Updating link in Ezine

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Hi

I had a quick question in regards to Ezinearticles.

I have 30 live articles on an old ezine account (2008), these pointing to an old site. If I edited these articles and changed the link to a new site which is the same niche, would this count as a back link for the new site?

They do get some traffic still and click through, I just didn't know if it was worth doing or just creating new articles and forgetting about these.
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  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    If your old site is taken down and no longer accessible, EZA will contact you to update your article.

    You should edit the articles to update them with the new url and then ping them so that Google re-indexes them. Backlinks from article directories are of very low value, but as they are sitting there, you may as well make use of them.
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  • Profile picture of the author jvjoe
    Yes it would but if the old articles are not up to 400 words and above it wouldn't go live. It happen to me when some of my old articles are not up to 400 words and I re-edit them but it was on pending until I have to add up some sentence to make it 400 words before it then goes live.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by lioncirth View Post

    If I edited these articles and changed the link to a new site which is the same niche, would this count as a back link for the new site?
    Yes.

    A non-context-relevant PR-0 backlink (unless those articles have acquired some page-rank, possibly?), which is all that any article directory backlink can be, but still a backlink.

    Originally Posted by lioncirth View Post

    I just didn't know if it was worth doing
    It's worth doing if you no longer require the existing backlink, certainly. If that's so, there's no possible downside, is there? But, as Joe alludes to in the post above, the article itself still has to be acceptable under current editorial guidelines.

    If it helps, Chris Knight told me that EZA has changed the way it handles this procedure: they now do their utmost to process the resource-box amendment within one working day, and they no longer take the article offline while they're doing so.
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    • Profile picture of the author lioncirth
      Hi Guys

      Thank you for your replies

      Ill get editing them and make any changes they require to ensure they meet their quality control.

      Thanks again
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