Another 2 articles submitted to ezine articles for refusal

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Decided to give ezinine articles another go.

Last article got refused for 3 reasons...

Your article body does not fulfill the promise made in the article title.
Your article contains incorrect spacing.
We do not allow keywords or phrases to be bolded.

I've gone through these 2 with a fine tooth comb. They're well written, paid $10 for each. No bolding or italics. 560 words ish each. No excessive use of keywords.

Lets see if the powers that be over at ezine articles will allow these to pass.

I'll get back to you in 2 weeks.
#main internet marketing discussion forum #articles #ezine #refusal #submitted
  • Ezinearticles is so strict now so I stopped using them ..
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    • Yeb, so so strict. I also stopped using this site.
  • I like Associated Content, I get paid for every article and I get as much traffic as Ezinearticels, plus they have instant approval.
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    • Cheers, how do you get paid... I just uploaded an article, and saw nothing about being paid.

      Just looking for backlinks and exposure, getting paid would be a bonus.
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  • The incorrect spacing may have something to do with having to many blank spaces in your article. I think it has something to do with copy and pasting content from notepad into the wysiwyg window of Ezinearticles.
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    • That's an Ezine problem then. When I previewed it, it all looked good, said the usual invalid characters, but would be edited by them, that's all.

      Kind of reminds me of a snobby night club with a$$hole doormen.... this is the last time I'm using them. If these get refused, I'm done wasting my time with them.
  • can't be bothered with EZA now - they refused two of my articles based on things which were not even true, so I use other dirs now.
  • All I can really say here is LOL.

    You'd think by now that people would realize that paying peanuts for junk when EZA has dramatically tightened up its approval process isn't going to get you very far.

    Chris
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    • All I can say is, have you actually read the post?

      The articles I paid $10 for haven't been refused, yet, I just uploaded them today. Also, what part of "well written" don't you understand.
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    • Since when is $10 for a 560 word article peanuts?

      I see people here all the time asking for, or offering to write articles for $1/100 word, which on a 560 word article = $5.60 , and you're calling $10 peanuts? I realize there are writers who get $15, 20, 25 or more per article.

      I outsource some of my article writing to trusted writers, who are very happy for the work, I pay them well by their standards, but honestly, I couldn't live where I live on what I pay them. But they don't work exclusively for me either. They provide the same services for similar (or less) money to others, and between their several employers, they earn enough to have a little money left over when all is said and done. Something they never had before in their lives. Where they live they are in better financial shape than many of their neighbors.
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  • I am glad there are people not bothering with EA, less competition for me. Bye bye.

    If you do submit great articles and actually structure them properly then expect to see good results. Pretty simple really.
  • Give them what they want, and they will give you what you want.

    No other formula works.
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    • Exactly. My articles all get approved in less than 24 hours lately (of course I've been submitting to them for a couple of years ). I started making them longer articles with good information relative to my site. I put them on my site first plus my blog, once they're indexed on my blog, I add them to EZA. Once they're approved there, I put them on 2-3 other directories and move on to the next article.

      I also watch my stats because I have some 3 yr old articles on some obscure directories that still get hits so I'll pop over there an add a new article once in a while.
  • not sure where you guys are looking but I outsource to a couple of writers for LESS than $10 for 560 words and the quality is great!
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    • Maybe we're the exception. I've paid $5 for 400 - 500 words in the past, and they were terrible.

      I'll pm you my guy if you pm me yours?
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    • I recently got six absolutely awesome quality 650 word articles for $22 from a writer on oDesk. I also paid her a bonus because the quality was so high and I'll use her again in a heartbeat.

      I think if you want high quality, you really have to look through the profiles of the people you're outsourcing to to see if they'd be a good fit for your niche. And make sure they've already done work for other people and have good feedback.

      Also, be specific in your instructions. I always put together a text file with keywords, notes and instructions with anyone who's going to do the writing and I've yet to be disappointed, even at $3.66 per 650-word article.
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    • I beg the question, by what or whose standards is their quality great? Are you an ace at English language? English grammar? Sentence construction?

      Just curious...
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  • Excuse me if the question is stupid, but does it worth the effort to check over and over and remake the articles to be accepted?

    Will this bring such value to you once they are accepted?
  • Hey man!

    I've got a GREAT solution for you... ready?

    1. In the article body, fulfill the promise made in the article title.

    2. Fix the spacing in your article.

    3. Do not bold keywords or phrases.

    PM me for my PayPal address.
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    • 1. A promise that 6 other article directories were happy to accept.

