It is now Monday morning, the morning of the first workday since Ezinearticles.com unceremoniously and unjustifiably ejected me from their website. If you’ve been following this episode you know I’m waiting to be reinstated into their inner sanctum and for an apology if I’m lucky. A whole weekend has transpired with no word from those guys. Maybe today will bring excellent news.

In any case, I have come up with at least one lesson from this debacle. The lesson is: don’t place all your eggs in one basket.

If you are an article writer you might be tempted to concentrate your hard work in a few places. You might be sending your articles to ezinearticles.com and one or two other article aggregators. Of all the aggregators around, it is my understanding that the one with the highest Page Rank, and therefore the highest possibility of increasing your rank juice, is Ezinearticles.com. Indeed, I am aware of a decent moneymaking outfit that suggests narrowing down submissions to Ezine lonely, don’t even bother with the others.

I can now say I have learned from experience that contributing articles to only a tiny handful of article submission websites is a BIG MISTAKE. And following NPC’s advice to contribute only to Ezine is a BIGGER MISTAKE.

If you place all your eggs in one or two baskets it is possible that at the press of a single button in the headquarters of your aggregator partner that you may possibly be wiped out, obliterated, consigned to deep cyberspace. And they may or may not right their miscalculation.

I read on their website that some people have contributed over a thousand articles to Ezine. Figure that at the rate of one article per hour, that represents a thousand hours of work by this contributor. Imagine this tab may possibly be annihilated by a random keystroke of a deranged Ezine employee. A thousand hours of work lost. In my case I was a relative newbie at Ezine. The work lost by me amounts to a week’s work, not a thousand hour’s work. Peanuts by comparison. But not a loss I gladly sustain.

The genteel of the tale: spread your article submission goodness around and survive more electronic earthquakes to live another day.

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