E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit

waynemartin2 · 11-16-2009, 02:33 PM

Hi All,

As most of you probably already know, there is now a limit of only 3 words allowed in the Anchor text of an E-zine article.

Is there any way around this?

I did try to join the words using a hyphen to join two words together hoping that it would be counted as 1 but it was rejected!

If anyone can help me with this I would really appreciate it is as most of my targeted keywords are long tail and I kind of rely on building a reputation using E-zine!!

All the best

Wayne

majidmaskat · 11-16-2009, 02:34 PM

what is an anchor please explian. also have yu noticed ezine articles new resource box rules

silvervixen · 11-16-2009, 02:44 PM

There's no way around it and it's best just to follow their rules. It will save you a lot of grief. There are other article directories with less restrictive rules that you can submit to as well.

Just my two cents.

RGallowitz · 11-16-2009, 03:22 PM

I'm still confused why they would limit the resource box anchor text.
It does not harm their rankings in any way. As a matter of fact, a decent anchor text won't do any harm.

I'm confused why they implemented that rule.

dlm · 11-16-2009, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RGallowitz

I'm still confused why they would limit the resource box anchor text.
It does not harm their rankings in any way. As a matter of fact, a decent anchor text won't do any harm.

I'm confused why they implemented that rule.

Because EZA went a little crazy. Their dominance wont last forever and these new changes are making other article websites look better and better in comparison.

andyj00 · 11-16-2009, 04:06 PM

Just tried to submit an article to ezines and noticed this too

. The validation software blocks it from submitting - very annoying. Messes up targeting 4 word long tail keywords.

Ezines are getting a real pain.

They used to allow 3 links in the resource box - now they allow only 2.
They now only allow 3 words in the anchor text.
Whats next? Only allow 1 link in the resource box?

melanied · 11-16-2009, 04:34 PM

I noticed that, even after they implemented this rule, they used to let me submit four word anchor texts if they were in a format where one of the words was negligable (of, a, etc) and was in the middle of the phrase, therefore unable to be separated out.

Today that changed. They rejected several of my articles that had anchor text in the following format WORD of WORD WORD and none of it makes sense if you take off the first or last word.

Frustrating. It's not like I'm trying to link an entire sentence or something equally spammy.

I could take out the "of" - which is the only word I don't care about from an SEO standpoint - but then the sentence will read ridiculously.

The only solution I see is to do resource boxes like I've seen on Ezine before, that are structured like

"For more information, go here -->> WORD WORD WORD." and leave out the "of"

To me that actually looks spammier than just letting four words be accepted if one of them is not a content word, but merely grammatically necessary.

kenj · 11-16-2009, 04:54 PM

I have had the same thing as Melanie

I have had things like "How to play Piano" accepted. But more recently I would now submit this as "How play piano". I still get the same clickthrough rates Approximately.

ed41143 · 11-16-2009, 05:12 PM

The problem is, as someone described above. Just like the banks in this financial crisis, who are losing tons of money, but who so control the government and get billions in bailout money, cause they are to big to fail. EZA has gotten so big that they think whatever they do doesn't matter anymore, cause, they think they are to big to fail, does that make any sense to anyone?

Alexa Smith · 11-16-2009, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ed41143

EZA has gotten so big that they think whatever they do doesn't matter anymore, cause, they think they are to big to fail, does that make any sense to anyone?

Yes, it makes sense, but it's an entirely mistaken viewpoint, in my opinion.

However big EZA are, Google is effectively their boss, because they're running an Adsense farm. It seems pretty clear that almost all the recent EZA policy-changes discussed on their blog (almost all of which I welcome unreservedly, myself) are designed to please Google. That's my story, anyway, and I'm sticking to it.

pharris1 · 11-16-2009, 06:33 PM

I too find it frustrating but as someone said above it's easier just to follow their rules or submit elsewhere. What I tend to do is use my long-tail keyword phrase in my sentence leading up to my anchor text, then use a condensed version of the keyword phrase as my anchor text. So something like this: If you want to learn how to build lean muscle and burn fat then click here now: Build Lean Muscle

Works for now - will probably change later.

Peter

jerryp · 11-16-2009, 10:51 PM

I have 92 articles live with EZA and never had an article rejected until the last week. I can deal with the new 3 word anchor text limit but they've gone beyond that. I've had 3 articles that were rejected because "the article body didn't deliver on the title". This isn't true and it seems to me that they are snubbing their nose at article marketers. I have no problem with trying to maintain a high level of articles but this is crazy.

I looked at the articles rejected and have no idea what they are talking about. I really wish that their were another directory that we could use to get enough views and clickthroughs to make EZA a bad memory. I understand that articles published in the other directories can rank well in Google but EZA still has the advantage as far as views.

