I just posted about this on my forum last night, but thought I'd post it here as well. If you are copy pasting articles, spinning or regurgitating PLR content just to drive it to an affiliate site, watch out. EzineArticles is cracking down on affiliates that generate "thin" content. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I say good for them...the real affiliate marketers who are writing good content and not mindless garbage will finally get their day.
I think most Ezine Articles content is "Thin" content... have you ever read them? But besides that Ezine Articles is very popular and still in Bed with Google. It's very important to their business model that they keep Authors happy and at the same time display a high enough quality product for Google to continue to feed them. What happens to Ezine Articles if they lose Google? I see this as a good thing. Nobody want to read junk articles and if people are just posting to get a link it ruins the integrity of the site. Good for them.
How can Ezine Articles have poorly written articles if they review each one of them? They can simply reject those articles. I think Google threatened to penalize them and now they're trying to cover their mistakes and blame others. Forget Ezine Articles. Write your own content and post it on your own website. They need you, and you rarely need them if you use other ways of marketing. I stopped submitting my articles to article directories a few months ago and I see an increase in organic traffic that I'm getting from search engines by about 50%.
That's what I would THINK would happen. I don't really get article marketing! Seems like it would be so much better to generate all your content for your own site instead of putting it on an article directory filled with so many Adsense links that will take people off the site before they even have a chance of clicking your link.
I do article marketing to get the one way backlinks to my site and not to get the traffic to my site... The traffic is a by-product in my mind. I also don't write super 'high' quality articles on Ezine as I save that for my own sites... but they're not 'thin' by any means. I do find it a good technique to write articles that give 'just' enough information to want them to read the article then read the rest of the info on my site.