A Members Brush and Lessons Learned
Yes, we still keep our eyes and ears to the ground to hear what others are saying about us, both positive and negative. This post by Geoff from Cincinnati caught my attention today: My Brush with EzineArticles Death
It’s weird that he makes a comment about our market strength and then in the very next paragraph slams the basis for why I think we have market strength: “If there is any downside to EzineArticles, it is their strict usage guidelines and submission requirements.”
There is another point Geoff made that’s worth repeating: Never rely on us to be your article backup service provider…ie: Always keep a local copy on your own hard drive of every single article you submit to us. No, you shouldn’t have to worry about this with the insane redundancy that we’ve invested in (server-wise), but it’s just good business sense to have backups of your articles.
I didn’t go digging further to figure out who Geoff was (EzineArticles membership wise) as usually we don’t seek to advance relationships with affiliate marketers due to the lack of original quality content that usually spews from this segment of the market (sad, but too true)… and just in case Geoff does read this blog entry: Thank you for only sending in quality and ORIGINAL articles that you have the exclusive rights to the content. :-)
Chris,
I think you might be overreacting when you refer to that comment as a “slam.” His post was actually a gushing testimonial, citing traffic stats that would make any reader rush to get an EzineArticles author account.
His only quibbles about the site were to do with idiosyncrasies that come with human-edited sites: the presumed “crackdown” on funky author names and such.
I agree with you that the among the biggest value of EzineArticles is the credibility resulting from guidelines and requirements. Those affect me because I like to do a lot of bolding that gets my articles dinged for resubmission from time to time. I might get *miffed* and mutter when I see the “needs attention” notice in my inbox, but my reaction could hardly translate into a “slam.”
And, although I don’t know Geoff at all, I would characterize his post as being in the same spirit.
:-)
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