Thanks’
Albert Hallado

Thank you,

Arthur

Peter

I’m not happy like Arthur… I’m disappointed with you.

You say you are going to help us, but you are too theoric.
You had said a long time ago (when I almost had 100 articles at EA) that the authors with more than 100 articles, original content, etc. would be named Diamonds and have some advantage… Now I have almost 250 articles here, but you still didn’t do anything…

Two weeks ago I became the top author on Depression. Did I receive anything special? Did anyone notice that?
Are you going to do something to promote my work when I will be the top author in 2 categories? In 3?
What if I’ll be the top author in 5 or more categories? Is this going to be noticed?
Will I have any benefit? Or will I have to wait a whole day to see my article live again if I’ll dare to change it’s category, because one of your editors has to check my decision and verify if I choose the correct one?…

I told you in another thread that you have to change the place where the reader can leave a comment: it has to be Under the article and without the 2 lists of most read and most published articles in the middle of the way, before they can rate the article, like now.
Which your reaction was? You tried to justify your disorganized template.

I feel I’m wasting my time with the discussions in this blog. We are only exchanging ideas, but nothing changes.

Recently many people rated my articles. I’m sure they would like very much to say something, but they couldn’t find where to leave their comment… because it is at the top of the page, Over the article. Only a “genius” would think that the best place for a reader to leave his or her comment After reading the article should be at the Top, near the Title!!!

In the beginning I didn’t submit my articles anywhere else. Now I saw that I have to submit them to more than many sites, because here at Ezine Articles they don’t have the exposure that they have in other sites that Promote the authors!

First, the Diamond thing is not released for anyone. We have not released it yet because we’re not convinced it will have a positive impact.

We aim to be operationally efficient first and intimate with our members, second. It’s impossible to do both very well and we’ve chosen to be very operationally efficient. That has trade off’s including not being able to recognize every major achievement our members have with us or providing a highly personalized experience.

I can tell you that we have a project that was outlined earlier this morning that will get us closer to your complaint of a lack of recognition…but that is only a week in production with no ETA for when it’ll be released.

The comment location won’t be changed for now. Sorry that you don’t agree with the decision.

We’re not right for everyone nor do we seek to be the perfect platform for every need. If you are finding success with competitor sites, then go with what works for you.

When I lost my daughter and then my husband, the authors here supported me. This is the finest community on the Internet and I LOVE EzineArticles.

Joy to you,

Jeanette Fisher
www.TheBookRace.com

Technically, you don’t need to know any HTML code to write & submit articles.

If you include a full http:// URL, we’ll auto link it for you.

If you want to make an anchored text link (making a word link to your website), this article can help you master the essential HTML for article writers.

You are an excellent example of the benefit of writing lots of great quality articles here on EZA.

Thanks for sharing and I’m glad you are here.

Jeff

I saw many things in other sites that work much better than at EA.
If I’m complaining is because I want to help you improve it.

If I want special attention is because I believe that the best authors deserve promotion, because I saw it happening in other places and because it is very nice! This would be a real platform for us, new authors!

Even though I am a published author in medicine, I am a newbie here. Let me tell you something: I am thrilled with the possibilities we all have with EA. This is more than anyone could ever expect in the so called “real” brick and mortar world.

Kudos for a great platform and for such a powerful concept!

Best regards,

Luis Gaviria

I have to say that while I do use other directories to promote my writing I get the most traffic, by far using EA. I am very happy with the traffic to my sites.

Like I have stated, I am new to using articles for traffic, and I have found out quickly that is WORKS!

Keep up the good work and I appreciate the efforts of you and your team in assisting me with my personal goals and achievements.

Thomas Bladecki
home-foreclosure-help.org

(I am NOT commenting here about the quality of EZA’s “top authors,” just questioning the difference, because either way, I do believe there is one.)

…For me, the benefit of EZA has been to gain access to an audience that I would not have reached otherwise-and that is well worth it. So, if Chris and EZA can help me build my platform to new heights then …. I am all for it!

I am NOT interested in making money. This seems to be you hang up. I am interested in new ideas and action that will transform society.

More readers might help. But I don;t fin a lot of social conscoousness on your wevsite. So I look elswhere for readers interested in a better world.

Bill Ellis

Many article directories take EZA articles and publish them as ‘posted by admin’ or simply ‘posted’. Isn’t it inbuilt promotion?

The Top Authors thing doesn’t mean they are the “BEST” authors; it just means they are the top in terms of VOLUME for that category.

Jeanette,

How the heck do you write books in (3) days? Wow, that’s pretty efficient.

