.

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Cesar Sampaio

14 years ago

I'll keep using article directories as always, just as a means to spread the word and get some links. My content goes to my sites where I determine what I can do with them.

SEO as usual.

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Chri5123

14 years ago

Yes I am going to stick to article marketing as oppose to article directory marketing.

If you were article directory marketing I bet you are thinking about or already have left EZA in search of the next "Holy Grail"!

If you are article marketing I bet not a lot has changed

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

I'm going to Disneyland...wanna join me?

All kidding aside, EZA is just another means to an ends. I've got so many
of them that the loss of one, if it truly is a loss (so far I'm still getting opt ins)

won't kill me.

I check my EZA stats every morning like clockwork. Views are down about
20%. That's not the end of the world or a reason to slit my wrists. I'll still
use them but focus my efforts elsewhere as I've been doing for a long time.

EZA, as a main source, was great while it lasted. But even in its best days,
for the IM niche, it was never a slam dunk. And my health articles are still
getting almost as many views now as they always have, about 1,000 per
month for my top articles.

The sky isn't falling, at least not in my half of the world.

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14 years ago

Now That EZA Is History, What Are You Going To Do?

Hire Bill Platt to do some real article syndication?

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trishworks4u

14 years ago

I think I left EZA over a year ago. Those guys are more high maintenance than my grandma. got so sick of the back and forth and all of their stupid hoops for articles that were probably going to end up sitting in "pending" purgatory.

I've done fine w/out 'em.

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by trishworks4u

I think I left EZA over a year ago. Those guys are more high maintenance than my grandma. got so sick of the back and forth and all of their stupid hoops for articles that were probably going to end up sitting in "pending" purgatory.

I've done fine w/out 'em.

Yeah, but how did you go on without them?

What did you do to continue your article marketing fortunes?

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trishworks4u 14 years ago

Originally Posted by tpw

Yeah, but how did you go on without them?

What did you do to continue your article marketing fortunes?

Fair question. I know that people rip on GoArticles but that's the only site that I manually submit to and I DO get a lot of views there.

I am also an Article Marketing Robot junkie. That thing is the cat's a$$. I was actually researching on EZA a few weeks ago and found one of my OWN articles on EZA that AMR got on there. How that piece of software managed that (while I can't), I'll never know.

As for article marketing - Automation, Volume, and then Indexing the Live Links that come out of AMR (that's key).
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- Diane S 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by trishworks4u
  
  How that piece of software managed that (while I can't), I'll never know.
  
  That piece of software probably managed to do that by breaking the TOS of eZines articles. You were probably submitting under your own account, using one of your pen names. That software probably created a new account for you...against TOS. Please correct me if I am wrong...
  
  After trying the free version and seeing no ability to utilize pen names, plus contacting paid users of the software about pen names, I chose not to go down that road. Automation and volume? Yes, I've got that. But I've chosen my automation based on the ability to follow the TOS of the article directories - pen names are a must.
  
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MarketingPro11

14 years ago

Saying "EZA is history" would still be premature.They are cleaning their house and they may well regain their position within 3-6 months.So I don't think that there is any reason to panic.

The views are certainly lower and EZA has a lost a lot of favor with Google but this doesn't mean that it can not rebound.

As far as article marketing is concerned,it is never wise to "put all your eggs in one basket".With so many other directories and article syndication platforms around, there is no logic behind depending fully on EZA.

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SmartHealthShop

14 years ago

Originally Posted by MarketingPro11

Saying "EZA is history" would still be premature.They are cleaning their house and they may well regain their position within 3-6 months.So I don't think that there is any reason to panic.

The views are certainly lower and EZA has a lost a lot of favor with Google but this doesn't mean that it can not rebound.

As far as article marketing is concerned,it is never wise to "put all your eggs in one basket".With so many other directories and article syndication platforms around, there is no logic behind depending fully on EZA.

well said - theyll be back and really arent going anywhere

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Sheryl Polomka

14 years ago

I don't know that EZA is history, I do know that they are having some issues with the Google algorithm change but they can come back.

Personally, I have stopped submitting to them temporarily. They are taking much longer to approve articles and I think they are rejecting too many articles that are good quality and should probably be approved (in my opinion anyway, I guess their opinion differs).

Anyhow, I'm not going to bother submitting to them until they have sorted themselves out and then I might give them a go again. I still do article marketing with my main directories for submitting to being ArticlesBase, GoArticles and ArticleContentKing.