      2. There was no spacing issues when I previewed.

      3. I've bolded keywords in the past, this must be a recent development
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  • The last 2 problems you got are very easy to fix. No need to tell you what to do...

    The first problem though is probably the fact that you are mentioning a location/city/country/state of some sort and your article body does not fulfill or target the location/city/country/state specifically.

    If that's the case, talk about that niche/subject in general and take out what I have mentioned here. Remove the "location specifics", if that's the case and fix the other errors you are getting and it should get approved.

    Or, send me the article in question and I will tell you where it needs to be fixed..

    Jason
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    • Thanks for the offer. I'm happy it was accepted to all the other article directories, so I'm don't want to waste anymore time on it.

      I cant see anything wrong with these 2 articles, they're a review of a product, so, I've promised a review and thats what they got. They're well written, no spaces, that I could see anyway, and no bold or italics, anywhere.

      I'll see how they go, if they're rejected, then I'm just not going to waste anymore time with them.
  • $10 is WAY too much for an article just to toss it on Ezine, since the Panda update those links mean much less to google. For $5 you could have an article submitted to the top 30 article directories. I pay $5 for two articles over 500 words and very good quality. The trick is just keep paying very little for your articles and fishing around, once you find a good writer offer them a bit more and send them a lot of work.
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    • My primary concern is to have good content on my site. No point having bad content that doesn't convert.

      Wow, you pay $5 for 2, 500 word, good quality articles... I've paid similar in the past, and just found them to be pretty awful.

      Actually, the one that got refused on ezinearticles, was a $5 article from fiverr. It was pretty good, I had to make a few corrections, but all in all, I thought it read pretty well... ezine articles didn't seem to think so.

      I can see a marked improvement in the $10 article.

      As for submitting to so many article directories, I've read on multiple occasions that it's best to stick to the top rated article directories, of which there's around 10 or so.

      I usually submit to around 8 myself.
  • You're all going about it all wrong. Your asking "How can I fix these articles to get them accepted?" You should be asking yourself "How can I get to Platinum Status quickly so that my articles have a stronger backing to get accepted?"

    Yes, you could fix the articles, spend lots of money on more articles, and all that jazz. Keep in mind, if you send in enough articles that are declined, EzineArticles will remove your account.

    EzineArticles is strict because they have the largest readerbase, highest page rank, and lowest Alexa score of all the big Article Directories.

    So instead of beating yourself senseless wondering why you keep getting denied, try this...

    Choose a hobby you enjoy (not Internet Marketing...), and write a 500 word Article about that hobby. Have a friend or family member read the article, looking for spelling and grammar errors. Double check the spelling and grammar yourself afterwords.

    Now sign up (or log in) to EzineArticles. Go to your profile page, and add information about yourself. Here, you want to appear as a real person, but also as a professional. So add information that convey's both.

    Submit your article to Ezine. In your Author Box, put a link to your Ezine Profile page. (This shows Ezine that you want to appear as a professional building a name) <- [Crazy thought, I know...]

    Now that you have one article pending approval, read the article and find a few things you could expand on. Write more articles related to the same topic, or another topic that you have a lot of knowledge in (Again, not Internet Marketing).
    Don't post links on all of these articles, and if you do link, link to your profile.


    So whats the difference?

    These 10 articles are written with your own passion for the topic. They are double checked for errors before even being sumbited. And, you aren't linking off site. You are simply building a name for yourself (Even if its a Psuedonym).

    These articles are much more likely to be accepted and posted, and if you successfully post 10 articles of this quality, you will get Platinum status in no time.
    Platinum members have proven to have good quality content, so their articles are posted more often (even with minor mistakes), and much more quickly.

    Enjoy!
  • I am a bit surprise about Ezine rejecting most articles, I just submit my article on Saturday and today when i check it has been approve. I dont know maybe your are doing something wrong.
  • I still use them but not nearly like I used to....all the old adages about submitting to them first is no longer relevant in my opinion...
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    • I'm glad Ezine is tightening up its criteria. It's about time. I used to read Ezine all the time, as well as submit. Lately, if I Google something and it comes up Ezine, I don't even bother. Too much crap.


      The Internet is finally getting cleaned up and I think this is a cause for celebration. All those $1-$3 article sellers are going to be out of business soon and people are going to finally realize that quality work costs quality money.

      Maybe I'll start submitting to Ezine again as well as read them, provided they're actually cleaning up their network and not just being d!cks about not approving articles. lol
  • EZA sucks and it shows by their lack of traffic that continues to drop. They got punished by Google and now their new rules make it near impossible even for those who are honest writers to actually get published. Times better spent elsewhere.
  • The thing is that I've never completely understood the whole drama that people experience with Ezine Articles, as far as their articles not getting approved, articles taking too long to get approved, their guidelines being too strict, etc etc.

