Nevertheless I have been amazed by the number of views and the impact on sign up to my newsletter. The strange thing is that article marketing is rarely mentioned by speakers at networking events I have been to in the UK (even by those advising on how to get more traffic.)

But… I am wondering about it. I get the whole sharing the wealth thing.. and I can totally understand why EA would not want to… why should they at this point? EA thought of the idea, built the business and keep it healthy.

On the flip side, if one writes a book and gets it published, wouldn’t they still need to bring traffic to their website to plug the book, if they were not famous yet and hoped for a future in writing? Wouldn’t writing articles make sense in getting people to find you as a writer besides what the publisher might do for you?

My art is represented by an agent but I still do all I can, which includes writing articles, to get my name out there.

Just curious.

Thank you for telling me of your decision and your honest thoughts.

I shall do my best to respect your decision.

Strephon

I did not fully read your last post, just a couple of lines, not interested in your debate, I am still upset with the last time you gave me a hard time, indeed I did not read this last comment of yours either, just the first couple of lines. Either way, I am certain we disagree on most everything, and my new years resolution is not to do any more psycho-babble. Lance…out

It’s good to have contact with you again.

I can appreciate your 5.6 Million Article Views and so many click thrus that you can never count them.

I thought my points were actually an analysis comparison of writers like you with other article writers and publishers.

You as a big, big article writer represent the few here in this directory who are the evidence for the statement, write a lot of articles and you get a lot of click thrus.

Do you have an estimate of how much cash money you are directly making because of this?

Imagine if your writing efforts now go into writing novels, another form of writing, but one in which you get a cash return for your efforts if people read you.

My point is that the author should be paid directly for his and her services. It is your writing that brings people here. Those are really your Google ads and so you should get a percentage of the income, just like in regular publishing.

There is a point say with Ezine Articles where its best authors get paid half the Google income and then Ezine Articles makes its Google income off all the rest of its authors who do not submit enough articles to qualify.

The Money Machine could be quite simple.

-Over 100,000 views total 5 percent Google Ads Income

-Over 500,000 views total 10 percent Google Ads Income

-Over 1 million views total 15 percent Google Ads Income

-Over 5 million views total 20 percent Google Ads Income

If Ezine Articles keeps touting the benefits of writing more and more articles, then share the profits to those who do so. ‘Put your money where your mouth is,’ is the principle.

Sharing the profits is still the best business policy because it acknowledges a Win-Win Situation.

I have spoken!

We must get over the Wild West, Gold-Digger Days of Internet Development and get down to stabilization based on principles of equality, balance, regard for humanity and fairness, don’t you think?

Lance, my Internet Friend, you said, “Have a good day.” I say also, “Thanks! Have a better day.”

Hope you are having a terrific day.

I believe I have a somewhat different opinion with 5.6 Million Article Views and so many click thrus, that I could never count them. I think numbers do matter, and the data shows that there is opportunity in numbers. Quality writing is also important, your quality is very, very good, probably the reason you have sold so many books.

Lance

-finally in 2007 EZA started giving stat numbers of url links clicked. This the first realistic feedback mechanism maybe

-views of articles mean little or nothing, just like awards, because they are not a measure of reader commitment, which is url visits but especially sales of product or service

-the reality is that there has to be a very high amount of views to get a substantial amount of url clicks. You as author consider whether you can write hundreds and hundreds of articles to get any effective exposure

-the reality is that there has to be a high amount of url clicks to get one or two percent sales from visitors.

-the reality is that the only ones making good money from their writing and distribution efforts are the ones in certain subject areas, or with a very large number of views and web traffic

-Kaplan-Williams Law of Web Marketing states that the only ones making real money for their efforts on the web are those who sell service and product in how to make real money on the web. Marketers sell to would-be marketers. It has always been this way

-Ezine Articles is the big money-maker here through a large flow of traffic generated by thousands of authors who do not get paid, and the hundreds of thousands of browsing people these writers attract who see Google ads

-Ezine Articles makes its money, not through selling the direct value of the information its thousands of authors give the site, but through Google ads. Does that not alert you as an author that the system is flawed since authors do not see any cash for their efforts out of the Ezine Articles profits? The system needs improvement

-thousands of authors give their articles free to Ezine Articles, not for direct profit but because of their ‘lust to be published and read’

-Authors are always taken advantage of by publishers because of this lust. The author has to demand and insist on cash as well as publicity for others using his and her work

-I am still working on these issues for myself and other authors and hope to publish on this in the near future

-publishers have always been the author’s worst enemy, as well as sometimes their best friend

Simple really

Do you get it?
Do you use it?

Get it.
Use it.

1.) Sean R. Mize: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Sean_R_Mize&ecat=Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles (443 articles and it grows daily and also see he writes under “Sean Mize with 116 articles on the subject)

2.) Lance Winslow: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow&ecat=Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles (295 articles, also search “L.Winslow” and “Lance W.”)

3.) Indeed, I understand Jeff Herring has over 160 articles on the subject there too:
http://ezinearticles.com/?type=txcat&cat=Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles

***There is more than ample information here and some great advice, its all FREE, and any truly serious online article will spend the time to read ALL these articles and see the world from the different angles needs for any type of online article writing. – Lance..out