Ezine Articles links policy

tylerdrun

14 years ago

I hear bitching... and that link inactive has never happened. You have to use <a href> in ur author bio.

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Amitywill 14 years ago

Originally Posted by tylerdrun

I hear bitching...

Thanks for your helpful answer. You must feel really proud.
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affiliatecoachlandon

14 years ago

I don't think thats the case, just checked back my old articles..

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Amitywill 14 years ago

Originally Posted by affiliatecoachlandon

I don't think thats the case, just checked back my old articles..

Thanks for checking. To be honest it doesn't bother me because I don't
use E.A any more but when I submitted them 2 years ago the links
were active and now they're not.

And I've seen quite a few articles on E.A lately where the links are inactive.

I just thought I'd let everyone know that something fishy could be going on.
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- John Lenaghan 14 years ago
  
  I had this happen on one of my articles on EZA and I checked with their customer support about it. They told me that they check the links in the articles on an ongoing basis, and if the link isn't working for some reason it will be converted to the inactive link.
  
  The article it happened to me on was pointing to a site that I forgot to renew by the due date, and it was showing the domain parking page for a couple of days, so it made sense for me - their system probably checked it while the site was in "limbo" for a couple of days.
  
  I've had the same thing happen to other sites (yes, I'm sometimes not on top of my renewals ) and it didn't get caught, so I don't know just how often they run these checks.
  
  I don't personally think they're cheating anyone, I think they're just careful about the sites the articles on their site are pointing out to.
  
  Are the sites linked from your articles all still active? Are they all on the same server, so if there was an issue on the day they happened to be checked, they might have all been down?
  
  From what they told me, if you go in and edit the articles to make the links active again, they will re-approve them (assuming they meet the current requirements).
  
  Hope that helps.
  
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affilcrazy 14 years ago

EZA will typically do this is if the "link" is no longer active, i.e. the domain has expired, being parked or the website is no longer available.

I have just checked the example you have given and the domain being linked to in the resource box appears to currently be parked. Therefore, I would personally consider that the domain is no longer "active" (it is no longer leading to a relevant website, and no I do not consider domain parking relevant!).

You are able to edit your articles without any detrimental effect on ranking, backlinks and it's overall status. So, you may consider checking the website that your 50 articles link to, and possibly editing the article to link to an "active" url.

If I have made any assumptions, I apologise!

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- Amitywill 14 years ago
  
  That's a more helpful answer, thanks affilcrazy.
  
  However... One of the domains on my account is still active
  but the links are not working.
  
  So I don't think it can all be down to whether the domain is
  active or not.
  
  I'm not gonna spend anymore time thinking about this but I'll
  send a quick email to E.A support and see if I can get an answer.
  
  (Edit) Just made a silly mistake. No the website is not active
  and I didn't renew it a few months ago. Somebody else has the
  website now so the links must have gone inactive when I didn't
  renew it.
  
  Thanks for all your help guys. And I apologize to E.A for making
  the assumption of cheating.
  
  However maybe they should notify their authors out of goodwill
  when links go inactive like that.
  
  Thanks again warriors for your help.
  
  Will
  
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  affilcrazy 14 years ago
  
  John's reply just above yours actually hints at the fact that EZA will make a link inactive even if the domain was only ever temporarily "inactive".
  
  Obviously I don't know your exact circumstances, but are you 100% sure that the domain your articles are linking to has been active continually? Possible hosting problems, even if it was only for a day, domain renewal, I guess these could all be factors.
  
  You're doing the right thing by contacting their support team, however if you're not sold on the waiting time for article approval, I don't think their response time to support questions will make you any happier. I'm not 100% sure, but a non-Premium member may have wait well over a week to get a response from the support team.
  
  Gook Luck!
  
  Partha
  
  EDIT: A-Ha I see you have discovered the actual problem!
  
