How to Remove Ehow.com Articles From Google Search Engines & Ehow.com

Jan 16th, 2010 by InkSpot

Learn how to remove your articles from eHow.com and Google search engines quickly and easily. Using Google Webmaster Tools, you can remove a URL from the search engines. Writers angry with the latest eHow.com UK scam are leaving eHow.com in droves, deleting their articles--only to discover eHow is redirecting traffic to other eHow articles using writers backlinks.

Copyright © 2010 Cherie Kuranko "InkSpot" All Rights Reserved

eHow.com writers are forced to find other outlets to earn money writing online after eHow chose to post their articles at the new UK eHow.com website without their knowledge. Many writers have been complaining for months about the drop in views and earnings on their US eHow articles. When they asked eHow about the problem, they either received no answer or were told it was part of the normal seasonal drop in Internet usage by readers.

Writers soon discovered the new UK eHow.com website was using their articles. They also discovered Google searches were ranking higher on the UK articles than on the original US articles. eHow did not pay writers for any views of the UK articles and states they will not be compensating writers for those views in the future. Pleasing a few writers, they offered to remove the articles from the UK website, claiming it would take about three weeks to accomplish this. Most writers are very angry, are demanding compensation and no longer trust the eHow company to do right by its writers. Writers are deleting their articles and leaving eHow.com for greener pastures.

Many have deleted their articles and closed accounts with eHow because of what has come to be dubbed as the "eHow.com UK scam" by writers affected by eHow's actions.  What they are discovering is that eHow and the remaining writers will still benefit from the articles they had at the sight, which writers spent many hours backlinking to from other websites, forums and backlinking sites like SheToldMe and XOMBA.

Some of the writers who have chosen to stay at eHow are reporting increased views in the last week or so. They believe it is because eHow has started removing their articles from the UK website, but other writers are skeptical and claim it is because their deleted articles are being redirected.

Writers who have deleted their articles discovered their original article URL is being redirected to an index of other eHow writers' articles at a new URL, thus pushing more traffic to somebody elses articles at eHow.com. For example: My How to Build a Fish Scaler Using Bottle Caps article had the URL:  http://www.ehow.com/how_5464209_build-using-bottle-caps.html Type that in and try to go to it and it will automatically redirect that URL to:  http://www.ehow.com/articles_2167-fishing.html  This new URL shows up with a list of other eHow.com fishing related articles. Every time a reader clicks on the backlinks made to the original article URL are redirected to all articles about fishing on eHow.com. To throw salt on the wound, angry writers suspect the redirect was created during the submission of their article when they chose specific categories for the article. The job of removing all backlinks is too time consuming, even if the writers could remember each place they created a backlink to their articles. However, there is a way to quickly and easily request the removal of the original URL and perhaps the current URL being used to redirect traffic to eHow.

HOW TO DELETE YOUR ARTICLE URLs FROM GOOGLE SEARCH:

Google Webmaster Tools has a URL Removal Tool, which can be used to remove a URL from Google's search engine.  They offer a free account.  I removed both my original URL and the current one as "dead links". I don't yet know if the URL used to redirect will get removed or not, but the original URL should because it does not go to the article.

Google lists all of my requests to remove URL's as "pending" for now in a list you can view later to see what action was taken. I will continue to check back and see what happens over the next few weeks and update this article. However, I learned I'm not the only one submitting the eHow redirect URLs to Google, because it sometimes came back with the message that the URL has already been submitted by someone else. So, others have already caught on to this. If you want to remove your articles and no longer write for eHow it would be wise to delete your original URL FIRST. Once you have deleted the articles, you no longer have that URL available---unless, like me you kept all your eHow articles in your favorites.  If they are still in your favorites (or on whatever you kept your records on-paper or spreadsheet), you can delete the original URL at Google.  If you have already deleted your eHow articles at eHow and still have the eHow articles bookmarked in your favorites, then you should be able to pull up the original URL to your articles.  To find the original URL by using your favorites, you can right click your mouse, go down and click on properties and a window will pop up with the original URL (note: my window pops up behind my main screen--so just move it out of the way). Copy the URL, then paste it into the Google remove page.  This is the quickest way to remove all those backlinks to your original article, so they won't be redirected to eHow AND more importantly they won't be competing for traffic you want to generate to the new site you post them at. To remove your articles URL at Google, just visit Webmaster Tools:  This is a link to that site. It is free to sign up for a Google account. I did it a long time ago for other purposes. Click on URL Removal Tool at Google's Webmaster Tools. It is a very simple, quick process. I was able to do 50 URLs in about 30 minutes.  This should remove all the backlinks you created to those articles all in one shot.

How to Delete Your Articles from eHow.com:

First, be sure you have copies of your articles saved on your computer; in Word or a flashdrive, whatever your preference is. This will make it is easy to copy and paste when you post at a new site, like Bukisa. I love writing for Bukisa and doing very well here. I highly recommend them and you can sign up if you like by clicking here: SIGN UP FOR BUKISA. Then go to eHow.com and sign in. Go to your articles. Click edit on the first article. You must select "save and continue" until you reach the very last page of the edit/submission process. At the very bottom there is a "delete" button. Click it and the article is deleted. Continue to do this until all articles have been removed.

