New Finance and Investing Niche Topics

NEW: Based on member feedback over the past 6 months, we’ve greatly expanded our EzineArticles Finance niche categories:

Here are the new Finance niche additions:

• Finance: Auto-Loans
• Finance: Bankruptcy-Lawyers
• Finance: Bankruptcy-Medical
• Finance: Bankruptcy-Personal
• Finance: Bankruptcy-Tips-Advice
• Finance: Commercial-Loans
• Finance: Credit-Counseling
• Finance: Credit-Tips
• Finance: Debt-Management
• Finance: Home-Equity-Loans
• Finance: PayDay-Loans
• Finance: Personal-Loans
• Finance: Student-Loans
• Finance: Taxes-Income
• Finance: Taxes-Relief
• Finance: Taxes-Tools
• Finance: Unsecured-Loans
• Finance: VA-Loans

See the newly expanded Finance main page.

In addition, we’ve taken the former “Investing” sub-category of Finance and made it into a main category:

• Investing: Day-Trading
• Investing: IRA-401K
• Investing: Mutual-Funds
• Investing: Retirement-Planning
• Investing: Stocks

See the newly expanded Investing main page

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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 10, 2008 at 12:56 pm

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Frequent Siting - Volleyball Set Up

I’ve seen this sort of thing happen quite often:

A high visibility niche vertical site will link to highly relevant content… in this case, Hayley Merrett’s Volleyball Articles.

The moral of this short story: Some times your EzineArticles don’t get reprinted or syndicated, but rather you get high visibility exposure from contextually related authority sources.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 10, 2008 at 8:26 am

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Top EzineArticles Niches For Feb 2008

Top (5) EzineArticles Niche Categories That Received The Most Traffic/Interest Last Month:

1. Health & Fitness: Weight-Loss
2. Computers & Technology: Games (just became main category today)
3. Health & Fitness: Beauty
4. Relationships: Dating
5. Home Improvement: Interior Design & Decorating

Top (3) EzineArticles Categories By Article Submissions:

1. Health & Fitness: Weight Loss
2. Finance: Loans (Just split into multiple sub-categories today)
3. Internet & Businesses Online: Internet Marketing (no surprise here)

Top (3) EzineArticles Categories By Number of Average Views Per Article:

1. Arts & Entertainment: Tattoos 280
2. Recreation & Sports: Bowling 240
3. Foods & Drink: Low Calorie 218

Top (3) Categories With Most Number of Unique Authors Active in Feb 2008:

1. Internet & Businesses Online: Internet Marketing 593
2. Health & Fitness: Weight Loss 522
3. Health & Fitness 482

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 6, 2008 at 10:19 am

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500 Plus Niche Categories or Infinite Niches

For the past 2 full weeks, we’ve been preparing the ground work to release almost 100 new niche categories that have been requested by our members, studied by our team, and researched to death for viability.

Today, I wanted to pause to contemplate for a moment a bit of self-destructionism:

In a world where everyone is flooded with information, does it still make sense for EzineArticles to have individual categories?

The Pro’s to 500+ Niche Categories:

• Members hold back quality article submissions due to their perception that we don’t have the right category for their article…thus, more categories = more article submissions.
• We send nearly 2 million monthly permission-based opt-in emails to 82k members of the niche categories.
• Tens of thousands of daily visitors find us via category RSS feeds.

The Pro’s to Infinite Niche Categories:

• “Infinite Niche Categories” really means no categories at all any more and EzineArticles becomes a tagonomy of user-decided unlimited niche categories.
• The look of the site shifts from being perceived as a directory to being perceived as a more comprehensive knowledge depository.
• Email alerts move to become incredibly more complex, but simultaneously, the information delivered is more precisely tuned to the requesters interests. Same for RSS based on tags, not categories.

Ok, your turn to voice your opinion:

Does EzineArticles continue adding categories per the plan already in progress or do we abandon all ye plans and go for the infinite niches model?

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 5, 2008 at 7:33 am

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Human Powered

Last week while I was in Miami attending MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit, EzineArticles Expert Author Shawn Collins was leading Affiliate Summit West 2008 in Las Vegas.

Got a minute to post a comment on Joel’s blog, defending EzineArticles.com about how hard it is to go through our human review process to get your articles accepted?

Some have broad-stroked the issues as if they were black & white (which they are not); but it’s good for everyone to see why we continually raise the quality standards that content must meet to be accepted on EzineArticles.com.

Always open to your thoughts. Thanks!

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 4, 2008 at 1:37 pm

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Inactive Member Audit Results

A week ago, we began a segmented email campaign to identify inactive members who created accounts and did nothing, for the purpose of terminating accounts with no activity *AND* author names locked up could become available for new members to use.

Every day, we’ve watched the activity on the 18k accounts flagged for possible termination if they don’t create action. Today, I have some internal stats to share on this campaign:

• Out of the 18k emails sent to registered members, 517 members logged in so far.
• Out of the 517 that logged in, 346 (67%) submitted 1,000s of articles. Yeah!
• Out of 18k emails, 11.2% (2,015) members bounced back hard undeliverable.
• Those 2,015 members were emailed to their EzineArticles inbox 2 minutes ago that their accounts are suspended.
• In 3 weeks, if no activity, every account with no activity that is currently Suspended-Email-Bouncing will be terminated.
• Monday March 10th, we’re scheduled to terminate 17k accounts for no activity and no response to our request to become active.

Overall, we’re pleased that 2.8% responded and of those members re-engaging EzineArticles, 67% of them submitted thousands of articles. That’s the upside. The downside is that we’re 5k+ articles behind in human review and 550+ member support emails in our ticket queue waiting for response…so we apologize if turn-around speed is sluggish this week.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 3, 2008 at 10:33 am

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Can I Sell Them?

Julian from Romania writes in and asks:

Answer = Absolutely NOT.

Should we find out that you’re selling links in any article you have listed with EzineArticles.com, upon verification of fact (such as a public post in a popular webmaster forum (What? You didn’t think we read and track what others are saying about us?) where you offered to sell links in your articles), we will suspend your account pending further investigation leading to a most likely account termination.

Selling links in your articles is not cool and one of the quickest ways to lose your account with us.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 2, 2008 at 11:09 am

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