I heard Ezine Articles is Banning TONS! of People

The purpose of this post is to out line the new rules EZine articles are using to critique articles and lay the smackdown to Ezine Authors.

The new rules are causing a serious stir in the IM world.

My Opinion This is NOT a bad thing. I believe the RULES Governing CONTENT were way over due for a change. Quantity vs. Quality has taken a hard slide to the Quantity side and this is causing the credibility of major Article sites to suffer. The following article is to layout exactly what is happening and to get you personal opinion on the effect this will hjave on yourself and fellow marketers.

Members Are Being Banned Left and Right!

Recently, Ezine article has started banning members left and right. They have been downgrading Authors from "Platinum Status" to "Basic" or even "Simply Basic".

Th reasons below outline NEW Policies that Ezine will hit you up if your doing:

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The purpose of this post is to out line the new rules EZine articles are using to critique articles and lay the smackdown to Ezine Authors.

The new rules are causing a serious stir in the IM world.

My Opinion This is NOT a bad thing. I believe the RULES Governing CONTENT were way over due for a change. Quantity vs. Quality has taken a hard slide to the Quantity side and this is causing the credibility of major Article sites to suffer. The following article is to layout exactly what is happening and to get you personal opinion on the effect this will hjave on yourself and fellow marketers.

Members Are Being Banned Left and Right!

Recently, Ezine article has started banning members left and right. They have been downgrading Authors from "Platinum Status" to "Basic" or even "Simply Basic".

Th reasons below outline NEW Policies that Ezine will hit you up if your doing:

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 After a recent quality review of your account, I noticed several 
areas of concern that I want to discuss with you.

Currently you have articles in problem status the need to be addressed.
 In addition to that, I am going to offer you suggestions on what we
 want to see from your account moving forward:

1) Increase your word count to 450-500 words without increasing filler 
words just to meet a word count goal. We will no longer accept your 
writing on the same content in each article. I would also like for you 
to go through your account and remove any articles that are 
redundant and do not share any new information.

2) Deliver real value in each article... Something unique, something substantial, include bullet point lists or numbered lists... It is not OK
to use the same template and share the same information in multiple 
articles. Each article must stand alone and deliver uniqueness. We 
will no longer be allowing the "NICHE was listed...but I removed it"
articles from you as they all deliver the same rehashed content.

3) Decrease your article volume as you're achieving quantity with 
very low quality. We love members who do high volume, but never
at the expense of quality as it makes us both look bad. Once you
get your quality of substantial content UP, you can resume to pursue 
your quantity goals.

Without reviewing your approved articles, my guess is that many of 
them will be rejected as being thin or not-substantial. I'd recommend
editing them, combining them into 400-500+ word articles, and 
solidifying their substantiality so that they don't look like thin
rehashed content.

Future submissions of articles that do not adhere to our editorial 
guidelines and contain the same rehashed content will result in 
the loss of your Premium Subscription. Your account has been 
downgraded to Basic + due to continued articles being placed in
problem status. You now have 25 article submission with which 
to submit quality content that delivers value.

Any questions, please ask. 

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The document above says it all and its RETROACTIVE! You will lose you Premium Subscription and be downgraded to "BASIC" if you submit or have submitted in the past.

I want to layout exactly what is being affected:

- Ezine Articles is asking Authors to increase their word count and to stop using FILLER WORDS. No more rehashed short articles

- Pumping out large number of articles in your NICHE market that offer nothing new *** Banned**** Ouch Niche Marketers. They are really putting the hurt on heavily saturated niche markets.

- No more submission of articles rewritten by software or even by some outsourcers. If you have submitted these I would consider trying to track them down and erase them before you are flagged.

- If you do not have top quality content then cut back on how may articles you are submitting and improve your quality.

-After the warning if you continue to submit these articles it will result in a loss of your "PREMIUM Subscription.

Like I said I have heard of people right now that have written 50+ articles, all adhering to the new rules, and still is at "BASIC Status


Once moved back to "BASIC"


To redeem your "Platinum" status you will have to remove all articles that fall this category and your next 25 Submissions will be judged on quality, If you do not adhere your "Premium Subscription" will be revoked.

