EzineArticles guidelines for acceptance

13 years ago

Wow that sure is a lot of rules. Sometimes I have trouble with this one: MUST NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype. Cause sometimes, something is actually really good and if you say so you might be accused of too much hype when you are actually just a bit excited about it.

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by KateHunter

sometimes, something is actually really good and if you say so you might be accused of too much hype when you are actually just a bit excited about it.

It's really not worth doing that, at all: if you look as if you might be promoting something, nobody's going to re-publish your article anyway - and these days there's certainly no real traffic-value or backlink-value to speak of in just having an article sitting inside EZA and never being syndicated by anyone from there to anywhere useful.

As can be seen in this thread, EZA's guidelines can be pretty straightforward to comply with.
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willyyard

13 years ago

Ezine keep several rules and regulation to maintain the quality of the articles. First of all articles should not be copied from any other sources, 2nd Grammar should be correct, it should not look promotional etc.

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Giani

13 years ago

If you read the guidelines once, these are very clear and easy to follow. However some people get tempted to slip in some kind of sale / promotional words and that's where EZA rejects their articles.

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AnniePot

13 years ago

From my experience, and reading between the lines in other threads, the biggest nay-sayers about Ezine Articles are most often those who have broken their rules (guidelines).

Three years ago I (extremely foolishly) thought it would be a neat idea to also run an article directory, but right from the get-go I was devoting too much time to a looser. I clearly published the guidelines, and sent a link to them to every new sign-up. I set myself the task of reviewing every article before actually publishing.

There was a core base of excellent contributors who regularly added great articles; but, without exaggeration, there were thousands more who daily, added garbage which broke just about every guideline.

I stopped accepting contributions for the site about a year ago.

Yes, as the OP stated, just read and follow EZA's Guidelines...:rolleyes:

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JohnMcCabe

13 years ago

Originally Posted by KateHunter

Wow that sure is a lot of rules. Sometimes I have trouble with this one: MUST NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype. Cause sometimes, something is actually really good and if you say so you might be accused of too much hype when you are actually just a bit excited about it.

So how does an editor tell the difference between your 'a bit excited' and someone else's 'promotion'? And where do you draw the line?

Whether a product is actually any good or not isn't the issue. The issue is whether the content piece you submit is in line with the objectives of the directory.

As the newspapers say, if you want us to print your story, send us a story our readers want to read. If you want us to print an ad, buy an ad...

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NicoleBeckett 13 years ago

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

As the newspapers say, if you want us to print your story, send us a story our readers want to read. If you want us to print an ad, buy an ad...

When I was in TV news, I always had to deal with people pitching me "stories" which were nothing more than glorified sales pitches for their businesses. The ongoing joke was always to walk into the sales manager's office and tell him we had someone else for him to send a rate cards to - since all the person pitching the "story" really wanted was to advertise on our station

But I digress. Back to the original discussion...

It shouldn't be hard at all to write articles that aren't promotional. That's because, by their very nature, articles are meant to inform. If they were meant to sell something, they'd be called "sales copy". If you want to follow EZA's rule (and abide by the golden rule of writing articles in general), save your sales pitch for the resource box. The body of the article shouldn't even contain the name of your product!

All you're trying to do in an article is provide solid information. If you're trying to use your articles to sell something, you're going about article marketing all wrong
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toddbakker

13 years ago

Ezine Articles have really bothered me lately.. I could never really get any of my articles accepted after submitting them. It just makes me angry, although it is my own fault for not taking some time on my end to sit down and go over all of the rules and guidelines.

I found out that this is practically the hardest article directory to get articles approved. After a while though, I managed to get some approved and am working towards my fourth one. Takes time!

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by toddbakker

I found out that this is practically the hardest article directory to get articles approved.

I'm sure it is; but that's why it's the one to which webmasters and ezine/newsletter compilers instinctively go in search of content (which is why article directories exist, after all): the "acceptance standards" are just the other side of the same coin, and part of its value to authors. The two things go together.

Originally Posted by toddbakker

After a while though, I managed to get some approved and am working towards my fourth one. Takes time!

Keep going - and good luck!
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nicoledeal

13 years ago

I have only submitted 5 articles to Ezines, and 4 were approved. One was not approved due to reasons solely my fault. I think JohnMcCabe summed it up very well above. (nice snook btw)....Write about a REAL issue that I am struggling with and give me a solution, and options.

Avoid offering the reader "you" as a solution, at least for Ezines purposes. Remember to keep "you" out of the article. It is about your ideas and solutions, not you. The resource box is about you (the problem solver), not the article itself.

If I go to Ezines and want to use one of their articles (maybe one is yours), I certainly don't want to promote "you", I want to promote your ideas and solutions. The benefit for you is a credit for the article, and maybe a payoff. A backlink at the least. Just think, maybe one of your articles will go viral and then you can hire a copywriter.

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Mizzy Princess

13 years ago

Thanks for sharing the link. This is very informative and helpful. It's been a long time since i posted my last article at Ezine.

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luckystepho

13 years ago

I don't generally have any trouble getting my articles approved at EZA. I didn't realize though that they shouldn't be too promotional, the last few I have written were blatant reviews for products I'm promoting but they were still approved!

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by luckystepho

I don't generally have any trouble getting my articles approved at EZA. I didn't realize though that they shouldn't be too promotional, the last few I have written were blatant reviews for products I'm promoting but they were still approved!

Editors there aren't always completely consistent. You can sometimes get those declined: it depends on how promotional they are, who the editor is, what day of the week it is, whether there's a following wind and the color of the engine-driver's socks. :rolleyes:

But the real reason for not being promotional is that nobody's going to syndicate a promotional article anyway, and without the chance of syndication, one's simply using EZA for it's own backlink and its own traffic, and there's very little mileage in either of those: wouldn't you really be better off just posting it on your own site, and getting all the traffic there, rather than losing a high proportion of it to EZA's AdSense and other distractions? That way, you'd trivially easily outrank EZA, as well ... because your articles there are on non-context-relevant, PR-0 pages.

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JCorp

13 years ago

Ezines rules and guidelines are reasonable and not at all hard to follow...just remember your signature is your best self promoter so don't get tempted to link to your sites too many times inside the body of your post. it's just not worth getting rejected over...

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JCorp

13 years ago

Originally Posted by dailyblogtools

already i read it.but my articles are does not accepting

Hmmm, from the looks of your reply maybe grammar is not your strong suit :rolleyes:

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art72 13 years ago

Originally Posted by warrior600

Hmmm, from the looks of your reply maybe grammar is not your strong suit :rolleyes:

I think more over it's a statement towards those who 'spin' articles, then again, these days; who knows!

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EDIT: Upon further investigation, I believe you were correct Annie!
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AnniePot

13 years ago

Originally Posted by dailyblogtools

already i read it.but my articles are does not accepting

I would hazard a guess that you need to learn correct English grammar before submitting any more articles to EZine Articles. Just Google "English grammar" and you will find a lot of free help.

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EzineArticles guidelines for acceptance

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