BMR Has Lost Their Mind

12 years ago

Knew they would start making other changes but that does sound a bit much. Right now their problem isn't just with the quality of the articles. Its having like all kinds of subjects on the page with no rhyme or reason. Its still identifiably bought links

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dp40oz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Knew they would start making other changes but that does sound a bit much. Right now their problem isn't just with the quality of the articles. Its having like all kinds of subjects on the page with no rhyme or reason. Its still identifiably bought links

Thats what has me so fired up! Who is running this thing? Did they start doing SEO yesterday? Probably not I would assume, thats why this makes no sense. Google holds no weight in the fact of whether or not my link comes from an article geared more towards college costs then it does about scholarships. They care that there are endless out bound links coming from a link farm. So they are scrutinizing the posts to a degree that holds no benefit, when this is not any reason why their blogs were deindexed. Mike you inspired me to get really going on my own network again and I did. BMR has their heads up the a$$es.

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outwest

12 years ago

Originally Posted by dp40oz

Thats what has me so fired up! Who is running this thing? Did they start doing SEO yesterday? Probably not I would assume, thats why this makes no sense. Google holds no weight in the fact of whether or not my link comes from an article geared more towards college costs then it does about scholarships. They care that there are endless out bound links coming from a link farm. So they are scrutinizing the posts to a degree that holds no benefit, when this is not any reason why their blogs were deindexed. Mike you inspired me a few weeks back to get going on my own network and I did. BMR has their heads up the a$.

I would think college costs are LSI kw terms for scholarships

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dp40oz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by outwest

I would think college costs are LSI kw terms for scholarships

Yes thats what any human being with a 5th grade education would assume as well. BMR is completely keying in on the wrong things if they want to make their network better. I agree links should come from relevant material, but there is no reason to have to make it laser tight, pin point accurate relevant. That sort of thing affects Google in no way. Its a waste of time and a waste of editor man power.

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mjohnson2009

12 years ago

That is correct. You know, Google has had a program using human search evaluators. Some of these folks actually know their stuff. The problem with BMR posts is not relevancy, it is quality. The content should have some redeeming value. It should contain some content a human would want to read. 100s of useless, first person narratives written at a grade school level have no value. A human would not grade them favorably, nor would you or any other sentient being.

Originally Posted by dp40oz

Yes thats what any human being with a 5th grade education would assume as well. BMR is completely keying in on the wrong things if they want to make their network better. I agree links should come from relevant material, but there is no reason to have to make it laser tight, pin point accurate relevant. That sort of thing affects Google in no way. Its a waste of time and a waste of editor man power.

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outwest

12 years ago

Originally Posted by dp40oz

I wake up this morning to find a bunch of posts rejected after a few months of no rejections and posting about 300 a week. Here is just a snippet of rejection reasons.

"Content makes little sense because you\'re only supposed to be talking about scholarships, not every little aspect of paying for college."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not paying for college."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not whatever you\'re talking about here."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not college costs in general."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not college costs in general."

ARE THEY KIDDING ME! What do they think scholarships are?! They are there to reduce college costs for students. This is a bit much. I understand if BMR wants to be a bit more strict, but jesus. These rejections don't even make sense.

This post makes no sense
I thought we were talking about Scholarships

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JeanneLynn

12 years ago

If they're getting this strict, how are the questionable .50 cent Odesk posts going to be accepted? Can you post an example of one of these rejected posts?

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JeanneLynn

12 years ago

Maybe they had an overzealous editor look at your posts? Are you going to dispute the rejections? I remember when I wrote for Demand Studios. I am a good writer and you'd get some editors that were impossible to please.

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by dp40oz

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not paying for college."

Add this in your dispute:

Scholarship - A grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement.

I have to say though, I wouldn't waste my time disputing something that silly more than once. They are obviously outsourcing editors, or at least I hope that's the result of an outsourced editor because that's a bad rejection.

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rjd1265

12 years ago

Practice? We's talkin bout practice. Come on man...practice..whats this all about practice?

