From My Desk to Yours – Sort Of
By: Penny, EzineArticles Managing Editor
As you probably know, my Blog post series, “From My Desk to Yours …” has been a series of educational tips aimed at helping you become a better writer as well as ease your frustrations with article reviews. I love writing them and I enjoy getting input from you that I would not normally receive.
This post is going to be a little different.
I wanted to thank you for a wonderful learning experience in 2009. Your concerns and pet-peeves have brought change and have also allowed me to teach the editorial staff how to better understand what needed to be changed. I appreciate your candor and your ability to teach this not-so-old dog some new tricks. :)
I also wanted to thank you for your hard work and dedication in this past year. We’ve learned a lot together. Through my posts, as well as Chris and Marc’s, we’ve had many interesting debates and usually achieved mutual understanding. The opinions shared here and across our other communication channels have helped us to improve the service we provide to you each and every day. I even appreciated reading the 480+ comments on one of the most recent posts …Thanks for keeping me busy.
So I won’t close this year with a post that teaches you to “do this” or “not do that.” Instead, I’ll close with my final post of 2009 by saying thank you all for your continued hard work and dedication to your success as an Expert Author. I’m proud of your achievements and I look forward to many more hours/days/weeks of learning together. You can expect to see my series resume the first part of 2010.
If you have any thoughts about past “From My Desk to Yours …” posts, or maybe some ideas for future editions, leave a comment to let me know.
And don’t forget, the Holiday Mug Mini-Challenge ends January 1st! So get those last articles written and submitted before it’s too late!
Christina,
I understand your frustration with “authors” who spin and rewrite content to get more articles on article submission sites such as EzineArticles. However, I’m curious why it seems you have a personal vendetta of some sort and have posted this complaint to nearly every blog post made here over the past week when it doesn’t seem like you have checked all of your facts.
They are well aware of the software programs that some “authors” use to try to cheat the system. It makes them as mad as it makes you. EzineArticles does, in fact, ban authors who they find are using spinning software to rewrite content.
Also, those authors who have made Platinum and then begin writing too many articles that sound similar are often downgraded to Basic Plus and have their submissions reduced until their content is back up to par.
Very recently EzineArticles has taken a stricter stand on this and Chris even said in one post that they purchase many of the well known software programs that “spin” so that they can reverse technology it and use that to help spot articles that have been written using this software.
They also have a strict system and human editors for spotting localized keyword abuse. (ie. a person writes an ordinary article on dog grooming and implants their favorite city- “San Diego dog grooming” as keywords when the article has nothing to offer which is specific to San Diego.) These articles are also rejected. No other article submission site that I know of does this and I have used hundreds.
They are doing FAR more than any other online article directory to spot this type of dishonest content and remove from their site. I would say their system is very far advanced when it comes to finding duplicate content and spun articles of all types.
Also, their system already does count how many times a word is repeated in an article. If you use it more than a certain percentage of keyword density, your article will be rejected until you edit it to remove the excessive use of that word.
Nearly all of the complaints that I hear you post here have already been addressed by EzineArticles. Perhaps you are seeing some who slip through the cracks. Occasionally the same thing happens to me. Just yesterday I saw an article that was nearly an exact copy in parts of one I had written. I’m quite sure this author used my ideas and rewrote them in such a way that it would pass through the system.
If it is something like this that has gotten you upset, then perhaps you could privately (or publicly) discuss the specific problem that has you riled up. I’ve found that the staff at EzineArticles can be very helpful in working through problems their authors face. They want us to succeed because when we do, they succeed as well.
January 2, 2010 at 10:42 AM[Reply]