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EZineArticles Toughens Its Quality Requirements

An electronic magazine or ezine is one published online rather than in print and tends to focus on quite specific subject areas with a targeted readership. EzineArticles.com describes itself as a matching service that brings ezine publishers together with expert authors and writers. Submitted original articles are posted on the site and made available to publishers of email newsletters for inclusion in their offerings.
EZineArticles has just issued a list of five quality improvement changes for submitting authors to take on board with immediate effect. This follows in the wake of Google’s recent offensive against content farms although any perceived causal linkage may be fallacious. Here is a summary of the changes:

Google Seeks Higher Quality Content

Google has just re-engineered its search engine to reduce the search rankings of websites that, according to the company, offer a low grade of information. The move, widely seen as an attempt to improve relationships with newspapers and magazines, seems to be having a severe impact according to analysts of search engine data. Following the change in Google’s search algorithms, many websites that previously ranked highly in certain keyword searches suffered a sharp fall, but some defended their content quality contending that they had been unfairly associated with less reputable sites.