Yes, I used to tell people the best thing to do for article marketing is to send your articles to major article directories, like Ezinearticles. But things have changed and now I am not so sure this is the bet advice for people with limited time and resources. The approval process at Ezinearticles is really slow sometimes. They can be really fussy about what is acceptable or not in their articles. Have you read the entire terms of service and understood them? It is all even slower if you are a non-paying member. But be real, who is going to pay to submit only one article to one site just to get it approved faster?

Also, when it comes to getting backlinks from your articles submitted to “EZA” you’re only getting backlinks from one IP address so after a while the backlinks obtained from your published articles are becoming less and less effective. “EZA” also seems to have different policies for different level members when it comes to adding hyperlinks in your resource boxes, which is unfair because it causes a lot of grief for my students who are just starting out with using their service.

WordPress made a huge difference in the world of article marketing. It became the default content management and publishing platform for new sites. That is when syndicating articles became much easier. Many new ways began to surface to syndicate articles. Once you have your user account with WordPress you can publish articles. Not only your articles. You can now accept free articles and publish them at your site when you choose to use them.

In order for you to have free articles to receive, someone has to be writing them and sending them out. That is when special services like Unique Article wizard come to the forefront. This gives you the freedom to syndicate your articles and some of them let you put your affiliate links in the articles. What makes this especially good for you is that you can write excellent articles and make money whenever someone reads them and buys a product from your affiliate link you have embedded within the article.

Many article directories including “EZA” you are not permitted to put your affiliate link in the article . In addition, “EZA” does not really assist you with syndicating your articles. I have noticed that the common practice among webmasters who are republishing your articles is to leave out your links, in spite of the fact that is against the policies. No one is stopping them from doing it unless you get involved. That is discouraging and unethical.

It does seem that the major article directories are dying a slow death. Why? Because they are not much help when it comes to syndication and that means they are not keeping up with the times. When companies like this do not keep up with the needs of their users they experience a loss of trust and value and over time are less desirable to use. However, since these major article directories have been around so long and their content approval procedures are so strict, they do really well in the search engines and they get your articles ranked well still.

With article syndication allows you to obtain backlinks from hundred or thousands of IP addresses, not just a single site. Some article syndication services like isnare are a bit less effective, since what they do is post duplicate content to a many places. Posting duplicate content to many places simultaneously can get those links discredited. Often, due to the sheer volume of duplicate content only a few of your content articles will be indexed and a minority of those links will actually be applied to your sites.

In order to obtain useful backlinks you must have different sites link to you and they must be quality sites. Services such as Linkvana can give you hundreds of good backlinks. It does not require long articles or a long wait for the article approval. The scene is changing dramatically regarding backlinks. My guess is that it wont be too long before the major directories start to play a lesser role.