EzineArticles

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EzineArticles is a matching services between hundreds of thousands of expert authors and Ezine Publishers looking for supplemental content they can use for next permission-based email newsletter. As of April 2011, it was ranked #102 in traffic among global websites, and #88 in the United States, according to Alexa Internet.[1] The site was founded by Chris Knight and rose to be the #700th most visited website within two years of its launch.[2]EzineArticles allows writers to write articles and after review they are published.

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  • ezinearticles.com - Official website


Duplicate Content, Plagiarized Content and Scams Original authors contents is being traced to EzineArticles. Professional writers are finding some Ezine authors are rewriting their content and failing to cite their sources. Internet, blog and professional writers have found a lot of content being rewritten by Ezine Authors after proxy scrapers scan their websites and blogs.

Recently EzineArticles tried to stop the word 'Scam' being updated on their site by any of their authors.

Critics of EzineArticles believe the owners are attempting to counteract any genuine criticism by outside sources and real transparency on how their Authors are being categorized 'experts 'when they fail to provide real proof of expertise or genuine market reputation.

EzineArticles also was classified by the major search engines as an 'Article Farm'. Ezine writers add article content to link back to their own blog and websites (back links) to manipulate SEO ranking. Google's Panda algorithms heavily penalized content farms in 2011 because of duplicate content found on article sites, spam affiliate articles, and original writers plagiarized content.


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