Comments on: What Your URL Tells About You http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:49:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Christopher M. Knight http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-25534 Christopher M. Knight Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:32:48 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-25534 Ray, It's not a numeric point system. I was being abstract in concept and concrete in my examples. I used the words "POINTS" in this blog entry to mean that you GAIN or LOSE favor if you do THIS or THAT...as stated above. Hope that makes sense. Ray,

It’s not a numeric point system.

I was being abstract in concept and concrete in my examples.

I used the words “POINTS” in this blog entry to mean that you GAIN or LOSE favor if you do THIS or THAT…as stated above. Hope that makes sense.

]]> By: Ray Foulkes http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-25529 Ray Foulkes Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:45:27 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-25529 What are quality points exactly? is it something that eZine keeps tabs on? How can we find out how any quality points we have earned so far? what are they used for? What are quality points exactly? is it something that eZine keeps tabs on? How can we find out how any quality points we have earned so far? what are they used for?

]]> By: Christopher M. Knight http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9818 Christopher M. Knight Sat, 26 May 2007 13:10:41 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9818 Chinmay, An ideal EzineArticles expert author to us is someone who has a profit motive behind why they are writing and submitting the articles they are doing. Authors without a profit motive by the lack of a URL in the resource box are immediately suspect because typically they are writing for a different motivation that might cause friction <em>(such as writing for political, religious, ego,  personal therapy, or any number of additional personal reasons).</em> Of course, <u>we're not always right</u> in being suspect of non-profit-motive writers because a person could be writing hundreds of articles with the intent to gain personal name brand exposure (an indirect profit motive) with the intent to include a URL in all of his or her articles at a future time. <strong>If you are a genuine expert in your niche and only write quality original articles that are exclusive to your name with an intent to provide significant unique value for others (readers of your articles)... you've got nothing to worry about.</strong> I didn't t want to get into a <em>"why do you write articles"</em> debate or discussion in this thread as we can save that for a future discussion. :) Chinmay,

An ideal EzineArticles expert author to us is someone who has a profit motive behind why they are writing and submitting the articles they are doing.

Authors without a profit motive by the lack of a URL in the resource box are immediately suspect because typically they are writing for a different motivation that might cause friction (such as writing for political, religious, ego,  personal therapy, or any number of additional personal reasons).

Of course, we’re not always right in being suspect of non-profit-motive writers because a person could be writing hundreds of articles with the intent to gain personal name brand exposure (an indirect profit motive) with the intent to include a URL in all of his or her articles at a future time.

If you are a genuine expert in your niche and only write quality original articles that are exclusive to your name with an intent to provide significant unique value for others (readers of your articles)… you’ve got nothing to worry about.

I didn’t t want to get into a “why do you write articles” debate or discussion in this thread as we can save that for a future discussion. :)

]]> By: Chinmay Chakravarty http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9814 Chinmay Chakravarty Sat, 26 May 2007 12:46:10 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9814 Thanks Chris. I'm a little piqued. Do you mean that my articles are of no interest and so are 'unmarketable'? I don't need to change anything for now or forever? Please give your opinion. And, some advice for a possible future course of action. Thanks Chris.

I’m a little piqued. Do you mean that my articles are of no interest and so are ‘unmarketable’? I don’t need to change anything for now or forever?

Please give your opinion. And, some advice for a possible future course of action.

]]> By: Christopher M. Knight http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9813 Christopher M. Knight Sat, 26 May 2007 12:36:17 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9813 Chinmay, I took a look at your articles: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Chinmay_Chakravarty And I don't think you need to change anything. A squeeze page is when you send traffic to a one page site that will only give the 'secret' or the 'information prize' (such as a free report) in exchange for the name and email address of the person wanting the goods. It's called a "SQUEEZE" page because you are SQUEEZING and pressuring your site visitors to cough up private information in order to get something they want rather than just giving it to them. It's a marketing technique. Chinmay,

I took a look at your articles:
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Chinmay_Chakravarty

And I don’t think you need to change anything.

A squeeze page is when you send traffic to a one page site that will only give the ’secret’ or the ‘information prize’ (such as a free report) in exchange for the name and email address of the person wanting the goods. It’s called a “SQUEEZE” page because you are SQUEEZING and pressuring your site visitors to cough up private information in order to get something they want rather than just giving it to them. It’s a marketing technique.

