My Ezinearticles Turned to Gibberish

14 years ago

Yes, me too. Last year i published and dedicated myself in publishing articles on ezinearticles and incidently found that there were many who were using spinning software to make original articles and publishing or distributing them over other sites.

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jamespereira

14 years ago

I've never personally experienced this as I have not checked where my articles have been republished, as long as I get traffic to my sites.

But what you describe is sometimes the result of softwares that pick articles and rehash them using translating options.

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ryangb74

14 years ago

Originally Posted by UnstoppableJoy

Regarding Ezinearticles.

Now their service is great - they are very picky - which is good.

BUT: No fault of their own but I had to stop publishing with them because I found is that many folks were taking my articles and running them through verb and noun substitution programs to make "original" versions of my writing so as to avoid duplicate content.

I would go to read my article published on other sites online and it would be one step above gibberish. The articles would lose all of the intended meaning - and I certainly don't want folks to think I wrote the that way. Some read like the writings of a total illiterate idiot.

Anyone else had that experience?

Actually, buddy, what a lot of BH'ers do is run them through google translator a couple of times and post it with no regard to if it makes sense or not. It's all for rankings, updating, etc. Hopefully, then new Google Caffeine update will touch this, but I doubt it, as it seems to be dealing only with page load time.

I would definitely report it to ezine -- everything is supposed to remain intact if they re-publish your article. They have emails and IPs they can trace and can ban the IP of the person publishing your altered article

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juzanobo

14 years ago

Originally Posted by UnstoppableJoy

Regarding Ezinearticles.

Now their service is great - they are very picky - which is good.

BUT: No fault of their own but I had to stop publishing with them because I found is that many folks were taking my articles and running them through verb and noun substitution programs to make "original" versions of my writing so as to avoid duplicate content.

I would go to read my article published on other sites online and it would be one step above gibberish. The articles would lose all of the intended meaning - and I certainly don't want folks to think I wrote the that way. Some read like the writings of a total illiterate idiot.

Anyone else had that experience?

Actually, this is one thing that can't be avoided when we publish our articles to article directories not only on ezinearticles. YOur only advantage is that, what you have published is well-written and will have a better traffic conversion compared to the spun one.

If they only replaced the verb and noun of your article, the result won't still be 100% dupe-free version

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UnstoppableJoy

14 years ago

I appreciate all your feedback. I now am getting a much better picture of what others have experienced. Thanks.

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Tina Golden 14 years ago

How does the spun versions reflect on you? Are these people actually still putting you as the author? I can't imagine why they would spin to pass it off as "original" and still use your name.

If they're not using your name, then there is no reflection on you - they look like idiots, not you.

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cashcow

14 years ago

There are a few programs that add articles to your blog "translated" in this manner.

The really strange thing is that a lot of people that do this don't realize that they are doing anything "wrong". It they wanted to steal the article they would strip out the resource box but a lot of folks have tunnel vision when it comes to making money online.

They want to avoid the non existant duplicate content penalty and post the article but not really hurt the author so they leave in the resource box.

Most people are so busy thinking how they can cut corners and bend the rules to make a buck that they don't stop to think that some of the people who write articles might actually take pride in what they write and not want other people to see a mangled version of it.

Lee

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UnstoppableJoy

14 years ago

To answer a few of your posts - yes I have located several incidences where I have been listed as author. That was why I was concerned.

And they have been reported.

Thanks so much for all your help and consideration.

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JohnMcCabe

14 years ago

Originally Posted by UnstoppableJoy

I appreciate all your feedback. I now am getting a much better picture of what others have experienced. Thanks.

Ed, I haven't run into someone actually downloading my articles and spinning them. Mostly it's been mechanical scrapers leeching off the RSS feeds. I've even had some of them pop up in my Google alerts that only took my name and link as author, an attached it to some scraped mishmash of odd sentences.

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How does the spun versions reflect on you? Are these people actually still putting you as the author? I can't imagine why they would spin to pass it off as "original" and still use your name.

If they're not using your name, then there is no reflection on you - they look like idiots, not you.

Tina

Tina, most of what I see when this happens is people still using those atrocious MFA site builders that scraped random content - including resource boxes - as long as it had the requisite keywords. Some scrape from the article page, some from the RSS feed. I've yet to find one that someone has gone through the process of downloading and spinning manually, although I imagine it could happen.

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adamv 14 years ago

It happens all the time. I've found my articles on other people's blogs with no resource box. I've found poorly spun versions of my articles on other article directories, I have even found poorly rewritten versions of my articles submitted to EZA, when that happened I contacted EZA and they took down the stolen article immediately.

There's not much you can do about it. If you submit a lot of articles they are going to get ripped off and it would be a full time job trying to track them down and get the stolen content removed. The only time I try to do anything about it is if the person is able to get a higher search engine ranking with my article than I can.
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captivereef

14 years ago

you can never get away from this, even when posting them on your own blog. It is a pain in the butt and can make you mad but get over it and move on!

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ksburgess

14 years ago

I haven't noticed that with my Ezine articles, though I have seen it done with my RSS feed summaries - all grouped together into gibberish. What annoys me about my articles is seeing that they've published just a snippet, then linked back to the directory, not my site...

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UnstoppableJoy

14 years ago

Thank you all for the great feedback. I have been dealing with this in one form or another for 10 years and captivereef said it best "move on and get over it:

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Tina Golden 14 years ago

To answer a few of your posts - yes I have located several incidences where I have been listed as author. That was why I was concerned.

In that case, I certainly can understand the concern. I don't know if you did this, but you should be reporting any sites like this to EZA, too. I believe it is against their rules for the content of your article to be changed when used, isn't it?

Of course, there is always the C&D and DMCA alternatives if the idiots don't comply.

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- powerslave 14 years ago
  
  Have had a few of my ezinearticles turned to gibberish too. Having used machine translators a few times, they looked strangely like they had been machine translated into one language, then another and then back to English.
  
  So nonsensical were they that I doubt anyone would read past the first couple of lines. I decided there were more productive ways of spending my time than trying to do anything about it.
  
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trevor75

14 years ago

It's happened to me too, people just copying my article, ya know its just a fact of IM, you can try and stop, but you just won't get everybody. I still think the benefits of posting articles with Ezine out ways anybody copywriting me. You have to take the bad with the good I supposed.

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