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Need to vent

Discussion in 'ClickBank' started by capitalalchemy, Mar 3, 2011.

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    Ezinearticles suspended my account, which I am working to get resolved at the moment but what a pain. Hear me out first.

    I have hundreds of highly informative, well researched and well written articles and follow the rules just like everyone else. Out of all of the times they have written me with a "problem resolution" message I have held back anger and complied, but it's gotten ridiculous now.

    First it was "no more than 3 words" in anchor text. Then it was "your description does not have enough paragraphs" now it's "400 words at least please" and all that rubbish.

    Anyway, recently I decided to update the resource boxes of some articles - very minute changes actually.

    Upon republishing two of them, they inform me that the articles do not address what the titles are about, and that the articles do not contain enough information.

    Both articles DO gives solutions regarding the titles and are not misleading. Both articles are 600+ words, loaded with 8 or more tips, have bullet points, are carefully formatted, contain many interesting facts, solutions and are loaded with knowledge and the click through rates are above 40% on both, which really tells you that I'm delivering.

    I thought this was a little insulting, but assumed it to be an error, so I resubmitted them with no changes, and bam! account suspended. Out of 200+ articles, years of providing valuable information to help them grow their site, they have slowly taken away basic rights and made things ugly.

    I mean, if my life depended on adding more value to those 2 articles, I wouldn't be able to - I write things meticulously and I can't believe that out of all of the authors on their who post garbage they chose me to pick on?

    So, I can't do it right at the moment, but my dream is going to be creating a resource that is marketing friendly, but filters content to be published based off of value content and not just "the rules are" b.s.

    I mean, I've got a family to feed, you know? Not that I'm the only one and all, but it amazes me how some web services start turning their backs on the people who were there with them from the start and worked really hard to honor their codes of conduct.

    Am I out of line? Does anyone else have a similar story?
     
    capitalalchemy, Mar 3, 2011 IP
  2. bl4ckmaN^

    bl4ckmaN^ Well-Known Member

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    Google is pushing them, so EA is getting REALLY picky about what they want on their site. At the end of the day, it's their site and they control it. If you want freedom, publish the articles on your own site, otherwise you have to deal with their idiotic article disapproval reasons.

    Read this > http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2011/02/search-engine-algorithm-changes.html
     
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    terryd Well-Known Member

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    It's not surprising after they got their ass handled to them by Google. They have no other choice but to be ultra fussy now a day. Some of the articles that were getting through were absolute crap so they are trying all they can to get back in Googles good books.

    Whatever you do don't try to change earlier accepted articles as you run the risk of them being unapproved once submitted again...
     
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    bigmodo Well-Known Member

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    eza is getting more strict as it regards to accepting articles nowadays.
     
    bigmodo, Mar 4, 2011 IP
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    bigmodo Well-Known Member

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    i am trying to come up with an alternative for eza strictness nowadays. i can not keep all my hopes in them anymore before they ruin me.
     
    bigmodo, Mar 4, 2011 IP
  6. waxman1000

    waxman1000 Peon

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    It is rather unfortunate that most other site I was using were hit even harder than EZA. The truth is, it will take sometime for people to figure out what makes this new Google algorithm tick. The best thing as of now and always, is to keep writing good content - first post it on your site!! I understand your frustration. I guess Bum marketing will never be the same again after this new Google algorithm.
     
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  7. capitalalchemy

    capitalalchemy Member

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    I still don't know. I remember when I used to be able to write 5 - 10 articles, post them and have them published a few hours later. Now it takes 3 - 5 days just to get one article published. In my opinion it's their own damn fault for accepting bad content. That's not my problem, it's just now affecting us. For a company that claims really strict editorial guidelines, they allowed for years and years all sorts of things that broke those rules.

    Google's algorithm changes have been the talk of the town for a long time now. I don't think any one will figure it out. I think that their new algorithm has been designed to be chaotic, and I have seen flaws/errors left and right. I honestly believe that they are trying to force marketers to invest in their PPC instead, which if that's the case - that's a monopoly.

    All of my sites have been yo-yoing for absolutely no reason, and every time they get dropped it's because I find a link like this in the webmasters page.
    /QFXZY/H4ZXVY/page.html

    Where the random letters followed by slashes are root directories, but the only problem is that they don't exist on any of my servers, and no one has tried to build back links to these fictitious directories. If you try to address this in the google help forums they just laugh at you, saying that a bad link will not affect your rankings, but this is no true, and why does google keep detecting sub-directories that don't exist with random characters?

    I remain positive. This is a good opportunity to come upon something that could work wonders, but I think that for us it will mean being really creative and sticking together.

    I agree, I'm going to post all of my articles to my sites and make them authority sites. I'm also looking for an alternative as well. If you try to use the alexa top 100 to look for good alternatives, it's not much help. Most of these sites are porn sites - which, again....thanks google for the quality.

    Hey, on the bright side - if we keep tossing around ideas we might come up with something that actually works :)
     
    capitalalchemy, Mar 4, 2011 IP
  8. drax2010

    drax2010 Guest

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    I hear you mate - same thing happened to me after having 500+ articles published - all high quality - and no reason given. I had constant battles with f@ckw!tted editors about petty rule infringements but never one apology, or even reasonable explanation as to why the rules were in place - the latest one was something about my article not fulfilling the promise of the title (WTF!). I actually gave up on submitting stuff there and now post my own content to my own blogs. After you get over the initial shock of losing some traffic you realise that get it back in the form of better SERPS and also the satisfaction of not lining those ungrateful pr!cks pockets with their stupid adsense ads.
    IMHO its a matter of time before they lose all of their contributor base in any case. Of course if your desperate just open another account - after all you dont actually lose the existing articles, they never clean old stuff out as a quck trawl through the sh!t pile will demonstrate.

    Move on and up my friend.
     
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    johnnypr Greenhorn

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    ezine articles were always pretty picky tbh, and now they have no choice but to be absolute hard nuts with there articles because google has given them one almight slap!

    remember, ezine articles is a business, they make money off google ads, they've just lost loads of their traffic, so theyre doing whatever it takes to get that high traffic back and get back in googles good books.
     
    johnnypr, Mar 4, 2011 IP