EZA KILLER UPDATE - This Is Going To Ruin Most People's Businesses

I am someone who likes to direct people to generic landing pages which heavily push a product I want to sell. It makes sense and I've had no problems previously.

However, EZA has now just pushed back one of my arts because:

I've never seen this before and am suspecting it's new. I think it's going to ruin a lot of people's marketing strategies. I know it's already affecting the way I do things.

 

very strange ... but not so serious as to destroy people businesses ... if businesses are to suffer then ezine too will suffer ...

 

WTF that's really stupid. It's none of their business whether the website to which your article points is informative or not as long as the article is informative. The reader can decide himself whether the site is informative or not and he can exit is whenever he wants... If the website contained adult content or illegal files I would understand, but "does not contain enough informative content" seems like a ridiculous reason to me...

 

It depends on the kind of business you have.

It has the potential to ruin a lot of people's businesses who just redirect people to a generic landing page the vendor gives you I think

 

Well if you had a site would you like to have a dofollow link to some trashy site? I'd much prefer it to go to a high quality site that has some good information on.

 

Yeah I can't see that rule lasting - people will just jump ship from EZA if it does -

 

I don't see how providing backlinks to trashy sites could negatively impact EZA if that's what you are trying to say.

 

I think that the people who run EZA haven't learned anything from the marketers that use their site. It seems to me that they're doing everything they can to push people away from publishing there.Mark my words once people will start migrating to other directories and they'll see their adsense profits drop steeply they'll change their submission guidelines and beg for marketers to return. Anyway this doesn't affect me as I don't use EZA at all because they're some of the lamest hypocrites I've ever come across.

 

I was trying to say that!

But think about the branding as well. Anyone who knows the net knows that EZA is full of crappy articles that are written just to make money. I never read them and I think it's just a way to ensure that people who are savvy can think of EZA as a reputatble source of [good] information

 

That's true but in my opinion what hurts EZAs reputation much more than links links to crappy websites are crappy articles. If they really want to be a source of true quality information they will have to delete 90% of their articles and remove the google adsense and advertisiment crap which is now all over the page! I find it really hypocritical that EZA is trying to cut down on affiliate content while they are adding more and more advertisements and google adsense...

 

I felt the same way, every time I come across an EZA listing on google it looks like an ad to me and pay it no attention.

 

i had that before so it is not new. I just threw a page up to see if it was worth building more content so my page was generic. They are looking for pages with content. Same thing as Google does when you use Adwords...they give you crappy QS if you have no or low content. They just want users to have a good experience which is good to keep all the crappy writers out of there.

I am guessing Google is going to make EZA an offer sometime soon to buy the site outright and when that happens, then you will see major changes and all in Googles favor...which means "oh sh*t" for all of us!

 

Not true. There are hundreds of thousands of informative articles as well.

That won't ever happen.

 

That's definitely not new - it's been around at least 6 months or possibly more. I don't personally see the problem - surely it's a good thing that marketers are being advised to create a relatively decent site (I'm sure it would be more profitable for them in the long run). I have hundreds of articles on EZA and never got an article turned down for that reason (yet, fingers crossed) - my sites are nothing special either, many of them are only about 3 pages. I'd be surprised if it ruined anyone's business - most people with a 'business' won't be relying entirely on Ezinearticles and a few crappy landing pages.

 

This has been a rule there for nigh on ever and no-one's business is ruined

 

Want to know something funny? I JUST started submitting article to EZA and I started getting this. It seems you have to link to some decent content and can't just have a page that contains a link for you to follow to a ClickBank product. I am wondering how long this has been?

Does this apply to redirects to? Will CB disapprove of a link to a redirect to a CB product?

Another question: why can't EZA allow affiliate links in the first place? Is it because CB links hurt SE rankings?

 

My GOD what are we going to do I don't know how long this "update" has been around for, but i remember getting that error about a year back, when I linked to a squidoo page that had almost no content EZA should really give writers more freedom, or they are likely to lose a lot of writers. I'm already using EZA for at most 20% of my articles, a few months back it's all I ever used

 

i receive that one month ago, i writed more content,(around 4 more articles) upload, and they accept it

 

You're mistaken about that, Goopygoo.

There's nothing new about it.

What's new is its interpretation and enforcement, which EZA have recently explained pretty clearly on their blog.

They don't like the combination of derivative content and affiliate marketing. As they explain themselves, they'll sometimes use this "page linked to isn't informative enough" rejection if they feel that the article content is "derivative in nature".

It won't bother people writing quality, original content at all, and it isn't their intention that it should.

If people are submitting derivative content to EZA in articles, I hope it does, and the sooner the better. As an affiliate marketer, the higher they can make the overall standard of EZA's content (which is taking time, but they're now finally moving in the right direction), the more value their site has to me.

They actually want to lose some of the ones they can't re-educate. And so would I, if EZA were my business.

People using EZA regularly really should read their blog updates: you can learn a lot that way.

 

The only way to have a website with QUALITY content is to have writers that get paid to WRITE content, not writers that write to drive traffic to somewhere Any user-generated content article directory is going to attract people who submit articles for the sake of marketing, which in my opinion cannot be quality content. Ie, writing quality content would be actually sharing the information that is written in the e-book you are promoting.

EZA should accept that fact, and stop expecting marketers to write 1000 word articles with lots of info, while they can write an 300 word one and get the same(even better) result. If they want informative articles, they should hire professional writers, and do not allow users to submit.