    I've been with EZA basically since they first started out, and here's how it looked for me:

    - I found out about EzineArticles, everyone was raving about them, so I said, "why the hell not?".

    - I read their TOS/FAQ etc, learned about the different membership levels, evaluated the quality of some of the articles on there, and I knew that I SHOULD be able to get platinum status fairly quickly (yes, I can write, if I may blow my own horn).

    - I submitted my first articles... I think it was like 3-5 articles at once or something. Yes, they took over a week to get approved. Along with the approval notification, I also got notification that I had been upgraded to "basic plus" membership level.

    - I was kind of offended, because I thought those articles should've gotten me platinum status, but whatever, I'll get it later, I thought.

    - I submitted articles here and there, every time I made a new site etc, to promote it.

    - When I reached around 20 articles with them (don't remember the exact number), I still hadn't gotten a status upgrade. So, I sent them an e-mail bluntly saying that they need to evaluate the articles I've submitted and I would appreciate it if they could upgrade me to platinum level membership. I just wanted the title more than anything else, really. :rolleyes:

    - About a week later, I received an e-mail back from them saying that I had been upgraded to platinum author status.

    I have a few 100 articles on there and I think I've had an article rejected maybe twice out of them. I made the corrections that they asked and they were promptly accepted. These articles are anywhere from 400-4000 words.

    Though I don't do much article marketing anymore, I still have that account, and if I was to e-mail them to evaluate me for a 'diamond' level membership, I'm sure they would.

    So, that is how it looked at Ezine Articles for ME, which is why I always find it hard to understand what people are always crying about.

    Like I said in my last post, article marketing is not for everyone to understand.

    The understanding that has been 'created' about article marketing amongst the masses has caused the Internet to fill up with utter junk, and it has also wasted countless tears (worldwide) due to people crying every time their articles get rejected, because they understand not the first thing about quality writing and "article marketing".

    The majority of the people who refer to themselves as "article marketers" would not know a quality article if it hit them in the face and left ink all over it.
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    • And that's how it's done. The perfect step by step guide to working with EZA. That's what I did too. I just recently got to Platinum but I probably could have gotten there a lot sooner if I'd thought to ask. :rolleyes: When I hit around 90 submissions they cut me off saying my account had to be reviewed for an upgrade so I requested a review for Diamond.

      Well, I was nicely rejected along with instructions for earning Diamond at a later date. They did upgrade me to Platinum though and I think after my next few articles since that upgrade I may apply for Diamond.

      Since then, I've made my articles longer and carefully watched for anything that would risk a rejection so I can get Diamond status in another month or so.
    • I wrote an article for EZA which they completely reformatted. See, I'd read some studies a few years ago suggesting that 30-50 words was the optimum length for a paragraph on the web... and I got to thinking that attention spans were shorter now. So I wrote an article with seventeen 21 word paragraphs.

      Well, they decided that these paragraphs were too short, and they just arbitrarily reformatted everything into three 119 word paragraphs.

      Notice that 119 is not a multiple of 21. They broke apart existing paragraphs.

      When I asked them why this happened, they said I had used "excessive line breaks" in my article and accordingly they had edited the article to remove them.

      When I tried to fix the problem, they rejected the article for "punctuation and spelling errors."

      Now, I don't make spelling and punctuation errors. I'm unbelievably anal about spelling and punctuation.

      It turns out that when I said "the .357 Magnum handgun" in my article, they had corrected this to "the. 357 magnum handgun" using a script...

      Before any human being ever saw the article.

      So the article was rejected based on the errors in their script.

      When I started raising cain about this, my account mysteriously disappeared. I can't be found on EZA anymore, but my username is not available either. I was literally on the phone with support when they said "we have no record of an account for you."

      I am of the opinion that there have, in the past, been a few nasty little buggers in the editorial department. I'm reasonably sure that EZA wants them out and is firing them as fast as it can find them, but basically I just shrugged and went on with my life.

      There are other article directories. It's not the end of the world if you have a bad experience with EZA, and it certainly doesn't mean they're a horrible company.
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  • I have not had any problems with Ezine yet. I will say that I have had so many health issues and my children have had encountered the same problems as me so as a result I have not been very active. I am hoping now I can focus on my IM. There are other article directories. Associated Content, Artices Base and a newer one that I actually heard of from potpiegirl It is Street Articles. I have not actually used it yet. I did sign up for a free account. But according to her Google really likes them. I do respect her authority on this. So maybe you should check them out. Hope this helps!
  • C'mon everyone. Don't expect ezineartices to accept your articles which are in simple paragraph format giving out general information about the topic which even a dumb can find anywhere on the internet. Do you know what is meant by "informative content"?