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mosthost

12 years ago

They should go back ane edit all the content on all of the domains since they're so strict now

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rjd1265 12 years ago

Originally Posted by mosthost

They should go back ane edit all the content on all of the domains since they're so strict now

Well said. They want to dick us around but we make that company. Without us they are nothing. Same way Google Adwords revenue dropped like 18% in one month. Getting strict is good as it brings the quality up but there is a point where to much is just too much.

I like they are strict because it is good for me who does quality work and that work does not get mixed in with junk but with the post above about the rejections, that is just getting out of hand.

I had an article rejected on ArticleBase today because of "hard line breaks". I don't even know what the F*ck that is but evidently I am not suppose to have spaces after my paragraphs? (from what the editor told me)
The problem is all these companies are outsourcing their editorial work to third world countries and they dont **** about ****.

I seen one company took a picture of their team and there was a kid sitting there and you could see plain as day Odesk was on her screen.LOL And we wonder why the quality sucks. Never mind the horrible grammar and bad spelling but the fact they have a 9 year old writing your article!!!

Ok, I'm done being a a$$hole now.
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dukestravels1972

12 years ago

They rejected everything I gave them. I have an account I never use. Anyone wants it make me an offer...assuming they still don't accept new accounts.

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12 years ago

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rodanglee

12 years ago

ARE THEY KIDDING ME! What do they think scholarships are?! They are there to reduce college costs for students. This is a bit much. I understand if BMR wants to be a bit more strict, but jesus. These rejections don't even make sense

Its not the REAL reason... They temporarily stopped publishing because technically, half of their sites get banged up and there's not enough blogs to place your links to.

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ktotheb

12 years ago

I had a few weird rejections this morning too. One post in particular was rejected 4 times, and then I just pasted it into a new submission and it was accepted. Weirdos!

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GGpaul

12 years ago

Whew. I had one article rejected out of the 20.

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TBInternetMarketing 12 years ago

Pleased so say I've never had a post rejected. Can't think what is going on with your story though. Sounds like a strange one as I never have any issues.
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options

12 years ago

I am getting out of BMR, losing ground on my clients rankings and posts which are marked YES indexed are not at all.

They are going down....

I sent a support ticket the other day asking why my posts are marked as indexed and there clearly not, or have been then the sites de-indexed by google.

There response was...

Building links is a numbers game some stick some dont. So i guess i should go and buy xrumer or scapebox.

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TryBPO

12 years ago

BMR does seem to be a little all over the place with their approvals of posts, approvals of domains, etc. We tend to have some domains get approved while a smaller percentage are rejected. It's odd because we build the SAME types of sites on a regular basis. Our best guess/answer is that they have fairly general guidelines for their editors to follow and their decisions aren't particularly consistent...it's largely up to the editor you pulled for those specific posts/domains.

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DistinctWords

12 years ago

An acquaintance of mine had 28/50 posts rejected but overturned by James who said they should definitely have passed and were wrongly rejected by a newbie editor. They recently hired a few new editors and they are going to be clarifying some things with the newbies because obviously the newbie editors don't know what they are doing.

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mjohnson2009

12 years ago

Yes. This stuff started to go really off the chain last week.

Originally Posted by DistinctWords

An acquaintance of mine had 28/50 posts rejected but overturned by James who said they should definitely have passed and were wrongly rejected by a newbie editor. They recently hired a few new editors and they are going to be clarifying some things with the newbies because obviously the newbie editors don't know what they are doing.

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technog33k 12 years ago

Originally Posted by mjohnson2009

Yes. This stuff started to go really off the chain last week.

And now the posts that are on the homepages no longer actually contain any links. So not only are we expected to provide unique articles that have to be editorially approved, but now the links will never actually sit on the homepage with the PR. This has been confirmed via a support request and is apparently a move to preserve their network. And the claim is that the links sitting on the homepage is not what give the performance improvements anyway. Isn't the whole point of a blog network to continually flow content through the front page which contains the PR in the first place? I don't know what is going through their heads over there but it kind of defeats the purpose of what we are paying good money and devoting so much time for..
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outwest

12 years ago

Originally Posted by shaunchu

Yes, I do agree that BMR most of the time is very strict. Post will get rejected for no obvious reasons.

