Comments on: 2009 Article Marketing Predictions http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.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/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19898 Christopher M. Knight Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:47:42 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19898 Kathleen, Traffic Search Terms is what I was mentioning and you can learn more about it here: http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2008/10/traffic-search-terms.html Kathleen,

Traffic Search Terms is what I was mentioning and you can learn more about it here:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2008/10/traffic-search-terms.html

]]> By: Kathleen Ball http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19891 Kathleen Ball Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:44:34 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19891 Hi Chris, I just listened to your interview with Jeff and really enjoyed it. Towards the end of the interview you were explaining a process by which an article with more than 200 page views could be analyzed for how and where it was showing up on search engines. Unfortunately, I didn't quite understand. Can you explain how that works? Thanks! Hi Chris,
I just listened to your interview with Jeff and really enjoyed it. Towards the end of the interview you were explaining a process by which an article with more than 200 page views could be analyzed for how and where it was showing up on search engines. Unfortunately, I didn’t quite understand. Can you explain how that works? Thanks!

]]> By: Eric Roth http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19890 Eric Roth Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:52:54 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19890 The unexpected always happens - especially in business and online! While these ten trends seem probable and even savvy, I would add a bit of hedging language. "If current trends continue" or "based on eZine's growing success" to add credibility. Just a friendly thought from a fan. The unexpected always happens – especially in business and online!

While these ten trends seem probable and even savvy, I would add a bit of hedging language. “If current trends continue” or “based on eZine’s growing success” to add credibility.

Just a friendly thought from a fan.

]]> By: Christopher M. Knight http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19888 Christopher M. Knight Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:52:38 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19888 All, Join me Thursday at 1pm EST where Jeff Herring will be interviewing me on the above 2009 Predictions. Jeff's the host & I'm the guest: http://articlemarketingcafe.com/ Plus I'll cover some of the additional bonus predictions that I held from the above list. :) All,

Join me Thursday at 1pm EST where Jeff Herring will be interviewing me on the above 2009 Predictions.

Jeff’s the host & I’m the guest:
http://articlemarketingcafe.com/

Plus I’ll cover some of the additional bonus predictions that I held from the above list. :)

]]> By: Lance Winslow http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19799 Lance Winslow Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:51:23 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19799 Hey these are pretty good predictions here, I see it too. - Lance Hey these are pretty good predictions here, I see it too. – Lance

]]> By: Disgruntled http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19768 Disgruntled Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:05:08 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19768 Hi Chris, First of all thank you for the quick response and your candor. I am not Jennifer. I linked to her article hoping that you would also read it so that you could see that there are many fine authors out there who have similar feelings to mine out there with regards to this issue. Although I must say I certainly don't take offence in being confused with her as she appears to be a fine author. For now I wish to remain anonymous. However, again I do appreciate your honesty and candidness in your reply with respect to your editors. Hopefully this is an area that you will be able to make further improvements on in the new year and it does sound like you are well aware of it being an issue. All the best in the new year, Less-Disgruntled :) Hi Chris,

First of all thank you for the quick response and your candor.

I am not Jennifer. I linked to her article hoping that you would also read it so that you could see that there are many fine authors out there who have similar feelings to mine out there with regards to this issue. Although I must say I certainly don’t take offence in being confused with her as she appears to be a fine author.

For now I wish to remain anonymous. However, again I do appreciate your honesty and candidness in your reply with respect to your editors. Hopefully this is an area that you will be able to make further improvements on in the new year and it does sound like you are well aware of it being an issue.

All the best in the new year,
Less-Disgruntled :)

]]> By: Frank Kalinski http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19765 Frank Kalinski Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:32:04 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19765 I worked for a fellow who ran anonymous help wanted ads to bring in the competitor's sales people to pick their brains with no intention of a offering a job and to see if his own employees would submit a resume. Dirty deeds done dirt cheap! Attitude my friend; Attitude Frank Kalinski I worked for a fellow who ran anonymous help wanted ads to bring in the competitor’s sales people to pick their brains with no intention of a offering a job and to see if his own employees would submit a resume.

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap!

Attitude my friend; Attitude

Frank Kalinski

]]> By: Christopher M. Knight http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19763 Christopher M. Knight Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:23:52 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19763 Disgruntled, I hear you and know this is an area of incredible importance for us to master. Editors are somewhat not fully trained until they reach about 10,000 articles under their belt, and even then they struggle to keep up on every niche, every issue, every published and unpublished guideline that every article must be compared against. That's why we have 2 editors review every article. Last month alone, we deflected internally over 5,000 mistakes that the 1st editor made that the 2nd one caught without our members knowing that we made these mistakes. Last year we also dedicated a full-time internal trainer for our Editors to bring them up to speed and provide daily coaching and assistance, retraining, continuous knowledge sharing and testing. This year we added another layer of management (Team Leader) that will also help us improve on our consistency or review. It's a complex issue for sure. Get this: If reviewing articles weren't subjective, we'd let 3 dozen Editors go and have computers do all the work. Alas, it's subjective and therefore subject to an error rate. Clarification on one issue I saw in your blog entry: We allow 4 links, 2 of which can be self-serving. See this <a href="http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2008/06/ezinearticles-editorial-guidelines-updated.html" rel="nofollow">June 2008 blog entry</a>. Our internal editors receive merit pay increases as they prove QC score competence so they are motivated to improve...just as we want to eliminate unnecessary errors. In conclusion, I'm sorry we failed you. Know this issue has my and our attention..and we're motivated to lower our error rate even further. Disgruntled,

I hear you and know this is an area of incredible importance for us to master.

