tyler writes:

Hi Chris –

Although I can understand the spirit of this, I liked to send paid traffic to my article to test a new niche for a fast and easy feedback test. I can see how it can inflate traffic stats though.

How about sending subscribers of my list to my articles? Will that set of red flags?

Thanks,

Tyler

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Tyler,

While we appreciate your traffic, we’d prefer that you didn’t.

Best to use your house email list to promote your content on your own website.

Assuming you already have high ethical standards when it comes to double-opt in (also known as “Confirm Opt-In”) in terms of permission-based email marketing, not everyone adheres to the same high standards…therefore we’d prefer that all members didn’t send any email-based traffic to your EzineArticles.

You may already know this, but we already send millions of permission-based emails monthly on behalf of our members via the 604 niche daily email alerts plus we also send new article alerts when our users subscribe to your new article alerts.

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tyler writes:

Thanks Chris for your feedback — I got it. :)

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Thaddeus writes:

Interesting, I really need to do some more research on SEO as my brain just can’t come up with a reason as to how paying to send traffic to someone elses website would be more beneficial than sending it to my own. Not that it matters but what made you guys decide to change it up I would think you would like for people to send you free paid traffic

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Thaddeus writes:

Reread it and saw “traffic exchanges” and safelists I now know why you put this in the terms of service. Wish I would have know about this trick before it was banned $2 dollars of worthless traffic from a traffic exchange could translate to a lot of money and quality hits from Ezine and the most viewed list

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YourLawnAndGarden - The Place Where Successful Contractors Meet writes:

Thanks again for clarification.

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Edward Weiss writes:

This has got to be because of that Warrior Forum thread I was reading. That person was really upset because someone was trying to do what you so aptly described in your blog post.

It’s funny how some marketers will do anything to get more traffic.

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Lance Winslow writes:

Sounds like someone got very creative there. It was an interesting concept. Interesting indeed. I bet a lot of people have done this to bulk up their blogs, and content, I am somewhat surprised someone would do it here, I wonder if it worked?

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Jen writes:

Hi Chris,

One concern, a major one at that. What happens when a competitor sends traffic that violates EZA’s TOS to one of my articles? Let’s be honest, this entire situation is a can of worms waiting to explode. I really worry that someones hard work can be ruined in a flash by those who are looking for a quick and easy way to rid EzineArticles of a competitor. May I humbly suggest doing away with the most-viewed article list? You’re going to find it very hard to control how people promote their articles.

Jen

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Geoff writes:

I have to say I`d never even thought about using safelists and so on to send traffic to my articles. As for actually paying to do it, I just can`t see how that could be cost-effective anyway.

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Kay writes:

I’d be concerned about sabotage also.

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