Affiliate links at Ezinearticles?!

by Mike Williams

Posted: 18 years ago 26 replies

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I just read an article over at ezines and the guy signed off with an affiliate link. Not a link to a site with an affiliate link but a direct link to the affiliated website.

I thought this was against their policies. Have they changed the rules, gotten lax in enforcing them, or did this guy just get lucky that an editor didn't catch it?

Thanks in advance.

Mike

#affiliate #article marketing #ezine #ezinearticles #links

BenShaffer

18 years ago

He got lucky.

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sylviad

18 years ago

Yep, I'd agree that he got lucky, unless he has some "in" with the editors over there - or maybe he IS one of the editors.

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lincolnn

18 years ago

can you send it to a redirect page that takes them to the affiliate page? i have seen this also.

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Michael Ellis

18 years ago

Originally Posted by lincolnn

can you send it to a redirect page that takes them to the affiliate page? i have seen this also.

Redirects work fine.

I'd be interested to see the article with the affiliate link in it.

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VegasGreg

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Michael Ellis

Redirects work fine.

I'd be interested to see the article with the affiliate link in it.

EZA only allows redirects from top level domains (example.com), but not sub pages (example.com/page or example.com/recommends/wso).

Though I have seen both types of redirects slip through. I think I accidentally got 1 sub page redirect to go through when I first started(way back in the day), but then they told me not to so I have stopped after I learned their policy.

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sylviad

18 years ago

Some people put up their articles with proper, allowable links and after the article is approved, they go back in and change the link to an affiliate link. If no one reports them, the editors at EA probably won't pick it up. In fact, I've seen this suggested somewhere with a warning that it's not a good idea.

Why take the risk when blogs are cheap? Set up a generic blog, ie: "product reviews" or "product recommendations" and list the links you want to redirect to affiliate products. Use it for all those articles that you want to link to affiliate products.

I'm not sure that redirecting with a script is allowed. I know EA does say, send them to your own site and redirect from there, but my understanding is that you have to offer some representative site, not just jump the link.

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GuruGazette

18 years ago

When you edit your bio, the article goes back into the review queue, so there's no way to "slip it in under the radar"

And yes it's in their TOS: Redirects from top level domains are allowed.

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Andy Fletcher

18 years ago

Originally Posted by GuruGazette

When you edit your bio, the article goes back into the review queue, so there's no way to "slip it in under the radar"

And yes it's in their TOS: Redirects from top level domains are allowed.

You don't have to edit the bio. You leave the link as is and change where it ends up.

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GuruGazette

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

You don't have to edit the bio. You leave the link as is and change where it ends up.

Wow... how's that for an AH HA moment?

Somehow in all these years that just never occurred to me! (And no I'm not being sarcastic LOL!

)

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GuruGazette

18 years ago

Originally Posted by BuddyT

This is the most widely read article on weight loss in EZA for the last 90 days (not mine):
How I Lost 15 Pounds in 5 Days!
To me it looks like it links directly to a sales page (there is a PayPal button). If it's a re-direct it's faster than I could see.

My guess is it's either their own product or a white label site.

White label is like PLR, you get a pre-made site with all the backend programming in place for order processing and even running affiliate programs too. JoeBucks/MarketHealth has these for all their products.

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Bob Monie

18 years ago

50% of the time Ezi doesnt even accept my own domains and urls, mistakes them as affiliate sites when im using a redirect to the affiliate site. Pisses me off coz then i have to wait another few days to proccess it. So dont know how they would have got an affiliate link through.

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Mike Montgomery

18 years ago

An old trick that people often use is to submit the article
without the affiliate link and after it gets approved the
go back and edit the article and put the affiliate link in.

It often works because the editors don't take the time
to check over these edited articles very well since they've
already been approved.

This is asking to get your account banned though if you ask
me.

There are better ways to do it.

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star007

18 years ago

Mike,
I don't know about that one. I submit to EZA quite frequently and they are pretty good about "catching" things. Although I do use redirects all of the time without any problem at all.
You are limited to the number of "self-serving" links you can include in the body though--I know because I just had to edit one of my articles and remove a couple.