]]> By: Chinmay Chakravarty http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9808 Chinmay Chakravarty Sat, 26 May 2007 04:32:27 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9808 Dear Chris I'm a novice in these matters. I don't have a URL or website so far and I'm not sure what purpose it'd serve. What should be my 'products and services'? How to go about it? Hope you can recommend something. If I just go on writing articles as is my passion and the articles just go on beign read what'd finally happen or not happen? What is a page squeeze? Sorry for the inconvenience that could be caused by this idiocy. Dear Chris

I’m a novice in these matters. I don’t have a URL or website so far and I’m not sure what purpose it’d serve. What should be my ‘products and services’? How to go about it? Hope you can recommend something.

If I just go on writing articles as is my passion and the articles just go on beign read what’d finally happen or not happen? What is a page squeeze?

Sorry for the inconvenience that could be caused by this idiocy.

]]> By: Lance Winslow http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9804 Lance Winslow Fri, 25 May 2007 21:56:52 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9804 You know I have one website which had a bulletin board that was hacked and then the Internet Search engine blocked it, we fixed the site about 15 minutes later, by taking off the forum that was hacked, but that was 8 months ago and the search engine still has the site blocked, so, I think blocked by search engines does not mean anything really these days. Of course I do not have any article byline links going to that website, but it is something to think about when a victim is labeled as a bad guy. So that is a thought, although I agree; How effective could a website be if it is blocked by major search engines? You know I have one website which had a bulletin board that was hacked and then the Internet Search engine blocked it, we fixed the site about 15 minutes later, by taking off the forum that was hacked, but that was 8 months ago and the search engine still has the site blocked, so, I think blocked by search engines does not mean anything really these days. Of course I do not have any article byline links going to that website, but it is something to think about when a victim is labeled as a bad guy. So that is a thought, although I agree; How effective could a website be if it is blocked by major search engines?

]]> By: Thad ferguson http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9800 Thad ferguson Fri, 25 May 2007 18:36:22 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9800 I now know that since .info names where given away in the past and still can be bought for a dollar or less the first year that spammers and other non-serious webmasters buy these in groves. Yes, good websites can exisit on .info's but as a whole .info names are junk. I wish I would have thought about that before deciding to make .info my main website portal (I did choose it because my site gives a variety of information on dating for men and thought .info would convey that more but now some 3 or 4 years later I know .com is KING period. I now know that since .info names where given away in the past and still can be bought for a dollar or less the first year that spammers and other non-serious webmasters buy these in groves.
Yes, good websites can exisit on .info’s but as a whole .info names are junk.
I wish I would have thought about that before deciding to make .info my main website portal (I did choose it because my site gives a variety of information on dating for men and thought .info would convey that more but now some 3 or 4 years later I know .com is KING period.

]]> By: Christopher M. Knight http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9797 Christopher M. Knight Fri, 25 May 2007 18:14:42 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9797 Edward, We've been here before: http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/12/content-done-better-landing-page-quality.html http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/11/landing-page-quality-scoring.html Yes squeeze pages can be effective and they are also barriers to confidence to some users who do not trust you yet to be an expert provider of information. Doesn't matter yet as we are not rejecting articles that link to only squeeze pages, but we do perceive squeeze page promoting articles as less valuable to our readers. Edward,

We’ve been here before:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/12/content-done-better-landing-page-quality.html
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/11/landing-page-quality-scoring.html

Yes squeeze pages can be effective and they are also barriers to confidence to some users who do not trust you yet to be an expert provider of information.

Doesn’t matter yet as we are not rejecting articles that link to only squeeze pages, but we do perceive squeeze page promoting articles as less valuable to our readers.

]]> By: Thad ferguson http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9796 Thad ferguson Fri, 25 May 2007 18:09:54 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/05/what-your-url-tells-about-you.html#comment-9796 Nothing in life is fair I already understnad that, but I just wanted to make sure I wasnt being penalized for something that I can easily change simply by putting .com instead of .info. My question is when it comes to the upgrading of levels will the 300 plus articles I have with .info links hurt my chances of making the upgrade and therefore should be switched to the .com links or is that something that would just be a waste of time for me and your staff and only improve my "trust" with you guys and nothing more. Nothing in life is fair I already understnad that, but I just wanted to make sure I wasnt being penalized for something that I can easily change simply by putting .com instead of .info.
My question is when it comes to the upgrading of levels will the 300 plus articles I have with .info links hurt my chances of making the upgrade and therefore should be switched to the .com links or is that something that would just be a waste of time for me and your staff and only improve my “trust” with you guys and nothing more.

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