Thanks Again Chris and Ann!

Jill Koenig

Actually, and while I don’t have evidence to support this claim… it’s my gut feeling that the content thieves being discussed here reflect about .1% of the market place; not anywhere close to 10%.

Can you imagine if 1 in every 10 Publishers was a content thief? 1 out of 1000 perhaps is closer to reality and most likely higher than reality (ie: I think it is probably less than .1%).

As far as percentage of Publisher people who are incompetent; well, that’s certainly past 10%! ;-)

I’ve had a few articles in the top 10 on Google, so exposure is more important to me, rather than the content thieves.

Thanks for the wishes of success!

Shirley Bass

Doing the “BIG DUMP” of articles at once rather than spacing over time nets you more traffic because you have more articles attracting traffic over more days than if you spread the article submissions out over time.

I believe both strategies have value though… meaning, if you’re sitting on a bunch of content, do the BIG DUMP and then also do the submission over time consistency thing if you want the best shot at success.

“Spare the Enemy!”

Shirley Bass, for years and years and years I never got less than 5 stars on Amazon, and then apparently I ticked someone off. He wrote a review listing all of the things my book “should have said,” quoted verbatim from my book! I think there must be a point that you just get enough exposure you meet some bad actors. And I can tell you that if you publish enough books, you’ll have stories about publishers, good and bad. But we all have to deal with the sabotage and plagiarism issues from where we are, not where we’re not. Hope you have so much success with ezinearticles soon you don’t care about the plagiarists.

One thing that we do not talk a lot about here at Ezine Articles is the fact that over-time your articles cook. When they have time to cook they are getting traffic and that adds up. And you must understand I started posting here in 2005 and posted some 1500 articles of previous works that were modified into articles. Then in 2006 and 2007 I went nuts and wrote a mega-amount of articles. It seems all the articles that I originally wrote are all well over 1500 article views. All the articles in 2006 are in the 500-600 range.

Yes, Anne you are competing against others in your field. I have written 1,000s of articles on news and politics and remember we just came off an election year, so that helped. And I have mega articles on innovation, future concepts, science innovation, aerospace invention ideas. Those are esoteric, literally “NO” competition.

Same with Humanities and Philosophy, hardly any, and I write on Business Topics, which has lots of competition, but mega interest and traffic. How to articles for business are picking up due to the economic conditions and small businesses scrambling to make money. I’ve seen huge traffic in careers, human resources, colleges, etc. due to job unemployment rates creeping up here in the bottom of the recession.

The concept of submitting a bunch at once is one that Sean Mize seems to be up to, literally owning the category and putting up so much content that it would be hard for anyone to not get drowned out. Still, his strategy is to “Dump” submit, three times per week. I imagine he owns that category now, thanks to his team of writers from India?

Still, one should note that for someone like Robert to write such excellent and informative articles, he’ll surely get the eyes of the EzinePublishers that include his articles in their newsletters as well. One good article picked up with an Ezine with a huge subscriber base is worth a lot of traffic. Just like getting your company featured in a Wall Street Journal Article.

If you are posting in several categories, like I often do then you can post 3 at a time in each category and 3 more in each category 3-days later. I have noticed that if I write lots of articles on Franchising, which is normally a very high traffic category, because AdSense pays more in that category, due to the fact franchisors are willing to pay a lot for potential leads and traffic; my findings are if I post 15 in one day, they are not likely to be picked up by other websites as often as if I post them slower.

You see, I want other sites to pick up my articles thru syndication, this drives back-links and massive traffic from all different places. And generally all targeted traffic. The article views on this website although I am at 7 million now, are only a drop in the bucket of the total article views or even traffic that I have generated from all the locations of all my articles across the internet.

Now with that said, eventually a “franchising website” will stumble upon my articles in the “Franchising Category” and they will start up loading them, post them at the rate of 3-6 articles a week. Thus the 6 articles a week seems to be the magic number and the rate at which the sites that collect these syndicated articles want them.

Plus most EZINES that collect articles here and there are OH MY GOD a ton of them, generally send out once per week. So, if you post 3-6 they will pick the best that fits their needs or focus of that newletter that week, so you have given them options, which means they are more likely to pick yours than someone else here in that category. Some of these Ezine Newletters have insane followings and 10s of 1000s of subscribers you see. What’s that worth? A Lot!

Another good reason for you to continue to write your quality articles at a smart pace. See that point? Now mind you, I normally do not go around sharing my findings with everyone, but after writing 15,000 articles this is what I have discovered. And therefore a strategy I use.

Sometimes I get lazy and write 15-20 articles on a single subject and post them all at once. This bulks me up in a given category and eventually these articles will find a home (s) but, it’s best to write in 3’s or 6’s or 12’s and then post them at a pace that those needing the content want them. In my opinion.

Now, Chris has discussed the bulk submissions with your current content, suggesting that you just upload it all in one swoop. Yes, you can do this and those articles will eventually find themselves in the search engine and many will find homes. Still, I advise to do 3-6 per week in your category if you want to totally dominate and have awsome traffic consistently over a long period of time.

and robert, thanks for the manuscript idea. i’ll see whether i can stand to open it up again! and congrats on moving ahead like that.