That directory has such weight with the search engines, that you certainly want to stay on their good side.

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Pete Egeler

18 years ago

As long as all the EZA experts are currently located in this one spot, can you please tell me.. Is it within the rules to link to a certain page on your site?

ie: www.myownsite.com/readthis.htm

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VegasGreg

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Pete Egeler

Yes, you can link to any page/ sub-page to your site as long as it actually stays on your site. If the www.myownsite.com/readthis.htm redirects to an affiliate link, then no.

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Red_Virus 18 years ago

I think that he just got lucky with the affiliate link, I am not sure if Iframe re-directs are allowed on Ezine ?
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VegasGreg 18 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher View Post
You don't have to edit the bio. You leave the link as is and change where it ends up.

Originally Posted by GuruGazette

Wow... how's that for an AH HA moment?

Somehow in all these years that just never occurred to me! (And no I'm not being sarcastic LOL! )

That is some serious black/gray hat thoughts. I was kind of thinking about that the other day but didn't want to risk going down that path.

Use a link directly to your site (example.com/review-page) which is an actual page at the time and then after the fact make that page redirect to an affiliate link.

Interesting. I bet EZA would shut down and delete your account if they found that out. That would stink to lose all your articles in one swipe.
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sylviad

18 years ago

Originally Posted by GuruGazette

When you edit your bio, the article goes back into the review queue, so there's no way to "slip it in under the radar"

And yes it's in their TOS: Redirects from top level domains are allowed.

I have changed my articles after they've been approved and not once have I seen it go back through the review process. My individual bios are submitted with each article, rather than my main bio on EA, so I don't know if this makes a difference re what you're saying.

While it might be more difficult getting an affiliate link through via this method, it did work in the past. In fact, not long ago I came across an article with an affiliate link in the bio.

BuddyTRight, but it still goes directly from the article to the sales page.

I do not see anything in that guy's sales page that suggests it's an affiliate product. I did a short run-through to order, and on the Paypal order page, it shows several related products that you can pick. This tells me he's using the shopping cart feature at Paypal, which I know (well, pretty sure) you cannot do with an affiliate product. Affiliate products have to be purchased through the affiliate product's own payment process and I don't see how that's possible if you have a shopping cart and can order more than one product along with the affiliate product. I'd think it would be too complicated for the payment processing system to figure out who gets what payment.

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Christie Love 18 years ago

Yea, that confused me also, but EZA never allowed me to submit articles with direct affiliate links. It took me a long time to figure this one out.
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- Dean Shainin 18 years ago
  
  I'd like to see the article too.
  
  I'm wondering if the affiliate link is within the article bio or simply a re-direct which can be done in ones CP behind the scenes after an article is approved. I don't do re-directing but many do it very effectively...
  
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  Mike Williams 18 years ago
  
  It showed up under "recently submitted" yesterday evening and it was promoting Article Underground but I can't find it now.
  
  It was in the bio but it may well have been a redirect. Wasn't aware Ezinearticles allowed those.
  
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Arindam Chakraborty 18 years ago

Originally Posted by BenShaffer

He got lucky.

Haha! I agree he has got a tad lucky! This seems to be a one-off success. The editors at EZA are pretty overwhelmed so it is understandable that they sometimes overlook things like plr articles, affiliate links, etc.

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Zach Booker 18 years ago

He isn't supposed to do that. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure you can't.
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- chill123 18 years ago
  
  in my experiance a few articles slip under the radar. i've got articles approved that contravine their rules. maybe he/she got lucky.
  
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Andy Fletcher 18 years ago

This is pretty easy to do. I thought everyone new how.

Submit a link using a redirect script. Wait for it to be approved. Then change where it redirects.

That's what pretty much everyone uses FLC for.
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- Frank Bruno 18 years ago
  
  Actually even if there was an affiliate link that was accidentally approved for the article, I wouldn't want that to show in my article and I would go back and change it unless it's a clean redirect.
  
  Not only are affiliate links ugly, but they're really obvious.
  
  The best thing to do is redirect through Cpanel, masking, or using a script.
  
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