Have You Ever Had EA Reject Your Articles For 'No Reason'?

I had two articles this week rejected with the same "general error" reason. The articles were discussing the benefits of Satellite TV for PC.

Here is the response back from EA.

"...
Thank you for your email.

I'm sorry, we are unable to accept your article, as we are no longer
accepting articles that discuss or link to any website offering
movie, television, music, and game downloads or streaming content with
unknown legal status in regards to copyright.
...
"

If your article covers any of these subjects, that might be the reason.

Chuck

P.S. Kind of a bummer. I had a handful of other articles to submit on the same subject.

Try submitting it again and let see if the same thing will happen..

I have over 30 articles accepted, and I just now got this "general error" on a newly submitted article. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be accepted, and I had to contact them to find out because they did not provide a reason.

I'm still waiting for a response from them (over 24 hours), and I'm curious to find out what the issue is. Roughly how long does it take to get a response?

I've had my share of rejections also. They have been pretty good once you fix the problem and they are very timely about getting back to you. IF you are a premium member.

Chris did say this on his FaceBook page today. It may give some insight:

I've just had an article rejected for a general error. I'm emailing them to find out why.

It was actually an article based on a thread here about guaranteed traffic. I've got it published on GoArticles, and Articlesbase. If EZA doesn't want it, that's fine. I just want to know the reason why.

This is a bit of a complaint on EZA, and I've had to stop using them temporarily to maintain my sanity. I'm sure some of you can relate somewhat.

I've actually had articles rejected from them where the reason they gave was completely bogus. The infraction they cited me for did not exist.

I hardly ever get my articles rejected, except of course when I am about ready to be up for consideration to the next level of membership. And, I don't write BS articles -- my articles are written from scratch and are in excess of 400 words.

They have a tendency to change the rules as they go, and they say that in their TOS -- what's even worse, is the fact that they do not tell you.

I could site numerous examples, but the point is that I have taken a vacation from EZA for a while. My niches are not controversial, my articles are in my opinion, better than most, and yet, they are still rejected.

A few months ago I submitted 25 articles to them only to have them all rejected for what they deemed as being overly promotional. I resubmitted them without changes. 5 were accepted but 20 were rejected again.

I just figure if they want to play this way, that's fine -- I'll just help out their competitors, which in some cases rate better in Google than EZA.

EZA is not the holy grail; there are other great article directories which can give you the same, and sometimes better, results on the first page of google.

After taking those 20 other articles and submitting them to one of their competitors, they rank higher than the 5 that are on ezine.

And now, they want to consider keeping you from editing articles after they are published?

I'll let them settle their dust, and deal with others until then.

Naturally, spammers and spinners ruined EZA for a bit, and EZA DOES have a legit gripe, but the nit-picking, in my opinion is going too far for me to handle.

My nerves are bad anyway -- I don't need my blood pressure raised any more than it already is.

What is good one day on EZA may not be good the next, and that has happened on occasions that are too numerous to mention.

What I find funny is while they are no longer accepting EZA on Satellite TV for PC as someone mentioned earlier, they are not taking the old ones down, and still collecting Adsense on these articles -- whether they are sure of copyright infringement or not. The issue seems a bit weird to me.

I'll just go to their closest competitors, as they seem to work just fine for me.

Okay, people, let's just lay this out.

What do EZA want?

Do they want to give you free publicity? No.

Do they want to give you a free backlink? No.

Do they want to give you a big number of articles published? No.

They want to connect writers to publishers online.

They want articles that publishers want, so the publishers keep coming back for more. If the publishers can't find good articles because they're stuck wading through a bunch of self-promotional crap, EZA suffers.

If you write good articles that publishers want to print on their own sites, EZA will love you. But if you write self-promotional crap that follows all the EZA guidelines, that doesn't mean you're helping. There's a lot of room for you to be a worthless boil on the arse of the community and still not break any rules. Concentrate on delivering value, not pumping up your numbers or raising your CTR from EZA itself.

I have had problems with EA.. I simply don't use them anymore. They are way to strict on their policies..

Hey, watch this. I'm drunk as hell... way over the legal limit to drive... but I'll limit to EZA. Seriously, CDarklock between now and whenever. I'm going to start now. Suggest a niche in case I have trouble. I'll bet I selected I get accepted. I'm going to microwave some Hot Pockets first, then refresh this page and first writing.

EDIT: Man, I was a lot more drunk than I thought.

Submitted, 10:53 PST Dec. 16 2009. Let's see what happens.

My clock must be wrong: I have email acknowledging my submission at 10:52

it may be, but never happened with me. This is very rare.

Just under 15 hours. Submitted at 10:52, and this shows up at 1:50...

I too have had articles declined lately.
If your articles appear too similar to your older work, this may be the reason.
Just completely change it up, make sure your article provides value, and try, try again.