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Moments ago one webmaster and I
were discussing on some of the ways
on how to make a site more informative
and accessible to the readers who often
surfed in via Google.
As I do all the editing as well as approving
massively loaded articles submitted to my
site, I would be the best person he could
talk to when it comes to quality article writing
and submissions.
So he asked me about the quality of the
articles which were submitted to my site.
Well guess what..
I said to him that many of those articles
could have been approved without much
thought, but just as many of those often
got rejected or deleted by me.
Wow talking about article-deleting spree here!
When he had a closer looked on some of the
samples of rejected articles, he was surprised
that some of these articles were nothing of value,
ie spams, links links and links (huh?), blatant free
flow advertising propaganda and so on.
These articles really offer nothing but an utter
waste of somebody else's time and effort.
He has no idea why these people like to do that,
perhaps he thinks they have crafted their own niche
in this ie article spamming. LOL
But the main idea that I wanna say to him is this;
You can forget about people talking on how
many gazillion of visitors and truckloads of traffic
you'll get from submitting your articles, if you
ain't got a clue in writing something which anyone
would be foolish not to put it up on their site, or
at least you didn't care less to the submission rules
set by the article directory websites.
If this little article directory like mine doesn't
accept these junk articles, you can bet that there
tons of other owners who would equally reject
them as well.
So I said to him;
Here are some of the simple tips which I think
should be applicable to make most of the article
directory owners out there to willingly accept
your articles with open heart :)
1) Way too many links, links, links, links and
nothing but links
I once showed him of an article which consisted
of nothing but links to bunch of spammy websites
in the article body. Yeah..I'm talking about those
MFA sites or porn related sites. So if you can
find any site in the whole universe which would
be willingly accept these articles, then I'll be
happy to buy you a dinner. :)
2) Opps..wrong parking?
Errmm..why do you think people would spend
time organizing and categorizing things on their
websites? Well, you don't wanna find article about
baby feeding when you are looking for wine tasting
articles right? Same goes with article directory
owners who won't want these articles to creep
into wrong categories. So send in your articles
to the right categories.
3) Wrong site bummer!
When people set up article directories about
aromatherapy, they would only accept aromatherapy
related articles. So what makes you think bonsai
tree articles can make their charm onto those sites?
4) Do you speak English? Or something else?
The next time you write and submit your articles
you won't want your readers to use google to
translate your article. LOL. So write in a proper
way, hire somebody else to edit your content
otherwise no editors would be foolish enough
to correct your own grammar mistakes.
5) Blatant Advertisement by Blatant Advertiser
So do you write articles to sell something to
the editors? C'mon, write something that will
benefit your potential readers so they can come
by your site and love you instead. LOL
So here they are. I hope these write-ups will
serve as a little guide to you.
At the end of this short discussion, he said,
"No wonder you've created your site with blogs,
stories (articles), short pages (ads), polls and
forums submission... So, I guess you give some
people an option to post or submit.."
I said, "That's the way it is..."
Until next time...
Cheers!
Marzlan Michael Arzl
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