I was recently inappropriately deleted as an author from the popular articles aggregator Ezinearticles.com. I am certain this was a mistake on their part and it will be corrected once the weekend is over. But I am posting this message as a general warning to any other possible contributors to their collection. It could happen to you, and it could cost you some points on your reputation.

Like most articles websites, Ezine has its standards. Originality is one of its most important standards. The articles they publish must be fresh and written for their website alone and no one else. Because their articles are not duplicates of articles posted on other sites, Ezine has a good reputation and a high PR (Page Rank, a disputed term used in Google searches).

A couple of weeks ago the head of Ezine sent a video to its authors. The message was that if the author has old posts lying around on their own personal blogs it is now permissible to brush them up and send them for publication on Ezine. In other words, the article does not have to be 100% new, but it should be from the author’s personal collection and not appear anywhere else.

I fell for this message. I found a nice post I had posted two years ago, polished it up a bit and submitted it to Ezine.

Yesterday, Friday, I got a nasty message that my entire collection of articles on the Ezine website is suspeded and I am being sent to the corner without dinner for the infraction of stealing someone else’s post and trying to foist it off as my own creation. The Ezine editor who handled this submission found my original post on the other website and assumed I stole it. Except it IS my own post. The editor could have verified it is my post by checking the Whois registration data, which is public and available to anyone who bothers to look. But nooooo, this editor shot first and asked questions later …. err, the editor never asked any questions. The editor simply assumed I am guilty of stealing someone else’s work, so penalized me as hard as Ezine can penalize anyone. They cut me off at the knees and sent me packing.

Of course I immediately sent emails back to Ezine with all the data they need to prove the article is my brainstorm and fits the criteria set out in the video their honcho sent out two weeks ago. I am still waiting for a reply. 

I assume they will see the error of their ways and reinstate me ASAP. I will notify my readers when that happens. In the meanwhile, keep my experience in mind when you deal with Ezine.

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