  Originally Posted by Amitywill
  
  I'm not gonna spend anymore time thinking about this but I'll
  send a quick email to E.A support and see if I can get an answer.
  
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tylerdrun

14 years ago

You just haven't gotten the hang of EZA. EZA has the best template in the world... No other template will get the users to pay as much attention to your article as the eza one.

If you aren't getting ctr and are blaming it on ads, it's not eza fault. You can get ctrs as high as 90% with EZA(even for articles with over 100s of views). I don't know why you have that link problem though.

Contact them and they'll find a solution. And as for submissions - I have to admit that there were a lot of newbie editors hired in EZA who kinda autoapproved the articles without reading(using some software). I read this in another thread.

And the guy who found out reported it to Chris and Chris Knight had to go through a lot of trouble to filter the junk out. And many expert authors who provide valuable articles were affected because of their crackdown.

If u're not getting the results you want out of articles, the flaw is in your writing. Keyword research and link building comes next. EZA is the best article directory out there. No other site gives you high quality traffic like EZA, period.

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Crew Chief

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Amitywill

I don't use Ezine Articles anymore for a few reasons... So what are your thoughts on this? And does anyone have any info on this situation?

Just keep reading...

Originally Posted by affilcrazy

I have just checked the example you have given and the domain being linked to in the resource box appears to currently be parked. Therefore, I would personally consider that the domain is no longer "active" (it is no longer leading to a relevant website, and no I do not consider domain parking relevant!).Partha

Partha brought up one excellent point and the other is, in the example that you gave, you were clearly engaging in "Keyword Stuffing"

Your Keyword density on your article alone is 3.526% for an article that has 299 words. You are way over the EZA limits by a long shot!

Your best strategy is to admit this EZA is not the issue and move towards correcting your deficiencies.

Giles, the Crew Chief

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durant0704 14 years ago

I love EZA for the sole reason that i get tons of traffic from them, luckily all of my sites are still active but im sure ill have the same problem u do soon enough, memory isnt all that great :rolleyes: but idk it usually only takes them about 3 days to accept my articles??? much faster than say article sashboard or some other sites
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Amitywill

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

Just keep reading...

Partha brought up one excellent point and the other is, in the example that you gave, you were clearly engaging in "Keyword Stuffing"

Your Keyword density on your article alone is 3.526% for an article that has 299 words. You are way over the EZA limits by a long shot!

Your best strategy is to admit this EZA is not the issue and move towards correcting your deficiencies.

Giles, the Crew Chief

Read this line... "For example this isn't my article but you'll see what I mean if you
check this out."

So before you talk about my writing abilities please first fix your reading abilities.

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Crew Chief

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Amitywill

Read this line... "For example this isn't my article but you'll see what I mean if you
check this out."

So before you talk about my writing abilities please first fix your reading abilities.

There was no link.

Just make it a naked link if that's easier.

Giles, the Crew Chief

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bretski

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Amitywill

Read this line... "For example but you'll see what I mean if you
check this out."

So before you talk about my writing abilities please first fix your reading abilities.

PA-LEASE! A 299 word article? That's not an article. That's a note.

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Amitywill 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

There was no link.

Just make it a naked link if that's easier.

Giles, the Crew Chief

What?

Originally Posted by bretski

PA-LEASE! A 299 word article? That's not an article. That's a note.

Again. I hate to sound harsh but can you not read?

Here it is again for you "this isn't my article"

The article I link to is not my article. It's just an example.

So again before criticising me please learn to read.
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eaglechick

14 years ago

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Discover how to easily fix your articles’ broken links.

Every article you submit to EzineArticles gets a minimum of 2 human editor reviews. These reviews ensure that your article follows our Editorial Guidelines, offers valuable content and provides a positive user experience.
During these reviews, we also ensure that all links offer that same positive user experience. In other words, we make sure they work!
We know that the Internet is constantly changing. Links that worked when the article was initially approved may become “broken” or no longer lead to a functioning website. So we perform random checks on links and report any invalid links to you.
How does invalid link detection system work? [Download Chart (PDF / 120KB)]

Day 1: We discover your article’s invalid link and mark it for further testing.
Day 3: The link is tested again. If it’s invalid we mark it for another check.
Day 5: The link is tested again. If it’s still invalid, we notify you via email using your email address on file.

