I'm Guilty,  well I was guilty.

I write articles to the specification, get them approved and then the bar gets raised.  I don't fault Ezine for taking the steps that they feel are required to raise their rankings back to their former glory. ( The wife had a few choice words).

So, I had some articles that were substandard.  I slapped them up there and met the former criteria.  They were approved and I was happy. Most of my articles exceed the 400 word length as I couldn't really make a good point in under this amount.

So, the bar gets raised and I went over to Ezine to check on the status of my articles.  Turns out that 15 of them were under 400 words.  Only one was under 300.  So, time for a rewrite on 15 articles.  While at it I enhanced the ones that don't seem to be performing very well, tweeked the resource box and generally cleaned up my act.

All but four have been re-accepted and the others will probably be tomorrow. ( Gotta love Platinum status) A necessary evil I guess.  So off I go to do a bunch of back-linking on the revised articles and see if I can get some visitors from the revisions. 

It will be interesting to see if there are people that still see them given the reduction in ranking that E-zine seems to have suffered.

 If you haven't checked on your articles, it behooves you to run through them and polish them up a bit.  Don't know when the new standards take effect or if they will step on articles that don't meet the new standards.  Better safe than sorry.

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