Happy New Years!

QUESTION:

What is the one single Article Writing and/or Marketing accomplishment you are most proud of for 2008?

Feel free to share your favorite metrics or stats from your article performance reports or any hurdles that may have looked unsurmountable; yet somehow you triumphed?!

Follow up question then… What does that accomplishment mean to you and your business? ie: Did you have a banner traffic year? Did you get any cool high-profile media outlets banging on your door for an interview? Did you close more sales or attract more qualified customers to your website? Did your articles improve your conversion rates?

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 31, 2008 at 2:49 pm

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Find Niche Experts on Twitter

If you’re on Twitter long enough, you know that the way to get followed and discover new friends is to follow people that you find interesting.

You can now use our Twitter/EzineArticles directory to EzineArticles Expert Authors who twitter in *AND* write articles in any of the 586 niches that we serve.

Example: Want to find out which of the 4,200+ EzineArticles expert authors has written articles about Public Speaking?

1. Go to Twitter.EzineArticles.com
2. Select the CATEGORY link, Select WRITING & SPEAKING
3. Select PUBLIC SPEAKING sub-category and you’ll get this Twitter list of Speaking experts to go discover.
4. Follow any of them that you find interesting. If there’s a connection, they follow you back and you grow your Twitter follower base.

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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 31, 2008 at 8:18 am

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Do You Heart EzineArticles?

You can now show the love by putting any of these new & cool buttons on your Blog or your MySpace/FaceBook pages:

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And there’s MORE you can find by clicking here.

TIP: Instead of linking to EzineArticles.com, link to your EzineArticles Expert Author profile URL so that your web friends can find your articles quickly. :)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 30, 2008 at 4:17 pm

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2008 In Review

This week I’ll be doing a series of posts looking back on 2008 and giving my predictions for what will happen in the article writing & marketing field for 2009. For today, let’s take a look back at 2008…

EzineArticles.com ends 2008 with several records and firsts thanks to you!

• Monthly unique visitors is now over 15,000,000 (Yes, that’s over 500,000+ unique visitors daily!)
• Daily page views is in excess of one million per day (more page views means more exposure for you and your articles)
• Total articles live has doubled in 2008 well over a million+ quality original articles.
• Launched the EzineArticles/Twitter Directory that has 4,100+ members setup for auto-tweeting their newest EzineArticles
• EzineArticles Premium Memberships launched in Beta since August providing priority article review speed, article scheduling, and insider keyword/keyphrase traffic search term intelligence.
• New Members are being added at a healthy clip of over 10,000+ new Expert Authors monthly.
• We’re ending the year delivering more than 3.6 million monthly visitors going to members’ websites! (That’s a gross CTR of approx 10% leave us to member websites)
• We expanded our offices from 2,000 to 4,000 sq. ft. and doubled the number of Editors to improve article review speeds & member support.
• EzineArticles now serves 586 unique niche markets with more planned for early 2009.

The Recessions Impact on the Article Writing & Marketing world:

The hard costs of spending cash to acquire customers (advertising costs/investments) feels heavier in soft revenue times than investing human capital in the form of labor to create and produce dozens, hundreds and in many cases, thousands of new articles to help build a base of traffic coming back to our members’ websites.

Ie: Business owners, entrepreneurs and experts are exchanging their time to produce articles at a greater rate than they are exchanging their cash for hard advertising costs to acquire the same result: More qualified visitors back to their websites.

The members who were really rewarded this year, traffic-wise, were the ones who made article writing investments in prior years because your total traffic received from articles is in direct relation to your total articles in your article inventory times the total number of days your articles were live on the site coupled with a multiplier effect how in demand your niche content was + your articles quality level (greatly affects forwarding to a friend & other social media viral forwards).