I have personally heard of multiple occasions were authors have submitted up 90 articles after his warning and still not recovered his status.


Ezine says they are blowing up with emails of members. They are currently many days behind on responses.
Since the initiation of these new rules we have been some serious Ban Numbers coming out of Ezine Articles. This is just the beginning.
Personally I think it is a good thing to require substantiated content from their Authors. This will result in a better relationship with customers. I would even go so far as to say the major search engines are starting to penalize the large article sites like Ezine and they are reacting.

Search engines cannot allow ezine content such prestige if it becomes flooded with crap. I believe that is part of the mandate.
While I understand many will have a different reaction and some be outright in a panic I think in the long run this will be a good thing for Internet Marketing overall. Whats your opinion?

With so many people getting banned in such a short period of time there is only one more question?

Have You Been Banned Yet?

 

Honestly, I saw this coming. In order for Ezine to stay in search engines, they will need to crack down. Like you said, this is just the beginning to the recreation of Ezine Articles.

The good: This should weed out some of those "quantity writers" leaving, letting the writers offering quality content in their articles to get approved faster, with thousands of less submissions of rehashed articles.

Cheers to Ezine for taking this step.

I'm still going to continue to be a regular writer, since the links will be that much better.

 

I think it is about time...there has been so much crappy content spread all over the web that is not even funny...and it makes it so much harder for the searcher to find what they are looking for..so this is a very smart and good move by EZA

 

Time to weed out the crap and start cutting back on the spam. Its about time.

 

Thank god for that. It's for the best.

 

I have been submitting articles with my links in them. Got up to 5 on ezine and then all of a sudden the cut me off and told me I had to resubmit them without any self promotion. I was amazed!

I kept trying to resubmit the other 10 articles and kept getting denied even with just a contact reference back to my own website. They wouldn't accept them any more.

Wow

 

This is just aligning itself with Google's way of 'provide enhanced and satisfying search experience'. When presented with several choices for a search query I usually go for the landing page that is from an article directory because I know someone human has put together some info on the subject. So in order to maintain that level of quality eza has taken to doing things like this.

 

Sounds about right. I do think they are worth that extra effort as I do believe that Ezine links can really boost your search engine rankings.

I would always take time to make sure an article submitted is spot on. I have read articles on there that you can tell have either been thrown up by some software or simply those that have been put together in two minutes.

Some people just call Ezine a glorified Adsense machine, but I do think they are worth all the effort.

 

So in short you people mean that we must forget a backlink from enzine article right.

 

If they restricted the backlink then no one would use them and they would fall on their ass.

The basic theory behind all of this (IMO) is that they just want more authority with Google, I guess with the intentions of being able to rank as well as Wiki do. To do this, they have to weed out all the crap. Squidoo have been doing the same kinda thing recently.

 

I think this is great. Time for the real good writers to shine again and not be buried under mountains of mediocrity.

 

Wrong!

If an author complies with their Editorial Guidelines, then that person doesn't have any problem. Backlinks in the resource box are accepted as always

 

Submitted articles recently that were rejected (all over 1000 words and full of great content) on the basis of a signature of a link to my own website.

 

if the signature link is off then none would use them.... at least i wont..

 

I'm glad ezine is starting to crack down. They have been taking a slide with so many people submitting mass amounts of articles.

 

I have at least one article per week approved by EzineArticles and like I already said, there is absolutely no problem with backlinks or anything else. You only have to comply with their rules and the first step is to READ them

Did you ask EXACTLY what was the problem? They always tell you what is the problem and you can correct the issue. They have some rules regarding the links, did you comply with the rules?

 

so at least linking there is not dead yet. you'll just have to follow their NEW rules.

 

Anytime you tell people to "see your website" that is considered self-promotion. Just leave those links in the bottom area of the article and you should be fine.

 

Well done ezine.. This is a good step towards maintaining reputation of ezinearticles.
Because growing trend of article writing is making a lot of spam, and there is a lot of worthless articles content.
So it is a wise step by ezine.

 

Well i will also agree, this step by enzine is good.