Articlebase Stoops To New Low

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Not sure when this change went into effect but Articlebase now presents an entire page of Adsense ads before you ever see any article content. These pages now look wose than any MFA site I used to make...and that's saying something!

If you haven't seen this change yet yourself, be sure to have a look to what they're doing with your articles.
#main internet marketing discussion forum #article marketing #articlebase #articles #eza #ezine articles #low #stoops
  • Ha ha.... All I can say is "Pigs get slaughtered"

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    • It does look a bit like overkill. I guess they are more concern on getting adsense clicks than displaying our articles.
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  • That is because they know that alot of people are jumping from EZA to them and they want to capitalize. Soon they will probably take EZAs spot when it comes to search engine placement.
  • Yep looks just like many other article directories.... Why you should spend your time on article directories that are 100% ad free ... lol

    James
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    • Because those directories aren't making it to page one on Google for anything worth ranking for.
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    • Actually, this is the layout I saw when I checked - which is even worse. It's literally all Google Adwords Ads.

      If you post there...enjoy!
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  • Google will stop it. They have 5 ad groups on one page. Last I knew you could have 3.
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    • Think I somehow down the line thought my brain to completely ignore google ads so never really noticed. Now that you mention it you realize they kinda went insane. I wonder how much of a clickthrough increase they see from cramming in that 5th google ad group
    • Unless they've made a special arrangement with Google. Google allows certain high traffic volume sites a certain amount of leeway when it comes to "da rules".
    • Darren Rowse says: "No have as many as you want. heck I have nearly 10.. o wait "maybe it's more. Woops who cares Google let me" Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging - ProBlogger All if not all sidebar ad's are served by Google. hmmmm.

      Oh and this is the reason why you don't play the article directories game of fame and instead make your own site that holds you own conent. My speculation is that article directories are becoming outdated. AND Good riddance when they die off!
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  • what's that "adsense ads"? I think i might need to disable my firefox adblocker so i know what's bothering you so much

    Edit: IM and using an adblocker...i know...i know...



    same page w/o adblocker:



    I agree, its an utter horrible eyesore. And there's even more on the bottom i just see...
  • Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam eggs and spam.
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  • something weird. I use Opera and IE, both show the same page, and they look the same. BUT, they are both different from what you guys showed. no this big ads.



    david
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    • Yeah, I don't see the ads on the top either. Just on the side and the bottom.
    • I think they just removed those big ads up top. Hopefully it stays that way... I was just starting to really like using them as one of my primary directories...
  • Somebody has got to pay AB's bills. Seriously, I avoid article marketing in the big online directories. For me personally (not necessarily for everyone), it's not worth the trouble.
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    • If they are going to do that...all the more reason to treat them like a link farm.
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  • Even I can't see the big ads at the top. Normal old layout.
  • my articles at articlesbase don't look like that. Not sure what's going on.
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    • So odd, when I just viewed about 10 articles at articlesbase (both old and new), and none of them look like the ones scraped onto this post. They all look like they have for ages (i.e., no adsense block at the intro).
  • Someone said above all this article directories want their ads to be clicked. Well said! Do you think they let us publish on their directories because they love us? Do you think they give all these tips on how to optimize our articles because they want to teach us how we can rank our articles on Google?
    NO! They want us to do a good SEO job so that our ranked articles will get them Adsense clicks. How many of us have CTR's > 10%? Where do you think the other 90% clicks go? I would think that at least 30% would go to those ads.
    But now surely, discouraged authors will stop writing for Article Base! They better have a plan for that!
    Chucky!
  • It is a little tacky.

    It isn't easy making money with an article directory these days though.

    Probably over 99% of submissions are spam or otherwise junk.
  • Looking at my latest article on ezine, I count 6 adsense spots.
  • I count 2 adsense spots on mine .... Maybe they fixed it dues to authors making complaints ..lol

    James
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    • Yea I just checked my articles and I am not seeing the extra ads either!

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    Articlebase Stoops To New Low

    Not sure when this change went into effect but Articlebase now presents an entire page of Adsense ads before you ever see any article content. These pages now look wose than any MFA site I used to make...and that's saying something! If you haven't seen this change yet yourself, be sure to have a look to what they're doing with your articles.