    It means "INFORMATIVE CONTENT". Don't just keep joining sentences about a topic and spam the ezine. Plan everything, give out tips and instructions and sue me if your article gets rejected.

    And btw, $10/article is pretty decent price. Quality must be real good.
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    • Exactly, the 700 word article I submitted to Ezine last Wednesday was approved by noon the next day, I wrote it following that formula you just stated.
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  • Hi tTedog Warrior,

    Let us know how your submission go this time, if you satisfied all their requirement you can write to them and appeal. I have submitted 77 articles to ezinearticle and have had 1 article rejected - because I had a link to a reference site (not affiliate link). I wrote in and ask them for the resons they rejected my article an they later approved it.

    They have different people reviewing the articles and each with slightly different standard -if you feel that you have followed the guidelines just write to them.

    Hope this helps

    Louisa Chan
  • Yeah, the first time I submitted articles to EZA, I violated the TOS and they were not approved.

    I corrected the problems in my 10 articles and re-submitted them, and was made a platinum author about 12 hours later.

    I've never had to wait 24 hours to get my articles approved at EZA. And it still brings me more traffic than all other article directories combined. I'm still getting great traffic from some of those first 10 articles as well as the many that I have submitted since then.

    In fact, it brings me more traffic than anything except AdWords... and some days it actually does bring more than even Adwords...

    I've heard that EZA has lost "this much" or "that much" traffic, but my Analytics stats just don't show it hardly at all, and a Google search pulls up my articles on EZA on the first page.


    If I knew what I was doing different, I would make a WSO, LOL
  • I highly believe that article marketing is losing blood and I am not sure it will be around (in the way I understand now) a few years later.

    I have never been a pro article marketer and I don't think I will ever go that route especially after the last algorithm changes of Google and new guidelines of directories. What I will do instead is invest all my time and effort on my websites' content providing information, tips, reviews, personal ideas, interesting things about my niche etc. that will have a high chance of being shared and naturally backlinked.

    And I really do believe that we all need such an internet where all the content is ranking naturally, not as a result of zillions of backlinks created by the owner of the content.

    Internet is changing so should your marketing strategies...
  • You could always email Ezine support stating you've done all the recommendations and don't see why the article is being refused, sometimes you might get a real response from one of their staff highlighting what is wrong, might be something really simple that you omitted, like having an affiliate link with no intermediate sales page
  • Ezine is the best site for article submission. They are very strict, yes. But it is for the good of the writers. One must be very careful in creating article at ezine. So far, my articles at ezine are quiet good.
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    • Update. Both my articles were accepted, and in under a week.

      I'll stick to this formula in futre with them, no italics or bold, 500+ words, very little use of keywords, quality content. Walking on eggshells with these guys, but I'm happy they're up there.
  • They got strict because after the Panda update them and about 15 other sites were singled out by name by Google and they now rank far worse. They're trying to get their creditability back which is understandable; I'd do the same if it were my website.
  • I just submitted an article 2 days ago to ezinearticles and it was approved in 1 day. Took me completely by surprise because in the past it took them a week or better to approve my articles. Anyone else seeing their articles approved/disapproved faster?
  • With all of the article controversy because of the panda update by google, would it be better to blast articles to a ton of article website or just stick with a few high rated article websites instead?
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    • Any PR an article site has will not reflect the PR of your articles posted on that site.

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    • Completely off topic better to create your own thread than to hijack someone else's .
    • If you want to waste time and money by spamming the Internet and getting useless links to your website, associating it with less-than-ideal neighborhoods, then yes...mass submit away!
  • Best of Luck
  • Yeb, you right. There are many other directory sites that you can get benefit of. However, EZA is still great directory for earning income online.
  • I had read somewhere that Ezine Articles got slammed by Google.
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    • My articles got approved by EZ. Try to do a articles little bit longer. Do not overly promote your website but add value to your content. Do a research to see your kind of topic and title is really uniques in the directories. In EZ quality still is the most important factor. If fail, try other article directory. EZ after the panda updates does not stand important in Google Eye no matter how much there do.
  • I started having problems getting articles that I had *written myself* to pass eza's guidelines before panda. It was strange too, because the reason they weren't being accepted simply wasn't true. So I have kind of given up on them too for now.
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