Insider banter with the directory, is completely different that image projected. MONEY TALKS, QUALITY WALKS Examinations by my studies, also with a pro in Israel, and another top writer in Singapore all aligned. We evaluated articles of poor English or junk rapidly being issued, while Platinum quality were delayed. Here are some findings about EZA editing and money making. 1. Fact EZA PR7 (page rank) dropped to PR6, a major factor for rate of website visitor effectiveness 2. Fact EZA is cloaking Platinum into the same class of Expert status 3. Fact EZA is now holding Platinum issue sometimes past 2 weeks 4. Fact EZA does not allow a link in the body, and 2 instead of 3 in the bio. (Harder to get top performance) 5. Blogs pick first place ranking articles twice as often as others in the top ten 6. Another article directory ArticleBase has the same PR6 rating, 6-18 hour issue, and +more links for article power. Their redistribution has made them a blog magnet 7. ArticleBase will take over the first place spot for a single Article Directory within 18-24 months. 8. GoArticles is disorganized with pay for place, slower issue, and articles are scrambled in many categories ----now this is concise but still opinionated conclusions we observed--- 1. 10% of new articles issued, have glaring spelling or grammatical errors in the Headline and/or brief summary. 2. Paying virtually guarantees articles with grammatical errors or misuse of English will get issued. 3. Platinum status power of quality has been shifted to money paying status of any quality. 3. Rewriting an article takes an hour, and it still a rewrite. Delete the article and submit it to as a new article, then reword enough and submit to EZA as a new issue. Double benefits, plus blogs love new material. 4. No communication on article status, as a test I let one stand for 19 months “as a problemâ€. Then I pulled it word for word and had my well written article issued elsewhere in 10 hours. 5. If you have an article held up, help yourself, do not rewrite it. Do not email editors! Just pull and submit elsewhere - another 20 are decent and considerable. Basis for statements---the 3 of us have as writers or ghost writers, over 2,700 articles with Ezine, last 15 months. I am very interesting in hearing what your experiences and feelings have been in the last 6 months.------thanks----
as far as e-zine articles for me they have been very precise with allowing my articles when I use a double negative or some other form of something wrong in my grammer they correct me but yes there are many crappy articles out there
First, respect for making the effort. Second, everybody has to eat, article site operators too, so of course money rules. Just my 2 cents to throw into the mix
Junk or not a junk, but content has to fall under their TOS. If it does, they don't care about what that article is all about. PR stats are only a permanent thing. They are still #1 in that business.
Your are welcome to your own opinion by all means. However, #1 has different meanings Does #1 mean charging $97.00 monthly so your junk article can slide by? The quality writers used to get this fast service for free, but lost their editors. Does #1 mean feeling sorry for a company making too much money? I can show you an article that has over 1,200,000 reads. In that category adsense clickers average paying about $4.55 per click.---- $2.34 each to EZA. (about 2.3/100) where one ad on page was clicked. Do you think money was not made? With my article directory, money (up in 2 week) will make less in 2 weeks, with about 8,000 articles weekly, and rejecting close to 50% for being too short or too poor in quality. However, it will be totally FREE, instant approval (until edited), and less junk. There are about 45 general topic article directories that I highly respect, and about 45 specialty ones that also do a good job for those submitting. However none give away a coffee mug. ------------Thanks, a mix of opinions are appreciated, have a good day--------------------
the quality of ezine articles has dropped recently. Perhaps they no longer have the staff / resources to apply proper editorial control over submissions. It's a bad strategy long term - the quality of stuff on ezines was the only thing that made them different. My own suspicion is that they have outsourced the majority of the editorial checking to people who don't actually speak very good English. that, and the fact that their software syntax checker isn't very advanced.
ezine articles has become a place where people look at the link back value only. For this reason, the quality of writing takes a low priority to the link back value. Most people need to understand that the link back value will increase with a quality article!
Hello again. Not been here for a while so be gentle with me. I've used ezinearticles many times, but for me it has one use and one use only. It's an article marketing bucket. It's a way of getting a decent article out there for others to use for free in return for some backlinks. Beyond that, the site has no real use. If you're looking to get articles picked up for this reason then fine, if you want to earn from them, constant-content is a much more viable proposition. You can sell differing licence types there as well so an article can earn for you several times over. When I first started using EZA I did pick up a few good quality articles for reprint on my site that helped me get a volume of pages out there. Now though, I really would think twice about doing it and I'd certainly be prepared to spend a bit of time reading through articles to make sure they're of the quality I'd want to use before I download them. Like so many have said before, the site (and the other AM sites to be fair) is riddled with poor quality tosh.
All three of you are correct My solution was to do it my way, and you are going to tell me how I can do it better. Four months in making the connections, one week from showing to DP members. It just needs a little more programming. This article directory is designed for article writers, especially those on the DP forum. 5,000 new articles weekly, after 2,500 being rejected. Set up for you to make contact with business people. Special categories for writers. You will have a self promotion page. Business owners can have "ad" style articles only submitted by certain qualified DP members. And the list goes on. Will be ready for review, look, and comment next week. Then one week for additional programming, and grand opening. Great for displaying to people with money your talents in articles, business promotion, and press releases then getting their business. FREE ----- all input will be considered and adjustments as necessary made. Already it is climbing from 16,000 million down to 3 million Alexa without officially being open. ---- it will be your opportunity and your choice----
I couldn't agree more with this 5. If you have an article held up, help yourself, do not rewrite it. Do not email editors! Just pull and submit elsewhere - another 20 are decent and considerable.
Hmm, I would not define their content as junk as easily. They have their reasons. Maybe just let big G clean it out.
I'm sure EZA realizes that each article page is another little virtual real estate plot. It creates another entry link to them. It also adds more space for adsense ads. Like most things in our society, financial gain may indeed be an influence. An influence that leads to more lenient reviews of questionable quality articles.
Ezine articles is one of the top adsense resources for Google. Does Google bend a little?, I do not know. I do remember reading recently from an authority source, that yearly the top adsense revenue producers actually make their own slightly more favorable contractual deals. (a higher than normal payment). I am not Google, but it seems it could be logical. In my own personal case, the current rate of rejecting articles is 44%. Even with that, there are definitely articles slipping by. Some strive for revenue, I would rather have quality. -------again that is my personal opinion---------
That's correct. If you're important enough to Google, you can negotiate better terms, including a defined percentage, more ads per page, change the ad formats and so on. Re ezinearticles - they achieved their position of prominence (and high PR!) by being a *quality* operation. What's happening now suggests that they aren't making enough profit to sustain the editorial effort required. Hard to believe. If it keeps slipping, they'll lose their position, and then it doesn't matter how many 'slots for adsense' they have, they might as well be articledashboard or some such.
Contentboss I am not trying to act like the king of knowledge, as I am not. However, I would like to point out that if you do some reach research, theyt also have major ad campaigns going with gigantic companies like GNC. At the bottom of a health and fitness article, for example you will see an ad for them on almost every article. They also have at least three other major contracts.---------sadly in a way, it is almost like getting a Nike sponsor and hide all details in the background. For those doubters, about the main brains, there is a person who runs the operation by the name Chris Knight. He is no dummy on business, however he does not know how to write or treat authors properly. To see his background go to liinkedin.com and put in the name Chris Knight, you will see quite a business background display. I suppose you could go to Google and enter: Linkendin Chris Knight. ------I made a huge attempt to show them what writers wanted, gave up after wasting considerable time of discussions, I decided to start my own directory, grand opening next week with writers in mind---------------------
Cool, do let me know when I can apply for membership! At least there will be one place worthy of building up a portfolio