They, they can, and they have. No they're not.... if every affiliate decided to stop posting articles on their pages today it wouldn't affect their rankings at all and their quality of articles would go way up. You people really need to grow up and get over yourselves. This is business. What they are doing makes absolutely perfect business sense for them. They don't care about you or your bottom line. Welcome to the world of the grown ups.
though I am one of the guys that agree with their new policies, what you say above is false. Ezinearticles will have a huge problem if they try to hit all the affiliates and they know it. Probably you noticed the ten thousands Adsense blocks on each Ezine page and probably you know that affiliates, not only submit thousands and thousands of articles each day, creating new, maybe unique content, but they also pay for the Premium accounts and build links to their own articles, increasing rankings for ezine articles and also increasing clicks on Adsense ads. So you kinda missed the point here. Affiliates are a huge part of the EzineArticles business. BUt I agree, they must clean up the spam/junk sooner or later. Is too much spam there already.
Yes I'm sorry you're right. THAT'S why they declared war on affiliates. Because "they know" it will be a "huge" problem for them.... I didn't miss any points bro. I'm fully aware that affiliates are a part of ezinearticles' business. But a part they are pretty fricking obviously willing to sacrifice to get rid of all the spam. So you're not nearly as important to them as you think.... obviously.
If anyone here is from the UK, then you will know how similar it is to the Royal Mail, all these strikes, refusing to work, like EA declining our hard work, and more importantly, as very well mentioned in an earlier post, time. People are just looking to take their business elsewhere, and who can blame them? Again, the same as big companies switching postal services. As rightly mentioned earlier, it would is better to go elsewhere, your going to get a lot more done for the time put into writting these articles. Seano
still missing a few points..They don't try to get rid of ALL the affiliates. Just the ones abusing their system. And I never said I was important to them
I think they are doing as they said - only trying to clean up the poor quality affiliate articles that try to game the system. And I think that's a good business decision. I don't think they are trying to get rid of all affiliates. Market with Integrity and Everybody Wins!
Yep, its right there in section 1.i MUST NOT contain information that promotes: ... PLR (Private Label Rights) articles
I really don't understand how they can differentiate between PLR articles and original ones. If you see it this way, there are very few experts who learn from experimentation all by themselves. Technically, everything they learn is from another course on the internet or reading blogs. Most of them research about an article topic and then write / re-write the article as per their understanding in their own words. So how does this differentiate between an article that is original or an article which has been written after going through a training program online or probably re-written completely from a plr article? Another question, If I have a domain name replacing my affiliate link... say, affiliateproductsite.com is the original site and I purchased a affiliateproductsite.net to mask my affiliate link and redirect it to my affiliateproductsite.com page, do you guys think ezinearticles.com will accept such affiliate links which are actually .net or .com domain names masking an author's original affiliate links?
See guys, EZA is here because of us, yes by us (As an Affiliate/Internet marketer I am saying this). And they can't be more strict than this, If they DO they will eventually lose their adsense revenue. Here BIG-G is playing a big role. GOOGLE knows if affiliate marketers dont have option of EZA eventually most of them will turn to PPC. Its not Chirs and company, Its google who is forcing Chirs to Make a War Against Affiliates. Now coming to the conclusion, diversify your efforts with Web 2.0 sites, Niche Authority Sites, Blogs and promote it with different ways than EZA. Also get some good course on PPC and start implementing PPC strategies.
Random thoughts from a virtually unknown, new memeber...... It is my personal opinion that 99.9999% (ad infinitum) of the content on ezine is relatively useless. I have no clue what I'm doing, I don't care to know what I'm doing (from a business perspective that is,) I just want to write gramatically correct articles that take a bite out of the reader, much as my pit bull would. Grab them and hold on is the name of the game. The bulk of what I have had the personal misfortune to read on ezine is, quite literally, repetitive nonsense. That being said, there are some truly good articles I stumbled across there - great content AND great delivery. Of course, I am approaching this from a literary perspective. I have done "contract" writing for quite a while now and someone turned me on to the dp forum a few months back. I have never posted before and you are probably glad I haven't. This topic caught my attention because I have been wondering why anyone would submit articles to ezine. I guess I never thought of the business aspect. Oh well, now that I'm finished rambling, it is my opinion that IF there are other sites out there where you can submit your articles, it might be a blessing. Why let perfectly good content get lost in a pile of, well, you get the point!
Guys, Chris mentioned this thread on his blog post comment... He's tracking the threads and he's proactively reading them. Hope he finds useful comments. Chow!