Editors are somewhat not fully trained until they reach about 10,000 articles under their belt, and even then they struggle to keep up on every niche, every issue, every published and unpublished guideline that every article must be compared against.

That’s why we have 2 editors review every article. Last month alone, we deflected internally over 5,000 mistakes that the 1st editor made that the 2nd one caught without our members knowing that we made these mistakes.

Last year we also dedicated a full-time internal trainer for our Editors to bring them up to speed and provide daily coaching and assistance, retraining, continuous knowledge sharing and testing.

This year we added another layer of management (Team Leader) that will also help us improve on our consistency or review. It’s a complex issue for sure.

Get this: If reviewing articles weren’t subjective, we’d let 3 dozen Editors go and have computers do all the work. Alas, it’s subjective and therefore subject to an error rate.

Clarification on one issue I saw in your blog entry: We allow 4 links, 2 of which can be self-serving. See this June 2008 blog entry.

Our internal editors receive merit pay increases as they prove QC score competence so they are motivated to improve…just as we want to eliminate unnecessary errors.

In conclusion, I’m sorry we failed you. Know this issue has my and our attention..and we’re motivated to lower our error rate even further.

]]> By: Will http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19762 Will Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:11:12 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19762 @Strephon - As far as monetization, I've seen a trend of moving from ebooks towards membership sites (seobook.com being one example) due to the higher perceived value and benefit of recurring revenues. Ping me if you want help with yours. As marketers we must use all avenues available to us to be found, including text, audio, video. Even if ezinearticles had video/audio, you would still put your content in multiple formats and on many sites, even just because of different learning styles. Google search is returning videos in many search results. It scours the web looking for text, video and audio and presents it to us. Video/audios are currently indexed by their metadata (titles, descriptions, tags). @Strephon – As far as monetization, I’ve seen a trend of moving from ebooks towards membership sites (seobook.com being one example) due to the higher perceived value and benefit of recurring revenues. Ping me if you want help with yours.

As marketers we must use all avenues available to us to be found, including text, audio, video. Even if ezinearticles had video/audio, you would still put your content in multiple formats and on many sites, even just because of different learning styles.

Google search is returning videos in many search results. It scours the web looking for text, video and audio and presents it to us. Video/audios are currently indexed by their metadata (titles, descriptions, tags).

]]> By: Disgruntled http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19761 Disgruntled Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:53:29 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/01/2009-article-marketing-predictions.html#comment-19761 Hi Chris, I have a little experiment for you. Why don't you setup a nice, fresh, virginal ezinearticles author account and remain anonymous so that your editors don't know it is actually their boss submitting the articles from this account. Then post on your blog all of the ridiculous reasons that your perfectly good, original articles get rejected. I think that it could be amusing and who knows...you just might learn something useful about your editors reviewing techniques...or lack there of, and how they frustrate and waste many good authors' time. In all seriousness, I realize that you are waging a constant battle against spam and poorly written articles and keeping your good name with the Google monster. However, some of your editors really don't seem to know what they are doing sometimes. This is especially obvious when an article gets rejected, then resubmitted with no changes, then magically approved. Hmm...there has to be something to this line of thought... By the way this has gotten much worse lately and I'm certainly not the only one that feels this way. Just click your way through the blogosphere and you will see that there are many fine authors out there that are no longer submitting their articles to Ezinearticles or that have deleted their accounts for just these reasons. If you're not careful, soon you will be left with all of the dregs of authordom. But who cares though, right? After all, we certainly need a few million more articles about "article marketing" and "how to make money online" don't we? Oh and of course my 2009 prediction: Ezinearticles just might fall off of the top of the article directory mountain due to lack of authors willing to take their crap. All the best, Disgruntled Hi Chris,

I have a little experiment for you.

Why don’t you setup a nice, fresh, virginal ezinearticles author account and remain anonymous so that your editors don’t know it is actually their boss submitting the articles from this account. Then post on your blog all of the ridiculous reasons that your perfectly good, original articles get rejected.

I think that it could be amusing and who knows…you just might learn something useful about your editors reviewing techniques…or lack there of, and how they frustrate and waste many good authors’ time.

In all seriousness, I realize that you are waging a constant battle against spam and poorly written articles and keeping your good name with the Google monster. However, some of your editors really don’t seem to know what they are doing sometimes. This is especially obvious when an article gets rejected, then resubmitted with no changes, then magically approved. Hmm…there has to be something to this line of thought…

By the way this has gotten much worse lately and I’m certainly not the only one that feels this way. Just click your way through the blogosphere and you will see that there are many fine authors out there that are no longer submitting their articles to Ezinearticles or that have deleted their accounts for just these reasons. If you’re not careful, soon you will be left with all of the dregs of authordom.

But who cares though, right? After all, we certainly need a few million more articles about “article marketing” and “how to make money online” don’t we?

Oh and of course my 2009 prediction: Ezinearticles just might fall off of the top of the article directory mountain due to lack of authors willing to take their crap.

All the best,
Disgruntled

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