3 Things- Affiliate Links, DeBrule Do, Cote d’Ivoire
Thanks to GoogleAlerts we’re able to attempt to keep up on the chatter in the marketplace about various things… and I came across a blog entry today by Matthew James of the UK: Are You a Workhorse or a Bum? Part 2 — Essentially, he said, “This is because EzineArticles particularly doesn’t like straight affiliate links.”
No, that’s not true. We reject articles with affiliate links for two primary reasons:
- Because our users/readership base is better served by real experts rather than people pitching the experts.
- Over 90% of affiliates submit non-exclusive rights content and we don’t accept non-exclusive rights content… meaning, every article submitted should only be able to be found elsewhere under the same name as the one submitted with the article.
Other things I found this weekend:
I love seeing this: http://www.radsgroup.com/about_us.html
To build further credibility for their expertise, RADSGroup experts Roy DeBrule and Althea DeBrule linked to their EzineArticles from their companies about us page. Nice.
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Looks like a member from the West African country of Cote d’Ivoire found a way to spam (the typical Nigerian spam) ~50 of our members via the EzineArticles Inbox system over the weekend.
Thanks to her, we created a game plan this morning to address how we’re going to not allow members who don’t have articles submitted or accepted to use the EzineArticles Inbox system; create a new limit for newbie members with no history from sending bulk emails via our system; and improved linkage between the “THIS IS SPAM” reporting button and our member support team response.
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Check out this blog entry: What a Relief! Reinstated with Ezine Articles
Key phrase from this persons blog entry: “…you should not submit PLR articles to EzineArticles!”
Right. :-) It is a small planet indeed.
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And one last one that the GoogleAlerts dug up from a year ago that I never saw before: EzineArticles and I
(UPDATED NOTE: This link doesn’t appear to work every time. Try this one instead.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for keeping in mind the readership of the EzineArticles.
One of my articles is picked up by North Dakota State University Library;
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/history_culture/history/volga-germans.htm
Thanks for you and your team.
Rajkumar
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