I have submitted close to 100 articles and my experience with them is not different from yours. But I would say, all these started only recently and it wasn’t like that when I started off three years ago. There were only 8 editors and I suppose it was easy for the owners to ‘monitor’ the editors unlike, perhaps, what it is today.

I wouldn’t say EzineArticles gives “massive” exposure. If anything, I’m hearing repeatedly that they’re so saturated now that you shouldn’t count on much traffic from them. Also from what I’ve been hearing (and seeing myself so far), most of the backlinks are from very low quality sites (such as splogs), whereas I can be spending more time marketing more effectively for high quality links (which so far I’ve done a decent job of securing for most of my sites). I’m at the point, where it really isn’t worth it. It might be good for someone just starting out, but I’m not in that boat.

As of today, I’m abandoning EzineArticles. I’m not abandoning the bum marketing bit just yet… I have another strategy in mind though, and even if it doesn’t work out, I’ll still have reaped a few other benefits. I want to test it out a week or two before going into detail here, but I think it’s going to be much more effective.

As for people on Ezine posting huge amounts of articles, it doesn’t surprise me. It’s saturated with Internet marketers… remember, Ezine is just a marketing tool; not an actual publication. I read just a few days ago on a forum about one IM who publishes 20-30 articles a day, which are all basically the same article rewritten. Ezine approves them without a problem… that’s just beyond me. Their interests are pretty clearly about making their own ad revenue with more keyword-targeted content, and not so much about approving quality articles for the benefit of publishers.

I haven’t had any problems like you have. The only “rub” I have is the exorbitant amounts of articles some of the writers put on there and the shoddy quality of them. So, I don’t think they actually
“edit” anything. Seems like they just scan it for spam and check links.

Though Ezine doesn’t pay, it does give you massive exposure and excellent backlinks. Plus, I’ve seen quite a few of my articles appearing on other sights, futher exposing my site. The others haven’t had the same results.

Though I agree it’s not perfect, it’s worth your time for nothing else than the two benefits I listed above.

Thanks for your site, too. It’s nice to hear things bluntly and honestly.

I’m going to at least publish 3 more with EzineArticles at this point… I’m looking at this this way: best out of three. If they mess up and waste my time again in the next three, I’ll steer clear of them. If they get those ones right, I’ll finish the first ten before deciding whether to start posting large quantities of articles there. My time’s too valuable to keep playing games with them, so I think that’s more than a fair chance to show me whether they’re going to be worthwhile or not in the long run.