Article Submitting: How To Study A Publisher’s WebsiteWritten by Catherine Franz
There are many websites that will host your articles on Internet. Some small, some large, some with guidelines, some without, some support streams of topics, some have a limited focus, some charge a fee and some are free.With so many places to post your articles how can you maximize distribution with least amount of effort? You can do so by being selective. Post your articles only on sites that support your topic, have integrity, and have a win/win approach. Since no two websites are alike. Here are a few features to watch for when considering your articles for submission: 1. Search capabilities. When you are at website is there a search feature visitors can use to find a certain topic? If page or pages list articles one after other down a long page readers will not get past first 20 names. Actually they will not even read that many. Web viewers do not have patience to scroll through rows of titles trying to find right subject. 2. How user friendly is website? If article section is buried inside a website and you have difficulty figuring out how to submit your article you will want to consider submitting your articles to this site. 3. What is purpose of website? Is that purpose supportive of your article, topic, and purpose or detrimental? Is it a sales page just trying to drive up search engine optimization under false pretenses? don't be fooled there are many of them out there. Is host of website apparent or nonexistent? Can you find a phone number or location -- city, state or country? 4. Submission guidelines. Some websites stipulate a word count, minimum, maximum or range. If your article doesn't meet their word count stipulations your article will normally not get published. Take them seriously and take time to read them. More importantly find a system to track these. I have a rating system I use with 1 being perfect submission site on up to 15 being an absolutely no. I keep track of no website sites so that when I'm looking for new sites I know which ones I have already reviewed.
| | What IS A Blog? Written by Sean Felker
People maintained blogs long before term was coined, but trend gained momentum with introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate publishing process. Blogs can be described in many definitions and they are all correct. Blogs are instant publishing. You write, you cut-and-paste images, you cut-and-paste links, you customize everything through a WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) interface, and with one click you publish your information or article. A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people. Blogs are alternatively called web logs. However,"blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files.
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