I have recently submitted 200 posts over a span of 3 weeks, and to my surprise, non of them out rejected! I think I have figured out how to write post so that the chances of acceptance are super high.

If any warriors out there are sick and tired of writing and submitting posts to BMR, I can offer a heavily discounted service to you:

Up to 50 posts: $0.80/post
Up to 100 posts: $0.85/post
Beyond 100 posts: $0.80/post

As my main core of business is not writing posts for people, this is just an extra service that I can provide to help in case any of you out there needs it. Charges are only for accepted posts by BMR.

Interested warriors please PM me.

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have fun at that price , way too cheap for me to waste my time on

Most decent writers will not touch BMR for less than 1.25 to 1.50. I had a guy who wanted me to write 30 posts reviewing software that had not come out yet, I refunded his money and said no thanks.

having to deal with the getting approved from their clueless editors and then you getting yelled at for it fun fun

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dp40oz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by outwest

have fun at that price , way too cheap for me to waste my time on

Most decent writers will not touch BMR for less than 1.25 to 1.50. I had a guy who wanted me to write 30 posts reviewing software that had not come out yet, I refunded his money and said no thanks.

having to deal with the getting approved from their clueless editors and then you getting yelled at for it fun fun

My writer writes them at .50 cents a post and has never gotten a rejection. Its only the ones I write that get rejected haha.

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outwest

12 years ago

Originally Posted by dp40oz

My writer writes them at .50 cents a post and has never gotten a rejection. Its only the ones I write that get rejected haha.

how guys can work for that wage I dont understand
must live in a hut or something or else type 100 wpm. I cant fathom writing 3000 words and getting a whopping 10 bucks for the effort

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TBInternetMarketing

12 years ago

Originally Posted by outwest

how guys can work for that wage I dont understand
must live in a hut or something or else type 100 wpm. I cant fathom writing 3000 words and getting a whopping 10 bucks for the effort

I guess it's all relevant to where they live. There are guys in the Philippines who speak good English and who will work for $500 or less a month. While this is not a fortune there, it is still a decent enough living.

That means they will do a 40 hour week for you.

Now if you work out 40 hours x 4 week = 160 hours, and assume they can type 10 x 300 word articles an hour (which is pretty easy at 6 min an article), that would add up to 1600 articles a month for $500.

$500/1600 articles = 31c per article.

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outwest

12 years ago

Originally Posted by TBInternetMarketing

I guess it's all relevant to where they live. There are guys in the Philippines who speak good English and who will work for $500 or less a month. While this is not a fortune there, it is still a decent enough living.

That means they will do a 40 hour week for you.

Now if you work out 40 hours x 4 week = 160 hours, and assume they can type 10 x 300 word articles an hour (which is pretty easy at 6 min an article), that would add up to 1600 articles a month for $500.

$500/1600 articles = 31c per article.

I live in the Philippines, believe me you cant get by on 500 bucks a month unless you starve and live in a hut. I guess they might be living with mommy and daddy and yes in that case its posible. Heck I have two young kids, diapers and formula alone costs me 250 bucks a month.

If you are a head of household , food costs here are about the same or higher than other countries. Electricity? one of the highest rates in the world, certainly highest in Asia. Rent is fairly cheap if you dont live in the city, if you live in the province or country you can get by for less, but in Manila proper, a decent house to rent is minimum 600, we are paying more but I decided to move to the country, tired of paying high rent

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by outwest

I live in the Philippines, believe me you cant get by on 500 bucks a month unless you starve and live in a hut. I guess they might be living with mommy and daddy and yes in that case its posible. Heck I have two young kids, diapers and formula alone costs me 250 bucks a month.

If you are a head of household , food costs here are about the same or higher than other countries. Electricity? one of the highest rates in the world, certainly highest in Asia. Rent is fairly cheap if you dont live in the city, if you live in the province or country you can get by for less, but in Manila proper, a decent house to rent is minimum 600, we are paying more but I decided to move to the country, tired of paying high rent

Wow that's pretty hectic how much the cost of living is out there. I had no idea. I live in South Africa, and while I am fortunate enough to earn a good living, many people here earn around $500 a month and manage to live of it. Of course their standard of living is pretty low, but I'd say the majority of people here live of a wage around that.

