Depending on how many titles you had on eHow, your deleted titles may be just one or two, or they may number dozens or even more. My 78 deleted eHow titles seemed pretty impossible to find, even if I did have the time to search my account for the titles and then compare that to the new titles. So, I emailed eHow and just asked if they could tell me what the titles were? Guess what? They actually did. I got the full list this evening, saving me hours of work. All I have to do now is make sure that I have the deleted titles in my eHow Word file. If not, they are still cached on Google for now.
If you have a lot of titles that you want a list of, you may have good luck by simply emailing eHow. If you only have a few and don't want to wait for the answer (it took about five days for me to get a reply), you can check them by comparing the article titles in the Earnings Reports section of the new eHow console (https://myarticles.ehow.com/SignIn.aspx). It seriously sounds like a pain, but it's better than losing work that you've already done. The only question now is where to put all of those articles...
Monday, March 14, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
eHow Articles Deleted
If you're an eHow writer with more than a few articles on the site, chances are that you were a victim of today's mass deletions. After finding out that 78 of my articles were deleted today, I am reasonably certain that I'm unhappy with eHow. Seventy-eight articles? Seriously? The articles were deleted early in the day with no explanation. Hours later, the explanation came.
According to the mass email that you may have gotten, the site decided to go through and delete all duplicate titles, keeping only the best-performing one. So, I could have written an article, been copied by someone who used more keywords and bookmarks and then lost my article in favor of the more popular one. I don't know how wise a decision any of this is, especially when there are many, many different ways to write to the same title. Demand Media itself recognizes that there are many ways to interpret a title and has an elaborate process for writers to get clarification on the titles it generates for its writers. And yet, it has decided to get rid of articles fairly randomly because of shared titles. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that many eHow writers are reporting that their articles were deleted and replaced with a link to a Demand-generated article with the same title. This eliminates the need to continue to pay those writers their revenue share each month and replaces the title with one that is paid the small up-front payment that Demand Media provides. Slimy.
According to the mass email that you may have gotten, the site decided to go through and delete all duplicate titles, keeping only the best-performing one. So, I could have written an article, been copied by someone who used more keywords and bookmarks and then lost my article in favor of the more popular one. I don't know how wise a decision any of this is, especially when there are many, many different ways to write to the same title. Demand Media itself recognizes that there are many ways to interpret a title and has an elaborate process for writers to get clarification on the titles it generates for its writers. And yet, it has decided to get rid of articles fairly randomly because of shared titles. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that many eHow writers are reporting that their articles were deleted and replaced with a link to a Demand-generated article with the same title. This eliminates the need to continue to pay those writers their revenue share each month and replaces the title with one that is paid the small up-front payment that Demand Media provides. Slimy.
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