The next time you login to your EzineArticles account you will be presented with an option to go directly to the Article Diagnostic Center [learn more]. Here you will see a list of the invalid URL(s) by article title. From this list, you’ll be able to edit, remove or re-validate the invalid link(s).
In the Article Diagnostic Center…

Click on the invalid URL to determine whether or not the link is working properly.
If the link IS working, click “Report as valid”. The text “URL working?” will change to “Reported and in review” until our editors can verify that the link is valid.
If the link is NOT working, click to edit the link directly in the article. Once the link is fixed by you, it will be removed from the invalid link database and no further action is required.

If you choose to ignore any links that generate a 404 (Page not found) or 403 (Forbidden) error code, we will automatically unlink it on Day 35 (30 days from initial notification) and send you an email explaining what we have done.
Creating a positive user experience is vital for the success of your article marketing campaign. Review your links frequently and repair any invalid links immediately to insure that your readers don’t go someplace you don’t want them to go…

The above is taken from the EZA blog.

Maybe you should take the responsibility and check why your links is not working before accusing EZA.

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Crew Chief

14 years ago

The OP started this thread by asking the question, "Are Ezine Articles Cheating Us?"

Many of you saw the grammatical issues with the question I'm sure.

That noted, the answer to the question, "Is Ezine Articles Cheating Us?" Is "NO!"

It has been determined by a number of individuals who checked - that the OP has some issues with inactive links, keyword stuffing and potential grammatical issues.

The great news is, all the OP has to do is correct those issues and BAM!

All is forgotten!

Giles, the Crew Chief

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Amitywill

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

The OP started this thread by asking the question, "Are Ezine Articles Cheating Us?"

Many of you saw the grammatical issues with the question I'm sure.

That noted, the answer to the question, "Is Ezine Articles Cheating Us?" Is "NO!"

It has been determined by a number of individuals who checked - that the OP has some issues with inactive links, keyword stuffing and potential grammatical issues.

The great news is, all the OP has to do is correct those issues and BAM!

All is forgotten!

Giles, the Crew Chief

Are you seriously carrying this on?

Look I don't want to argue, I'm not that kind of guy (but you obviously
are).

However you seem to be a bit brain dead..

You keep going on about keyword stuffing, grammar issues however
I've stated several times in this thread that the article I link to in
the OP is not mine. I just used it as an example.

Would you like me to say it again? Here we go, straight from the OP..

"this isn't my article"

I hope you understand now..

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JadeCloud

14 years ago

Yes I've noticed the same thing on my account. And I've just checked and the website isn't active anymore.

I totally agree with you amity. Before I found this thread I would of thought they were cheating in some way. But yeah it would be nice if they told us that the links down.

I mean we're the ones populating their site, without us authors they would have nothing so...

And Crew Chief comeon.. Are you serious? I'd be annoyed too if I were amity. Hes said about 5 or 6 times that the article he linked to wasn't his yet you persist in going on about it like it's his article and trying to criticise him.

I'm glad this is all sorted though. And yeah it would be nice if ezine articles told us that our links were dead because i didn't know.

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Amitywill

14 years ago

Hey Jade. Yeah I agree it would be nice if they
notified us, and thanks for that. I don't think Crew Chief
was getting it.

Anyway, I'm not changing my mind I don't like E.A.

I much prefer to have my content on my own websites. That
way I have full control..

On my own websites my content gets published immediately,
my content ranks higher than E.A. a lot quicker, any clicks on
ads are mine, and my click through rates on my own websites
are generally 65% plus.

