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Is Ezine editing articles?

by newBum76
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I recently submitted an article to ezinearticles that has a lot of sentences bolded. It passed the initial review, but when I checked on it it seems that all my bolded text was un-bolded. I bolded the text again, then resubmitted, and now I see that they've done the same thing again.

What's going on here, is it normal for ezine to do this to articles?

-Jon
#articles #editing #ezine
  • Profile picture of the author OnlineBlogger
    I have seen minor spelling corrections by them in past. I am not surprised that they un-bolded your text while reviewing.

    Their Author TOS States this:
    8. If your article does not conform to the EzineArticles editorial guidelines, our editors may edit your article so that it does conform to the posted editorial guidelines. Please read our editorial guidelines before submitting your articles to save time and speed the article approval process.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnlagoudakis
    Hi Jon,

    You mentioned that you had a lot of sentences bolded. I assume that if there is too much bold text, they don't like it because it doesn't look professional.

    I've noticed that when I bold four or less sub-headings, it stays bold, but when I do more than this they are edited so that the text is no longer bold.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nahar
    Here is a quote from Editorial Guidelines for Submitting To EzineArticles.com:

    "Your article...MUST NOT contain excessive and/or bolded keywords/ phrases. Bolding is limited to headings and subheadings."
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    • Profile picture of the author lemaxflo
      i agree your article containing to much bold will not pass with them
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  • Profile picture of the author Floyd Fisher
    Yep, that is exactly what they did.

    Best thing to do is send them a thank you note (they could have just rejected it, leaving you holding the bag) for doing that, and move on.
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    • Profile picture of the author Nahar
      Originally Posted by Floyd Fisher View Post

      Best thing to do is send them a thank you note (they could have just rejected it, leaving you holding the bag) for doing that, and move on.
      Very true. And take time to read their Editorial Guidelines.
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  • Profile picture of the author Big JP
    Yes they do edit articles, seen as they have human editors. They also reject articles so you could consider yourself lucky to get it approved twice with the same mistake corrected.
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    • Profile picture of the author Si_P
      Originally Posted by Big JP View Post

      Yes they do edit articles, seen as they have human editors. They also reject articles so you could consider yourself lucky to get it approved twice with the same mistake corrected.
      I dont know how many times I have had silly little mistakes which they could have fixed themselves that they stalled my article being published. It can be pretty annoying at times.

      Articles need to be immaculate before submitting now!
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  • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
    Yeah ... they have edited the bold out of mine .

    I didn't have a lot of bold and no kw bold

    Long as they get accepted .. I really don't care . They could have just as easily rejected my article .... not given a clear reason.... had me contact them... after my own re-edit , two weeks ... later published the article .

    Kind of appreciate their cleaning it up myself
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeGriffith
    I have several articles with EzineArticles, and I have found that the only time they will un-bold your text is when they consider it to be excessive, whatever that means. You can contact them for the specific reason.
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    • Profile picture of the author newBum76
      I checked out the editorial guidelines, and sure enough, it mentions excessive bolding.:rolleyes:

      Lesson learned, I'll make sure to read more in the future before I start complaining about something
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      • Profile picture of the author achivement84
        Hey,

        I submitted about 4 articles only with EzineArticles ,& yes they do spelling corrections and formating corrections if you used it in excessive way.

        B.Regards
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        • Profile picture of the author Ryan700
          Originally Posted by achivement84 View Post

          Hey,

          I submitted about 4 articles only with EzineArticles ,& yes they do spelling corrections and formating corrections if you used it in excessive way.

          B.Regards
          I've been rejected for having too many words in my anchor text but have seen many people published with 4 or more words in their anchor text. It seems to depend on who's editing your article. Never had an article edited but I'm a bear when it comes to editing my articles anyways. It usually takes longer for me to edit than it did to write.
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