Zujava Shutting Down

I know those on Zujava are on other sites.    Zujava is shutting down in July 2015.

Here is their announcement in their blog:     http://www.zujava.com/blog/2015/04/29/important-announcement-about-zujava

Thanks for the update. That doesn't surprise me. After they lost their Amazon account, it seemed very hard for them.

I jumped ship a couple of years ago.   He allowed some to do sales pages and slammed others, deleting their articles, all kinds of crap.  He started taking away the ability for writers to make money from their affiliate accounts.  Look what happened with Amazon.  Bill got greedy, plain and simple!!!  His greed, tactics backfired on him. 

I am surprised he lasted as long as he did.

I still have a few articles on Zujava, and will have to decide where to place them.  Some can come here, but the others will probably go to my own site.

It's a shame that another content site is biting the dust!

These sites need to stop blaming Google Penguin.   

Funny how they blame Penquin, writers.  Look at HP, the site has so many bugs, spun and copied content it is pathetic.  They have accounts that have not been touched in years.  Tons of hubs on forbidden topics according to Adsense rules and HP rules.  Articles so poorly written in English it is pathetic.  

They have so many forum threads started, then HP deletes all of the posts, but leaves an empty page sit.

Writers are leaving HP in droves right now.  Funny, how we moved content from these sites to our own sites only to see our traffic soar.

Bottom line:  Google does not like content farms and have been going after them for over 5 years now.  

The lack of communication between Bill and the rest of us who were creating content there was the big issue for me. I wouldn't accuse him of being "greedy" beyond not making it clear that the main programmer left 2 years ago, and that's why things started breaking and never being fixed, good writers couldn't get out of the petting zoo, and no progress was being made to improve things and it was always being blamed on being "too busy" with family stuff.

I started removing content off there over a year ago and fortunately only have a few pieces left - which will either be coming here or one of my own websites now.

HP didn't want Squidoo per say.  They wanted to get rid of it.  The tactic was, get the content, have that content on accounts all by themselves for each writer, even those who already had accounts with HP.  Now, they are unfeaturing hubs, primarily those from Squidoo.  HP knows if you unfeature hubs enough, the writer will move it elsewhere, or delete it all together.  

They don't fear moving of hubs because they see those of us with our own sites as not a threat to them, no competition for them. 

I just read a post on HP:   Zujva lost their account for "cookie stuffing."   

Post by Writer Fox:  http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/130341

here is part of that post, then WF goes no more about cookie stuffer program

Zujava lost its Amazon account because of cookie stuffing.  This is a deliberate act to download an affiliate cookie when a visitor visits a website.  What this means is that a visitor just reading an article on Zujava (and NOT clicking an Amazon ad) would have a cookie installed on his computer which contained Zujava's affiliate code for Amazon.  So, if that person ever bought anything from Amazon over the next 30 days (now only 24 hours), Zujava would get a commission.  There is another term for this:  FRAUD

LindaSmith1: 05/02/2015 - 04:10 PM

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They don't fear moving of hubs because they see those of us with our own sites as not a threat to them, no competition for them. 

 

Not really, that doesn't make sense. They are just removing low quality content (based on their algorithms). Every website on the internet is possible competition to HP considering the number of niches you find hubs on. 

I would like to know WF's actual source for that information re: cookie stuffing on Zujava before accepting it as absolute fact.

Socki:   WF didn't give a source.  I think I will ask that question.    I asked, now let's see what the answer is.

LindaSmith1: 05/03/2015 - 08:48 AM

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Socki:   WF didn't give a source.  I think I will ask that question.    I asked, now let's see what the answer is.

I would certainly like to know. As I have said before, I am no great defender of Zujava and the administration there and haven't been for a long time, but primarily because of the lack of communication over problems that had been ongoing long before the Amazon issue even began. But I have plenty of issues with things that get said over in the HP forums as well, and certain posters there, and I don't understand why one person's very strong accusations should be taken as "fact" without providing any evidence for what they are saying. Particularly given the poster in question.

I asked today, but no response Socki!

Sockii:      Claim cookie put on their computer when they visited site.

Rule 27 was violated.  Bill mentioned that himself.  

Apparently the site income came from  sales, and when Amazon cancelled the account, well, we know the rest.  

Wow, this is fascinating to me. I strongly dislike HubPages, and when Squidoo went down, I didn't want to join it. Before Squidoo sold out to HubPages though, I was already looking for alternatives and that's when I found Wizzley.

I carefully researched, and considered Zujava as an alternative to Wizzley, but Wizzley clearly won out in my eyes.  The main reason I preferred Wizzley was that it seemed more selective--i.e. it distinguished itself by being more selective not only than any of the "second tier competition", but also more selective than the big two, Squidoo and HubPages.

Although on some level I'm a bit surprised to see Zujava fall so hard and fast, it does make sense to me that it fell in this way.