Oh ouchie! Nothing like getting ready to start a day of IM work only to find an email from ezines saying that a recent article submission was found to be a duplicate and that my account is suspended until I can explain myself. It was an article rewrite I purchased. Even though my rewrite shows that the article is 100% unique (scanned with 2 plagiarism detectors) somehow ezines feels that the content is not original. I responded with an explanation and I hope they lift the suspension. From what I have read online, some people have had their accounts suspended numerous times and were able to have their account in good standing once again. One person did report of a permanent ban. I really hope that I am not permanently banned since I purchased the article and it is original content. *sigh*
So lesson for the day! Do not use rewrites for ezines. If you want to use rewrites make sure that they are only rewrites of your original work so if questioned, you can say that you own the original articles. Of course you can’t post them under a pen name either. They have to reflect the same author. I definitely have learned my lesson and will not be outsourcing rewrites as I previously have been doing. My last outsourced rewrite project is probably how I will be doing things from now on. I gave her broad niches like “weight loss”, “wrinkles” or whatever and asked her to write me quick 250 word articles on them. I gave her full freedom to write however she wanted, be it quick tips or reviews. Short and sweet and 100% original.
While my account is suspended, I’ve decided to just shift my focus on using Unique Article Wizard to rank my inner pages of my xfactor sites. I currently have 12 completed xfactor sites so I basically need to do about 3 UAW submissions for each site so that is 24 UAW submissions altogether. This is going to take some time. It takes me about 2 hours to prepare 1 UAW submission. As I told Mike last night, UAW submissions retard my brain. I loathe doing them the most. I would rather give myself a Brazilian bikini wax than work on UAW submissions. (That says a lot because that hurts like a mofo!) But one guy that comments on Mike’s blog regularly seems to have great results for ranking his inner pages when he uses UAW on them. It’s worth a shot.
On a good note, my adsense earnings are going up. I think I am gonna start posting them like Mike does. I’ve already received a few clicks on some xfactor sites and these particular sites haven’t had clicks in about a week so I think they are slowly rising in the SERPs.
Yesterday’s Adsense Total Earnings: $16.85 ($12.56 from main niche blog that I recently switched to adflex seo template, $0.51 from 1 Xfactor site and the rest from various blogs/hubs)
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That is the main reason I write all of my own content. It takes forever, I get 1/3 of the work done, but I know it is original.
Have you considering using SENuke? I am so on the fence about that right now but unless I find something like that, I typically run out of day before I run out of things I want to do!
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I have thought about SENuke in the past but the expense is what has made me decide against it.
Sorry to hear about that EZA issue, I’m sure if you explain yourself you can get it lifted, I made a schoolboy error recently when I soun an article and put it on a few sites and not EZA first. I was asked to explain myself but all I had to do was put my name on the site where they found the original article (which happened to be one of my many blogs).
If you’re looking to respin articles then I’m not sure about UAW, I’ve used DigiXmas in the past and found it to be incredible. It submits to lots of directories and by a click of a button I can generate a random article. I’ve seen the same keyword domintae the serps for my various blogs as well as article directories, they all think that their articles are unique etc which is amazing. The ONLY problem is how long it takes to re-spin an article properly. It can take about 8 hours for a 250 word if you do it PROPERLY. Its definately worth it in the long run but can be very tim econsuming.
Anyway Sara good luck and let us know how you get on with the EZA issue.
Also, how you doing with the XFactor sites? Are you seeing any increase in serps/revenue?
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I’m sorry to hear about your EZA account
That must be a massive pain. That said, I would never use certain types of rewrite to submit there. I think services like Human Rewriter just aren’t good enough – they are unique in terms of copyscape, but in essence they’e just re-using someone else’s article. I don’t know if that’s what you did, but I feel like a lot of people have been using other people’s articles in this way since Human Rewriter got popular and I still think it’s plagiarism, so if EZA managed to spot it I can understand why they would do. I don’t mean that to sound negative towards you, it’s just something that bothers me about all the big names recommending it. I usually get them to rewrite my own work. Sometimes I rewrite my articles to submit to both EZA and GoArticles and that seems fine because I use the same penname. Your other method of giving the writer articles seems a lot safer. I really hope you don’t get banned!
Nah, you aren’t sounding negative. It’s true, rewriting articles is essentially “stealing” someone’s work, even if it is rewriting just a few sentences from an article.
I have heard that some marketers are having good luck with secondary article directories like articlesbase and buzzle. I know that a few articles I have published on these sites have outranked my EZA articles with no additional backlinks added…. Just a thought!
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Hi Dusty,
I totally agree, I’ve experienced this as well hence my post above. Buzzle, Articlesbase & GoArticles seem to be the ones that work well for me.
Yeah it’s interesting – I believe EZA is losing some of its authority really.
That’s interesting. I haven’t looked at the PRs of those directories lately or even heard of how quickly they are being indexed. It would be interesting to research that further.
Well, I will probably use those directories for some of my rewrites that I have held onto for about 2 weeks. I don’t want to take another chance with ezines finding similarities in another article and giving me a 2 strikes and your out sorta deal.
I just found out today that articlebase is “nofollow” so I won’t be wasting my time using it.
I think EZines is feeling the heat because they are being accused of aiding copyright infringement. It does stink that they assume you are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.
Regarding ArticleBase, it just blows my mind that they are NO FOLLOW. Don’t they realize that they primary reason they are even in business is because webmasters want to post articles for backlinks?
I think some of these companies are getting too cranky for their own good…but that’s just my opinion.