The Wall Street Journal feature story coming out this Friday grew from articles posted on Ezine Articles and on my site www.environmentpsychology.com (only promoted by articles here): Ways to Save Gas, Just Stay Home Campaign, and Vacationing at Home. Search for Environmental Psychology and you will see the power of just a few articles to push a website to the top and keep it high even after you move onto other topics. My point, social consciousness is more than alive and well on EA.

Chris,

As for writing books fast, my friend Mark Little tried my system. He improved it and then my daughter, who taught English freshmen to write, shared some of her tips. We put these systems together and created The Book Race. We have editors, artists, and systems to get it done instead of teaching you how to do it. Come play and write with us.

Jeanette Fisher
www.TheBookRace.com

I’m used to write books during a very long time.
My ebook “Craziness Prevention” was written in a period of 19 years and my book “The philanthropic Beggar” was written in 6 and a half years…
This kind of work is more than rare today… I don’t think I will ever meet a writer that will write books so, so well prepared like me.

However, I like very much the idea of writing a book in only three days!
I wrote a 45 pages ebook in one week… This was very easy. I think that everything depends on what you are writing and why.
I could write that kind of ebook in one day if I didn’t have to do anything else besides writing.

I think you are a very interesting person, Jeanette! I’m going to read what you are suggesting us.
I’m interested on environmental psychology.

Christina, it’s not up to EA to shout your name to the world. That’s your responsibility.

So you’re a top author. That’s good. You should be promoting that fact yourself. The thing is, people who reach the EA site only want relevant information. They could care less if you’re the top author in your category.

I was the top author in my category (music) too for quite a while until someone came along and knocked me into second place.

I know that EA is not my manager, but since the topic of this thread is: “Ezine Articles as a platform for authors” I wanted to express my opinion because I saw that in other sites the authors have exposure, rights, etc. that we don’t have here. I’m not happy with the platform EA offers. It could give more and win a lot with that.

We submit here our very best original articles and bring traffic to this site. This site could promote us more, like other sites do. This is what I’m saying.
Is there any difference for me if I’ll submit 100 articles to EA or to other article directories with the same ranking? Why should I submit my original articles here? Only because this site has high traffic? Other sites have a lot of traffic too and offer more.

I want to see Ezine Articles being perfect though, because this is my favorite article directory. Otherwise, I wouldn’t care.

Thanks’
Albert

I really love Ezine Articles and I’m grateful because Chris showed me how much I could do through article writing. This is why I care so much for everything related to EA.

Not wanting to throw fuel on this fire, but we work too hard behind the scenes to promote our members to not step up and ask these questions:

Show me one competitor site that delivers more than a million emails EACH month to promote its members?

Show me a competitor site that has more than 80,000+ RSS feeds to promote its members content?

Show me a competitor site that accepts your articles with an alexa rank lower than ours?

Show me a competitor site that has our traffic levels?

Show me a competitor site that sends more than a million clicks to its member websites each month?

I’d like to know so that we can improve. :)

I had no idea about the million emails, 80,000 feeds, and the million clicks. I have always been impressed with your traffic levels and alexa rank, but it’s good to know the rest of the story.

A MILLION emails? Isn’t that a record? Who else sends that many?

Joy!
Jeanette

I was talking to a friend of mine about this the other day he is a photographer (ironic since I haven’t uploaded a picture yet) and I was telling him how ezinearticles would be a great place for him to find some more clients and generate traffic to his site.
He told me he had heard of you guys but thought that going with a website that is geared more towards photography would be better for him since be associated with the photography website would give him more “relevance” than ea.
I then told him that EA is like Walmart (in the domination since) when it comes to article marketing and whatever “Photography” website that allows him to submit articles is going to be more like whatever the biggest Photography Brick and Mortar shop there is (which I have no idea who that is).

In other words while going to different article sites might get you a more specific “clientèle” EA’s reach is so huge that not only will people looking for what you have to say will find you those that don’t will too.

In a brick and mortar type of place I might see how that would be a problem yet the truth is online unless you start generating the type of traffic that the great Lance Winslow’s articles create have to many “warm” visitors online is not a problem that a beginner should be worried about.

However, there always many points that need improvement everywhere.
I was expecting more concerning the relationship we have with our readers. Their comments are very important…
I believe that you have to promote more the authors that write more and the authors that provide you a richer content.

I love Ezine Articles for many reasons, especially for its organization! I can see all my articles and how many people visited my site from them, etc.
This is the most organized and beautiful article directory! I like it very much! And I’m going to be a top writer in many categories.

I only want to help you, feel that everything here is perfect and that you are really helping the authors as much as we deserve.

Last month we sent 1.4 million permission-based emails to 76,968 unique list members on 435 different niche email lists (one for each EzineArticles category).

RSS feeds, we have one for every member and one for every category; plus one searchable RSS feed for approved RSS Publishers only with established platforms.

Thad,

Dude, get your author photo uploaded. :)