Comments on: eHow – My thoughts on the article cleanup

By: Alexis

Alexis — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:17:04 +0000

I lost a few articles as well and I too do not agree in the least and actually have considered not writing anything further. The articles I wrote were clearly beneficial to many, some were earning over 10 dollars a month in fact, and the only thing I can see that was wrong with them was that a so-called editor had written a similar article. I also find it very annoying that they have started to limit what titles we can use. For example, if you go to write an article and the title is used they prevent it from publishing. Naturally you can be creative and find a new title BUT it still can potentially be flagged as repeat content. I see a moral and ethical problem with this since they do not verify or rate the content of any and/or every given article and therefore you may get only one “eHow” or even an inferior article rather than variety. I have read articles which match articles I have written and as opposed to going in depth they have been 4 step one-liners.

By: Angie

Angie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:27:26 +0000

The redirect to the editors articles really killed me too. The editor articles are terrible.

By: Guille

Guille — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:25:58 +0000

I have lost about 5 articles, and honestly did not care much, because I thought that the one that was giving me top earnings was still there, but as you said, when I clicked through the title it redirected my 2009 tax tips related article to a 2007 ehow editor tax article, as you can imagine that is no service to any info seeker.

Now I am wondering whether it is worth to keep adding articles if ehow can delete the and use the traffic to their favor once they become popular?

Great post by the way!!

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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:42:47 +0000

[...] to be honest with you, I cannot figure out what was wrong with them. Perhaps they were not “physically actionable“, whatever that means, but they were decent articles. I have read on the eHow forums of [...]

By: Cookie @ Writing for Residuals

Cookie @ Writing for Residuals — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:19:25 +0000

This is a great post Norm. I agree with everything that you said. I didn’t know about the urls being redirected. That really isn’t right.
I think eHow should move to a system where articles have to be pre-approved. This would prevent spammers and it would prevent honest writers from being penalized as well.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:36:27 +0000

I lost 4 articles in the purge. As you indicated, these articles were not “physically actionable” but were definitely “mentally actionable”. It is my contention that most internet users are searching for knowledge, not just “how to change a light bulb”. I am going to make the switch and follow you over to InfoBarrel. There are other places to make money writing articles!

Yet another reason to concentrate more on creating my own online business!