There’s something really cool I just discovered about EzineArticles.com that I wasn’t aware of previously. This is really gonna make a difference to me, and I wanted to share it with you – simply because you’re my loyal reader and I want to make a big difference to your business by giving you quality information that you can work with.
Buried within the menus of EzineArticles expert author interface is Author Tools -> WordPress Plugin. This is a free plugin that allows you to submit articles to EzineArticles directly from within one of your WordPress blogs.
You don’t even need to download the plugin directly from EzineArticles. Instead, just type EzineArticles into the plugin search feature already available within WordPress, and click on Search. Somewhere within the list, you should see EzineArticles WordPress Plugin (at the time of writing it’s the second entry). Download it and install it directly from within the WordPress interface.
You’re also gonna need to request an API key from EzineArticles. This is basically the “login” information that the plugin needs to be able to post items on your behalf. When you have requested it, it will be shown to you on-screen and sent to you in an email. The only reason you need to give is something like, “I want it to use the WordPress plugin.”
Once you’ve entered the API key into your blog, you’ll get a new item in your Post -> Add New item, saying WP EzineArticles: Publish Post on EzineArticles. If you click on the checkbox so that it is ticked, you will then see a request for a category; an author name; a specific signature; what to use for your summary text – either the first two sentences of your post or the excerpt; and keywords, which uses the post tags. You also get the right to schedule your release if you are a premium member.
What you can then do is either of the following two:
- You can write an article that conforms to EzineArticles’s quality standards, click on Save Draft, click on Submit, change it to be suitable for your own blog and, finally, click on Publish.
- You can write an article for your blog, click on Submit before or after you click on Publish, then you can log into your account on EzineArticles and edit the article to bring it to their quality standards, if necessary.
I realise that this information may be available elsewhere, but I’ve never seen it published, ever! Neither have I received this information from any of the mailing lists that I am on (which is admittedly not many). I hope you find it useful!
Verry interesting, I will have to try this, Thank You.
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Thanks for the info. Every little bit helps to save some time. I will use it.
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Thanks for the tip. Can you use it for blog posts you already had before adding the plug in?
Paul
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admin Reply:
April 8th, 2010 at 09:54
Yes, you can. If you need to make any changes, you need to republish the article with the changes made; submit the article; and then go back to the previous version.
Alternatively, you can edit them in the EzineArticles interface.
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I am one with every body in saying: “Thanks a million to you!!!” That was so generous of you in sharing this valuable information to us.
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Thanks for that. I would never have noticed it on the EzineArticles website.
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Great tip; this is not an intuitive feature and I had no idea such a tool existed. It’s definitely going to save a step or two in the process of submission. Thanks a million.
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I use ezine regularly and have never even heard of this plug in – just goes to show how easy to miss it – I´ve downloaded it and will put it to use later today. Anything that saves me time in article marketing gets my thumbs up – not to mention it´d free.
thanks
Stu
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