So not longer after I put together my little link cloaking ebook I decided to write an article about link cloaking to generate some traffic to the site. The first place I submitted it to was EZineArticles, but they rejected it with a vague “general error”, which I'd never seen before. Usually articles get rejected because of some easily-fixed editorial issue (too many links, affiliate links, etc.). When I contacted them to know more about the problem, this is what they told me:
The problem with your article is that you are promoting black hat SEO, which we do not allow.
I'm actually kind of flattered, this is the first time anyone's labeled me as a black hat search engine optimizer:
Eric Giguere, Black Hat SEO
(With apologies to Aaron Wall.)
(And my family.)
Somehow, I don't think that teaching people how to transform ugly affiliate links of dubious breeding into enticingly clickable links of respectable virtue will make me rank high in the pantheon of Black Hat SEO gods and heros.
Well, that's EZineArticle's loss, isn't it. GoArticles was quite happy to receive it:
That's the nice thing about article directories, you can always find another one to submit to.
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Eric Giguere is the author of Uncommon AdSense and the award-nominated (that just means it lost!) blog Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense.