Ezine Articles + Twitter = More Exposure
My favorite and most effective article directory is EzineArticles. And thanks to my good friend and colleague Jeff Herring, I have had over one hundred (yes 100+ articles) posted there within the last few months.
How? Simply by “repurposing” faster, better and with less human effort. I can do this because I write with my mouth, not with my hands utilizing Teleseminar content as my core article material.
More Exposure: If you’re an info marketer who wants more reach with your articles, I recommend you set-up your EzineArticles account to automatically post your approved articles to your Twitter profile.
It’s that easy and powerful!
Key Point: On September 17th, 2008 I received a call from Jeff Herring requesting that I visit Twitter.EzineArticles.com … and so I did.
To my surprise, I was #1 from over 119,495 Expert Authors sharing their best ezine articles and 700 of these Expert Authors get their articles automatically posted to their Twitter profile.
For the past 2 years, I’ve encouraged my Teleseminar Secrets students to also “write articles with their mouths, not with their hands” and create 12 different info products from one idea (easy) vs. 12 different ideas into 12 info products (hard).
Utilizing this killer repurposing strategy, now is the best time ever to submit your articles on Ezine Articles (free). Because EzineArticles and Twitter have now teamed-up, you’ll maximize your promotional exposure with minimum effort.
Tags: alex mandossian, authors, experts, ezine articles, Info Marketing, internet marketing, jeff herring, online marketing, twitter
Posting ezine articles on twitter makes sense.
I’ve read we also can send our blog posts to twitter.
Is that a complicated process? Want to do a blog post on it?
This new ezinearticles directory is very cutting egde and I am very pleased to be part of it.
I only recently started using Twitter, but it is an essential tool for any infopreneur, as is article marketing.
It is amazing how many people do not know about Twitter, or how to use it to build their business tactfully–an advantage to those of us who do!
Great tip Alex. Thank you.
At first encounter, Twitter seems like just another waste of time, but I am amazed at the creative applications people come up with.
Here’s another twitter application…
http://www.schoolmarketingtips.com/?p=38
Great Alex,
I love the idea of triangulating using 2 different tools to create an online effect that is a multiple of both efforts taken individually…the sum is more than the parts.
Thanks for this tip.
Dan
Thanks for this excellent advice Alex! The resources at Ezine Articles are excellent and Twitter is a good blogging tool on their own so I’m looking forward to implementing this automatic system that you suggested here. Thanks again.
Thanks for this Alex. A GREAT strategy!
I have a question for you or anyone on this blog - you mentioned posting 200 articles in 2 months. Experts like Jason Potash say only post 1 or 2 articles per week, otherwise the search engines don’ like it.
What’s the truth here?
Thanks.
Henri
http://www.EntrepreneurFreedom.com
Hey Alex,
Great job on showing us how social networking works and how it’s all inter-connected.
And congrats on getting the #1 position on Ezine Articles with Twitter.
It will be interesting to see what else Ezine Articles does with social networking as they also have LinkedIN, Facebook, MySpace and FriendFeed in the author’s profile.
If you want to follow us on twitter we are at
http://twitter.com/Pat_Lorna
Thanks,
– Pat & Lorna
http://www.PatAndLorna.com
Hi! it is an excellent idea, twitter is easy to use, I will add, that very short message in Twitter must be short and provocative to make people open it, (140 characters must include an URL plus a short message).
I have a cloaking script for my affiliate links, but in Twitter I use tinyURL.com to cloak my links. This is how you get very short urls, it is god to know because the URLs in ezine articles are huge.
Regards Michaela
http://www.ebookscamp.com
I’ve been on Twitter for some time, but I’m new at using EzineArticles, so this is extremely beneficial info, it’s a plus to be able to connect the two.
Often, time slips away when visiting SN sites but, if you can connect w/people you would otherwise never meet or know existed then how can that be a bad thing. Connecting/sharing helps everyone learn and learning is always a plus.
Alex you’re the best, thanks.
Janette
http://www.successtranscripts.com
I welcome followers on Twitter
http://twitter.com/TranscriptWiz
Alex, I’m not too far behind you at twitter.ezinearticles.com. You’re right, it’s a POWERFUL way to build traffic to your online articles using a popular tool like Twitter. I’m now cranking up my effort to write more articles and submit them to ezinearticles with this new connection to Twitter.
Good information Alex. Thanks for the tip. Just did it…it was simple.
Thanks
First, congrats to Alex & thanks for this blog entry!
Henri,
I don’t speak for the search engines, but I know they love fresh high quality unique and original content.
Therefore, if you are sitting on 200 high quality articles right now, submit them all immediately for the best results.
We’ve studied those who have submitted a high quantity vs. spread out over time and our internal stats show without doubt that submitting 200 articles at once will yield you better traffic attraction & exposure than spreading them out over a period of time.
To be clear, there is no penalty from us if you want to submit all 200 articles at one time. If you’re worried about spreading them out, our new Premium service that isn’t officially announced but is live in beta allows scheduling of articles so you could submit all 200 tonight and schedule them for release over a 90 day period of time.
Cheers,
@EzineArticles
I use Twitter to post funny things I’ve found on medical charts. It gives people a short, funny sentence or two, to make people smile :)
Anyway, another interesting thing happened the other day. I sent a “tweet” about how I discovered several of my articles copied and posted on other sites word-for-word without attribution. And the Twitter community came to my rescue with templates for responding, messages of support, etc.
