When you get locked out, it is pretty much a sledge hammer in the head. After the screen pops up telling you that your account has been suspended, you are giving the ability to submit a message, I think that they realize you might have some questions, and they don’t want to contribute to your frustration more than necessary.
Wow! There really are some great articles published on this directory. I know what you are thinking; this guy is dirking the ezinearticles.com directory Kool-aid. Well maybe, but I have to admit I am learning a lot. First I was able to publish my first 10 articles. I think 3 or 4 of them had to be submitted twice to get them accepted. OK, now I am ready to be a Platinum Member…
Well, hold on a second, three or four out of your ten submissions did not make it. But, you did get them through after a little more work, so how about a Basic Plus Membership and after you submit 25 more articles, we will see if your ready. I have to admit, this gave me a moment’s pause, and I did write a threatening email to the directory, but alas, who cares, I just want to publish more articles and get more visitors to my sight so nothing else matters.
So, I submit about 10 more articles with only one that I had to modify slightly. Wow, I am getting the hang of this. But, wait a minute, this is going kind of slow, and I think I can think of a way to publish more articles every day. First I write an article on the affiliate programs that I am promoting and it is so un-objective and one sided that after 3 tries and 3 rejections, I decided to just delete it.
Then I take 5 PLR’s articles that I get from one of my co-ops and decide to rewrite them, wink, wink. After I read the first one, I disagree with half of it, and don’t like the other half, so I decide to create another authors name so I don’t tarnish my name with this garbage. Stupid me, posts these on a Friday, so they have to sit there all weekend doing nothing. Then the hammer fell when I had finally giving up on my review of my affiliate programs, the unbiased one, I couldn’t delete it because my account was suspended.
Oh yeah, quick side note, I did submit one more article that weekend that I did write, and I actually read about 5 articles posted on the directory for inspiration, so I was really proud of this one. Not to mention the fact that I was very impressed by the good information and quality of the articles I did read.
When you get locked out, it is pretty much a sledge hammer in the head. After the screen pops up telling you that your account has been suspended, you are giving the ability to submit a message, I think that they realize you might have some questions, and they don’t want to contribute to your frustration more than necessary. So I decided to use my words to show them that this was going to be a terrible mistake loosing me, I wrote, *What seems to be the problem?* (Not Funny)
Little did I know, there was already an email in my inbox explaining that they found another article on the Internet with parts that were word for word the same as mine. By the way, I was not credited with writing them.
I look at the other website. Yeah, I was a little embarrassed. No, I did not think that changing a few more words was going to help. I have to admit, up until this very moment, I really did not think that article marketing was a viable form of marketing. I really thought if you have hundreds of thousands of people modifying and republishing content that it was building up a lot of pointless crap. I felt that as wide spread as this idea is everyone telling you that you don’t have to be able to write, that the value was diminishing by the second.
I was giving permission to access my account and was asked to remove any other articles that, *I did not write.* I did it, and thought it was interesting that they did not feel it was their responsibility to read the rest and see if they could weed out any more. I deleted 3 of them and the request that you put a reason, and I wrote the word, *Orange.* (Not Funny)
My account was immediately reinstated. I am sure that I have a little mark next to my account somewhere. I deserve it. I was also glad that they made this a priority and did not wait a day in between each reply to get this taken care of.
I will have to say, it was that experience that made me a believer. I think I was coming along slowly and this helped push me over the edge. I think a person can make a real difference if they pick topics that they care about and want to write about. I plan on writing my own articles from now on. As a matter of fact, I plan on learning a lot more about this and publishing and ezine and will be sharing what I learn with you.
Here is the only soap boxing I am going to do. Don’t buy into the crap, if you want to build a business online, bring and build value with all that you do, and you will make money and be around a long time. If you keep trying the short cuts, you will find a thing or two that works for a while, but you will have a week foundation, and it won’t last.
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I was reading EzineArticles expert Dan Iverson’s blog entry: Consequence: This Directory Suspended My Account. Not the Best Internet Marketing Strategies
His plight is a common one and I liked his transparency about his experience with us. Here is an excerpt from his detailed entry:
“Here is the only soap boxing I am going to do. Don’t buy into the crap, if you want to build a business online, bring and build value with all that you do, and you will make money and be around a long time. If you keep trying the short cuts, you will find a thing or two that works for a while, but you will have a week foundation, and it won’t last.”
