Something that every article directory should have is an article publisher page. A page that makes it easy for anyone who wants to publish an article to grab the HTML code of the article, ready to paste into their web site.

Articles are of course very important to an article directory, but equally as important are article publishers. People who come to the site looking for articles to use as content for their web site or newsletter.

Without publishers to pick up and use the content submitted by the article authors, the value of submitting articles to an article directory is diminished.

The value of submitting articles does not just come from the traffic and back links on the article directories, it should also come from traffic and back links from web sites, e-books, blogs and newsletters that use the articles as content.

An article directory that attracts article publishers is a good place to submit your articles.

Making it easy for publishers to use the content is a must for any article directory… So why have we only just added this and why are we only just beginning to focus on attracting publishers to the site?

Well, actually we have been focused on attracting publishers for a long time. The moderation system and article rating system was designed for publishers. We had to get that right and cover the older (unmoderated) content with newer higher quality content before we could focus on bringing publishers to the site. The reason we have founds and deleted over 100,000 sub par articles in the last few months was for article publishers.

There are a lot fewer article publishers than there are article writers, so competition to make your article directory attractive to article publishers is high. The most important thing you need is high quality articles!

If the content displayed is sub par (a lot of the older content is/was), then there is little point asking people to come to your site to find content. They are not going to stay or come back. The directory has been greatly cleaned up,  the content we publish now is always of reasonable quality and the best articles rise to the top.

We’re ready to start attracting publishers.

The HTML code of each article is now available through the new article publisher page which is linked on each article through a link next to the “onlywire bookmark tool”, under the article body ad.

All a publisher has to do now is visit this page and copy all the code from the article body box and they are ready to go. The text and printer friendly pages will be in place by the end of the week.

We will be doing a lot more to put the article content  in front of publishers from now on.

Respectfully,

Dan Blackburn