Simple answer.  While playing around in the last few days —actually hard work.  I built and submited 5 articles to several different directories.  I won’t mention the other names but they are all the top rated in some of the top ten lists around.

Any way it is 4 days later.  I just checked, and one of my ezine articles went through right away and two more went through a couple of hours ago.  Traffic.  The article that went through right away has already had 118 people look at it and 14 of them have gone to my website—this website—.

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I just checked some of the other directories.  One of them all six articles are up.  One article has been viewed 6 times one 5 and the others once.   There have been a total of 16 people look at the articles and I believe 6 of those were the people who okayed the article.

Traffic to your articles is what Ezine articles offers.

How you write your articles matters. I think there are two ways to write an Ezine Article.

Going for the Click
One way is to go for the reader to click the link to go to your website.  In the articles that I have gotten over 15 percent of the readers to go to my website I get very few uploads of the page to other sites.   My best going for the click article so far got over a 40 percent click through rate.  It was a freak.  I have only written a few that have gotten over 25 percent but I am still going for the 40 percent click articles.

Going for the link
If you write a good informative article but do not push hard to get the reader to click to your website then more ezines and more websites will use your article on their site.  This will get you more back links.

Going for both Clicks and Links
You can resubmit the article with a significant rewrite after a few weeks from your previous article being accepted.  If your first article went for the click your second article can go for the link. It is fun to play with changing around the title to see what works better also.

Most Important Part of the article?
The author box is the most critical part of your article.  Pull the curtain down and tickle them from behind the curtain.  Make certain that they  want to go to your website to scratch the itch you created. 

I have started writing long author boxes. I put a link early in the box with the keyword for the article linking to one of my websites. I then write another informational paragraph. I then close it up with my name and the other link to my site. The first link becomes truly an in content link. According to the testing done by Jon Leger, Yahoo ranks a in content link higher than a link page link.

I have found Ezine Articles to be the toughest to get articles through. They are good practice for submitting articles because they force me to write better articles. Thanks EA..

IM by Rick is a dofollow Blog.  I give you link love for your comments.  Spread the word.  Link love given from IMbyRick.com.

Christopher Knight is my hero. He has the top rated article directory. I have blogged back and forth with him a few times and I believe he is a good guy.

I would get a huge kick out of Chris Knight making a comment on this article.

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Ezine Article Comments

Step One
If I am working on the “Credit Card” niche I first go to Ezine artitcles.

Step Two
Search in EA for “Credit Cards”

Step Three
I open the first article I find interesting or related to the page I am currently promoting on my website. I add a good comment to this page. I do not think I have ever had one of these comments turned down.

Simple and with the internet horsepower of EA this is simple and it works.

Another thought is open up the first article then go down to the bottom of the page where EA shows the most viewed articles in this subject. Comment on this powerful article. It is already a leading article in this subject. Get a link from it can only help.

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In the time it takes me to get one Ezine Article Links approved I can submit 10 comments with my links.

Internet Marketing by Rick is a Dofollow Blog.  We love comments.

Funny I want to Thank Cris Knight for his Comment on my Brand New Blog.  His is the third Blog comment.  I always knew he was a cool guy.