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fenixsz

12 years ago

I think you can write one article in 6 min., but doing this for 8 hours with same speed will be not possible.

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mosthost 12 years ago

Originally Posted by fenixsz

I think you can write one article in 6 min., but doing this for 8 hours with same speed will be not possible.

Even a one hour shift of 10 articles would be tough! This type of work gets very tedious very quickly.
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outwest

12 years ago

You can live off 500 a month here with a family but to me thats not living. You would be living in a shantytown type place piled on top of each other. Heck My food bill is more than 500 bucks a month, but I have a big family . I am getting ready to move to the province we found a huge house for like 170 bucks a month.

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nojoy42

12 years ago

This is James from BMR, just to reiterate what @DistinctWords said, this was the result of a new editor that was a bit overzealous over the weekend. The issue has been addressed but, dp40oz, if you still have posts that have not been approved just open a support ticket and I will take a look.

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1byte 12 years ago

Guess I'm lucky (or good), because I've never had an article rejected out of more than 1000 submissions. Not sure why so many people get so many articles rejected, maybe the quality is really bad or it just doesn't make sense or whatever. For some reason, every article I submit gets approved, sometimes approved and queued within a few minutes.
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mjohnson2009

12 years ago

James' comments notwithstanding, I have been hearing from two good friends about getting slammed with Draconian rejects on posts that were flawless. No spelling or grammar errors in MS Word. They were written by native speakers. If the keyword is about digital camera, a post that talks about cameras and photography is relevant. A post about hamburgers is not.

I don't think the problem has been fixed. Writers with English degrees don't like getting thrown under the bus because your editor had a hangover. They don't like being lied to. Word gets around.

Originally Posted by nojoy42

This is James from BMR, just to reiterate what @DistinctWords said, this was the result of a new editor that was a bit overzealous over the weekend. The issue has been addressed but, dp40oz, if you still have posts that have not been approved just open a support ticket and I will take a look.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by mjohnson2009

James' comments notwithstanding, I have been hearing from two good friends about getting slammed with Draconian rejects on posts that were flawless. No spelling or grammar errors in MS Word. They were written by native speakers. If the keyword is about digital camera, a post that talks about cameras and photography is relevant. A post about hamburgers is not.

I don't think the problem has been fixed. Writers with English degrees don't like getting thrown under the bus because your editor had a hangover. They don't like being lied to. Word gets around.

So true. What's always been interesting about BMR is how emotionally attached people who contribute content there become. Many of them have defended the quality of the content in this forum many times. From what I read, most of the content on there is PURE DOO DOO.

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cheapstuff

12 years ago

BMR just sounds like spam anyhow... however in your case I believe the issue may just be some sort of reform on their end, maybe their system was tweaked incorrectly or as others said, a bad day for that editor.

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todawg_not 12 years ago

First month was fine. Then the 2nd month 50-60% of my submissions were getting rejected so I stop paying in the 3rd month. They were all written by a professional writer 100% copyscape passed. I think they are more interested in protecting their blog network than giving paying customers what they paid for. I'm not paying someone $79 per month and then pay $2.50 per post to get over 1/2 of my submission rejected sorry pal. Now they have closed there doors so the network doesn't get diluted. There's plenty of other blog networks out there I'll go spend my money there hey.

BMR pickup your game or lose more customers.

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ThatAblaze

12 years ago

A lot of it has to do with when you submit an article. An article submitted on the weekend is far more likely to be reviewed by a newly hired person then those submitted on weekdays.

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Adam James

12 years ago

BMR still works great for me and my team of writers, my sites and clients sites are still doing very well. BMR is still my number one source of back linking for me, all my sites are ranking high so I am not going to be changing what is working.

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1byte

12 years ago

Been hearing people complain about BMR for months, but I have never personally had a problem with it. In fact, I find it still works quite well for ranking purposes, and all of my posts are accepted without problem.

