Tracking Perception
Good or Bad, I enjoy reading how EzineArticles is perceived by others. Most of the public postings get a private reply to resolve a misunderstanding.
Someone tried hiring an article writer to produce as many articles as they could for $30: Project: Article Writer
First, their request is absurd…but the reason I share this link is because of this section: “4. If 1 or more of the articles are not approved by ezinearticles, this means that they are not of good quality or not original content.”
–>Ok, while we’re honored that you’re using EzineArticles as a quality barometer, please don’t make us your ‘Copyscape’ because it’s the quickest way to find your account terminated for sending in non-original content.
Author/Blogger Prince John wrote this blog entry last week: My Experiences with EzineArticles.com
Sorry about this Prince. We were wrong and you’ll be receiving a private reply on Tuesday where our support team will whitelist your name in our system to prevent author name confusion from happening again.
Rick Lomas blogged in his MySpace account this entry: The best email you can get from ezinearticles.com
Ahhh schucks. :)
There are many others including blog entries on how to scam or game us…including encouraging multiple accounts being setup to submit multiple nearly identical articles. A lot of them go into great depth with videos produced and images showing step by step, etc… but I see two patterns from these bums: Pattern #1) Their EzineArticles account is brand new or less than a month old; Pattern #2) For some reason, their EzineArticles account is missing…  The point: Don’t trust everything you read on the net especially from someone who has not had long-term success with whatever strategy they are promising will be the next breakthrough.
Chris,
I’m curious about something. Why does your site permit “ghosted” or written-for-hire articles or ones where “authors” have obtained exclusive licenses to pass them off as their own?
On the one hand, the Editorial Guidelines require the article to be “original” and one “that you wrote”. But then they say that non-member authors can submit the articles under the name of the member or that members can submit articles written by other people as long as they have paid for an exclusive license.
Why not just require ALL articles to actually be written by the particular author member? Or say that ghosted, written-for-hire or bought articles must be identified as such somewhere in the article listing? Of all of the articles currently active on this site, do you know how many were paid for, licensed and thus not written by the author member?
Nancy
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