Does EZA Reject Landing Pages Now?

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Hey

Can someone give me the heads up on this?

I have tons of live articles on Eza with links to landing pages.

Today I submitted a new article and it was rejected because of the link ... not sure why though. I own the site and the domain ... the only thing I can think is that it maybe a new policy to do with landing pages.

I checked their T&C's to see if there is an update I am unaware of.

Does anyone know anything that could help

John
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Franklin
    The question you might be interested in asking is Ezine worth even bothering with anymore, since unique and original content is now more valuable than ever, is EZA worth your time and effort?

    That may be the most interesting thing about EZA is how much the game has changed over the last few months.

    To me, I have seen ten times the return in my time and efforts, by just publishing my own content on my own websites, to be perfectly honest, I dont need EZA because they do not provide much in return for what they expect to receive.

    If I publish a uniquely original and valuable piece of content, on EZA I might be a frizzle of traffic, and perhaps some very minor juice, but take that same content and publish it on my own websites, and I get a direct index link from search engines, I get more SEO weight applied to my domain, and I cut the middle man out of the equation, to be honest, I just don't see the big deal with EZA at all.
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    • Profile picture of the author NorCalRox
      Originally Posted by Tim Franklin View Post

      The question you might be interested in asking is Ezine worth even bothering with anymore, since unique and original content is now more valuable than ever, is EZA worth your time and effort?

      That may be the most interesting thing about EZA is how much the game has changed over the last few months.

      To me, I have seen ten times the return in my time and efforts, by just publishing my own content on my own websites, to be perfectly honest, I dont need EZA because they do not provide much in return for what they expect to receive.

      If I publish a uniquely original and valuable piece of content, on EZA I might be a frizzle of traffic, and perhaps some very minor juice, but take that same content and publish it on my own websites, and I get a direct index link from search engines, I get more SEO weight applied to my domain, and I cut the middle man out of the equation, to be honest, I just don't see the big deal with EZA at all.
      Not true. I remember creating an article directory for a specific niche to test this out. The directory was for bedding and mattresses, and I only accepted articles that were incredibly relevant. After a over a year, I had about 100 articles, all original and well written content. The traffic after 1 year? Just a couple hits a day.

      Just because your site has valuable content on it does not mean it will bring traffic.
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      • Profile picture of the author bjd461
        I asked EZA recently when i had a similar problem.
        I was promoting a product-name at the time, and my landing page did not have an extenal link to that brand companys website. So my article was rejected unless i added such a link. I suppose it kinda makes sense,and they have to be strict about it from now on.
        Thats one possible reason for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
    Hi Tim

    I actually still do both because it does not take long and the traffic for me has always been long term.

    Remember this EZA may have suffered this year with the changes but probably have enough resources to come back.

    The only thing that would stop me using them is if the got very sniffy about stuff they should not ... like not approving my article that has a valid link to a quality site

    Just my thoughts

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author DebbieD
    Why not ask them directly? They usually respond.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brendan Vraibel
    I've had articles accepted as recently as a couple of days ago with a link to a squeeze page in the signature.

    I'd submit a support ticket, they usually get back fairly quick.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fun to Write
    Yes, go ahead and submit a ticket for this. Sometimes one person on their staff will reject your article, but that person may be in training or misunderstand the rules, etc.

    Ask them what is wrong with this link, because it's been fine in the past. You may just get the article approved without any further issues.
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    • Profile picture of the author Gerard Mohamed
      EZA has been going through a rough time over the past few months due to the Panda updates etc. They are much more choosy as to what is accepted, and direct links to landing pages are frowned upon. The exception could be where the landing page is quite rich in content and not just a blatant product advertsisement or modified sales page.
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  • Profile picture of the author BlackRob
    Open up a support ticket, and ask them why they have decided to ban your link. The only reason I can think of is that is going straight to the vendors product sales page, and EZA have been quite critical of this for a while now.

    I'm afraid it's the age old saying, if you don't ask, you will never know.

    Hope this helps.

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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Mangozoom View Post

    Does EZA Reject Landing Pages Now?
    Almost every article in EZA has a link to a landing page of some kind, John.

    Do you mean "squeeze pages"?

    Or maybe just "pages with an opt-in and not a lot of other content"? Not quite sure exactly what you're asking, here.

    Originally Posted by Mangozoom View Post

    I checked their T&C's to see if there is an update I am unaware of.
    Unfortunately, being EZA, they often regard this as more "policies and procedures" than "editorial guidelines", and as such, it gets discussed on their blog - as this has been.

    The reality, which actually they admit pretty openly in the circumstances, is that they reserve the right to decline an article on the grounds that the page linked to doesn't contain adequate informative content for their readers (nothing new there, they've been saying that for years but usually not actually doing it) but they'll now exercise that right if they feel that the content of the article itself is "derivative in tone".

    In my opinion, without too much reading between the lines, what they're really saying is "this is an excuse we'll conveniently use to decline an article which we don't like much because it isn't really original content for us". They won't say it in those words, though! :rolleyes: :p

    I've kind of assumed that when you say "landing page" you mean "squeeze page: please excuse me if I missed the point of your question.

    Originally Posted by Gerard Mohamed View Post

    direct links to landing pages are frowned upon.
    With respect, this doesn't mean anything, Gerard. Any kind of page you want can be a "landing page".

    A "landing page" is the just the page on which you arrange for your traffic to land. It can be another article, a content-rich page of text, a product review, a mixture of those, a sales page, a squeeze page, or whatever you want: they're all "landing pages". I think John's asking specifically about squeeze pages.
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