Ezinearticles.com Is Not Just the Best One!

An article by Saki    2 Comments

Most of the Bum marketers consider ezinearticles.com as the most dominating of all. But is it really true? Before we come into any conclusion, let us first find out the role of article directories in relation to making online business.

See, you can’t do any business without a continuous stream of traffic, or more precisely, targeted traffic. Now, when you are with ezinearticles.com, they will provide you a nice interface through which you can check the CTR and even the hits for each article. This unique service is obviously setting them apart from rest of their competitors (if you want to name them that way).

Secondly, it is believed that ezinearticles.com is loved by Google and when your article is published through ezinearticles.com, it gets indexed fast.

Now, let us find out the truth behind it. Unfortunately, there are still lots of scopes to conduct empirical studies here over the internet, but we mostly rely of what people say.

Anyways, for basic account, ezine takes 72 hours to 7 days time for approval, while platinum account takes 48 hours. So there is no question of getting indexed within 24 hours of time by Google when you post your articles to ezinearticles.com.

On the other hand, if you post the same article to Hub Pages or Squidoo and allow them to share with different top rank social bookmarking sites, your article can get indexed by Google even less than 6-7 hours. In fact, you can try the same by publishing the article in your own blog and share to different directories.

Before going too much fanatical about ezinearticles.com, you must think a few points logically.

Granted that you need quality back links from sites that have high PR and good Alexa rank, but how far it is important to put your articles to ezinearticles.com and why?

Just do a simple test and post your one article to ezinearticles.com and another one to hubpages.com. Now once published there in hubpages.com, just start sharing the URL to different social bookmarking sites. Check Google and find that you are indexed already with the article.

Now if you check the Alexa and PR of Hub pages, it is no way inferior than ezinearticles.com, so what the heck? Same story goes with Squidoo.com. In fact, considering its PR alone, it is much way better than ezinearticles.com

Secondly, keeping all my respects to the owner of the ezinearticles.com, I still have to show my grievance to the fellow editors (or the chief editor) who employ irrational standards for approval by ezinearticles.com. For example, if you take this article as an example –

http://ezinearticles.com/?American-Health-and-Life-Insurance-Company—How-to-Find-One-Thats-Right-For-You&id=4309855

Just read the article and you will find out why I am saying this.

Ezinearticles.com tends to reject articles for the silly reasons – sometimes just for nothing also.

These days they implement a pretty tough rules for location based articles. But if you look at the above article, does it suffice from that point also? I don’t think so.

There are lots of examples and I just can’t point each and every one. But ezinearticles.com is NOT just what it says. I am also a platinum account holder there, but that really doesn’t mean anything, especially when I find how badly they treat many of my clients, and most of the cases, without any solid reason. And also, I mostly rely on the social directories to attract the good volume of targeted traffic from there, and not ezinearticles.com, sorry to say.

To me, ezinearticles.com is just over-hyped and overestimated, though they are serving good to many, they are NOT just the ultimate.