I'm confused and angry at their harrassment of article marketers.

lacraiger · 11-17-2009, 01:36 AM

It is definitely getting harder to get articles accepted on ezinearticles. I used to be able to submit up to 15 articles a day no problem but now about 25% of them will have some kind of nitpick error.

redicelander · 11-17-2009, 01:37 AM

Personally, I do not see anyway around this. Just another reason to find different article directories and different methods of traffic generation.

GeorgR. · 11-17-2009, 01:42 AM

Can someone shed a light on this? The chance means that the anchor text <--- like this - can only be three words? So basically "how to get your spouse back" would not work. I dont think the change means that in the *resource box* there's now a limit of three words only - that's how i read some comments. I dont think the change is too drastic.

GeorgR. · 11-17-2009, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by majidmaskat

what is an anchor please explian. also have yu noticed ezine articles new resource box rules

And anchor text is a keyword with an embedded link.

Like: Check my Marketing Blog out!

"Marketing Blog" would be the anchor text.

Jay Jennings · 11-17-2009, 02:49 AM

How many of you who don't like it have taken the time to complain about the policy? From what I understand, when EZA does something and they don't get a "reaction" they assume they made the right move.

We (article marketers) have a symbiotic relationship with EZA -- without us they don't exist, and without their traffic some of us don't exist (business-wise). If they make a policy that you don't think is sound, send them an email and explain why.

- - -

As far as the "article body doesn't deliver on the title" I'm glad they're tightening up on that. If there's an article called "How To Stop Your Dog From Jumping On People" then you'd better tell me at least one way to get him to stop jumping. An article I saw this weekend went on for 4-5 paragraphs about how dogs jump on people -- and if I want to learn how to make him stop, I can click the freaking link. Pffft.

Jay Jennings

PS - I'm not just an EZA apologist, I can't stand some of what they're doing. But I tell them it's insane (using email, their blog, or forum) because maybe in some cases they'll listen to reason, =;)

WinsonYeung · 11-17-2009, 02:59 AM

Yeah it's a part of their policy and you can't get around with it.
I have tried added more anchor text, get caught and my articles is rejected for that.

Another 25 articles submission for me

Pat Jackson · 11-17-2009, 05:34 AM

In my opinion it isn't much of a problem at all. There are plenty of other places to get backlinks.

The only anchor text I ever use at EzineArticles is "Click Here".

My main priority is for the reader to click the link and get to my squeeze page, I'm not focusing on SEO when submitting to EzineArticles.

11-16-2009, 02:33 PM	#1
waynemartin2 Active Warrior Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 34 Thanks: 14 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit Hi All, As most of you probably already know, there is now a limit of only 3 words allowed in the Anchor text of an E-zine article. Is there any way around this? I did try to join the words using a hyphen to join two words together hoping that it would be counted as 1 but it was rejected! If anyone can help me with this I would really appreciate it is as most of my targeted keywords are long tail and I kind of rely on building a reputation using E-zine!! All the best Wayne

11-16-2009, 02:34 PM	#2
majidmaskat KING-WARRIOR Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: london Posts: 179 Thanks: 4 Thanked 11 Times in 11 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit what is an anchor please explian. also have yu noticed ezine articles new resource box rules
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11-16-2009, 02:44 PM	#3
silvervixen Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 76 Thanks: 4 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit There's no way around it and it's best just to follow their rules. It will save you a lot of grief. There are other article directories with less restrictive rules that you can submit to as well. Just my two cents.
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11-16-2009, 03:22 PM	#4
RGallowitz AffiliateTeachings.com War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Where ever I want to! Posts: 1,165 Thanks: 30 Thanked 137 Times in 117 Posts Contact Info	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit I'm still confused why they would limit the resource box anchor text. It does not harm their rankings in any way. As a matter of fact, a decent anchor text won't do any harm. I'm confused why they implemented that rule.
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11-16-2009, 04:06 PM	#6
andyj00 Adsense Junkie War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: UK Posts: 77 Thanks: 8 Thanked 8 Times in 6 Posts	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit Just tried to submit an article to ezines and noticed this too . The validation software blocks it from submitting - very annoying. Messes up targeting 4 word long tail keywords. Ezines are getting a real pain. They used to allow 3 links in the resource box - now they allow only 2. They now only allow 3 words in the anchor text. Whats next? Only allow 1 link in the resource box?

11-16-2009, 04:34 PM	#7
melanied NicheChick.com War Room Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 1,031 Thanks: 43 Thanked 100 Times in 53 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit I noticed that, even after they implemented this rule, they used to let me submit four word anchor texts if they were in a format where one of the words was negligable (of, a, etc) and was in the middle of the phrase, therefore unable to be separated out. Today that changed. They rejected several of my articles that had anchor text in the following format WORD of WORD WORD and none of it makes sense if you take off the first or last word. Frustrating. It's not like I'm trying to link an entire sentence or something equally spammy. I could take out the "of" - which is the only word I don't care about from an SEO standpoint - but then the sentence will read ridiculously. The only solution I see is to do resource boxes like I've seen on Ezine before, that are structured like "For more information, go here -->> WORD WORD WORD." and leave out the "of" To me that actually looks spammier than just letting four words be accepted if one of them is not a content word, but merely grammatically necessary.

