I personally have moved onto other article sites for now, I was not about to spend a lot of time on trying to find a way to make it work with Ezine.

Matt

Sounds like it should be okay if you link to the root domain, they can’t deny that…looking forward to their reaction to that!

Thanks for your email.

I’m sorry for the confusion, but we require all links to contain adequate informative content other than advertising or auction products.

Please edit your article to link to a page with additional informative content, or edit the link to add informative content.

Let me know if you have any questions.

My links in that article (bio box ONLY – no links in body) went to the main page … which is a BANS store page. There is content on there …. but it’s minimal.

I deleted the other article I had in review for personal reasons … but when I give it another try I’ll be curious to see what they say. I will link to the root domain page … which is a wordpress them (soggy dave’s) and you can’t tell it’s store … the navigation buttons are on the right sidebar. I’ll keep you posted as I know more. Thanks again! Suzanne

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I hadn’t gotten around to building backlinks to my BANS site yet so I’m really sad that I missed the boat!!!

Translation, I have hired my unemployed son who is in high school to do this and he hasn’t yet – and won’t until he runs out of money and finds a pretty girl who doesn’t want to hang with a broke moocher no matter how cute he thinks he is!

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What is lame is those editorial guidelines, have not been updated to include this new rule, so they don’t even know what’s going on there.

What is weird is that you are linking to a blog, I wonder how they will respond to you, because technically this is NOT an auction site.

You’re welcome and let me know how they respond.

We would like to help you get this article approved but there is an issue which needs to be resolved first.

Your article does not adhere to our Editorial Guidelines, Section 2.f.

http://EzineArticles.com/editorial-guidelines.html#2-f

The URL(s) included in your article body/resource box are in violation of our guidelines. Please edit or remove the included URL(s), and resubmit your article for Editorial Review.

I emailed back asking them to please tell me which rule I’m violating.

I am now using Soggy’s WP theme … so it’s a WP blog … with the store pages in the right sidebar … I’m wondering if those sites will pass the “test.” I will keep you posted as I know anything else … Thanks again for the heads up. I would’ve been driving myself crazy trying to figure out what I did wrong! LOL

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Please post here with the response you get to your recent articles, I am curious, all though apparently this has been mentioned on other blogs as well.

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How I found out is I submitted a couple of articles to them as usual with links to my BANS sites, and then I got a rejection email, saying my articles could not be approved until I fixed the submission guidelines infraction in the hyperlinks. I went to the guidelines and could not figure out what they were talking about, so I emailed back asking for clarification and the response was..”sorry we no longer accept links to auction sites.” No speicifics like ebay or BANS, just auction sites.

I do find it strange that they have not added it to the guidelines and it could be that they are signaling out specific auction sites, like BANS. Who knows, they are so strict anyway that nothing they do surprises me.

Whatever you figure out, good luck!

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