I also use Squidoo a fair bit which I like for the flexibility of being able to go in and add more content and change content without having to go through the whole approval process again!

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bcmwp

14 years ago

I'm going to wait out the current storm. For now, they seem hellbent on finding the least excuse to ban authors and toss nofollow tags on them. They even put up a post saying that they'd be banning people who get articles banned for the same reason repeatedly.

I have no interest in risking my 300 articles there to post one new one. Until they stop panicking, I'm staying out of the way.

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brianboyer

14 years ago

I have had an Ezine account for quite sometime and am a Platinum author. I have been posting recent articles and the traffic has actually been better than my older ones. So I am staying with Ezine and using it as marketing. The more marketing, the better.

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Richard Van

14 years ago

I'm cleaning car windscreens again now.

Do you want your car washed Bill?

To be honest the whole thing hasn't had any impact at all but then it's never been the "be all and end all" of what I do.

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PatriciaJ

14 years ago

Jump up and down and wave my knickers in the air. No more 'but they accepted my article at EZA so why won't you accept it'

Honestly Bill you do love stirring the pot. Of course EZA isn't history and for me I'll keep on doing as I do with more experimentation probably.

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Richard Van 14 years ago

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

Jump up and down and wave my knickers in the air.

Good grief, yesterday Jill Carpenter (who believes in fairies ) was telling the forum how she sits on the bed and puts her Knickers on in one swift movement, now Patricia's waving hers above her head...

What a funny couple of days.
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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

I'll be along later to award a prize ("free burial at sea with the article directory of your own choice?") for the best reply to the original question in this thread. At the moment, Patricia's in the lead with "Jump up and down and wave my knickers in the air", closely followed by Richard with "I'm cleaning car windscreens again now" and Steve with "I'm going to Disneyland". Just saying ...

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PatriciaJ

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Good grief, yesterday Jill Carpenter (who believes in fairies

) was telling the forum how she sits on the bed and puts her Knickers on in one swift movement, now Patricia's waving hers above her head...

What a funny couple of days.

Yes I'm thinking of flogging them as those wind sock things that they have at airports.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I'll be along later to award a prize ("free burial at sea with the article directory of your own choice?") for the best reply to the original question in this thread. At the moment, Patricia's in the lead with "Jump up and down and wave my knickers in the air", closely followed by Richard with "I'm cleaning car windscreens again now" and Steve with "I'm going to Disneyland". Just saying ...

Thank you Alexa I'm deeply honoured but I'm also getting worried. I'm going to the seaside this weekend for the first time with my young grandkids, burying me at sea would mean that they would be upset at losing their oldest playmate. It would also mean my trip to the sea with my grandkids review never being written - a great loss to all article directories.

Deary me I'll bet Bill never expected such responses to his thread.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

Deary me I'll bet Bill never expected such responses to his thread.

He may not have expected them, but I strongly suspect they'll neither astonish nor offend him: "Now that EZA is history", coming from Bill (though undoubtedly it's what many are wrongly stating or implying), was too profoundly tongue-in-cheek for him to be able to blow his harmonica at all ...

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PatriciaJ

14 years ago

Originally Posted by trishworks4u

Fair question. I know that people rip on GoArticles but that's the only site that I manually submit to and I DO get a lot of views there.

I am also an Article Marketing Robot junkie. That thing is the cat's a$$.

I was actually researching on EZA a few weeks ago and found one of my OWN articles on EZA that AMR got on there. How that piece of software managed that (while I can't), I'll never know.

As for article marketing - Automation, Volume, and then Indexing the Live Links that come out of AMR (that's key).

Oh dear EZA, Goarticles, Articlesbase are all on AMR. You need to either blacklist them if you don't want problems with duplication or look for the accounts on AMR and go in and change the passwords then AMR won't be able to submit to them.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

He may not have expected them, but I strongly suspect they'll neither astonish nor offend him: "Now that EZA is history", coming from Bill (though undoubtedly it's what many are wrongly stating or implying), was too profoundly tongue-in-cheek for him to be able to blow his harmonica at all ...

Yes with his sense of humour I think he should be made an honorary Brit. Time for work now after all that fun

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Richard Van

14 years ago

Originally Posted by PatriciaJ

Yes I'm thinking of flogging them as those wind sock things that they have at airports.

How about a saucy sexy red pair to swing about?

Forget windsocks, you could fly a hot air baloon with these!

Don't ask how I found them and we are well and truly off topic now.

What's this thread about again? :confused:

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Jill Carpenter 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

How about a saucy sexy red pair to swing about?

