O.K. Guys and Gals, here’s my report:
EZArticleLink launched on schedule on February 22. Since I had already been active with them as a free “beta” member, I upgraded my Silver Level membership to a Gold Level.
Here’s what I found out on the inside:
1. For every website you register in the EZArt system you get:
A. The right to publish articles on the EZA network. These articles will be published 100-200 times for Silver level (free) members and 200-300 times for Gold level, paid members.
B. You get an article directory, that you set up on your website to receive the articles of others. This is not a blog somewhere, it is a real article directory set up as part of your website, pages on your website so that your site gets credit for the pages, traffic and activity.
C. All articles are spun to make all copies published unique. All must pass a human editor/reviewer to make sure they are well-spun, coherent, readable and generally acceptable. This to ensure only quality articles in the system.
D. You can only publish articles with anchor-text links back to the website submitted. There are three KW’s allowed per article submission. These are shown in a random pattern as your article gets published 200-300 times. The distribution per KW is 40-20-20 with the remaining 20% aimed at KW’s in the title, to promote the article itself and thus the sites on which the article is posted. So for 250 publications, your main KW will be posted 100 times, the next 2, 50 times each and the remaining 50 articles will be promoting versions of the article published on other sites in the system.
2. You are graded on your articles. Every article you submit without having it bounced back for corrections gives you one point. Every time an article of yours gets sent back to you to correct errors, you get two points subtracted. The resulting “Author Reputation” score tells the editor how closely he/she needs to monitor your articles in the future. [My score in now 30. I have had one article bounced back for an error I overlooked on the 2nd article I submitted. All the rest went through with no problem. It's not hard to qualify an article.]
3. Article submissions require a spin-able title, a 2-sentence summary/teaser and spun text of 250-600 words of final spun text. [I use The Best Spinner, and by using it, it takes me less than an hour to spin an article]
4. You can also enter “Post Only” sites, when you just want content and not links.
5. Support tickets are responded to within 1-15 hours, depending on when you submit them. Answers are knowledgeable, clear and fast. Good system there.
O.K. That’s the technical usage info.
Here is my experience with EZArticle Link to date:
In my case, As of today, March 28, I have the following stats:
Websites entered: 22
Post-only sites: 0
Articles entered/published: 31
| Site Number |
Articles Published |
Number of Times Published |
| Site 1 |
3 |
206 + 190 + 131 = 527 |
| Site 2 |
2 |
233 + 141 = 374 |
| Site 3 |
3 |
218 + 187 + 205 = 610 |
| Site 4 |
0 |
|
| Site 5 |
3 |
118 + 202 + 222 = 542 |
| Site 6 |
2 |
189 + 113 = 302 |
| Site 7 |
2 |
160 + 123 = 283 |
| Site 8 |
1 |
205 = 205 |
| Site 9 |
1 |
109 = 109 |
| Site 10 |
1 |
90 = 90 |
| Site 11 |
0 |
|
| Site 12 |
4 |
118 + 141 + 164 + 200 = 623 |
| Site 13 |
0 |
|
| Site 14 |
1 |
20 = 20 |
| Site 15 |
0 |
|
| Site 16 |
1 |
135 = 135 |
| Site 17 |
2 |
142 + 171 = 313 |
| Site 18 |
1 |
191 = 191 |
| Site 19 |
3 |
141 + 184 + 149 = 474 |
| Site 20 |
0 |
|
| Site 21 |
0 |
|
| Site 22 |
1 |
116 = 116 |
| Totals: |
31 |
4,914 |
This means that my articles have already (now) been published a total of 4,914 times within the EZArt system. This means:
Number of publications:
Of lead KW = 4,914 x .40 = 1,966 times in article directories within the system
Of 2nd KW = 4,914 x .20 = 983 times
Of 3rd KW = 4,914 x .20 = 983 times
That’s almost 4,000 backlinks out there and being discovered by SE’s every day!
Not too shabby! In fact, not shabby at all!
I have now been in the system for about 1 month as a Silver Level member and about 1 month as a Gold Level member.
I am seeing/experiencing these benefits:
1. My link counts per KW have been climbing rapidly, week by week!
2. The page counts for my sites have been going up too! (Yahoo tracks this. Other SE’s use it as an overall indicator of authority)
What I have learned:
1. EZArticle links is a powerful and easy-to-use link-building system! (and with monthly memberships still available at $29/mo., it is still VERY reasonably priced; LOTS of Bang per buck!)
2. For small, start-up sites, 1 article is enough to build links and start traffic.
For middle sized, 3-500 backlink sites, 2 articles are about right.
For large, 1,000 to 3,000 backlink sites, you can do 3 articles.
[Careful about doing more than that! Sometimes this thing is like trying to get a drink of water from a Fire Hose!
EZArt sends out lots of links that get found. It's easy to get a site "Sandboxed" for too many links, too fast. I pushed Kenneth Koh, the guy behind EZArt, to add a "Pause" button for each article so you can shut off the postings if you see that the backlinks are building too fast. I now have 4 of my articles paused...]
3. You also get Article directories with high-quality articles, articles that won’t embarrass you, on you sites to increase authority…
In summary:
EZArticleLink is an excellent link-building service. At its current price of $29/month it’s a steal. It would still be a good deal even if it were already at its targeted $47/month membership cost. (Visit the site to see how membership fees increase with additional sign-ups.)
EZArt had about 4-500 participating article directories when I started about 2 months ago. That number has grown to 1,500 plus, and continues to grow.
I am especially impressed by two features:
1. The human screening of articles to maintain quality.
2. The internal promotion, with 20% of links going to promote articles/article directories, to continually raise the authority of the article directories.
These two features take care of the primary deficiencies I have seen/experienced with other link-building services: Allowing crappy articles/blog posts to get published and not having any organized way to promote and increase value/authority of directories or blogs where your links get published.
Bottom Line:
I would advise anyone who wants to build backlinks to their websites to sign up for EZArticleLink now, while it is still early-on and cheap. Lock your price in now while it is still young and on the assent. When it becomes known how good this is, it will still grow bigger, but it won’t be cheap anymore!
– Jorge Chavez
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