You may also want to delete all your favorites and groups, content, personal information, etc. Some writers are keeping their account and redirecting traffic to their new websites by posting the links in their profiles. Why not? eHow.com is of the opinion they can use their writers backlinks and hard work, so why can't the write promote their websites on their eHow profiles.

As far as payment, eHow.com paid everyone through the end of the year--making it a perfect time to switch to a new writing site. However, keep in mind you will most likely lose any earnings left on the books if you close your profile. I sacrificed $1.29.

Good luck to all the other writers who were affected by the eHow.com UK scam and be sure to try Bukisa. Read their agreement. Writers know upfront exactly how much they will be earning and I've had no problem receiving exactly what they promised--on time.

Copyright © 2010 Cherie Kuranko "InkSpot" All Rights Reserved

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InkSpot, over a year ago
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Thank you all for commenting. As writers, it is good to share our experiences with the various companies that employee freelance writers. eHow.com, or Demand Studios, has received some seriously bad press as of late due to ongoing issues.

I have chosen to no longer write for or be affiliated in any way with eHow, Demand Studios, in the future. I consider it a lesson learned and have moved on to greener pastures—like Bukisa! Be sure to check out my home page and look for a link to join Bukisa if you are interested.

poetryplusart, over a year ago
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I had 234 articles on eHow. One night after I learned about this I went in to my account but when they caught me doing it they deleted 221 articles right before my eyes, and froze my account on the remaining 13 articles. I have request them to remove my account but they have not. Now the strange thing is that as soon as I posted a comment on anyone’s article it was immediately erased. Messages I was sending out were erased, they erased anything that was informative. Now they own my articles and I see them being show by eHow writers. I e mailed them and told them I was going to sue, but now all I want is to disconnect my account away from eHow. I did not think that in American we would ever have a Hitler Regime, but we do.

Mele, over a year ago
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Thanks for the information I will do that immediately!

bellenla, over a year ago
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Well I am so totally frustrated with eHow.  I can’t believe I have put so much time and effort into this site for so long.  That is the “BUGGIEST” site on the web.  Always broke down.  I will slowly but surely remove my articles and resubmit.  They are great articles,,,,,I don’t write just to get numbers, points or money.  I feel my articles have quality and can be of good use to many.  Thanks for the heads up.  Heading to Bukisa now.

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http://ehowscams.webs.com/  feel free to follow my blog, “EHOW SCAMS AND DIRTY TRICKS where we expose the darker side of ehow.

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Hello, I am know as THE PREACHER and I am educating people to all of eHOWs dirty games.  Let’s talk a bit about those famous eHOW sweeps, shall we. Ever wonder what is really behind the madness? Yes, some are articles that are out of eHOW’s guidelines. Yes, some are poorly written. But many of these that get deleted are top earning articles. That’s correct, they are top earning articles, that have been in place for several years in many cases, only to overnight no longer fall within eHOW’s guidelines. How to hell can that be? What is really going on here?
Glad you asked. There is gold in your deleted articles, pure gold – for eHOW. I know, how can there be gold for eHOW in deleted articles. First let’s look at just what your high earning articles have accomplished. They have matured and rank high on the search engines. They have developed a following, in as far as online articles can develop a following. They have built up comments and views. And then eHOW comes riding in on its white horse and deletes em. All that hard work and effort is gone, right?
Don’t bet the family farm on it. EHOW wins on several fronts, and here is the secret to their dirty little game of deleting high earning articles. First, even though your articles get deleted, they are not totally gone, something very important remains behind and in eHOWs control – your URL’s. And therein is the gold, because eHOW takes your articles URL’s and redirects them to pages full of links to DS (DEMAND STUDIOS) so all your hard work and effort are now going to serve eHOW’s cause, promoting their DS articles.
These redirects are eHOW’s free bread and butter. The DS articles are already paid for, so all traffic they redirected to those articles is extra money in eHOWs pocket. An added bonus, they are now making money off the DS article ads and not paying for your articles any longer. It’s win win all the way around. Another bonus, all your deleted articles comments. EHOW uses the strength of those comments to help drive the DS articles even higher in the search engines rankings.
This is why eHOW is never clear as to why your articles get deleted. In many cases, there is no reason they can clearly state and point to. Oh yeah, we deleted your top earning articles so we can make a pile of money off of them – nope, don’t expect them to answer truthfully on this one. But now you know, redirects of deleted articles spells gold for eHOW.

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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 on here, 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.

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 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 actually 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. I would strongly recommend that no one sign up at that site.

And yes, I realize many will question what I have said here, so I will let you judge the edivence for yourselves. Go to eHOW right now, click onto community, and then forums. Now click onto the EHOW SITE NEWS forum, and then onto the UPDATE ON EHOW UK SITE AND U.S. MEMBER ARTICLES. It is all right there within hundreds of posts, and you do not have to be a member of the site to go in and read the remarks left by members. The further you read, the uglier it gets. Many of the most vocal and outspoken posts have been deleted by eHOW, but there is still plenty there to read. http://www.ehow.com/forums.aspx?plckForumPage=Foru

tinksmagic, over a year ago
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