The reasons for rejection script is working again now, however… if your article was rejected before today the reason(s) why, that we have displayed for you may not be accurate, or even there at all.  If there are no reasons why your article has been rejected check the submission terms page.

Here is an easy list of what we do not like

1. Articles submitted with a Title that is not in Title case
2. Article submitted with a link to a website (or domain name) in the title.
   • For example… Low Insurance Quotes from domain.com
3. Article author not in Title case
4. Article author that is anything other than Firstname Lastname
   • We don’t like  “SEO Expert” that is not your name.
   • We don’t like John (with no last name)
   • We don’t like Paula Y. your last name is not Y.

   If you want to display your qualifications and honors in your name, that’s fine.

5. Any self serving links in the first 3 paragraphs. (Putting a line of white space between 2 sentences does not turn them into paragraphs).
6. Bad formatting.
   • E.G. All one block of text, “smart quotes” They display like this… “smart quotes” aren’t very smartâ€
7. Articles that are pasted from a Rich Text editor without using the “Paste from Word” tool provided. — This creates very “dirty” code on your articles pages and makes the site as a whole less search engine friendly.
8. Articles in the wrong category… Category selection is VERY important. Our articles are fed into targeted sites, Gardening articles into articles about gardening for example. If we allow articles about say, article marketing to  go into the gardening category, our content partners will look elsewhere for their content and you (everyone) will get LESS traffic.
9. Bad links in the resource box or article body — It’s not uncommon for people to not enter links into their articles correctly.

ALL the above issues can be fixed easily, but when you multiply fixing an easy task by 100, it becomes a hard task… unless you have 100 people too. All the issues above are 100% avoidable. The only way to avoid these problems is to educate the people who are making them. That’s why we will no longer fix these minor issues for you.

If you have been suspended from submitting articles, don’t take offence, most people have and it’s probably for (next to) nothing! We are not telling you that we don’t think you can write, just that you have not complied with our submission rules to the letter. Our strictness here may be a little OTT in some cases, but eventually it will make the site better for everyone. Traffic is up despite us publishing fewer articles… perhaps BECAUSE we publish fewer articles now.

Please help us drive more traffic to your web sites by complying with the submission rules and taking care when you submit your articles.Fix the articles that we may have rejected and just see the difference in traffic you get from this site when we DO publish your content.

If you have any comments, please let me know.

Thanks
Dan

Tags: article approval, article moderation, article rejection

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