Ezinearticles is offering this challenge to writers between Friday, January 1st, 2010, 12:01AM CST-USA and Saturday, April 10th, 2010, 11:59PM CST-USA. Each article must be at least 400 words in length.
And while I understand EZA’s motivation for offering this challenge, I think it’s a bad idea. In my own opinion, putting this kind of article writing challenge out there just encourages more poorly-written, low-quality articles. And that’s the problem.
EZA is reportedly purging its directory of garbage articles. I don’t see how this article writing challenge helps that cause.
Sounds to me like people are just going to be rushing to meet the 100 article quota. Best work is usually written when you can give the subject a lot of thought and attention. Don’t you think?
Well 1 article a day is not bad… I don’t think it would affect quality that much unless these are some sort of full blown research articles. I think many of the people that blog for themselves understand the importance of quality work, and they may actually see this as quite a “challenge”. Is there some kind of reward or anything to this challenge? Because if so then I could understand people just pumping out cheap articles to win.
The benefit of this type of approach is momentum. I’d say write 10 good ones in 10 days for yourself just to get going. My suggestion is to have a product/service and write articles that knock down the objections to why someone won’t buy it. GL
I think it’s a bad idea as well. those who are writing quality articles will want to write for their own websites. Who want to write extremely well done articles for Eza? after all, Eza does not allow direct affiliate links.
If you are well versed on your subject, writing one quality article in a day shouldn’t be much of a challenge. I think the biggest problem is if you try to do it day after day, it becomes tedious and you lose your edge. You may start out with quality but by day 25 your are looking for shortcuts.
