Ezine.org Link Scam Exposed
When I think of Ezine, I think of a reputable site(s). Don’t you also think of E-zine as being on the up an up? I was unethically tricked into writing a post, Ezine Link Love, to help improve my page rank. I hate to see them involved in internet scams.
Andrea from A Circle of Women and BeachBum, both pointed out to me that Ezine.org has a page rank of 0. I already knew that but assumed the links would come from one of Ezine’s other sites.
Here is the url of the scam site: http://www.ezineblog.org/?page_id=95
I didn’t add a link to them because I didn’t want to give them anything else. It states clearly on the site, you will receive a Page Rank 5 linkback and Technorati Top 100 linkback. I have sent 7 unanswered e-mails to the address listed on the site. My post came out on September 1st. To date, I have not received either of the links they promised and neither has anyone else I know who has participated.
Is Ezine.org actually affiliated with ezinearticles.com? If you know please tell me. I am not the type of person to write a negative post about anyone. However, it is just low-down to lie to innocent bloggers and take advantage of their desire to move up in rank! If they come clean, or give me the promised links, I will publish a post of apology to them.
It’s not nice to use people, especially if your site is supposedly reputable! I demand an answer and explanation from these people as I find it inexcusable! Answer me or you will suffer my endless wrath. I mean it and my word counts! Help me to get this scam some exposure!
Rolando from RPlayground has given me support:
http://www.rplayground.com/archives/208/
NAFASG has written a fantastic post:
Tips On Identifying And Avoiding Internet Scams
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Andrea from A Circle of Women has uncovered that Ezine.org is not affiliated with ezinearticles.com! Read her post here: AC Associates: Link Scam Exposed
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Hi Bobby! How are you? Thanks for keeping us updated about fraud and scams!! You’re a terrific help.
Janice: Thanks Janice! I’ll bet this site got at least 2-300 links or more from unsuspecting bloggers. Somebody WILL answer to this!
Bobby,
Your not the only one that got scammed by Ezine.org. I also did from this post http://malewail.com/another-free-linkback/ on Aug 24th. I never bothered to check out their stats before I posted.
Dave: I know! There’s no telling how many people they scammed! I checked their stats beforehand. I thought because they are ezine, they must be reputable!
Yipes! Thanks for letting all of us know about this.
Polliwog: After the first 5 emails I sent them, I really couldn’t believe it. Ezine needs to pay up! Thanks Paula!
Hi Bobby,
One of our team did stumble on the site before and she told us about it but we decided to back off for a while before letting the team join in.
Yes, i agree with you on how can they take advantage on innocent bloggers who has the desire to move up in rank using their lowly cheap tactics.
Thanks bobby for keeping us updated and making us aware of all these scams.
Well, if they have no answer to your questions, then they will suffer your endless wrath.
Will inform you once it is up.
To show our support to you, i will write an article on scams exposing to how they work. and will link this post of yours to our article.
Thank you Bobby.
Keep it up!
~A job well done!
Nafa: Thank you! If it turns out I am wrong, I will give them a truckload of link love. All I want is an apology and my deserved links. My goal is for a peaceful resolution
I am sorry you had a bad experience. I hope they own up to what they did.
Viv: If they do, I’ll forgive them. It is pretty sad
Hi Bobby,
I read your post in the wee hours this morning and
was hoping I was wrong in suspecting back when
we talked.Still haven’t heard back yet? hmmmm….
I’m thinking that’s not a good sign.
I have a rep from Ezinearticles that I am going
to reach out to. Since I have my articles published
there, they respond quickly to me.
I’ll let you know.
PS: Thanks for your comment on my blog.
MUCH appreciated
Andrea: I really want this resolved. I feel bad for writing a negative post but someone needs to answer me! Thanks for the help Andrea!!!!!
Bobby, I’m not too sure what this site is about. Now that you mention it is a scam, I don’t think I will visit them at all. Thanks for keeping us aware of it :):)
Janice Ng
Janice: It’s either a scam or they have the laziest authors on Earth!!!!!!!!
I just don’t get why people try to scam others. Correction: I know why they do it, just not why they think it’s okay to do it. Like you, I’ve been tempted to write a negative post here and there regarding other things that get under my skin. I feel the day is coming that I’ll be tipped over the edge.
(off-topic: I just now noticed that your comments are in reverse chronological order. Hehe…that explains why when I get updates on your comments that I get confused. At least now I know to read them backwards.
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Mark: Thanks Mark! My blog is about blogging ethics and it is definetly unethical to scam for no telling how many links! Someone had to make the call on this site. I really didn’t want to be the one, but I am pretty irritated with the whole situation.
Wow, I subscribe to my own comments and I didn’t even notice! Thanks
Bobby! Sorry to be off topic but I have something special for WGM over at my perfume blog too!
http://mariucasperfume.blogspot.com/2007/09/more-awards-for-my-gallery.html
Genie Princess
Genie Princess: You can do anything you want at my blog Genie Princess!
