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Administrator Message #1
October 23, 2008 During the three years that our article directory has been operable (http://www.articles4reprint.com), we have never sent an email to our member writers, until this morning. p.s. On the Article Dashboard CMS, learning the email system is a bit trial and error. Our first message was broken, but we set this message up on our website, just in case our email does not format correctly. As a reminder, you can log in to submit articles at: http://www.articles4reprint.com/login.php You signed up with the following information: Username: {username} Password: {password} I wanted to touch base this evening on two points.
We would like to publish all of your articles, but our software checks the word count of every article when that article is submitted. If there are only 699 words or less in the article, your article will be deleted immediately. Sorry, but our article submission form shows you an accurate word count as you type in the box. This singular rule check has proven that 70% of the articles submitted to this website are auto-deleted, because writers seem to want to believe that we do not enforce our own rules. Sad, but true. Why a 700-word minimum word count? Easy. We have always felt that thinly-disguised sales pitches aggravate readers and publishers alike. We have also felt that the best articles are those that educate and inform their readers. We feel that the best articles tell a story to those people most likely to buy what you are selling, with the emphasis on "story", "educate" and "inform". While some writers do a great job of telling an interesting and educational story in three- to four-hundred words, most people who utilize the shorter article format write junk content. When we had a 300-word minimum count, 85-95% of all submitted articles were rejected. When we switched to 600-word minimums, our rejection rates dropped to 5-10%. Once we moved to the 700-word minimum count, our total rejections dropped to less than .1% (one rejection for every 1000 articles submitted to us). This new higher minimum word count permitted us to manage this article directory in less than one hour per week, as opposed to the fifteen hours per week we had spent previously. We really do want to see your articles in our article directories, but we have certain rules for the purpose of providing a more useful article directory to our audience of readers, publishers and webmasters. If you can appreciate our approach to managing an article directory, then I am pretty sure that we can appreciate what you write enough to publish it on our article directories. ;-) Thank you for your time today. Bill Platt - owner http://www.articles4reprint.com http://www.techcentralpublishing.com and http://www.thephantomwriters.com |
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