Some members who are experts in Mortgages & Refinancing saw some pretty steep declines in traffic while others in Weight Loss, Health & Fitness, Business (B2B), Debt Consolidation/Relief, Finance Loans, Home Improvement (specifically Bath, Shower, & Flooring), Relationships, Mobile Cell Phones and Self Help saw very healthy traffic activity.

Lastly, the EzineArticles Premium Membership leaves Beta this Tuesday (tomorrow, Dec 30th) to become official: If you’d like to become Premium member before Tuesday, log in to your account, click on ACCOUNT MANAGER, click on PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP & sign up with your PayPal account. We have a cool 2008-only bonus planned and everyone who is a Premium member in 2008 will get the bonus even if you sign up before Tuesday.

QUESTION: Ok, it’s your turn:

How did your articles perform in 2008? Did you invest in writing more articles this year than prior years? Feel free to share your insights on how your article writing & marketing strategy unfolded in 2008. (Let’s keep the 2009 looking forward predictions for another thread later this week please).

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 29, 2008 at 12:18 pm

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Holiday Cheer!

All of us at EzineArticles.com wish you, your family, and your business a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, or whatever holiday happiness you might celebrate!

Why are all of our jackets on? It was snowing hard yesterday morning when this photo was taken and we were going to go outside for the shot, but decided at the last minute to do it inside. :)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 24, 2008 at 3:51 pm

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Meet The Network Admins

We just got done doing our Holiday photo shoot of the entire team (will be posted tomorrow)… and I thought today I’d show you two of our Network Admins who have been working in the dark all week with nothing but Christmas lights on in their office:

Katie & Wendy are Network Admins (or “EzineArticles Elves” I’m calling them today).
Here are some of the things they both enjoy about life:
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 23, 2008 at 9:47 am

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5000 Twitter Followers

UPDATE 8:50pm CST: Phil Meaux is the winner and was our 5,000ths Follower on Twitter.

Be the 5,000th Follower of us on Twitter and you can win a high quality EzineArticles Fleece Jacket shipped to you free anywhere in the world.

Winner will be announced on Twitter sometime this weekend.

Also, if you have 5,000 or more friends following you on Twitter and (1) or more EzineArticles live with us, DM us on Twitter with your jacket size and we’ll send you one too. This offer is good through the end of 2008 only.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 19, 2008 at 3:48 pm

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17 New Niche Markets Added

Great News! We added 17 new niche sub-categories for your articles. This means EzineArticles.com now serves 586 Unique Niche Markets (& proud of it!) Here they are:
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Links in Article Body Become NoFollowed

Being a market leader means having to make tough decisions sometimes… and this is one we’ve contemplated for more than 2 years now.

What’s happening: Effective later this month, all links in the article body will include the rel=”nofollow” attribute. That means we’ll be instructing the search engines to not crawl those links. Will they actually not crawl those links? I think the consensus is that they STILL crawl those links for indexing purposes, but unofficially.

Why is this being done? To discourage self-promotion in the article body.

The Article Body is the GIVE;
The Resource Box is the TAKE.

This decision was taken very seriously and we did a comprehensive internal stats study and found that 92.7% of our members already do include their links properly in the Resource Box. This change only affects the value or perceived value that 7.3% of our members receive.

What we’re hoping will result from this change: Self-serving active links will end up in the Resource Box where they are suppose to be and thus, user trust and referral partner trust (ie: search engines & other social media sites) will improve. When traffic referral partner trust improves, our members win and we win at a higher level together.

More traffic to us = more traffic to your website… and we’re basically placing a large bet that the negative consequences of 7% of our membership being unhappy because of this policy change will result in 100% of our members getting more traffic in the long haul. Always open to your thoughts? (please keep comments in this thread on topic)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 15, 2008 at 9:42 am

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Write Your Way Into People’s Minds

EzineArticles Expert Author Rachael Tiedeman created this quick video yesterday that takes you through a tour of the EzineArticles authors area (perfect for newbies new to EzineArticles).

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 12, 2008 at 6:55 am

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