Here’s a simple trick for anyone doing article marketing via EzineArticles or any other similar site: bookmark your profile for added linking benefits.
On EzineArticles, you become an “Expert Author” once an article you submit has been accepted for publication. (Which is not automatic, by the way — EzineArticles has strict editorial guidelines.) You get a profile page and are listed in EzineArticles’ list of expert authors. Here’s the link to my profile: Eric Giguere – EzineArticles.com Expert Author.
As you can see, the profile page lists all of your articles. (I don’t have a lot of articles under my real name, I have them spread out under different pseudonyms — a perfectly acceptable practice supported by EzineArticles as long as you’re not out to deceive anyone).
The important thing to note is that EzineArticles profiles are indexed by Google and carry PageRank. My own profile, for example, currently has a PR of 1. This gives all my articles a small PR boost, which is great. If I can increase the PR of my profile, of course, my articles will get an even larger PR boost.
There are many authors out there who benefit from a high-PR profile page. Type this query into Google and see for yourself:
site:ezinearticles.com "ezinearticles.com expert author"
For example, author Alison Cole has a PR 4 profile, which is obtained from a combination of article volume (over 1000 articles published on EzineArticles, each one of which links back to the profile page) and many links back to the profile page, most of which are from sites that republish Alison’s articles.
A combination of positive PR and careful choice of keywords can result in your articles ranking in the top positions on Google.
This is why linking to your EzineArticles profile is a good thing — it boosts the rankings of all your articles (in the long term). Spend an hour or two bookmarking (in the generic sense) your profile. This could include:
- Adding it to del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites
- Adding it to the blogroll of any blogs you own
- Linking to it from profiles on other sites like Squidoo
A related technique is to take your EzineArticles RSS feed (here’s mine) and adding it to some RSS aggregators and directories.
Of course, you should also be bookmarking your individual articles as well. And doing everything you can to encourage others to republish those articles (there will always be people who scrape the articles and republish them without attribution, which is unfortunately, but most are republished with links back to the article source).
And, above all, keep writing and submitting articles! At some point you’ll reach a critical mass that propels your traffic numbers up significantly. Of course, not everyone knows how to benefit from that traffic, but that’s a topic for another day.
Thanks for the tip. I have been using Ezine Articles for a while but never though about bookmarking my profile.
I also do this on Ezine, but I personally bookmark and ping where ever I visit. It’s beneficial to me and it’s beneficial to the site owner, it’s a win-win for everyone.
ezinearticles is good ,i often write some articles in there.just get some traffic.
Thi is a good way to generate a lot of links but believe me it isnt easy to keep coming up with original content or keep writing good articles.
I would rather submit a few good articles than a lod of mediocre or bad ones.
I guess I’m confused why you would want to write articles for the EzineArticles site when you can publish your content on your own site with your own domain and with full control over everything. Any chance you could elaborate on this?
Thanks for sharing. I will try this one. May be can increased my adsense revenue.
Very informative post and thanx for this wonderful article, i hope my ezine article profile PR increases too.
I publish on Ezines.com, but didn’t realize the benefit of promoting my author page. Thanks for letting me know.
By the way, I have listed this blog as a dofollow blog and send a few readers your way. I’ve linked to the page above.
I’m in the process of updating the rankings and providing a bit of information about each site. Updates should be up by Wednesday. Let me know if you’d like to change yours.
Warmly,
Linda P. Morton
This is a fantastic suggestion. I do submit articles on several directories actually and never did think about bookmarking my own profile, moreover linking to them. One good advice on link building tactics. Definitely will go for this from now on. Hope it does boost my PR in the future.
Thanks again.
I second the part about bookmarking your individual articles. A lot of people will just search sites like del.icio.us instead of Google.
Good tips will give it a try
Cool… Thank you so much for this wonderful blog. I have been lurking on the web to look this kind a method but can’t find any good lucks. But thanks GOD i found this one.
THanks
Brandon:
The reason you publish on EzineArticles is two-fold… first is to get a nice backlink or two, second is to get traffic. Because EzineArticles is considered an authority site by the site engines, its pages rank much more easily than yours would for almost any given keyword… I’m not saying don’t publish content only on EzineArticles, but definitely include it in your traffic building strategy.
Eric
It’s a way to get more traffic ,but rather difficult to submit article to EzineArticles. I will try and try again. Thank for this tips.
Good tip, I had not thought of doing that…makes good sense though.
Great info. I am just starting to look at articles and article submissions as part of my link building so this is a lesson learned the easy way.
Thanks
Can someone teach me how to maximize my Ezine readership?
Good info here. I never thought of linking to my author bio, yet alone submitting the RSS feed. Time to write more articles.
This is a fantastic suggestion. I do submit articles on several directories actually and never did think about bookmarking my own profile, moreover linking to them