Hey! Quit rummaging through Bill Platts secret Panty drawer. (I think he might have swiped those from Kevin Riley)
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  Originally Posted by Jill Carpenter
  
  Hey! Quit rummaging through Bill Platts secret Panty drawer. (I think he might have swiped those from Kevin Riley)
  
  Ssssshhh!
  
  Wills - Richard, you could've used those briefs to sail across the Atlantic for the booze and fairies. You'd get there in record time and all.
  
  I know, I'm still not there yet! I could kill for a drink now.
  
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  First thing I'm going to do is sell the one piece of blue sky that fell in my yard - finders keepers. Ebay should perfect for this.
  
  Then I'm going to go on as usual. Years ago I was told submitting articles was a waste of time - and I submitted articles and did fine with it. Over the years it's been "use EZA", "don't use EZA", "EZA is mean" - and I still submit articles.
  
  I don't submit in great quantities - never have. I still get good results so guess I'll just keep on keeping on.
  
  My main concern at the moment is a serious question:
  
  How do you dry out your harmonica after you splorf into it?
  
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luckystar

14 years ago

Very funny

Originally Posted by Richard Van

How about a saucy sexy red pair to swing about?

Forget windsocks, you could fly a hot air baloon with these!

Don't ask how I found them and we are well and truly off topic now.

What's this thread about again? :confused:

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60MinuteAffiliate

14 years ago

With the latest Google update people are nervous. Articles accounts are getting closed, deleted, and suspended. Articles are getting deleted without warning.

And I gotta say that’s REALLY harsh.

At least let someone know that you’re about to delete 500 articles so that they have a chance at saving some to their pc in case they’re old articles they don’t have on their hard drive anymore….

Now just because you’ve already published this article on another site doesn’t mean you can never use it again (if you have it either saved on your pc or you can download it from the account where it’s published online).

Here’s 8 ways that you can reuse the same article again – to your benefit

1. Create a slideshow presentation

2. Create a video article

3. Create a podcast and publish it on iTunes

4. Bundle it with a few of your articles – or even plr ones – and turn it into a free viral report

5. Create a newsletter and add it to your autoresponder messages

6. Use it as a blog post and submit the blog post to the top social bookmarking sites

7. Submit the same article to other article sites

8. Add the article as part of a training module in a paid or free membership site

zh Hope that helps.

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Wills 14 years ago

I just lie in my bed, crying over the death of article marketing.

Aside from that: I still submit to EZA, I haven't really noticed much difference, apart from being a bit tighter on the approvals.

I also submit to article base, cause I seem to get a fair few articles syndicated there. Some of them are from autoblogs, but sure a (free) link is a link.
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Andyhenry

14 years ago

I'm not changing anything.

EZA was always just part of a strategy and still has some value for the same reasons as previously.

For me - EZA hasn't really changed and I won't be treating it any differently.

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StevesProfitSecrets

14 years ago

You should never rely on one site/method for traffic....diversify with links and promotions from all over the place. EZA can still drive traffic, it's just not as effective anymore and not as easy to get articles ranked quickly.

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Wills

14 years ago

Richard, you could've used those briefs to sail across the Atlantic for the booze and fairies. You'd get there in record time and all.

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bogdan247

14 years ago

I don't think EZA is anywhere near the history status. They still have a lot of resources, and from what I've seen, the commitment to adapt to Google's new restrictions.

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clever7

14 years ago

EZA is not history. I’m one of the best EZA authors since 2007 and my old readers are following my work, besides many new ones. All my articles are sending me traffic again because they are all original and useful to the public. After the sudden problem EZA had to face, many of my articles stopped sending to my websites the traffic they usually do, I don’t know exactly why. EZA’s system was damaged in general terms.

However, everything is getting back to normal now. If you write unique content, you’ll keep having all the advantages you always had.

If you don’t write unique content, start doing it now, and you’ll have many advantages thanks to the new Google’s search algorithm changes.

If you hate writing and you have no talent, purchase articles written by ghostwriters. The internet offers you many different options. You’ll pay only once for each perfectly written article, which will be appealing to the public and will also have the right keywords in order to get an excellent ranking. Instead of wasting your money with Adwords ads that you have to keep paying, spend your money with informative articles that all internet users want to read. EZA is still working very well for good writers and for intelligent internet marketers.

