I don’t have the time (or want to put in the time) to fight the republication of articles. Most of the blogs that they are on are on auto-pilot so you do not even get a response.

I still use ezine but do not post articles that are also posted on my site. It generates hits and adds some nice back-linkage.

Richard

Whatever.

I have noticed the spam exploits you refer to, and you are correct. And again, it’s really unfortunate this has become a problem. But EA does not actively seek out ‘distributors’ as you seem to be thinking. They don’t have to, google does all the work. The fine print is to protect their own butt. In the sue happy world we live in, can you blame them? In FACT.. Their terms of service also RESRTICT how many articles can be used per year per domain, reprinted on a site (25). So you are miss understanding what it is ment for. It’s really.. hey, this is a great article! And I can legally copy it on my site to show others. But only a sample. At least that is how it is meant to work. But most of these porn sites breaks those terms of service. So efforts are in fact made to close them down. Not at an authors request but because they hurt everyone, EA and us authors. The problems is, they pop back up as fast as you can close them down. So yes, the spam sites will exploit it’s traffic. And I blame the search engines for being poisoned by the spammers who steal anything that is ‘popular’, and try and divert traffic from search engines to porn operations.

But I also ask, really, just how much of a problem is it? People with common sense know such pages are just another form of spam, and will find another link, usually several others of the material are available. (and will be lower than EA itself) I really don’t think people make the type of association to your material to the domain it is in, like you think, unless you happen to write about porn, hehe. Else,frankly it is out of place. And I think most people understand that. (It’s kind of like finding an article about Hair Product, in a Brothel… Do you think, gosh, the author of this article about hair products, must be a pervert?)

I don’t like their business model. They allow anyone who supposedly agree with their policies to republish my work. I believe I should have the right to say which sites my work should appear on. I also believe authors should be able to blacklist sites, with the review of eZineArticles staff.

Yes, it is different when spammers use articles from eZine Articles. eZine articles gives permission and by submitting to them, I give permission, too. When they steal from my site, there’s no permission. It’s unquestionably copyright infringement and I clearly have the right to issue DMCA and take-down notices.

I was only a part of eZine Articles for a month or so. I only had 5 articles online. But finding those articles on sites with porn names — and finding that eZine Articles was unwilling to contact the site publisher to get them off — was enough for me to realize that I don’t need the kind of exposure eZine Articles offers.

Evidently, I’m not as desperate for exposure as some of the other authors obviously are. I can get enough exposure on my own.

I’ve made my decision and explained why. I believe professional writers who care about where their work appears should avoid distributors like eZine Articles.

I think ezine should have publishers submit the site they are going to re-publish onto approved before they are allowed to even see they “ezine publisher” link. They should adhere to the guidelines to republish with original links or risk being removed from publisher status. Authors should have the ability to rank publishers or send reports to ezine on bad publishers. The public articles should not have a “ezine publisher link”. Bottom line is ezine could control the spam if they wanted to.

Nonetheless, write quality articles for my site, and then cut them down and respin them for ezinearticles so not to get duplicate content. I am one of the top authors in the wedding category and have over 90,000 views on my articles. One article alone sent over 2,000 visitors to my site. For traffic purposes it is a great tool.

Ezinearticles gives anyone the right to republish your work. In other words, they can do it legally. I have no recourse to get the work offline. I cannot sue.

I really cannot see any benefit for an established author or consultant or “expert” to publish their work on ezinearticles.com given their complete failure to check “publisher” sites for appropriateness before allowing them to publish. They screen the authors, they screen the content, but they don’t seem to screen the publishers.

I worked hard to get where I am and I don’t need my name brought down by association with questionable sites desperate for content.

Why not simply build relationships with popular blogs that will publish your work? In many instances, they’ll even pay you for it.

Whatever you decide, good luck!

There are two main benefits, and I’ve seen both. First, people may find your writing on the ezinearticles site and follow your links to you, creating business for you. Second, having your article on a prominent site like this, with relevant links back to your site, creates link value. The excessive spam content on these sites is probably reducing the value, but it still has some benefit. One of my articles has been viewed over 15,000 times and my web site analytics show that it has referred actual business — people paying me to handle their speeding tickets.

A key problem is that it sounds like you’re submitting the same content you’ve written somewhere else. That’s not going to help you much, as search engines tend to prefer unique content, and may penalize “duplicate content.” Thus, your articles won’t be seen much and you won’t get much link value from them.

As for your content showing up on other sites, that’s not the fault of ezinearticles. You own the copyright to your content and they don’t have the power to stop others from reusing it. That’s your problem, and in my opinion at least, you’re wasting your time by worrying about it. The spam sites that are republishing your content are seen by very few people and in the long run will probably disappear.

I’m just wondering if I could write something like that and get it both published and picked up. It would be a good experiment when I’m done with the project I’m working on now.

I’m not that sensitive about my articles though I don’t want my articles associated with drugs, sex or gambling.

I have a few submitted at EzineArticles so I need to go check on them.