I still remember the first email that I opened on February 4th 2010. It seemed to be a challenging one. For the moment of truth, I will become quiet skeptical whenever I see a message that points to a problem in EzineArticles.com. Alright, now coming back to the email, the client has used our “Article Writing & Submission Service” before a week and now when he was about to order the next set of submissions, he noticed that all 3 articles submitted to ezinearticles.com were rejected. Now he won’t place the order till these old articles go live. Well, as the article was written by us it was our responsibility to get them live.

First Contact With Ezinearticles.com
I was pretty sure that the article was good (I wrote them after hours of research with optimum keyword density and following all the ezinearticles.com guidelines.). While logging into this client’s account at ezinearticles.com, the problem was not mentioned clearly but the articles were rejected (for no reason!!). One thing I hate with ezinearticles.com is that they won’t provide with the exact rejection reason of the article in most cases (Unless the article has grammatical or spelling errors). They always want the authors to contact them to know the reason.   I contacted the support immediately to know the reason.


Next Contact Next Week
I got the response for my contact from ezine after a week. According to them, the same articles were available in some other place attributed to a different name Charles Thomas (Name changed due to privacy issues). When I checked it, it was true. The same article was in docstoc under a different name (But was submitted by ourselves) with links pointing to the site as same in the rejected article at ezinearticles.com. I wonder why ezinearticles.com cares about the author name as long as it is linked to the same website. However, as the client needs approve article in ezine, I explained all these to the Ezinarticles.com team.

Yeah You Guessed it! Next Contact Next Week
I had to wait another week to get a response. Even after explaining all these, Ezinearticles.com team wants me to attribute these articles to the same name Charles Thomas  or else they WILL NOT approve it. I was suggested to all Charles Thomas as a pen name and resubmit the article. Unfortunately Charles Thomas was already taken a pen name by someone else and ezinearticles has an option to contact them and make a special request. I clicked on the contact us link which landed up in an error page. So I contacted ezine team again and admitted that I am clueless on what to do.

Quicker response in 5 days
Now they want me to add a middle name to Charles Thomas and resubmit the article and they assured me to make the articles live if I do so. I added Charles XX Thomas and resubmitted the articles. As usual I have to wait till the articles are reviewed by ezineaarticles.com team.

You Get 2 !
After 3 days 2 articles got approved and the remaining one article was again rejected stating the article was attributed to someone else and this time they provided a url where the found it. To my surprise it was the client’s website itself. I can’t explain this to ezine again which may take another month to get resolved.

Unfortunately I lost this client. But I learned some valuable lessons. 



Ezinearticles.com is the best directory and obviously you need to submit all articles first to ezinearticles.com and get approved before you submit it anywhere else.

In case of submitting an already published article, make sure to submit it under the same author name as in the original source.

It is always better to have a single author name to your article wherever it is distributed (This increases the authenticity of the article as well).

Though I lost one prospective client, I learned a great lesson of article submission through the whole month of February.