Yay! He he.. anyway, I didn’t know u participated in this ezine thingy. Is it really a scam? I’ll check out the URL u have here!
Genie Princess: It must be! I have unsuccessfully tried to get answer for a month!!!!!
Dang scammers! Sorry to hear that you fell victim to them. They’ll get their day in court.
Rolando: Let’s hope it is resolved in a good way! Thanks for all your support Rolando!!!!!!!
Hi Bobby,
I am glad to inform you that we have posted the article related to your post to show our support to you. Hope you favour it.
Thank you.
Have a great week ahead.
http://nafasg.blogspot.com/2007/09/tips-on-identifying-and-avoiding.html
NAFA: All I can say is I am proud to be your friend. THANK YOU
I am speechless.
Thanks for the heads up on ezine.org scam, but don’t spend any more energy on them they are not worth it. There is plenty of good PR5 people out there…
Vascabruta: Thank you! I just wanted to get the word out
Hey Bobby,
Thanks for the heads up. That’s really unethical, worth a stumble to alert other blogger
Cheers
James
James - Visualized.F: Thank you James! I took a look at your blog, great job! Have a great day
How unethical! Is there anyway we can complain about this and have their website suspended?
Emila: They are going down. Absolutely there is! I will be reporting them to over a dozen places over the next few days. Everyone will know about it!
Bobby, I am so sorry this happened to you. I am so thankful that you are a true friend to your readers. It is kind of you to post this information for everyone to read.
Erina Hart: It is such a delight to have you here! The site involved in the scam is a .org non-advertising site! It makes no sense that they would do that! I really hope I’m wrong about them and it will turn out to be something good
Hello Bobby! Still angry with them? Any news yet?
Genie Princess: I was never angry, but I was disappointed. I haven’t heard a word. The site is slick. They have gained hundreds of one way incoming links using specific anchor rext. This will ensure them of gaining extremely high page rank. They aren’t returning the links because Google punishes us for giving out links to sites that are comprised of unrelated content.
That’s why big money sites don’t have friends. The bigger a site gets and the more money it makes can be jeopardized by linking to unrelated sites. If you were making $5000.00 per month and they told you that if you didn’t delete all outgoing links to sites that didn’t have specifically related content you will lose your rank, and your paycheck - would you say goodbye to the $5000.00 or to your friends? That is the one thing that bothers me about big sites! That’s a tough question for anyone to answer. I would say goodbye to the $5000.00 and thus destroy my chances of making twice that. That’s why non-money blogs need to apply seo techniques, so we can change all that!!!!!!!
No prob Bobby! It is a great pleasure to give support to a wonderful person like u. =)
NAFA: It means so much to me that I am your supporter always!!!!!
This sort of junk happens far too often these days on the net… no one want to do anything for free has gone out the window… now people don’t even want to do something for you when you do something for them… shamefull
DeMerchant: I believe that it is the main Ezine central management who is behind this and they DO NOT CARE. I say if you are affiliated with anything connected to the word “ezine” please stop.
Bobby,
What do you mean when you said “Google punishes us when we link to unrelated sites”?
How would Google know if the site in related to mine in content or not?
With regards to your thoughts on money-making sites, I very much share the same view. I would not sacrifice friendship for money. To be honest, I tried to put up some ads in my humble site sometime back. And I also set up an account when one can write sponsored posts. But then I realised that I am not good enough a writer to write a sponsored post to both appeal to the sponsors and my regular readers! (Maybe if there is an ad for Spiritual Getaway … I can write something on it? **chuckles **)
Hence you would see that my site is now pretty much ad-free. And I have no intention in the short future to make money out of blogging. I think it takes a great blogger to be able to balance money-making and friendship-maintenance in the blogosphere. My humble views.
Have a Good Day Bobby! We are one day closer to Weekend!
WaterLearner:Hi Karen! Google identifies related content by for example, related keywords. You are plenty good enough of a writer to write anything you want. Just keep on the path that you are currently on and you’ll naturally evolve the best way!!!!!
That is really really lame. I can’t believe that a reputable company would do something like this. Maybe I missed it, but are they really affiliated with ezinearticles (dot) com. If so, I won’t be publishing any articles there. Thanks for the heads up.
Barry Cox: Hi Barry, I have found out from my friend Andrea that ezine.org is not affiliated with the ezine we all know! Check the bottom of my post and you’ll see the link to Andrea’s post!
Hi Bobby,
How are you doing? You are a good friend to your community and Internet friends. Kudos to you.
Viv: Thanks Viv! I might have a surprise for you, darn, it’s no longer a surprise! I guess you’ll have to wait and see!
Hi Bobby,
Have you had a good day? I want to know what my surprise is
How long are you going to keep me guessing
Viv: On Sunday! He he he!
Oh Bobby,
What a tease you are
That is cool, it gives me something to look forward to 
Viv: I like to tease! It builds up the excitement!