They're just a few good reasons I prefer publishing to my own
site rather than an article directory. I'm not dismissing any
article marketers here I'm just saying that I don't like giving
all the control to an article directory when I have 100% control
when I publish to my own site.

And by the way, if you're not building up your own websites
and creating your own authority sites right now then you're going to
be regretting it in a couple of years..

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Crew Chief

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Amitywill

Are you seriously carrying this on?

Look I don't want to argue, I'm not that kind of guy (but you obviously
are).

However you seem to be a bit brain dead..

You keep going on about keyword stuffing, grammar issues however
I've stated several times in this thread that the article I link to in
the OP is not mine. I just used it as an example.

And as far as arguing, you got a yawn and a fart out of me and that's about it...

The only problem with your statements is that you went back and [Edited] your original post after people started pointing out issues.

Secondly, you weren't clear in your communication. For example...

Originally Posted by Amitywill

Read this line... "For example this isn't my article but you'll see what I mean if you check this out."

It looks like you attempted to post a link but failed. Hence, my reasoning for saying, "Try leaving a naked link..."

Again, you attended on sending one message but you actually sent another.

But it's no sweat off of my back.

Not even with the unnecessary, disrespectful and uncalled quips about being brain dead.

Originally Posted by Amitywill

Hey Jade. Yeah I agree it would be nice if they
notified us, and thanks for that. I don't think Crew Chief was getting it. Anyway, I'm not changing my mind I don't like E.A.

You don't like EZA...

Gotcha and end of story.

Giles, the Crew Chief

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Amitywill

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

And as far as arguing, you got a yawn and a fart out of me and that's about it...

The only problem with your statements is that you went back and [Edited] your original post after people started pointing out issues.

Secondly, you weren't clear in your communication. For example...

It looks like you attempted to post a link but failed. Hence, my reasoning for saying, "Try leaving a naked link..."

Again, you attended on sending one message but you actually sent another.

But it's no sweat off of my back.

Not even with the unnecessary, disrespectful and uncalled quips about being brain dead.

You don't like EZA...

Gotcha and end of story.

Giles, the Crew Chief

Lol. I feel sorry for you that you feel the need to carry on
with your pathetic accusations.

Edited my original post? I haven't edited a single thing in the OP.

Please feel free to carry on wasting your time trying to criticise me,
but I'm off to go and do the things that make me money...

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MarkAse

14 years ago

I haven't had many of those problems, perhaps it is because my niche is quite a bit more open then others, but my articles (yes once you're upgraded in status) are approved in 24 hours on average. None of my old links are ever changed by EZA, I do see a number of people that do not format their links correctly though.

If you don't like it, there are alternatives. Personally speaking I like Buzzle the best of the alternatives, which is probably a bigger pain to use because of the author application process.

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hometutor

14 years ago

Ezine Articles has become one of the biggest pains in the oloke (Hawaiian for you know what) to submit articles.

That percent of keywords just has me giving up half the time and going to their competitors one click away.

I noticed on last check they're not near the top of Google any longer which leads me to believe others feel as I do

Rick

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bretski

14 years ago

I had noticed the change in the title of the post too, Crew Chief. Was tempted to post back a few times but figured it's not worth it.

By the way, I read and write very well and my articles are always approved within 24 hours. The record for approval of an article for me with EZA was 8 minutes and that was yesterday.

The folks at EZA work hard (even on weekends) to provide a service free of charge. They make their money off of advertising and they are not dishonest in any way, shape or form. If they disabled your links it was for a reason. If they keep the keywords to 2% and under it is probably for a very good reason.

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connorbringas 14 years ago

ezine is a bit frustrating for me as well. I havent used it much, I use other websites. My question is, after your 10th submission to ezine..does it speed up the acceptance of articles?

It takes about 7 days for the articles to get accepted on that site...and therefore I was so frustrated years ago i just decided not to do it..

Now I'm going back to it because the traffic seems good..
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