But if it doesn't work for you, then there's no reason to keep using it and paying that monthly fee. Just move on to something else that will work - because as the old saying goes, there are "many ways to skin a cat".

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TBInternetMarketing 12 years ago

Originally Posted by 1byte

Been hearing people complain about BMR for months, but I have never personally had a problem with it.

Likewise! I've never had a post rejected and my rankings are still pumping! I recommend it to everyone that asks.
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12 years ago

Originally Posted by 1byte

Been hearing people complain about BMR for months, but I have never personally had a problem with it. In fact, I find it still works quite well for ranking purposes, and all of my posts are accepted without problem.

But if it doesn't work for you, then there's no reason to keep using it and paying that monthly fee. Just move on to something else that will work - because as the old saying goes, there are "many ways to skin a cat".

Check your recent posts on BMR. What I can tell all the newer posts do not have links on the main page. When I checked mine there were no links at all on the main page.

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HKSEO Rotzee

12 years ago

I got sent a link by this guy who did a case study on all of the PR Blog Networks and what % of them got De-indexed.

Are Blog Networks Dead?

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Mike Anthony

12 years ago

Originally Posted by HKSEO Rotzee

I got sent a link by this guy who did a case study on all of the PR Blog Networks and what % of them got De-indexed.

Are Blog Networks Dead?

decent attempt to quantify things but as stated in the article not entirely reliable as the sample size is impossible to know if adequate, I don't know why people go on about the algo deindexing sites. The algo does not deindex sites. Deindexing is almost always a manual action by a reviewer who happens to find the sites or have it reported to them.

Because of that the more well known ones are bound to have a higher deindexing rate. The more people that use them the more likely they are to have customers who rank in some niche where they are reported.

Unfortunately as it stands a service that has a low deindexing rate today may have the largest next month. All depends on who reports who. SO far I have yet to see any rental network that didn't look obvious as a rental network. Until that changes ANY network can get hit badly at any time.

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HKSEO Rotzee

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

decent attempt to quantify things but as stated in the article not entirely reliable as the sample size is impossible to know if adequate, I don't know why people go on about the algo deindexing sites. The algo does not deindex sites. Deindexing is almost always a manual action by a reviewer who happens to find the sites or have it reported to them.

Because of that the more well known ones are bound to have a higher deindexing rate. The more people that use them the more likely they are to have customers who rank in some niche where they are reported.

Unfortunately as it stands a service that has a low deindexing rate today may have the largest next month. All depends on who reports who. SO far I have yet to see any rental network that didn't look obvious as a rental network. Until that changes ANY network can get hit badly at any time.

I can agree with that...

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attorneydavid 12 years ago

BMR I know and I think most of those networks don't give link reports so I'm wondering how he got link reports.

Originally Posted by HKSEO Rotzee

I got sent a link by this guy who did a case study on all of the PR Blog Networks and what % of them got De-indexed.

Are Blog Networks Dead?
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- technog33k 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by attorneydavid
  
  BMR I know and I think most of those networks don't give link reports so I'm wondering how he got link reports.
  
  HighPRSociety used to give link reports. I have actually been through and checked all of the sites that I have in my lists which is just on 920 domains which I had downloaded over a couple of months of use before they disabled the feature and I have found 2 that have been de-indexed total. After discovering what SEOlinkmonster are still doing which I think I have mentioned enough in other threads and have decided to stop complaining about (for now) I also went through and checked HPRS and they seem to be alright for now. I also have a massive list of pingbacks from ALN and other private networks plus big lists of BMR sites which I have compiled after extracting my links over the past 6 months which I will keep working through over the next week or so to see how bad some of them have been hit..
  
  So far the only network that has been completely honest from what I have seen in ALN. Unless I am missing something somewhere I am sure they are the only network that has come out and been completely honest about being hit hard. HPRS shut their doors but from what I have seen they did so for a very good reason and that was to protect a network which as of today has still stood up really well..
  
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- HKSEO Rotzee 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by attorneydavid
  
  BMR I know and I think most of those networks don't give link reports so I'm wondering how he got link reports.
  
