How to Delete Articles from eHow.com & Google Search Engine
69eHow Writers Not Compensated for UK Views
eHow.com writers recently discovered their articles were being used on the new UK eHow website--and they were not compensated for any views at the UK website.
Writers had been complaining and wondering for months why their views had fallen so sharply in recent months, some as much as 50-75% less than previously experienced. eHow either didn't reply to writers questioning this change or said it was most likely due to a normal drop in seasonal Internet usage by readers.
Finally, one writer discovered the truth and brought it to the forefront. Demand Media (eHow) now admits, they used the US writers articles on their UK website without compensating the US writers. After an eruption of complaints, eHow said they would remove the articles from the UK website, but it may take several weeks to accomplish this.
Many writers were dissatisfied and asked for compensation, which eHow to date has refused to pay now or in the future. Writers feel cheated and are loudly voicing their opinions in the forum, which quickly grew to 19 pages within days.
Many writers have pulled out of eHow.com and have deleted all of their articles. Recently writers are more than surprised to learn that even though they have deleted their articles, eHow.com is still benefiting and profiting from their original articles by redirecting traffic from the original URL to a more general URL at the eHow website.
The redirected URL takes google search clickers to an index of other articles that fall in the same or similar category as the original article. Writers are angry and worried the redirected URL will steal traffic from the new website they choose to post their articles.
The writers had spent many hours developing back-links to their articles once published at eHow and believe it is unfair of eHow to take advantage of their work to redirect traffic from their article back-links to other articles at eHow.com.
Many writers are leaving eHow.com, vowing to never write for them again. Some writers have chosen to stick it out and see what happens, though they are not happy about having the wool pulled over their eyes when eHow used their articles at the new UK website without their knowledge, denied any knowledge as to why views were dropping for months and is not compensating them. Some hope eHow will change their minds and pay them.
For now eHow is only promising to remove the UK articles. Writers who have chosen to stay recently noticed their new articles are still posting at the UK website, creating serious doubts as to whether eHow is removing their articles from the UK website. They have also discovered that Google Search Engine results are ranking the UK copy of their articles higher than the US copy of their articles. Since they are not receiving any compensation for the UK article views, it is a genuine concern among writers to see the UK website article ranking higher up in Google search results.
One writer said, "It's as if they had this planned. To get us to write all these articles, then shift the articles without telling us about it to the UK website and not paying us a penny. I find it very odd that my articles rank higher on a US Google search for the UK articles where I don't get paid anything than they do on my US articles where I at least get something for my efforts."
As writers leave eHow.com they are looking for new avenues to continue freelance writing online for pay. They are also looking for ways to generate traffic to the new website and away from the generic index of articles that eHow is using from the old backlinks.
You can learn how to delete your eHow articles and the original eHow URL from Google search engine results by reading the article linked below. Please feel free to comment and leave other links to related websites.
Article: How to Delete eHow.com Articles & its URL from Google Search Engine Results
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I'm hoping eHow will get theirs but is there any article publishing site we can trust? Hubpages don't seem to be crediting writers for referrals - try and get an answer out of them about that. Has anybody ever got a reply from them about any concern? They must be making $millions but also treat their writers with disdain
Interesting development. Glad I never followed through with the idea of signing up with them.
Good read. Now I understand some of what is going on with Ehow. I had an article which I created a few back links. In six days I made $7.42 with close to 80 views only to have it removed. (It has been re written and is a much better read here at Hubpages.) While I have not removed any of my articles from E how I am not writing any either.
Here are the facts. EHOW is one of the buggyest sites you will ever write on. The publisher wizard they use is constantly breaking down, eating up half you articles steps, or freezing your articles in limbo so you can’t get at them and no one can read them.
Communication sucks. Day in and day out writers are asking the same questions and getting no answers. And when eHOW does respond, it is usually a warning threatening action against you and your account. No PR skills what so ever.
But as others have already stated , the UK site, eHOWs secret brain child, has split the community of writers right in half and has everyone going at one anothers necks. Secret, yes, their secret UK site. They secretly mirrored all U.S. writers articles onto both sites, without any of the writers permission to do so. They then made money off those articles, thousands upon thousands of articles, and told no one. When someone stumbled upon their secret site, it all came to a head and the eHOW UK scandal was born.
EHOW insisted their UK site had caused no one any harm, and for a lenghty time, refused to answer any of the writers questions. Many writers took down their articles, many left the site. Others threatened to leave, and finally ehow agreed to remove all articles of U.S. writers from the UK site. In the meantime, many U.S. writers found their once thriving articles had stopped earning. That’s right, eHOW, by mirroring the usa site over to the UK site, had messed up the url’s, so many writers LOST A LOT of money during this time. Ehow then insisted all U.S. writers articles were no longer on the UK site, and that the profiles would be removed.
As it turned out, many articles were removed, but many more were not. Not only that, but all newly written articles here in the USA were still being cloned in the UK site. So where are we today? Well, the articles are finally removed, but ehOW still refuses to compensate U.S. writers for all the actual money they lost while their articles stopped earning. EHOW instead came up with what they called a generous compensation, not for money lost from all this, but for what they deemed the value of each writers articles were during the months the entire UK thing unfolded.
Say what? So many writers generous compensation came to under $10, many more recieved under $!. But how could that possibly be? We are talking about writers who had hundreda of articles and who lost hundreds of dollars? Easy to explain, the valus of the U.S. writers articles were not worth spit during that time, because eHOW killed their article links when they mirrored the two sites together. They continue to refuse to compensate U.S. writers for all that lost income, even though eHOE profitted from those articles. Remember, U.S. writers were paid nothing for their articles while they were on the UK site, but eHOW had ads on those articles and pocketed all the earnings.
The latest news is that outraged writers are demanding that their UK profiles, placed their from the U.S site without the writers permission, be removed. EHOW has said NO. U.S. writers are also demanding the right to edit those profiles, which contain their personal informat. Again, eHOW today has said NO. And eHOW refuses to take down the comments that were placed on their articles. Say what? Why the hell would a company remove the articles, but leave the profiles and comments? I smell a rat, and so do many others. I would strongly recommend that no one sign up at that site. They will steal your articles, and your earnings, and not give it a second thought. This company operates more like a scam then a business
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Good thing I didn't pursue my articles on eHow. Thanks for the warning!
just recently...looking into different ehow sites about "tax", when I try to scroll down it redirect automatically and also open a new page to the turbotax intuit website..
Its a pain every time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This really does suck. I have seen sites like www.howtowala.com come up claiming to be ads free.... sounds much better than EHOE hehe
Thanks for the warning,was looking to publish there
Singular Investor Level 1 Commenter 2 years ago
Thanks for the info Farmboots - I was thinking about signing up with Ehow but not any more ! Do you have any updates on the situation there ?