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Richard Van 14 years ago

Clever7 - I'm one of the best EZA authors since 2007 and my old readers are following my work

Are you? Crikey, I had no idea. How do you know this? Do they award prizes to the best authors? :confused:
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- Martin Luxton 14 years ago
  
  Bill,
  
  I've never heard of this Ezine Articles thingy. Is it a new craze like FaceTwit?
  
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  I've never heard of this Ezine Articles thingy. Is it a new craze like FaceTwit?
  
  Martin
  
  Hi Martin,
  
  You're clearly very new to the internet as well as computers and all aspects of modern technology. Don't let that put you off though.
  
  It's a wonderful business, you could be retired next week and won't even need to know how to turn your computer on or do any work.
  
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theemperor

14 years ago

Still worth posting to EZA, nothing to lose, and your article can still get syndicated.

However you can't rely on traffic or juice as much from EZA (although I found that traffic from EZA was poor before this 'slap')

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Ofthemix

14 years ago

EZA is history? I must not have gotten the memo.

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HeySal

14 years ago

Holy cow....EZA folds and I'll have to change links in my portfolio.

I only use articles that I have already posted so it's not that big of a deal. I ping my site when I put up something new, bookmark, etc. If I ever get feeling slapped (which I don't seeings how my traffic is going very strong for the niche it's in) I'll just find sites related to mine and write an article specifically for them to put online for their own content...with my credits, of course.

I would think that anyone who is actually building a real business that is so dependent on one outside source that they are in jeopardy without it has made a serious flaw in judgment building their business in the first place.

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cmghome

14 years ago

EZA getting slapped is only a problem if EZA is your only article outlet. I double post all my articles. No article is submitted to more than two article directories. I still get the ranking. As a newbie, I haven't figured out the keyword thing completely yet, but I have seen several of my articles get a Google first page, but my site does not. It tells me I'm doing something right with the articles, so I am going to keep doing it. I'll submit to EZA until they shut down.

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14 years ago

Hey! I'm doing the counter-intuitive thing and still using EZA as part of my strategy. Maybe the announcement of EZA's death is premature.

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Here are the real facts, (with harmonica accompaniment):

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Sleaklight

14 years ago

I stopped using EZA some time ago as I found that I could rank my own websites ahead of any EZA article that was listed in the niches or keywords I was targeting. Honestly, I can't believe I wasted my time with EZA, I fell victim to the group mentality "yes, EZA is awesome, lets post there!!!"

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tpw

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Deary me I'll bet Bill never expected such responses to his thread.

He may not have expected them, but I strongly suspect they'll neither astonish nor offend him: "Now that EZA is history", coming from Bill (though undoubtedly it's what many are wrongly stating or implying), was too profoundly tongue-in-cheek for him to be able to blow his harmonica at all ...

LOL

Anyone reading my other posts in the EZA threads would have known I was speaking about the feelings of others, and not my own... :p

Since most people skimmed my two sentences and two bullet points, they missed that I was not talking about my belief, yet I was asking people about their alternative game plans.

I hate to have to point out the obvious, but I am forced to point out the obvious.

Unfortunately, the people who need to read this post are not going to, because they are skimming the headline and skipping the posts.

And the people who are actually reading the posts have already answered the questions or they don't need to do so, because they see the recent changes in EZA as a positive.

So here is why this thread was created.

If YOU are one of the people who believes that EZA is now history, toast, dead, useless, or a waste, what are you doing in place of EZA to market your articles?

Here are my original questions again:

Originally Posted by tpw

If you are leaving EZA, what are you going to do INSTEAD of it to promote your articles?
Are you leaving EZA as an article marketing distribution point, or are you leaving article marketing altogether?

p.s. Yes Patricia. Visualize me as the witch, with crooked green nose, pointy hat and all, laughing hysterically as I stir my witches brew.

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TCrosby

14 years ago

Some puny little health-themed article directory keeps scraping my articles and reposting them (with bio and links intact, so I have no complaints)....

And their ranking higher than all the major article directories that have my articles.

Go figure.

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Originally Posted by TCrosby

And their ranking higher than all the major article directories that have my articles.

They will, won't they, for your niche's keywords, if the directory's context-relevant to that niche specifically?

Many people genuinely still don't appreciate that the "big-name article directories" are giving them non-context-relevant PR-0 backlinks. People commonly think of the page-rank of a directory's home page as characterising the value of the backlink they're getting from it. I'm just saying ...

"Puny little directories" like that are a much better bet (for backlinks, I mean - not typically for syndication prospects, of course - but clearly you've already had some syndication from EZA).