Ezine articles...?

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by wanna-succeed

Anway, I read the terms and guidelines and I was wondering if an article I wrote for my site can be copied into ezine articles??

Yes - and they can be identical.

EZA does not require "original content" and never has done.

They require you to be the author; that's all. And if the articles have previously been published under a different name, they'll question that by rejecting an article, and maybe even suspending your account briefly, until it's resolved. But if the name on it was the same as the name or pen-name in which you submit it, they welcome that and will do neither.

Like many other professional article marketers (and our clients, for those who have them), I have about 1,000 articles of my own published on EZA all of which had previously been published and indexed on my own sites first.

EZA specifically invite and solicit from authors any articles of adequate length and literacy which they've previously published elsewhere.

They do this on their blog, in their course, and in very helpful, instructive emails which they send out to new authors opting in for them.

They also make available a special plug-in for people with Wordpress sites to be able to publish articles on their own site first and then submit them to EZA for later publication there.

This little thread, recounting one person's recent experiences with submitting articles published a year or two ago (and still online) may interest you.

And in this longer, highly informative thread you'll see a large number of successful, experienced article marketers explaining in detail their reasons for always publishing their articles elsewhere before submitting them to EZA.

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Kay King 13 years ago

EZA does not require "original content" and never has done.

Alexa - I think of it as EZA requires original content - but the content does not have to be "unique" to EZA.

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- Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  Alexa - I think of it as EZA requires original content - but the content does not have to be "unique" to EZA.
  
  kay
  
  Yes, indeed ... if "original" means "self-written or owning the rights to", absolutely. "Unique" is a less ambiguous and better word. I sometimes say "not previously published" but that's clumsier.
  
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wanna-succeed 13 years ago

Ok, so I match pen names...how do I make a pen name on my site?
I guess I wasn't really aware of the importance of having a pen name when I wrote my first article and it says it was written by admin, which I don't want...How to I edit that? logging in to my site, then what?

Appreciate the help Alexa, more clear now..
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- Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by wanna-succeed
  
  it says it was written by admin, which I don't want...
  
  No, that might be ok, I think.
  
  The problems arise when you've written it on your site under the name Ethelred Engleberger but then submit it to EZA using the account-name or pen-name Eilish Entzenheimski. Because they then imagine that you might just have illicitly purloined it from the good Mr. Engleberger.
  
  I don't think "admin" will cause a problem, as long as the "about" page on your site/blog, if any, doesn't say "Hi, I'm Edwin Elouicius". But obviously it would be better for it to say "I'm <your-name>".
  
  It is occasionally possible to have a problem of which you were unaware because in-between your publishing it on your own site and your EZA submission, Mr. Engleberger has stolen it from you and published it on his site in his own name, and EZA finds that copy and doesn't like it ... but you just have to try to prevent that by submitting soon after it's indexed on your site, before old Ethelred gets a chance, and/or resolve it by explaining it to EZA, if it ever happens (all of which is easily done).
  
  Originally Posted by wanna-succeed
  
  How to I edit that? logging in to my site, then what?
  
  This depends on your site. If using Wordpress, await other replies because I don't use it!
  
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  Richard Van 13 years ago
  
  Interestingly Alexa,
  
  What do you use to create your sites, if you don't mind me asking and "mind your own bloody business and sort your own life out" will suffice just fine .
  
  Though a politer version would be better taken, of course.
  
  What I mean is do you create blogs or actual standard websites you add your content to? If so what do you use.
  
  From Mr Nosey.
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Richard Van
  
  Interestingly Alexa,
  
  What do you use to create your sites.
  
  I actually use TypePad (with my own domain-names, of course) for my main "money sites", because ...
  
  (i) I can't cope with Wordpress;
  (ii) I think Wordpress sites usually "look like blogs" (I know they don't have to but affiliate marketing ones often do, in practice) and I want something that's made from easy-to-use blogging software but looks really professional while still being trivially easy to update;
  (iii) I like TypePad's designs/styles;
  (iv) I don't mind paying (it's cheap) and value their customer-support;
  (v) I quite like to be a bit different and have sites which look a bit different from the ten others in the niche which many of my customers may have seen before, and be the one who "opts them in" and sells to them after they've seen others but not bought there (sometimes even including "not bought the same products there").
  
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Roy Carter

13 years ago

Was just about to reply but looks like Alexa covered you on that one

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King Shiloh

Banned 13 years ago

The article is your property so you can send it to EZA in full, half of it, the same, identical, similar, verbatim, no word changed, no paragraph changed, the same title, the same keywords, the same everything.

I hope you understand.

As for the issue of changing your site login username from "admin" to something else, I don't think it's possible. Maybe I'm wrong because I have not really thought of it neither have I tried it.

