Author TOS Updated
The EzineArticles Author Terms of Service (TOS) has been updated with the addition of one item:
10. You agree to not purchase or utilize PPC (PayPerClick), PPV (PayPerView) traffic, safelists, or traffic exchanges to artificially inflate your EzineArticles traffic stats. Doing so may result in your account being terminated.
This was a gray area that we wanted to clarify. Any attempt to send incentivized traffic to your articles may be perceived by us as an attempt to game our systems for the purposes of boosting your article traffic views in order to reach our most viewed article status that rotates every 90 days.
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We are happy with members who use the EzineArticles widgets on their websites & blog, their expert author RSS feed [Example of one kind of implementation] to help expose their web readership with their EzineArticles.
Conclusion: We’re highly efficient at converting your expert article content into huge loads of traffic back to your website. Leave the traffic attraction strategies up to us and invest your time writing & submitting more articles for best results.
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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