Promote Your Ezine on BestEzines.com

The moment you have your own email newsletter (some call it an ‘ezine’), one of my top 16 favorite ways to grow an email newsletter membership is to get it listed in the top email newsletter directories.

Today, I’m going to show you how you can log into your EzineArticles membership account and get a free listing of your ezine in our 6+ year old sister site, http://BestEzines.com/

BestEzines.com is a peer review website that was recently relaunched. Currently it represents 950+ ezines in 15 categories. As you might guess, we’re after quality and not quantity on this project because…well, it’s called “BestEzines” for a reason. :)

Here are the 6 quick steps to upload your free BestEzines listing Today:

1. Log in: http://Members.EzineArticles.com/
2. Click on AUTHOR TOOLS
3. Click on EZINE SUBMISSION
4. Fill Out The Quick Best Ezines Submission Form (should only take 90-120 seconds)
5. Click on the submission button:
6. Within a week or less, your BestEzines submission will be reviewed and you’ll be notified via email when its’ been accepted.

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR NEWBIES:

This BestEzines.com promotional opportunity is only for authors who truly have an email newsletter to promote. Yes, we check your website to verify that you have a subscription form for your visitors to join your email newsletter. About 20 of the first 50 submissions that were sent to us by EzineArticles authors proved to us that many authors think that ‘ezine’ is a brand of ours rather than a thing that it really is (an ezine is an email newsletter). Therefore, participation in the BestEzines.com promotion that is part of your EzineArticles.com membership account is limited only to authors who REALLY have an ezine or email newsletter to promote.

Also, an *email discussion list* is not an ezine.

If you don’t have an EzineArticles.com membership but have an ezine you want to promote, you can do so directly from the BestEzines.com website: http://BestEzines.com/submit/

Lastly, want to see an EzineArticles author who really worked the ‘peer review’ component of BestEzines.com? Check out Andy’s BestEzines Review Comments:  ezSEO Newsletter reviews –>Way to set the pace Andy!

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on July 13, 2006 at 8:31 am

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Lance Winslow writes:

Wow, what a great service indeed. Now then I take 75 online newsletters from many industries. And they are all tops. Aviation, Automotive, Science, Environment, Industry, etc. Yet only four are listed. It would seem that it would make sense to be more proactive with this sister site. Also it makes sense to actively go out and seek all these awesome Ezines to benefit subscribers. Also recently you mentioned that older sites should have Adsense or be monetarized? So, when giving this advice and then looking at your site here, it appears that you will now have to monetarize this site some more and add Click Ads too. After all a Six Year Old site will spider well in the search engines right?

Comment provided July 13, 2006 at 1:15 pm

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Keith Renninson writes:

Hey Chris, thanks for the reminder about Best Ezines, it still sounds like a great concept…About a month ago I did respond to a call for new ezines with one of mine called “Pawsibilities” and never heard from your people one way or the other.

Should I re-send it?

Thanks,

Keith……

Comment provided July 13, 2006 at 3:14 pm

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Louie Latour writes:

I submitted mine as well two months ago and never heard back.

Comment provided July 13, 2006 at 5:38 pm

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Keith,

Yours was rejected because you had this in the SUB box:

“Website/Archive Link: Not up yet”

This told us that you didn’t really have an ezine.

Surfing your site, I see you do have one. Yes, please resubmit and we’ll watch for it this week to make sure it gets accepted.

Our editors had a high threshold for BestEzines and we didn’t consider any ezine publisher as ’serious’ if they didn’t have a website up or archive of their past email newsletter issues or articles.

We’ve lowered the threshold, but still require that you at least have a website URL where a person can subscribe to. Be sure to include that in the “Ezine Subscription Info” section.

I can see that we’ll need to include more instructions and perhaps a video or audio tutorial on this and that’s been added to our whiteboard todo list.

Comment provided July 13, 2006 at 6:55 pm

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Louie,

I searched for yours and did not find anything under your name or your email address. Please resubmit.

We did reject a few that were already in the site as BestEzines.com is a “one listing per ezine per life” type of site unlike EzineArticles.com where you can submit as many articles as you’d like (assuming your membership is in good standing).

Comment provided July 13, 2006 at 7:11 pm

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Janice D. Bennett, Ph.D. writes:

I submitted my ezine to BestEzines, yet don’t truly understand how and why visitors would go there, or other websites, that only list ezines. It’s hard for me to believe that someone would be outwardly looking to get MORE email! I’ve been hearing a lot lately that people are more likely to subscribe to a blog feed than to an ezine, and getting regular traffic to your site. I believe it would be easier for someone looking for info (like for what I provide — dating & relationship advice) to do a Google search on the topic, rather than a search asking for “ezine directories.”

And depending on your response, I’d also like to know the benefit of submitting my ezine to additional ezine directories.

Comment provided July 26, 2006 at 5:23 am

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Janice,

In the short-term, this BestEzines.com project is about building a valuable database of ezine publishers.

In the long-term, it’s my hope that this site will help to solve the recurring problem that many ezine publishers have when they want to seek JV partners or if they want to buy low-cost ezine advertising on related niche ezines.

The big search engines don’t do a very good job at helping Ezine publishers identify other ezine publishers and BestEzines.com will help to solve that need as it scales in size.

Comment provided July 27, 2006 at 8:40 am

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