  Network specific, searchable keywords probably
  
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Pauline60

12 years ago

I have had a problem with rejections today on posts I have written myself. None of my own have ever been rejected before. The reason given was that my posts made little or no sense due to spelling errors, bad grammar etc. When I checked the posts I could find nothing wrong. I made a small change and resubmitted. some were accepted and some rejected a second time. I disputed the rejection saying I could find nothing wrong and within minutes the posts were accepted with no changes.

I thought this had happend because yesterday someone I hired at Odesk made some awful posts. Half were rejected as duplicate and the rest were accepted even though they didn't make sense. Had I caught them in time I would have deleted them. I can't believe they let them go. I thought they were being tough on me because of this but seems like others a having a problem too.

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evilsaigon

12 years ago

Some of my posts tend got rejected, but usually they accepted it after I change a couple of words (even though it pretty much means the same lol).

But after 1 month+, it seems like they got lenient on me O.o
or perhaps it's partially because I'm using the very rare kind of topics on my posts which not many people would really use in for the same niche.

But anyways, that kind of rejection is just absurd. Maybe you can try changing a few words and hope another editor gets your work.

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GGpaul 12 years ago

No problems so far.
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footfoot

12 years ago

I like them but I'm working on my own blog network for the long term. This being a "post monkey" gets old real quick.
Also seems you constantly have to refill a slowly deflating balloon as the posts lose their mojo after a month or so.
THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!!!!!

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mjohnson2009

12 years ago

This has been happening extensively on multiple keywords. It does not seem to be happening to posts where the client submits the work themselves. It seems more often on posts that clients pay BMR for. The BMR in house graders are slamming posts that meet the published grader criteria. The actual criteria really has not changed. However, posts that had good grammar and were relevant months ago are being rejected on spurious grounds. I have one writer friend who nearly lost her qualification on this.

Example: The keywords are criminal lawyer Syracuse. Suppose you submit a post about misdemeanors. Seems on target to me. You will get a response back about "makes little sense." However, say you write something like this:

I searched for a criminal lawyer Syracuse online. I talked to him. I even checked out his website. He seemed like a good criminal lawyer. He seemed like one of the best in New York.

That third grade trash will pass.

Originally Posted by dp40oz

I wake up this morning to find a bunch of posts rejected after a few months of no rejections and posting about 300 a week. Here is just a snippet of rejection reasons.

"Content makes little sense because you\'re only supposed to be talking about scholarships, not every little aspect of paying for college."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not paying for college."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not whatever you\'re talking about here."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not college costs in general."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not college costs in general."

ARE THEY KIDDING ME! What do they think scholarships are?! They are there to reduce college costs for students. This is a bit much. I understand if BMR wants to be a bit more strict, but jesus. These rejections don't even make sense.

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mosthost

12 years ago

Service businesses should not change terms like this. Clients expect to get what they paid for.

This latest change sounds as if it goes against the very nature of why people joined in the first place.

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SalAG

12 years ago

Originally Posted by dp40oz

I wake up this morning to find a bunch of posts rejected after a few months of no rejections and posting about 300 a week. Here is just a snippet of rejection reasons.

"Content makes little sense because you\'re only supposed to be talking about scholarships, not every little aspect of paying for college."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not paying for college."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not whatever you\'re talking about here."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not college costs in general."

"Content makes little sense because it\'s supposed to be specifically about scholarships, not college costs in general."

ARE THEY KIDDING ME! What do they think scholarships are?! They are there to reduce college costs for students. This is a bit much. I understand if BMR wants to be a bit more strict, but jesus. These rejections don't even make sense.

Wow, when I read their reasons, that what exactly entered my mind. What are scholarships for? Isn't it scholarships exist because of high college costs?

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rodanglee

12 years ago

It kinda sucked big time for us especially since we put much work and effort in BMR, yet all the work are now gone. For me, BMR's fall pisses me off more than ALN's, Whats the fcking reason they have to be so strict about and yet still get hammered by G..

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GGpaul

12 years ago

Why are my sites still up and running after using BMR? Or am I going to get OWNED soon?

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