To answer Hadley Finch’s post… Yes, you can integrate a blog with Twitter. I do it with Wordpress plugin called TwitterTools (http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress). If you build a Squidoo lens, it can be integrated with your blog and Twitter as well. I hope this helps.
Ed
(: medicine is fun again :)
http://twitter.com/GiggleMed
Hi Alex,
While I have used Ezine Directory but not Ezine Articles, and have just started to play with Tweeter (more use expected soon), this does sound like a fantastic idea, and it went right into my list of “Tactics to Experiment With.”
Thank you so much for your unbelievable creativity!
Sergiu
Alex
Thanks for sharing. Although I use both resources I did not realize they would work togethr. Anytime I can save myself a few minutes I am excited. This is a great example of why I should check profile pages periodically and update.
Donna Amos
Follow me http://www.twitter.com/donnaamos
Thanks, Alex! i’m already signed up on both. I only have 2 articles submitted, but it’s a start.
Have you ever checked out my work, the Power of Respect? I think you would like it.
Best Wishes,
Karen
Go to twitterfeed.com to set up any feed to your twitter account.
Then every time you post a article to your blog your twitter account gets updated!
Haydn
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the twitter tip as i didnt know I could link ezine articles into it as well.
Regards
William
Thanks Alex, It is a good idea to always check and validate your submissions. Plus the better the articles you write, the higher the ranking you are given by the directories. So, again it is important to submit quality information that will be consumed by many.
PS. I have just finished conducting several teleseminars with Olympic athletes, and I am in the midst of transcribing and creating articles to post.
Jan Peterson
Alex,
Great tip! I am new to Twitter, but I am finding there are a ton of “tricks” and downloads you can use to get more out of the site. I am going to follow your advice right now.
Also, I highly recommend to everyone that reads your blog to also read the Comments. I have found several great tips, websites and resources in this section. It is almost like the “Mastermind” area of your blog.
Looking forward to seeing you at the ETR Bootcamp in November.
Your humble Teleseminar Secrets student,
Pete (check me out at http://www.fittrainingsystem.com)
Alex - thanks for pointing out the fantastic tie between Twitter and EzineArticles - two very powerful online marketing and SEO resources.
Many of my clients have found great results from using EzineArticles.com with our SEO article writing service.
Glad to see such a robust conversation on this cutting edge topic!
-Jason Clegg
http://www.SEOArticleWritingPros.com
Congratulations Alex! And also thanks to Jeff Herring, I’m learning more and more about article marketing. I’ve been on Twitter a couple of months now and slowly getting the hang of it. I see it’s value for sure. I love that Ezinearticles.com has connected with Twitter. I have several articles on their site which continues to get better and better.
Hi Alex,
Been a long time since we last spoke at Mega Marketing Magic. Thanks again for the great interview and testimonial for JV Formula. I’ve shared your Marcel Proust quote many times since then. :-)
Regarding your blog post, I definitely agree. Your “write with your voice” mantra has given me more bang for my buck than just about any other lesson I’ve learned in internet marketing.
There’s just something fundamentally different about the thought process when we speak vs. when we sit down to “write.”
I’ve found that not only does it flow better when I speak, it also turns out to be better content.
Perhaps that’s because I’m usually speaking to someone else and their presence makes me think differently?
Either way, nobody who is reading the article or posting will ever have any idea if we spoke it or wrote it down, anyway.
I’m sure you’ve mentioned it before, Alex, but folks should try using Dragon Dictate or some other software to write with their voice. It’s a great way to get an automatic transcription. Or you could always go to Janette at Success Transcripts - she’s great. (see her comment above)
So thanks for that great tip - getting lots of mileage out of it down here in San Francisco (my new home.) Hope to see you again sometime soon. :-)
Sterling Valentine
http://SterlingValentine.com
http://IMEventsCalendar.com
Alex:
I love this idea! and even more I love back links too!
Very Cool!
Thanks,
Chris
EzineArticles.com is continually upgrading it’s service and considering the popularity of Twitter making article posts available via Twitter makes perfect sense.
I didn’t see the point of Twitter at first but nw appreciate how it helps to keep me connected to the movers and shakers among other things.
Nickolove
http://twitter.com/Nickolove
Hi Alex,
I might just do that. In the meantime I, Barbara Drucker Smith and Nelson Farley are doing a program on ESP extra sensory perception the sixth sense. I will interview him in a segment called The Haunting and the Haunted as to how he does gentle ghost busting on October 2, 6:30 Thursday at the Hampton Library on Victoria Boulevard in Hampton, Virginia. A perfect program for Halloween month. Let me know what you think. It will be a DVD and a recording. Thanks,
Barbara Drucker Smith
A Virtual Book Tour Graduate
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the post on connecting Twitter and EzineArticles. Any time you can get one Web 2.0 tool to talk to another, you can magnify your reach.
Similarly, you can set up an RSS feed in any Squidoo lens, Facebook profile, or Ning community to bring your articles in from your EzineArticles RSS. For example, yours is http://ezinearticles.com/members/rss/Alex-Mandossian.xml
So not only does Twitter see your articles, but the other sites do as well.
Looking forward to more tip sharing and of course another excellent Teleseminar Secrets training this fall!
Bob Jenkins
Thanks for sharing the great tip Alex. I immediately updated my profile to add my Twitter account name.