Article Submission Guidelines
Continuation of Lesson 12 from You Can Make
Money Writing
Now wee look at some article submission guidelines. I strongly
suggest that you have a routine to follow. It doesn't have to
be the same as mine, but it should make things go quickly when
you submit your articles. The following is the routine that I
used to use (and which may still be best for you).
1. I open my article file for a website, which has all the
articles in it that promote that particular website. I minimize
the file, so it's at the bottom of my screen, for easy access.
I will be opening and closing this and other files repeatedly.
2. I open the file called "Article Directories,"
which has my list of currently-used article directories. I minimize
that one for the moment as well.
3. I get online, and copy the first URL from my directory
list, and paste it in my internet browser, hit enter, login to
my account and go to the submission form. I start to fill in
the fields on the form.
Note: I have an "auto fill" feature on my Google
tool bar, so I can click once to fill in the boxes that ask for
name or email address. This can really speed things up, not only
with article submissions, but with many online activities.
4. I open up my article file for a particular site, and find
the next article to submit. I copy the title and enter it into
the form, then do the same with the description, keywords, body
of the article and author's resource box. Just fill in all the
fields.
5. I quickly scan the article for any problems, and make any
necessary corrections. If there is a "preview" button,
I use that and check to be sure the article displays properly
and that the link in the resource box works. Either way (with
or without a preview) the next step is to simply hit the "submit"
button.
6. I open up the article directory list, copy and paste the
next URL into the browser, and repeat the whole process to submit
the article to that directory. Fifteen minutes later I have submitted
my article to more than ten directories.
By the way, you never should almost be typing anything into
the article submission forms - it's just too slow (some directory
submission forms will even "time out" if you take too
long, so you lose all your work). Have it all ready to copy and
paste. I even have my name ready next to the title, for those
directories that don't add your name automatically. There may
occasionally be a field that other directories don't have, and
you'll have to fill that one in manually. But if it is a directory
you plan to use regularly, have that part ready to copy and paste
as well.
The above is actually a simplified version of my routine.
I'll go into a little more detail on how to really speed things
up below. First, though, let's look at what has changed in my
current submission process. I left the older routine laid out
above because different ways will work better for different purposes.
Another Article Submission Routine
First, I no longer do the submissions myself. I try more and
more to focus on the writing part, so my wife is handling the
article submissions. You could also have one of your children
to do this for you if you find yourself writing a lot of articles,
or if you want to write more but need some time freed up.
At Ana's suggestion I have started to keep articles for all
websites in one file. Actually, I put 20 in a file, and then
start another file. I have basic resource boxes for each website
prepared and kept in another file. I copy and paste these at
the end of each article as I write it, making any adjustments
to them as necessary.
We linked our computers together (okay, Ana did - I hate the
technical stuff), so when I have an article file ready I put
it into our common files. Then Ana can start the submission process
for that one while I start a new file with another twenty articles.
She is submitting about three or four per week manually to a
dozen directories, and also using article submission software
to submit them to a hundred others. There is more coming on why
you should "pace" your submissions and whether or not
you should use article submission software.
Ana also found that having the login pages of the directories
on her "bookmarks" or "favorites" list in
her browser speeds things up. You don't need to have a "Directory
List" file open in this way.
Continues here... Submit
Articles Fast
Note: This is part of the book, You Can Make Money
Writing. There are links to all the all the lessons/chapters
on the home page.
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