11-16-2009, 04:54 PM	#8
kenj Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Bracknell, Berkshire, UK Posts: 1,242 Blog Entries: 6 Thanks: 134 Thanked 234 Times in 171 Posts	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit I have had the same thing as Melanie I have had things like "How to play Piano" accepted. But more recently I would now submit this as "How play piano". I still get the same clickthrough rates Approximately.
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11-16-2009, 05:12 PM	#9
ed41143 Active Warrior Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: KY Posts: 53 Thanks: 14 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit The problem is, as someone described above. Just like the banks in this financial crisis, who are losing tons of money, but who so control the government and get billions in bailout money, cause they are to big to fail. EZA has gotten so big that they think whatever they do doesn't matter anymore, cause, they think they are to big to fail, does that make any sense to anyone?

11-16-2009, 06:33 PM	#11
pharris1 Active Warrior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: , , USA. Posts: 68 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit I too find it frustrating but as someone said above it's easier just to follow their rules or submit elsewhere. What I tend to do is use my long-tail keyword phrase in my sentence leading up to my anchor text, then use a condensed version of the keyword phrase as my anchor text. So something like this: If you want to learn how to build lean muscle and burn fat then click here now: Build Lean Muscle Works for now - will probably change later. Peter
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11-16-2009, 10:51 PM	#12
jerryp Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: No. California Posts: 42 Thanks: 4 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit I have 92 articles live with EZA and never had an article rejected until the last week. I can deal with the new 3 word anchor text limit but they've gone beyond that. I've had 3 articles that were rejected because "the article body didn't deliver on the title". This isn't true and it seems to me that they are snubbing their nose at article marketers. I have no problem with trying to maintain a high level of articles but this is crazy. I looked at the articles rejected and have no idea what they are talking about. I really wish that their were another directory that we could use to get enough views and clickthroughs to make EZA a bad memory. I understand that articles published in the other directories can rank well in Google but EZA still has the advantage as far as views. I'm confused and angry at their harrassment of article marketers.

11-17-2009, 01:36 AM	#13
lacraiger Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA USA Posts: 589 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 18 Thanked 22 Times in 19 Posts	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit It is definitely getting harder to get articles accepted on ezinearticles. I used to be able to submit up to 15 articles a day no problem but now about 25% of them will have some kind of nitpick error.
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11-17-2009, 01:37 AM	#14
redicelander J Bold War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Walla Walla Posts: 2,612 Blog Entries: 10 Thanks: 665 Thanked 507 Times in 311 Posts Social Networking	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit Personally, I do not see anyway around this. Just another reason to find different article directories and different methods of traffic generation.
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GeorgR. Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Earth Posts: 5,953 Blog Entries: 15 Thanks: 72 Thanked 873 Times in 580 Posts Social Networking	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit Can someone shed a light on this? The chance means that the anchor text <--- like this - can only be three words? So basically "how to get your spouse back" would not work. I dont think the change means that in the resource box there's now a limit of three words only - that's how i read some comments. I dont think the change is too drastic.
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Jay Jennings Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Everywhere , USA. Posts: 1,204 Thanks: 46 Thanked 98 Times in 65 Posts	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit How many of you who don't like it have taken the time to complain about the policy? From what I understand, when EZA does something and they don't get a "reaction" they assume they made the right move. We (article marketers) have a symbiotic relationship with EZA -- without us they don't exist, and without their traffic some of us don't exist (business-wise). If they make a policy that you don't think is sound, send them an email and explain why. - - - As far as the "article body doesn't deliver on the title" I'm glad they're tightening up on that. If there's an article called "How To Stop Your Dog From Jumping On People" then you'd better tell me at least one way to get him to stop jumping. An article I saw this weekend went on for 4-5 paragraphs about how dogs jump on people -- and if I want to learn how to make him stop, I can click the freaking link. Pffft. Jay Jennings PS - I'm not just an EZA apologist, I can't stand some of what they're doing. But I tell them it's insane (using email, their blog, or forum) because maybe in some cases they'll listen to reason, =;)
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Pat Jackson Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 1,387 Thanks: 650 Thanked 192 Times in 130 Posts	Re: E-zine Articles 3 word Anchor text limit In my opinion it isn't much of a problem at all. There are plenty of other places to get backlinks. The only anchor text I ever use at EzineArticles is "Click Here". My main priority is for the reader to click the link and get to my squeeze page, I'm not focusing on SEO when submitting to EzineArticles.