Ezine Articles Approval Story
With all of the recent threads on the Warrior Forum devoted to the Google Panda(Farmer) Update and its effect on Ezine Articles, I would like to share a story of an article that I recently submitted to ezine articles. Now, mind you I am not a massive article submitter and only have seven live articles to date. I am at the Basic Level membership.
I had a "draft" article that I had saved. Now according to EZA, drafts are only saved for 30 days. Well, after saving the draft, my JOB commitments required more of my time and I kind of let this article sit in the draft que for a while. After 15 days EZA somehow notified me(I think I saw the notification from my dashboard)that I had 15 days to finish and submit the article before it would be deleted.
This went on until on the Feb 28, 2011, I saw that I had three days left. I had some time off from my JOB on that particular day and decided to finish and submit the article. I finished the article sometime in the morning and submitted it. The email I received stating that my article was received was time stamped 9:22am. I didn't think any more about it, but later that day I got another email from EZA stating that my article was accepted and published. The time stamp on that email was 3:46pm on the 28th of Feb 2011.
This was the same day that EZA blog had the post about the quality improvements they were instating effective immediately.
Normally, the time it takes to have a article reviewed and approved (from my limited experience) has been anywhere from 7 to 14 days. I am not tooting my own horn here, but I take the editorial guidelines provided by EZA seriously and attempt to follow them to the letter. Having stated that, my writing in my opinion is not Pulitzer material either.
The point of this post is to raise a question about EZA's reviewing standards. If they are so strict about quality, how did this article get reviewed and approved in under 5 hours? Normally, I have better things to wonder about but with all the talk and hype about the Google Farmer update and its affect on EZA et.al. I wonder if EZA really has the double human review process that I have been led to believe exists. Maybe the fact that this article was submitted on the same day as the quality improvements surfaced somehow let this article slip through the cracks in the approval system.
EZA has been, in my limited internet marketing experience, the one directory that almost every "guru" recommends submitting using in an article marketing strategy. I know things change fast in internet marketing and what worked one day may or may not work tomorrow.
Fellow Warriors, any thoughts or insights?
I had a "draft" article that I had saved. Now according to EZA, drafts are only saved for 30 days. Well, after saving the draft, my JOB commitments required more of my time and I kind of let this article sit in the draft que for a while. After 15 days EZA somehow notified me(I think I saw the notification from my dashboard)that I had 15 days to finish and submit the article before it would be deleted.
This went on until on the Feb 28, 2011, I saw that I had three days left. I had some time off from my JOB on that particular day and decided to finish and submit the article. I finished the article sometime in the morning and submitted it. The email I received stating that my article was received was time stamped 9:22am. I didn't think any more about it, but later that day I got another email from EZA stating that my article was accepted and published. The time stamp on that email was 3:46pm on the 28th of Feb 2011.
This was the same day that EZA blog had the post about the quality improvements they were instating effective immediately.
Normally, the time it takes to have a article reviewed and approved (from my limited experience) has been anywhere from 7 to 14 days. I am not tooting my own horn here, but I take the editorial guidelines provided by EZA seriously and attempt to follow them to the letter. Having stated that, my writing in my opinion is not Pulitzer material either.
The point of this post is to raise a question about EZA's reviewing standards. If they are so strict about quality, how did this article get reviewed and approved in under 5 hours? Normally, I have better things to wonder about but with all the talk and hype about the Google Farmer update and its affect on EZA et.al. I wonder if EZA really has the double human review process that I have been led to believe exists. Maybe the fact that this article was submitted on the same day as the quality improvements surfaced somehow let this article slip through the cracks in the approval system.
EZA has been, in my limited internet marketing experience, the one directory that almost every "guru" recommends submitting using in an article marketing strategy. I know things change fast in internet marketing and what worked one day may or may not work tomorrow.
Fellow Warriors, any thoughts or insights?
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