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    Bukisa Review – Just Another No-No Business Model

    June 26th, 2009

    A few months ago I joined Bukisa and since that moment I posted some articles on their website. Not for the amount of AdSense money they share (peanuts), not for traffic (close to zero if I compare them with EzineArticles) or SEO but … very sad … for saving my time. (I wasted too much time dealing with copyright infringements sent to article directories that are not very professional and accept articles submitted by content thieves – see just an example here: Beware of Ezine Articles Thieves)

    Everything was fine till yesterday when I discovered that 2 days ago they approved and published the last article I submitted but … guess what … they removed my resource box! They didn’t bother to notify me and ask for my agreement …

    I contacted them by Twitter … no reply.

    I used their contact form and very quickly I got an answer, an amazing answer:

    “We apologize for not letting you know after it was done. We do not allow Resource Boxes. Your information must only be on your profile.”

    I said to myself, “Whaaat?” and I replied to that guy asking him to remove my article from that site because they do NOT have my permission to publish it without a resource box. No answer, no action. The guy replied to my first message and then disappeared.

    I tried to delete the article while logged into my account. Not possible even if in theory there is a button there for such action …

    Then …

    I checked once again my previous approved articles. All of them had the resource boxes in place. Then I read once again the Terms of Use. Nothing about that weird and new rule. Then I checked other articles approved yesterday (one day AFTER my article was posted) but belonging to other authors. Guess what? Very quickly I found out an article that has one promotional link inside the body of the article and it has also a resource box.

    Well … since that moment I sent more emails to the Customers Support. No one ever responded, no one added back my resource box, no one deleted my article. Nothing.

    I tried once again via Twitter and their contact form. I pointed to Bukisa staff other articles APPROVED by them recently including the article mentioned above and published on June 25 (the article that has a nice resource box at its bottom). I asked them once again to REMOVE my article from their site because they don’t have my permission to publish it without a resource box.

    While my article is not yet removed, the sole new answer I received was via Twitter – just another dumb reply:

    “Bukisa isn’t an article directory, thus we don’t allow “resource boxes” however the removal without your knowledge was a mistake” ( https://twitter.com/bukisa/status/2333169719 )

    They are very professional, aren’t they? Who cares if Bukisa is an article directory or not? No one. The point is that they infringed my copyright while in the same time do NOT want to correct their mistake by removing the article from their site…

    Finally, what is the difference between Bukisa and a CONTENT THIEF who removes your resource box and then posts your article on his blog? In both cases, they had permission to post your article including your resource box. In both cases, they didn’t care about your copyright. Hmmm, it seems that there is no difference … Bravo, Bukisa! Keep doing your “great” job!

    Adrian Jock

    P.S. Oops, in fact there is a difference between content thieves and Bukisa: most of the content thieves remove your article from their sites after they receive your copyright infringement notice (not because they are honest, they aren’t, but because they are afraid of complaints sent to their host).

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    Ultimate Guide to Solo Ads is LIVE

    June 2nd, 2009

    The Ultimate Guide to Solo Ads just went LIVE.

    A lot of advertisers were anxiously waiting to get their hands on this ebook and now you can too …

    Don’t wait any minute, the 50% off promotional price doesn’t last for ever ;-)

    Click here to get your copy NOW before the time runs out.

    To Your Success!
    Adrian Jock

    P.S. What are you waiting for? Shooting in the dark with your solo ads is over … Go and get it!

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    Ezine Advertising Secrets

    February 13th, 2009

    A few days ago I read a transcript of Charlie Page’s Preview Call for his teleseminar series “Ezine Advertising Live”.

    Unfortunately I cannot offer it to you because I received the transcript as a gift and I am not allowed to further distributed.

    What I can tell you is that you cannot find online too many ebooks, audio or video materials on ezine advertising, but this transcript is of very good quality.

    As a matter of fact, I didn’t agree with everything what Charlies said, but it is still an interesting material.

    Many of you know that I recommend very rarely other people works, but this time I will recommend you this course that contains ezine advertising secrets told by Charlie Page, who is the owner of the “Directory of Ezines“.

    Take a sneak peak inside Ezine Advertising Live.

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