Any chance I can recover my old articles?

11 years ago

If you are thinking about posting those articles to your blog then please do no do that. You will get punished as google does not know that you have returned

Write new articles for your blog. It's always the safest way to write them yourselves being a marketer.

Also as for EZA you can retrieve your password or create a new account and submit new articles although much has changed in these years and you will find it is difficult to get views on eza.

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Tim3

11 years ago

Hmm, have you managed to get back your previous domain? assuming you haven't and are starting with a new site, and assuming your articles are still live I suggest you contact the Article Directories and explain what you said here and ask them if you can edit your links to your (new) site.

However, as Ronnie said above if you are going to be relying on Google for your traffic don't post any of your old articles on your new site. Rewrite them, if you going the syndication route then it won't matter and you need not worry about the search engines at all.

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JMarno

11 years ago

Thank you Ronnie, Tim; that is pretty much what I figured. Just have to rewrite them into altogether new articles.

What I might have trouble with is posting my new articles on EZA when the time comes (after Google sees they're mine, etc). EZA is such a bunch of sticklers, as I recall. I may not be able to access my account with them--or with any of the directories I used back then.

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Tim3 11 years ago

Yes Jaye,
nothing has changed EZA is stricter than ever, hardly surprising since they got slapped.
I just want to say again IF you are going to be relying on your website via Google for traffic do NOT submit your website articles to EZA or anyone else, keep them on your site as originals.

If you want to submit to Directories rewrite you articles first. (just a single version)

If you want to use syndication for traffic and don't care about Google then wang them out there.
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JMarno

11 years ago

Yeah, I have always kept my articles on my own site until I know Google has seen it, before even thinking of putting them on EZA or any other directories. As for those older articles, I think I will make mp3s of them rather than text articles and just have them for interested visitors. Change the title of course, but otherwise I can use them the way they are in audio format, on my own website (and only there).

What do you think?

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Chris Silvey

11 years ago

Originally Posted by JMarno

Several years ago I had a blog through which I marketed and sold my own product in the diabetes niche. I wrote a fair number of articles that were posted on the blog, then on EZA and a few other article directories. It worked pretty well; back then other bloggers picked up my articles and posted them on their websites, most of them properly giving me credit and links as the author.

Now, a few years later, my articles all link to a now-defunct and non-existent website.

Due to circumstances that need not be explained here, I left off Internet Marketing for several years. My blog and domain name expired and went into never-never land. But of course my articles remained out there on the web, linking to said expired site.

Now I am returning to the online business, I'm refreshing my product, and would like very much somehow to reclaim my articles, or at least the use of them, henceforth with my new domain and new blog.

What are the chances I can do something along this line? What, if anything, can I do? :confused:

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Probably a long shot, but did or do you have a back up of your old database?

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j hogan 11 years ago

I had a similar problem to what you are describing. My articles had been reposted with no attribution and I had let the website go, but when I returned to IM I wanted to redo the site as it was a profitable one.

I used The Wayback Machine: Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
to visit my old site and copy the old articles from it. I then rewrote them so they were not the same as sites that had knicked them and reposted them.

I now install WP-copyprotect plug in on my sites so they don't get copied. The site has worked it's way back up in the rankings and is profitable again - so it's worth the effort if you can find the original articles- good luck!
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- Mary Davis 11 years ago
  
  J - Thanks so much for this info. I have a similar problem and wasn't sure if it was possible to find/reclaim old articles (and I'd never heard of 'The Wayback Machine').
  
  Thanks again!
  
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MartinPlatt

11 years ago

Can you get the old domain name back? Is it available?

You could get your articles from EZineArticles, and re-write them a little, so that they're unique again, then submit.

Oh, and I'd possibly consider creating a new account, and appear to be starting from scratch, unless of course you have thousands of posts, and therefore authority, according to ezinearticles.

You could search for the sites who used your articles originally, and offer to update those articles with a little more information (and change the links?) Time consuming, but you could just take the one with the highest PR?
Or even better, if the people are still interested in what you write, tell them which posts you wrote, and offer to do a guest post? Bit more direct, and guaranteed of getting what you both want. Also may set up the potential for JVs down the line??

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JMarno

11 years ago

Originally Posted by MartinPlatt

Can you get the old domain name back? Is it available?

You could get your articles from EZineArticles, and re-write them a little, so that they're unique again, then submit.

Oh, and I'd possibly consider creating a new account, and appear to be starting from scratch, unless of course you have thousands of posts, and therefore authority, according to ezinearticles.

You could search for the sites who used your articles originally, and offer to update those articles with a little more information (and change the links?) Time consuming, but you could just take the one with the highest PR?
Or even better, if the people are still interested in what you write, tell them which posts you wrote, and offer to do a guest post? Bit more direct, and guaranteed of getting what you both want. Also may set up the potential for JVs down the line??

Ooh! Some really good ideas here to think about. Thanks!

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nitesh

11 years ago

Since then your articles might have been used by many other webmasters so if you are going to use same articles on your new site then it will be considered as copied content and Google and other search engines are strictly against publishing duplicate content. The best part will be to work again and write more original articles for your new site.

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troy23

11 years ago

I would take those articles and just rewrite them.
It really does not take long.
Set yourself a target of doing 1 or 2 a day and within a couple of weeks you will find you have built up a nice supply again.

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johnben1444

11 years ago

Start afresh and welcome to the world wide web.

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NewRiseDigital

11 years ago

I used The Wayback Machine: Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Wayback machine is definitely awesome, although there are a few holes you have to be in awe that anyone can archive most of the web, I've even been able to retrieve audio files from podcasts that were on a now defunct and unregistered website that I put out 10 years ago!

It's fun to use this to see how websites have progressed over time, and useful for measuring how you are doing against similar established websites during their evolution. Research some of the main competitors in your niche and see what their websites looked like when they first started out. You can almost map their journey and growth through WayBack Machine.

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