I just completed my study:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2007/12/reporting-a-splogger-research.html

No, they don’t belong in your articles. These articles are to create your own credibility on that subject. That credibility is what brings you click-throughs to your links.

Once they click, you can invite them to your list and _then_ offer them your affliliate links all you want.

Your article, in this case, should give them an introduction to you and your list - where you can increase their trust in your new relationship.

While some work at Bum Marketing without a list - and this can be done through articles alone - you’ll get more income (while mileage may vary) by getting them onto your list first. This then allows you to offer them all the affiliate links you want - while an article only (theoretically) offers one or a few.

It must be much easier to get away with this now that it is so simple to set up a blog or web site with other people’s content. I am coming across more and more sites that republish my content which have been gleaned from Ezine Articles.com but that do not provide any recognition either for the Author or the site they have stolen from.
On a positive note just last week I came across a site via my web site stats that is comprised almost entirely of my articles and Does include the link to my site but not to Ezine Articles. It’s just possible that this site’s content was copied from my own web site so that’s another issue.
Perhaps this is worth investigating in detail and hey that’s a whole new topic for a bunch of articles wouldn’t you say?

I don’t know what they will or won’t do, but I do know they do act on DMCA notices.

I’m currently testing some splogger reports I did several weeks ago and plan on releasing my study in late October.

Ironically — or maybe not — this has a chilling effect on my desire to follow-up. This really bugs me. I should be able to conduct communication between Google and myself over content that I OWN without having a third party involved involuntarily.

Spamming ezinearticles
members, what an absolute
shame.

Anyway, it’s great to know
you’re putting in new developments
to “weed off” these pesky
stuffs, Chris ;)

By the way, if you are a
writer (a regular one at that!),
please help us fight blog
spammers by reporting in
anyone caught publishing
Ezine articles content without
following the proper “Publisher Guidelines”.

There was a URL that you can report
about Blogger somewhere - you can
check for the history.

Cheers,
Vern

For your information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d’Ivoire

Rajkumar