YES! I agree… Always best to build a business with a strong long-term focus foundation…and I think most of our blog readers will agree with that.
I’m sure it was frustrating for Dan because at every turn it must have seemed like we put up road blocks. Many of these road blocks are there on purpose to filter out articles and members that uhm… don’t represent an ideal member (Example: Anyone who submits PLR (private label rights) content or rewrites PLR content is not an ideal author). I do like Dan’s persistence with us and the fact that he uploaded an author photo and extended bio (nice!).
To answer Dan’s question about whether his account has a mark on it… We obsessively attempt to track everything possible as it helps us build a trust profile for each member. Because human nature makes us all somewhat predictable, it’s rare when we’re able to see a member come from darkness into the light. It is possible and I hope Dan, you’ll be one of the rare few who ‘get it’.
Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 23, 2008 at 3:21 pm Views 209 |
Chris,
Wow, I never expected you to notice. I can't tell you how grateful I am for all that I have learned from ezinearticles.com. I have purchased and gone through your course about 5 times, as well as several expert authors courses on this site. All of this information is helping me evolve and better understand how I can learn how to use my own perspective and provide something new and of value to the market place.
I would like to share a couple of the insights that I have learned since working with ezinearticles.com.
1. Article marketing can truly be a viable form of marketing. I did not think this for quite some time because I could not see how anyone would benefit from pushing out a bunch of content that had no real value: for example, if I change 6 words in each paragraph of an article, and 100 people do the same thing. I thought the Internet is just going to end up with millions of servers with unusable content that no one would or should care about. Ezinearticles.com, through their approval process, creates a site where the content and the site both have real value. Suddenly, Article marketing makes real sense to me. The original opinion was a result of bad information like much of the hype and crap that is pushed out about Internet marketing.
2. Writing articles is a great way to really become an expert on a topic. Since I have made that post on my blog, I have continued to write and post articles on ezinearticle.com. If you look, I have just over 50 active articles posted on the site now. The majority of them have been on *Article Marketing.* One of the big reasons I have done this, is because it just made sense to me if I really wanted to become one of the top 5% of this field, one of the fastest ways to do this would be to write 100 articles on the topic. I know from my own life experience that if you want to become really good at something, then work really hard at doing it. I consider myself a novice on the topic, but I feel like I am off to a good start. There is not a week that goes by that I don’t add to my knowledge and insights about article marketing. As I learn these things, I reinforce them by writing articles about them. Who do you think benefits the most from this, the reader or the author?
3. One of my most recent insights to article marketing is how closely related article marketing, copy writing, and information marketing should be intertwined. I knew if I focused on becoming a premier author for ezinearticles.com that this would strengthen my credibility. What I did not know was how. I thought, boy that will look good to be able to say that in my profile, bio or resource box. What I have realized is that the value of what I am learning is increasing my credibility and my voice of authority. I now see that I can create information products from researching and restructuring and presenting in a way that adds value to those looking for that information. Then I can write copy, a sales letter, to explain what the product is, and what I did that may be of value to the person looking for that information: what makes it different, better, more useful, timesaving. Then I can drive targeted traffic to that copy by writing article sharing pieces (pre-selling articles) of my content so people can get information they are looking for in small bites and know where they can go to get more depth, or the bigger picture (more valuable information).
These are just a few of the things that I have started to learn. I hope that others find this information useful. I hope I explained myself well. I have published over 50 articles on ezinearticle.com, and I am still not a premier author on the site. I mention that because I think by my not having achieved that yet has been a good thing. What would I have gained, if I would have been given a pass and made a premier author after my first 10 articles? By the way, on Chris’s advice, I have one layer of editing added to my articles before submission, my mom proofs them and sends back her corrections and suggestions. This gets my articles through on first submission almost every time. So, I just want to say thanks for helping me by upholding your standards. I am sure I would have missed this great opportunity if it had not been for you and your staff doing so.
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