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Andy Rockwell

13 years ago

You will need to post your article to ezinearticles.com first, and then post it on your website after it's been approved. This is the easiest way for me. They check every single article you submit for "duplicate content", and have no problem denying your article if that's the case. They can be pretty strict. It's sometimes the same thing with Buzzle.com as well. You can explain the situation to them however, but its not worth the process IMO. good luck!

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King Shiloh

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Rockwell

You will need to post your article to ezinearticles.com first, and then post it on your website after it's been approved. This is the easiest way for me. They check every single article you submit for "duplicate content", and have no problem denying your article if that's the case. They can be pretty strict. It's sometimes the same thing with Buzzle.com as well. You can explain the situation to them however, but its not worth the process IMO. good luck!

This is one of the worst advice I have seen, heard, read in this forum since I joined.

I'm seriously doubt you're an article marketer. If you are, then you need to get some tutorials on how to do article marketing by using the Search function of this forum. If you do, you will see plenty of posts that will teach how best to run an article marketing campaign.

Please learn before you teach.

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Andy Rockwell

13 years ago

Originally Posted by King Shiloh

This is one of the worst advice I have seen, heard, read in this forum since I joined.

I'm seriously doubt you're an article marketer. If you are, then you need to get some tutorials on how to do article marketing by using the Search function of this forum. If you do, you will see plenty of posts that will teach how best to run an article marketing campaign.

Please learn before you teach.

Maybe I phrased this wrong. All I was saying is that for me, it has been proven easier to post my content on ezinearticles.com first, rather than having to prove I am the original author, and have to wait. I have many accounts there, so I just posted from my personal experience. Thanks for your reply though.

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Richard Van

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Rockwell

Maybe I phrased this wrong. All I was saying is that for me, it has been proven easier to post my content on ezinearticles.com first, rather than having to prove I am the original author, and have to wait. I have many accounts there, so I just posted from my personal experience. Thanks for your reply though.

Well, having many accounts there is against their TOS.

You're only allowed one.

If they find out you have more, they close the whole lot.

That being said and the fact you disagree with someone as highly good at this as Alexa, does show, I'm afraid, you still have a fair bit to learn about how article marketing works.

With all due respect let me just quote her again...

Like many other professional article marketers (and our clients, for those who have them), I have about 1,000 articles of my own published on EZA all of which had previously been published and indexed on my own sites first.

EZA specifically invite and solicit from authors any articles of adequate length and literacy which they've previously published elsewhere.

I also agree Alexa needs to do a WSO on this to educate the masses. Better still, don't make one, so the rest of us can still earn a dime or two.

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Rockwell

You will need to post your article to ezinearticles.com first, and then post it on your website after it's been approved.

This is totally wrong.

Originally Posted by Andy Rockwell

I have many accounts there

Then you're breaching their terms of service, about which they're strict, and if they notice that (e.g. from IP numbers of article submissions), they really will close down the whole lot. As has happened to many others here!

With no hostility intended at all, but just to clarify the position for others, I'm afraid your advice in this thread really leaves rather a lot to be desired.

(Edited to add: sorry, I posted at the same time as Richard, above, and had not seen his post.)
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- Andy Rockwell 13 years ago
  
  Thanks for the advice. You guys rock!
  
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WarManFu

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Rockwell

You will need to post your article to ezinearticles.com first, and then post it on your website after it's been approved. This is the easiest way for me. They check every single article you submit for "duplicate content", and have no problem denying your article if that's the case. They can be pretty strict. It's sometimes the same thing with Buzzle.com as well. You can explain the situation to them however, but its not worth the process IMO. good luck!

Another reason this is absolutely the stupidest thing I have seen posted here is because they actually have a plugin that will allow you to validate and publish articles to ezinearticles.com straight from within the admin area of your site. I have clients I build sites for and they get along just fine doing it and the site and articles rank well.

I do suggest however that you use two different titles, one for the blog post and one for ezine articles.

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txconx

13 years ago

I'm thinking Alexa should do a WSO on this topic and make people PAY to get advice that's been given repetitively here for more times than I care to count. They can either spend their time finding one of those multiple threads, or they can spend their money.

Looking back in my notes on article writing from when I first joined WF, I find that I copied this information more than 2 years ago.

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King Shiloh

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by txconx

I'm thinking Alexa should do a WSO on this topic and make people PAY to get advice that's been given repetitively here for more times than I care to count. They can either spend their time finding one of those multiple threads, or they can spend their money.

Looking back in my notes on article writing from when I first joined WF, I find that I copied this information more than 2 years ago.

I second the suggestion. The same question asked at least once every bright and beautiful day. I wonder what the search function is meant for.

Well, Alexa, you have to give the suggestion a deep thought though I'm sure you have better things that keep you as busy as an ocean wave.

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King Shiloh Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by John McEachern

Come on Your Highness, isn't fawning beneath your regal stature? :p

I have not really thought about it. Maybe I will do just that tonight.:p
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