Interesting (and mildly amusing) EZA changes

(general musings in an attempt to put off work a few more minutes )

I've had articles at EZA since around 2005 I think, and built it up to almost 400 titles before I stopped using them a couple of years ago. I left my articles in place though, because I had good results with publishers picking them up and reprinting with live links. It was also an easy way to promote a wide variety of sites on different topics

At the beginning of this year I started focusing more closely on a business model adjustment, and as part of that change I restructured my main business/corporate website to spotlight publications alongside my stock photos. For the previous couple of years I had that site organized to focus almost exclusively on my photo catalog.

Even though I haven't been putting new content at EZA for quite awhile, I do drop in every few months to see how everything is performing and to update links in my bios if needed. This month I decided to change all of my articles to point to my main website. Some point to specific internal pages while others point to the main page.

I was mildly amused to find that linking my articles to the main page of my site is not accepted at EZA anymore, because -- according to the editor who touched the last 20-30 changed articles at least -- "Your article links to a page that does not contain enough relevant informative content."

I'm mildly amused The main page spotlights featured books and photos while linking to each internally. (In my opinion of course) It's quite professional, attractive and well laid out.

I'd been tossing around the idea of pulling my content from EZA and putting it at my site anyway because at the time of this writing my total EZA article views is 1,579,626, so this might seal the deal for me. There's no chance I'm changing my primary business website to fit their desires of course, and they have every right to impose whatever restrictions they want. So... maybe it's time to part ways.

(back to work...)