So I was working on a pre-product launch for one of my friends and had written about 7 articles and submitted them over at ezinearticles. Each article was about 800 words in length and covered a different section of his product, and each one was carefully written to make ezine happy! Well the strangest thing started to happen to my articles lately. I've submitted a good 20 articles from multiple accounts over a few weeks and each one of them had been met without resistance. A few days after I submitted these articles I get a message saying my articles need revisions, one right after the next, for various reasons. One article had spelling mistakes, one had a "link" in the article body, one was "too promotional", one needed to be "informative"????, and one had a link in the first paragraph. Now here's whats funny I know Ezinearticles was going to be that picky, that's why I was EXTRA careful. I made sure there was no spelling errors, I made sure there was no grammar error, I made sure there was no links in the article body let alone in the first friggin paragraph, all articles were VERY informative, and it was NOT promotional. As I go to correct these "mistakes", I notice that the articles had been rewritten! Each one of my submissions had been changed to include the above errors! I am STILL baffled by this, as I'm assuming it is our competition that is purposely sabotaging our articles -- Has anyone else experienced this?
I have had the exact same problem just recently my articles have been kicked back and it doesn't matter if I fix the so called problems or not they still won't accept them. I really don't care though since there are plenty of other pr 6 article directories that are not such jerks. I have not had my articles re written though they shouldn't be able to do that.
I was having a similar problem, actually right after my first set of articles were submitted, I received several emails stating that my articles needed to be fixed. SO, ok, cool.. I fixed them, easy. A couple of days later, my account was suspended... Are you kidding me? Anyways, I now use several other different avenues for article submission and they work alot better. Uknown03, if you are interested in my techniques, let me know and shoot me a PM.
I have over 1100 articles in Ezinearticles, have been a member for years and I have never had this happen to me....
Well thats great you guys aren't having any problems as I find this very strange. Heres an update for my most recent submission: After fixing all the "new" problems (spelling and grammar), I get to rewrite the same article for the same thing! Only this time instead of fixing a few werdztht r spll3d lighk this, all the words have spaces taken out and are ran together LMAO
I think they're trying to get more people to upgrade for their premier membership. Anyone tried the $97 per month package?
Would be grateful for any info you could give on 'different avenues for article submission'. Sincerely Joe
Not worth it in my opinion, $97 is a bit rich. Unless you require the scheduling feature which is kind of neat, then keep writing articles and put the submitted ones behind you. I remember when I was starting out I would submit one, then two, then three and wait, big mistake
I have read so many grumblings about EZA over the last month or so! My experience, i've had EZA accounts for about a year, but only really started submitting (a lot) since February. I think i am up to about 350 in total now. To start with everything was fine, articles always got approved and absolutely no problems. Then during April i submitted around about 200 articles on numerous different subjects. I started to get the odd "probem" article and i found EZA support section really slow. I think i had to delete about 5 articles in total and just stuck them on a blog, because EZA were just no help and it was taking too much time to recieve a response. A couple of times i got an apology and was told it was their error. I have heard that EZA has had such a huge influx of new writers, that they are constantly having to employ new editors (yes it really is a human being who approves your articles!) and occassionaly your article may fall into the hands of a newbie editor, who rather than getting into trouble with his employers would just reject an article. I guess the new block of adsense ads in between the article title & body is EZA way of recompensating themselves for the new employees!!!
It depends on which niches you are and how good you are...you may understand what I mean...Anyway, can someone tell me other good directories because goarticles is dead for me, articlesbase rank just for some niches and buzzle is a hassle. It will be much appreciated.
To OP - Makes no sense what you are posting. You are accusing your competitors of hacking into the article site with your username & password???? Please if that is true... I doubt you are coherent enough to write an article or launch one product. I would also have to doubt an employee at the article dump is rewriting your articles....I doubt they have time to do that.
That is strange. I know you can sometimes get problems if you cut/paste from a word processor but the spelling of word changing is something new. I doubt it would be something EZA would do, why would they go to the trouble of sabotaging your articles, a rogue editor maybe. I have found that EZA approval process to be quite good, they are stern enough to reject the spam but not too tough as to discourage submissions.
I can atest you that last week EZA said that my article is in my dashboard, only that it has been 'evaporated', never to be found again...I didn't delete it...
Are you serious? Perhaps it is you who are not coherent enough to comprehend the British/English language. Please, I would love for you to quote where I said that they HACKED into my Ezine account. I merely suggested the possibility of some foul play by an editor, as I'm sure we aren't the only ones who run our businesses online. It is very ODD to me that after proof-reading my articles I get notified 3 days later of changes needed to be made, and the entire article body doesn't have spaces between the words. Pick that one apart, Sem. I'd love to hear another theory of how I said competitors hacked into my ezine. Edit: Thanks for everyone elses reply