Is It Just Me Or Have Ezine Articles Lost Rank In The Last Couple Days?

How so?

It seems that Ezine's business model and Google's announcement and algorithm change are at complete odds with each other.

Ezine could decide to become a site only accepting super high quality unique content. But that would take time and a massive paradigm shift.

Or, maybe Google will value their earnings from Ezine and switch up their algorithm to support Ezine. I very much doubt this. Ezine is just a drop in the bucket for Google. They're looking at the bigger picture.

My money is on neither of these thing's happening.

What happened is a MAJOR MAJOR shakeup. Things will never be the same again.

This isn't necessarily bad for Bum Marketers, as long as they can adapt.

It's much more complicated than that. Google is finally starting to devalue content farms such as ezinearticles, squidoo, hubpages, etc. Hopefully most everyone used these places as a tool to help build their business - and not *as* their actual business.

It has become so popular and overpopulated with bad and spin articles it has lost rank in Google eyes for sure.

right........

Yes, folks, it is true, but this is not just limited to blog farms or article directories, Auto Blogging and Content scrapers are on the chopping block too, every thing is about to change, if you are running an auto blog you should seriously consider making some changes Fast...

This is the price we pay to be followers of the great Google. When it sneezes we've got a problem. This will pass and all will be well again in the land of milk and honey.

Here is what caught my intrest from the above link:

So I guess this marks the beginning of the end of autoblogging.

Am I right?

It's not surprising.

Buzzle makes you write at least 600 words.

They require unique content.

They have a strict editorial policy and they'll delete articles that don't measure up.

Buzzle isn't a quick and dirty article dump like EZA.

Mo, over-reliance on third party content sites has never been a good thing in my book, and this just proves my point.

We used to rely a bit on EZA for traffic and it's still a decent source, but there is just WAY TOO MANY ads on their pages now.

I would suggest people move over to Articlesbase, GoArticles, Buzzle, etc. Your CTR will jump and you can still get great rankings for moderate difficulty keywords.

And of course, post to your own sites as well, always. My two cents.

Jenny

Don't rely on one source for traffic is one moral of this story.

Oh and btw, I don't think auto-blogging will ever die, it will just change with the times.

Google is basically a computer, and computers will compete against the Google algo. Evolution.

I may be in the minority here, but that's what I truly believe. As Google gets more advanced the auto-scripts will get more advanced, I wouldn't be surprised if some programmer(s) were right now back engineering a new form of auto-content that is three steps ahead of Google.

Now you ain't gonna hear about that on the WF or any other public forum, but it's out there.

My 2 pennies

This so true, the big G coughs and everyone falls over..I've got over 50 auto blogs and they are doing just fine thanks!

Well YOU can if you search for the keyword/article in Google Its likely yours will pop up since it was indexed first. The other, duplicate might now even show up.

I would go and touch some wood right now. This should be a wake up call for you. Just because they are fine this time does not mean they will be next time. You can see the direction Google are going - the same direction they have always gone. Quality, unique content wins. People trying to fool Google or recycle other information will lose. Simple.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. Google is trying to get rid of results like EZ from the top of their search results. Google knows the game and they know that majority of the articles on sites like EZA have been written for the sole purpose of ranking and/or getting traffic to a website. They are not authority articles and not articles they want to necessarily be serving up to their users.

They would do much better to use content from the authority sites in each niche than sites like EZA. They now know that and they are adjusting their results accordingly.

Once again, if you have been doing things properly and posting all your articles to your blog before posting them anywhere else then you should continue to get the traffic your deserve.

Which part of Google's algorithm is designed to judge the relative "quality" of the written word? Even human beings can't agree on that distinction.

Exactly, and those who honestly think Google is going to worry about the tiny amount of revenue they are earning from their ads on EZA, are kidding themselves.

It is a drop in the ocean to them and is not worth ruining the reputation of their search engine.

Thank you so much for responding GeorgR even though I do NOT appreciate your condescending tone.

I made the comments I made and asked the questions I asked out of concern for the future or article marketing --- more specifically out of concern for the future of a large archive of very well written newspaper business columns that I've authored over the past three years.

I don't know why you mentioned spun articles. I didn't!! Nor do I understand where you are coming from concerning legal issues.

I acknowledge that I'm not as well versed in IM as many of the people on this forum. In fact, the rock I live under doesn't have a reference book that defines what you call 1:1 articles. Neither does Google so I am at loss at following some of your logic.

I made the duplicate content comment because there is a line of thought (obviously flawed) that "any" content is duplicate if it doesn't come straight from the source of the origination site.

What's got me concerned /worried is the fact that one of my publishers mistakenly placed a large amount of my content on his open (non paid access) newspaper website and it got indexed by google before it was indexed on my site. Now, even though I am the original author and copyright holder I don't know how this recent Google action might effect my posting the columns (archive) on an article directory.

Thank you for your advice. My advice back to you is that you need work on your manners. Not all people that are in the process of learning IM are stupid, spammers or crooked.

If i was rude in my above reply to Ernie I APOLOGIZE!!

Sorry, i did not follow this thread so i didn't know about Ernies response. It can happen that "in the heat of the debate" sometimes i choose the wrong words - was not intended...

I remember i replied to your posting

and this is what triggered my response since i was assuming it should be common knowledge that it never was "advantageous" to publish sourced articles, at least not unaltered.

It was not my intention to come up as rude, nor do i want to sound like a rude "know it all" - I apologize again! Peace?

Georg.