Be Careful What You Say...EZA Rules The World!

...you sneaky dog

I agree. Just as Allen has the right to arbitrarily do as he wishes so does Chris Knight. I am sorry to hear about the suspension and glad that you did not put all your eggs in that one basket.

Indeed - BUT if you are going to start suspending accounts because someone said something negative about your directory....Then what?

As I've mentioned 3 times now - My account is COMPLETELY ABOVE BOARD.

Again, my post is to serve mainly as a warning to anyone that relies on EZA not to publicly criticize them...or your account may be suspended.

You're absolutely correct....Ezinearticles has the right to be as boneheaded as they want.....a right they take advantage of every chance they get.

They banned your account because you pissed them off.

Sure, its a cheap move; But I mean come on, are you *really* surprised?

It's not like the owner of the place ordered anybody to do it; one of the staffers said to his/herself "Hey, Screw you dude." and banned you.

Businesses are just groups of people. People are fallible. Stir up a big enough fuss, and somebody will see to it that your accounts reactivated. Thats just how these things work.

In which case I shall return the email with a note to say that it fails to meet my required word count, and that my inbox is currently not accepting submissions that fall within the 'account suspension' category

Along with all the others who thanked you for your OP. Looks like we're gonna have to nickname you "The Catalyst".

Here is the initial email I got...

From: EzineArticles.com Support <support-reply@ezinearticles.com>
> Subject: [#369385] Your EzineArticles Account - Suspended Status
> To: "Jeremy Kelsall" <>
> Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 10:24 AM
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> Your account is currently in suspended status as we have
> reason to believe that you are inflating your article views
> through PPV (Pay Per View) which is against our terms of
> service.
>
> In addition, the articles on the account fail to deliver on
> the promise made in the title. ie. Reverse Cell Lookup,
> downloading Wii games, and background checks.
>
> Please provide an explanation as to what you are doing that
> is artificially inflating your article views by Wednesday
> November 25th, to avoid the removal of your account.


Maybe I can explain how it's done here in this thread so others can avoid the pitfalls.... ?


My reply was as follows:

From:
"Jeremy Kelsall" <>
Add sender to Contacts

To:
"EzineArticles.com Support" <support-reply@ezinearticles.com>


Penny, can you point out an article you feel I have inflated views to?

I have not even submitted an article on this account for over a month - probably longer.

Can you point out an article in my account that is even in the "most viewed" list?

Your accusations are baseless and I think you should look at the account as a whole before accusing me of doing something like this.

jeremy

Yes, I'm sure EZA will be crushed to have less
'How to use Pavlov's techniques to make a girl love you like a dog'
-articles.


Folks, go back and read the replies by Paul Myers and Roger (Ex Rat).
Find your compass there.

Even a free account costs - your articles are in the queue for much longer, costing you time, which we all know is money. The charge is there, it's just in a different 'currency'.

EZA can do what they like with their business. While I don't always agree with the things they do or the way they do them, they still have every right to. A business that never acted on input from it's users would likely lose my trust and respect (and probably wouldn't be around long anyway), but so would a business that allowed it's users to dictate terms and walk all over it.

And since we are all allegedly in business, it follows that my submissions to EZA were never a 'kindness' expected to be repaid. I had my own motives for submitting my articles, just as EZA had their own motives for accepting them. We're not charities and we wouldn't want our businesses to be treated as such, so it seems either naive or hypocritical to me to expect the businesses we deal with to behave like charities.

I'm with you on the 'Go' thing though. I submit much more to them than I do to EZA, and have been doing so for about a year. It certainly hasn't done me any harm.

Like Paul says, we're none of us in possession of all the facts and are just guessing. For the record, my guess is 63

You can't log in -- your account's been suspended.

huh????

Only one which I guess relates directly to this issue - BUT, I'm not guilty in this case...I want a jury trial.

Here ... take three mugs.

It says they banned my account because of something that is ridiculous to conclude from looking at the account.

If they honestly think I was buying traffic to those articles...they are worse off than I initially thought.

Because the account has been inactive for quite a while...Plus, the results of that account are far less than impressive lol

In order for any funny business to have gone on with that account, the articles in it would have had to of received -1000 views each.


Again, it's because nobody with half an inkling of common sense could look at that account and think anything was "up" with it...

Jeremy:
It sounds as though you have several accounts thru people that work for you. If in fact those articles point to the same landing pages as the articles under your account that 'never breaks the rules' - it is quite easy to figure out that those other accounts 'belong' to you. Having people who work for you that stretch things 'a bit' - who point to the same landing pages is pretty easy to figure out. Even if they don't point to the same landing pages - it's also easy to use Affiliate Elite to reverse engineer which articles/authors point to the same Clickbank affiliate Id. If any of these scenarios are true - it will be quite easy for Ezinearticles to identify which accounts are technically yours.

And the plot thickens....

Cool....

Just as long as you know, I won't be able to promote the damn fight with Articles at the moment

Damn what I do? I want a recount...I want a new trial...what is with this guilty by association? I don't even know the guy. I wasn't there when it happened? Mommy!!!! Mommy!!!

I agree because too many want to abuse a system and then cry when they get banned for doing so. If I was chris it would become a full paid directory, no ad sense ads, and no most viewed section.

But that's me ...

James

This is why I love this forum so much. We can argue, disagree, even get on
each other's nerves, but in the end, we're still family and respect each other.

