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Ezine Says It Is Not In English?

by ToddB50
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So I go to Fiverr and pay $5 for some articles to help give me some ideas in my particular Niche and I was mildly surprised to get 10 articles that were not bad.

Other than a few sentence restructuring ( and I am no English professor) I only changed a few lines in one of the articles.

I then went to post it on Ezine and after going through all of the steps I hit submit. I was promptly told the article is not in English.

All I did was copy and paste from the original document that was open in a notepad.

Why is this so? And anyone know how I can correct this issue?

I just rewrote the article in a new word sheet VS copy and paste and the article was accepted.

My assumption is that this was written in another language and translated into English, but how do I copy and paste such an article, and how does it get detected as such?
#english #ezine
  • Profile picture of the author Ken Somerville
    I would save it into a new file format, and then try that, it may take out the back ground properties, which is what ezine is reading. You could also, saveas, and change the name, that should save into the format, that you want to use, and just change the name back.

    Hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author Teravel
      Originally Posted by Ken Somerville View Post

      I would save it into a new file format, and then try that, it may take out the back ground properties, which is what ezine is reading. You could also, saveas, and change the name, that should save into the format, that you want to use, and just change the name back.

      Hope this helps.
      He isn't trying to load a file into ezine, he is cutting and pasting the text. Renaming the file or changing it's format would do little to help.

      Originally Posted by ToddB50 View Post

      All I did was copy and paste from the original document that was open in a notepad.

      I just rewrote the article in a new word sheet VS copy and paste and the article was accepted.
      In the first line, you say you are using Notepad.
      In the second line, you say you are using Word. (Wordpad or Microsoft Word?)

      If you were using Wordpad or Microsoft word, you are cutting/pasting the unseen formatting within your text. This may have caused the problem as it will show their system a lot of characters that it will not recognize.

      If you were using Notepad, which holds no formatting, you shouldn't have had any problem.

      Could you please specify exactly which programs you were using, keeping in mind Notepad, Wordpad, and Word are all very different. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Originally Posted by ToddB50 View Post

    I just rewrote the article in a new word sheet VS copy and paste and the article was accepted.
    It sounds like the writer was using software to make any article unique by replacing text characters with alternate ascii code.

    This code will look like normal text when viewed with any program designed to display text (browser, MS Word, Notepad, etc) and will even fool some unique content checkers.

    Sophisticated checkers will catch this and Ezine will catch it. These type of articles that are made 'unique' by encoding will not fool the Ezine checker.

    Copy-Paste doesn't help because you are simply copying the hidden ascii code.

    Ezine likely didn't recognize the original article as English because it was full of obfuscated ascii code.

    But when you re-typed (not copy-paste) the article it was accepted by Ezine because you manually typed it out with natural characters and eliminated the ascii code.

    This is a common scam for many cheap writers: send a blatantly copied article out after running it through a 'uniquify' program, When the customer runs it through a copy checker it comes up fine and they think they got a real unique article. when the customer tries to submit the article to Ezine, it fails.

    There are a few tools that do this and I think a website or two but I can't remember them.

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    • Profile picture of the author fastreplies
      Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

      This is a common scam for many cheap writers: send a blatantly copied article out after running it through a 'uniquify' program, When the customer runs it through a copy checker it comes up fine and they think they got a real unique article. when the customer tries to submit the article to Ezine, it fails.
      This is exactly what they're doing.
      We too noticed this sort of trickery sometimes 6 months ago.



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    • Profile picture of the author ToddB50
      Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

      It sounds like the writer was using software to make any article unique by replacing text characters with alternate ascii code.

      This code will look like normal text when viewed with any program designed to display text (browser, MS Word, Notepad, etc) and will even fool some unique content checkers.

      Sophisticated checkers will catch this and Ezine will catch it. These type of articles that are made 'unique' by encoding will not fool the Ezine checker.

      Copy-Paste doesn't help because you are simply copying the hidden ascii code.

      Ezine likely didn't recognize the original article as English because it was full of obfuscated ascii code.

      But when you re-typed (not copy-paste) the article it was accepted by Ezine because you manually typed it out with natural characters and eliminated the ascii code.

      This is a common scam for many cheap writers: send a blatantly copied article out after running it through a 'uniquify' program, When the customer runs it through a copy checker it comes up fine and they think they got a real unique article. when the customer tries to submit the article to Ezine, it fails.

      There are a few tools that do this and I think a website or two but I can't remember them.

      Mahlon
      This makes total sense and it is amazing to me how many people use so called Black Hat strategies to make a buck.

      The first thing I did was check on copyscape and it passed which mildly impressed me, to think for $5 I got 10 relevant content articles.

      What I failed to say in the first post, was this.

      When I rewrote the post I probably changed 60% of the article by using my own definitions of what the article meant to me, but I think I am going to re-write it in a word platform word for word and run it through copyscape again. Just to see what it returns.

      I have not been very impressed with Fiverr and the content I receive there.

      I guess you get what you pay for.

      Thanks for the detailed explanation.
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    • Profile picture of the author ToddB50
      Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

      It sounds like the writer was using software to make any article unique by replacing text characters with alternate ascii code.

      This code will look like normal text when viewed with any program designed to display text (browser, MS Word, Notepad, etc) and will even fool some unique content checkers.

      Sophisticated checkers will catch this and Ezine will catch it. These type of articles that are made 'unique' by encoding will not fool the Ezine checker.

      Copy-Paste doesn't help because you are simply copying the hidden ascii code.

      Ezine likely didn't recognize the original article as English because it was full of obfuscated ascii code.

      But when you re-typed (not copy-paste) the article it was accepted by Ezine because you manually typed it out with natural characters and eliminated the ascii code.

      This is a common scam for many cheap writers: send a blatantly copied article out after running it through a 'uniquify' program, When the customer runs it through a copy checker it comes up fine and they think they got a real unique article. when the customer tries to submit the article to Ezine, it fails.

      There are a few tools that do this and I think a website or two but I can't remember them.

      Mahlon
      Bingo I did a retype word for word on a word platform and submitted to copyscape.

      Gee, go figure I got a 100% match
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      Time to log in to Fiverr and put an end to this Scam I will not be purchasing these services any more.

      Thanks again
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