Article Review Site: ArticleBase and Ezine Articles

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 , Posted by MoneyWriter at 6:53 PM

A stack of newspapers by DRB62.Alright, I lumped ArticleBase and Ezine Articles together because neither of them pay you for your additions to the sites. For many people, this keeps them from using the sites. I have found some use for them, though, because the content it generally much better quality because authors want to attract you to learn more about their sites rather than just have you click ads.

When writing for these type of sites, make sure your content is original and you link to more of your own articles. This way, you can get readers more and more comfortable with your topics and writing. Sometime putting in a direct plug for your own site is fine.

The forms that are used to publish content with these sites is fairly generic and does not seem overly difficult to use. An important part of these sites is to make sure your profile is complete and in-depth. This is how you are going to attract people to whatever you want them to go to.

I have personally had some success with linking these articles to paid article sites and driving traffic like that. I believe many of them will accept affiliate links as well, or you may be able to sneak them into sites that do not allow them. The vast majority of this type of site use “nofollow’ attributes for outgoing links, so you are not helping your SEO. Some, I have heard, do not use those tags, so I would check with the site first to determine what they do and do not allow.

As I said earlier, the authors on these sites are more into getting good content out there because they are selling their own sites with their work. Hooking up with them can lead to excellent relationships that help build your blogs or websites. Take advantage of this by commenting on other people’s sites and sending messages to people you want to talk to. I have gotten a lot good publicity from getting other bloggers to link to me through this work.

The Take Away

Article sites that do not pay you for your work definitely have some importance for writers. I would advocate putting some good quality articles up and try to get some traffic to blogs and such. If you do not have a site that you want to publicize, these sites have little value for you.

So far, my favorite non paid article sites are ArticleBase and Ezine Articles, though, I know of some others that are also fairly useful. Tell me if you have other sites that you want me to review.

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