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[Rob Hammond Company: Global Virtual Opportunities Contribution Level: 4]

Most article directories aren't very highly ranked in search engines, but Squidoo seems to get a lot of traffic.
Either that or your own blog.

[Dave Hayes Company: Magnetic Sponsoring Contribution Level: 7]

Squidoo is also very good, and like EZINE Articles IT does get a lot of Traffic, but GOOGLE likes both, so either way your on a winner!

[Roy Revill Contribution Level: 2]

I am an expert author on ezinearticles.com but that does not mean that your artilces get published by ezines automatically. Directories like ezinearticles.com and Goarticles.com are places were webmasters and ezine owners come to look for articles. The good thing about ezinearticles.com is that it is a free site but is well respected by ezines and webmasters.

Of course paid services are better as they actively connect with ezine owners and webmasters and they feel obliged to do so becuase it is paid service. They know exactly which ezines are most likely to accept your artilces so the act of puttinng your articles in front of ezines owners is active rather than passive as on free directories. Your ultimate aim is to get your articles onto ezines as they are more targeted and can have a huge list of subscribers.

if you use free directors like ezinearticles.com, make sure you put a lot of emphasis on quality content. That is when the ezines will like it and borrow it. Even if it is not keyword optimised, the ezines will drive the traffice for you by publishing it. That is my experience as an author with ezinearticles.com.

Hope that helps.

I agree with you. It doesn't really mean that if you write and submit articles to ezinearticles.com it will automatically be displayed and posted. I think you have to wait for the approval of the admin. Also, writing articles in good quality can be an asset so maintain it.
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[paul brookman Contribution Level: 1]

I found that that www.directoryofezines.com is really helpful. You can have one to one chats with the owner of the site and he'll give you loads of really helpful advice on loads of other areas as well.

[Nathan Isaac Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 3]

Don't post to Ezine Articles, that place is a joke.

There is only one place you should post to if you are serious
about article marketing and that is Article Productions.

But if you're not serious, then post to the Adsense farm called Ezine articles.

P.S. Backlinks from EZA don't really count for anything
because of all the link juice is taken by all the ads.