To Roger

A while ago, I started a thread in OT asking if you were okay because I
hadn't seen you in a while. Glad to see you back. I missed you. I so enjoy
reading your posts because they're so well thought out.

To Paul Myers

Whenever there is a thread that I am torn on, I look to see what your
input is because more often than not, you are the voice of reason and
common sense. You may not know this, but many times when I have been
faced with my own dilemmas, I have looked to your words for guidance.
In spite of my coming off as a "know it all" sometimes, I am not the
brightest bulb on the Christmas tree and many times need to be shown
the way. All of my IM knowledge has come from other people, with very
few exceptions. I admit that freely, especially when there are so many
really brilliant people to learn from.

To Jeremy

I have the greatest respect for you as a person. I've enjoyed our Friday
night chats and our talk on the phone. You remind me of the guy who I
always wanted to be, throw caution to the wind and roll with the punches.
Me, I usually play it safe because I'm always so afraid I'm going to screw
things up. You've been marketing online half the time that I have and have
come 5 times as far. Something needs to be said for that. As for your
relationship with EZA, I'm not going to judge either way. It's not for me
to do so. Each one of us has to do what we feel is right. I know, in the
end, you'll do what's right for you.

To Thomas Cue Ball Head

Screw you too. And the cue stick you rode in on. :p

All kidding aside, you have always cracked me up since the first day I
read one of your replies. If you hadn't gone into IM, I think you would
have made a great standup comedian. I mean that sincerely.

To Everybody Else

There have been several interpretations of Jeremy's OP. Some took it as
whining and others took it as the warning that I truly believe Jeremy
intended it as. As somebody who follows EZAs rules to the letter (part of
my fear of screwing up) if I had my account suspended and knew it was
for no good reason (and believe me, it would have to be) I too would come
here and warn people if I had a good idea of why the suspension occurred.
As it is, I did have my account suspended once for, of all things, a bounced
email address. Imagine my shock when I found out I was suspended for
something so trivial. But as soon as I changed it to another email I was
sure wouldn't bounce, I was reinstated.

I have no doubt that if Jeremy wants to fight this and can show that
there was no reason for his account to be suspended that it too will
be reinstated. I have known Chris now for several years and have
communicated many times with him personally. Yes, I have gone out of
my way to make him a friend. But I can honestly say that he has been
more than fair in his dealings with me (even went out of his way to make
custom adjustments to my account because of problems I've had) and I
can't imagine him suspending an account for no reason.

Believe it or not, EZA is not the evil empire run by Darth Vader. They're
just another business trying to stay in business and stay profitable, just
like all of us. If somebody was doing something to hurt or undermine my
business, I would deal with them accordingly...no matter who they were
and no matter what the offense was. Ultimately, my livelihood and well
being has to come above all else. And as long as I am doing that ethically
and honestly, I answer to no one else.

Again, I am not going to comment on EZA's TOS or the contents of
Jeremy's WSO or how he has conducted his personal article writing
campaign. That is between Jeremy and his conscience and Chris and
his rules. Whatever went down, there is really only one person who knows
the whole story, and that's Chris. We can speculate all we want. But
ultimately, that's all it is without proof.

But again, that's why I love this forum. We can do this and still remain
friends at the end of the day.

If you're wondering why this heart on the sleeve reply, tomorrow is
Thanksgiving...the first one without my mom. As I am typing this the
tears fall from my eyes. I miss her more than you can imagine and her
death this year has taught me so much, so many lessons...lessons I wish
I had learned a long time ago.

But as she used to say to me, "It's never too late as long as there is life."

So I want all of you to go out tomorrow and enjoy the day. Enjoy your
loved ones and your families and be thankful for what you have in this
life...because it goes way too fast...way too fast.

EZA may rule the world...but the Warrior Forum is the universal family as
far as I'm concerned.

I love you all.

Well guys if any of you have checked ezine today you'd see that they cracked down on every single account that had articles with inflated views.

Not only they reduced the term on the views to 60, but after that they pulled every article they thought had inflated views. Look like they figured out a way to find out.

I don't know if they are banning all those accounts, we will soon find out... But I'm sure the're banning the articles with inflated views out of the '15 MOST' area including the '15 MOST PUBLISHED'...but the articles are still live...

I have seem categories where the articles at the bottom of the list still had 700 to 800 views this morning (after the # was changed to 60) are now gone! and now the articles at the bottom is only about 100 to 150 views...

Even in high competition niches like ANXIETY the articles in the 15 most viewed that this morning still was about 700 views is now 118 views only.

WOW! WOW! WOW! Look like in every single category, 95% of the articles were actually inflated, now you only need about 100 views to get into the 15 most views in most niches...

And look like is an ongoing project; I saw a category changed the articles and the views on my watch! when I refreshed the page most articles were gone! MAGICALLY!

Looks like the books to get into that list will have to be re-written all over again...

Have anybody notice this?

Not all the way true....

I'm not going to go back and forth about the product in this thread, but there were 2 methods that were discussed...

One is well within EZA's rules...We still use it everyday and it works perfectly with *no risk*

and One isn't..There is an obvious *risk* involved

Regarding the one that isn't....and what you are seeing at EZA right now.

Look again in the morning or tomorrow afternoon. Today isn't the first day that the lists have been shaken up only to go right back to the way they were...

For anyone that read the product and only took away from it that one thing...You should not only reread the pdf, but rewatch the videos and you should soon realize just how much of those things can be applied other places where you submit content.

Edit: Just looked at a couple categories of "interest" and everything still appears to be the same?