A Publisher’s Rant – Why I Hate Your Articles
by:
Halstatt Pires
I’m a publisher for many
sites. I HATE many an of your articles. Here’s my rant and what you can do to change my mind.
Don’t Send Me Your Articles
First of all, don’t send me articles. I only take them from directories. The intention of this article is to give you a better idea of what I’m looking for in articles. It is not to create an assault on my email account.
You’re Killing Me
Okay, "hate" is strong word and I probably shouldn’t use it. It is, however, the word that comes to mind once
I blow an hour in an article directory trying to find usable articles!
As an Net
marketing firm, we beef up client sites by adding article content. This means I handle the article sections of much sites than I will to admit. Because of this, I spend most of my time hunting for nice articles. By "good articles," I am talking just about articles that are formatted and arranged in a manner that does them available for publishing. I am NOT talking just about what you write, just how you organize and format it.
Building article pages on sites is a tedious process. If dealing with your article is going to require me to do a lot of modifications, I will not publish it. Much so, I will Ne'er
look at your articles again. Despite your enchanting headline, I will just bypass it as presently
as I see your name. Whether you realize it or not, you have a reputation with webmasters, publishers and editors.
But I Need You
I hunt through article directories because I need your content. New content equals happy visitors for the sites I activity on. With the exception of a few of you, however, I loath the really ground you walk on because you do my job miserable. Yes, miserable. The problem I have with your articles is you create them in a style and format that does my teeth grind. Again, I am not talking just about WHAT you write about, just HOW you put it together.
When I look for articles every two days, I am trying to find thing
I can slap onto the sites as quickly as possible. This means your article should be formatted to do meta tagging and hyperlinking as easy as humanly possible. Support in mind that I am business enterprise hundreds of articles a day, not one or two. Time is at a premium. If you do the job easy for me, I will snap up articles as fast as you can post them.
Why Should You Care
You should care just about my gripe because many an of my peers feel the same way. Once
we get together, bitching just about your articles is a popular subject. That hurts you from some
a audience
and link building perspective. You want to get message from your articles and we want to give it to you. Obey
with our demands and we will paste you all over the net. Don’t and you can watch the proverbial tumbleweed continue to roll by your site.
Now, you’re probably thinking none of this applies to you. In truth, I suspect it applies to 90 per centum of the authors business enterprise in directories. Yes, this is even as true for the authors business enterprise hundreds of articles.
I am going to publish a series of articles on this subject all at once. These articles will cover in detail what I want to see in each section of your article. I pray that you will see them and ease the misery of all of us lowly publishers.
About The Author
Halstatt Pires is with the Net
marketing firm - http://www.marketingtitan.com - a San Diego Net
marketing and advertising company.
This article was announce on Gregorian calendar month 21, 2005
