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Question(s) About Posting Affiliate Links in Ezinearticles.com

by theotherside
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Hey everyone,

Well ezinearticles has me a bit confused, here is my question: I posted an article and had a link in my resource box with my site redirecting to a CB offer, and it got rejected. They got back to me telling me:

We will only accept articles which forward/redirect to an affiliate link from the top-level of a domain name you own. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/

...but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html
http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

The identified affiliate link in your article is:

http://mysite.com/affiliateoffer.htm (I took my actual link out obviously, but you get the point).

My question is how do I redirect to the offer from the top-level of my domain so it gets accepted? I only know how to redirect to it from a page/subdirectory off of my site. I use an affiliate cloaking tool to do this.

The odd thing about this is I have submitted a different article just a few days ago pointing to a CPA offer in the resource box in the same fashion, for example: http://mysite.com/affiliateoffer.htm and it was accepted, thus my confusion. I am wondering if they just missed it. The difference in my current affiliate link submission is that I am using an iframe, and the CPA offer was just a redirect off a sub/page off of my site. I wonder if that's why they are denying it.

Also I noticed on ezine articles other authors are posting links directing to certain (sub)pages on their sites and this is allowed. Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

~Tom
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  • Profile picture of the author steve39
    Yeah, they probably missed it.

    I just use the redirect function in cpanel and redirect the top domain to the affiliate offer.
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    • Profile picture of the author theotherside
      Hey Steve,

      Thanks for the quick reply and tip. Yeah I see how I can easily do this, what sucks is that now I am going to have to buy a domain for each article that I want to promote in order to have it be redirected from the top-level like this. You know I was browsing through different articles by various authors on ezinearticles and I noticed that a lot of the links in the authors' resource boxes are exactly what they are not allowing me to do - http://author-site.com/product.htm.

      I am thinking about writing back to them with a few example links to various published author's articles with that type of URL setup asking them why they are allowed to do it and I am not. I don't want to have other authors have to change their links because of me and ruin the party but I am too curious as to what their ezinearticles response will be to this inquiry. Debating if I should confront them about it.

      Best,

      ~Tom
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      • Profile picture of the author KateD
        Originally Posted by theotherside View Post

        Hey Steve,


        I am thinking about writing back to them with a few example links to various published author's articles with that type of URL setup asking them why they are allowed to do it and I am not. I don't want to have other authors have to change their links because of me and ruin the party but I am too curious as to what their ezinearticles response will be to this inquiry. Debating if I should confront them about it.

        Best,

        ~Tom
        That won't get your affiliate links thru. It will just get those other articles taken down for modification.

        The rules are pretty clear. Sure, it can suck at times. But it's best to accept it and move forward, then trying to have a "debate" with EZA over it. (You won't win, by the way).

        Much Success,

        KateD
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      • Profile picture of the author redsymbol
        Originally Posted by theotherside View Post

        Yeah I see how I can easily do this, what sucks is that now I am going to have to buy a domain for each article that I want to promote in order to have it be redirected from the top-level like this.
        You may be able to use subdomains to avoid buying extras. A subdomain is a domain name that has an extra "dot". So, "one.mysite.com" and "two.mysite.com" are two subdomains. And they can be configured to be entirely different websites.

        Setting this up depends on both your domain registrar and your web host provider; some make it easy to do and some do not, and some charge for extra subdomains and some do not. It can be a little complicated technically to set up; if you are not a programmer or something like it, you might want to hire someone on elance or craigslist to find the right registrar and webhost for you, and teach you how to use their controls panels to add new subdomains. (Could be done for less than $100, I'm sure, maybe under $50).

        Of course, there is a time, energy and money cost to preparing to use this. Make sure that ezinearticles.com does in fact consider subdomains as regular domains. (I expect they would, else I would not suggest it, but do make sure.) And if you are only going to publish a few articles, rather than dozens or hundreds, it may be a better use of your time and $ to just buy regular domains for them instead.

        Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Gunter Eibl
    There is no way you get through with this. Just a few articles that get overlooked by their editors doesn't mean it's ok. If you continue doing that they will disable your account and remove all articles. They don't want that. Period.

    Go to goarticles.com or other directories that allow this kind of linking.

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  • Profile picture of the author Droopy Dawg
    I have some articles that had slipped thru the cracks, but this is thr prime reason why writers create Squidoo and hubpages, because not everyone wants to shell out 10 bucks every time they want to advertise a product... all for trying to abide by EZA's policies.

    There may not be a way to get around it (using pages and directories), but create a lens or hub that links to your products if you don't wnat to spend $$ on a new domain name... that's what most do.



    Originally Posted by theotherside View Post

    Hey everyone,

    Well ezinearticles has me a bit confused, here is my question: I posted an article and had a link in my resource box with my site redirecting to a CB offer, and it got rejected. They got back to me telling me:

    We will only accept articles which forward/redirect to an affiliate link from the top-level of a domain name you own. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

    News & Ezine Strategies For Email Newsletter Publishers & Permission-Based Email Marketers

    ...but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

    News & Ezine Strategies For Email Newsletter Publishers & Permission-Based Email Marketers
    News & Ezine Strategies For Email Newsletter Publishers & Permission-Based Email Marketers
    News & Ezine Strategies For Email Newsletter Publishers & Permission-Based Email Marketers
    http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

    The identified affiliate link in your article is:

    http://mysite.com/affiliateoffer.htm (I took my actual link out obviously, but you get the point).

    My question is how do I redirect to the offer from the top-level of my domain so it gets accepted? I only know how to redirect to it from a page/subdirectory off of my site. I use an affiliate cloaking tool to do this.

    The odd thing about this is I have submitted a different article just a few days ago pointing to a CPA offer in the resource box in the same fashion, for example: http://mysite.com/affiliateoffer.htm and it was accepted, thus my confusion. I am wondering if they just missed it. The difference in my current affiliate link submission is that I am using an iframe, and the CPA offer was just a redirect off a sub/page off of my site. I wonder if that's why they are denying it.

    Also I noticed on ezine articles other authors are posting links directing to certain (sub)pages on their sites and this is allowed. Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

    ~Tom
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