Five Tips To Make Your Article Submissions Profitable

Most of the articles that are syndicated to www.knowhow-now.com are rejected.

Overall we reject around 50% every day and if we want to increase the quality (which we do) then our rejection rate has to increase or we have to help our contributors to syndicate better quality content.

Not all articles we reject are rejected because they are badly written, sometimes it is just that they are boring.

Sometimes we publish an article that is badly written with poor English because it is interesting.

So, in an effort to make the lives of reviewers and editors everywhere easier here's my 5 top tips to get your article accepted at 'the best places' and also to get your article read. (it ain't just about the back links you know!)

1) Inform Your Readers
When you write an article pass on real information about a topic. Teach the reader something. In a 400-500 word article you should be able to introduce a topic and share something concrete about it. For example, if writing about digital photography; in 500 words you should be able to explain in easy terms what 'depth of field' is and why it is important in making good pictures for your printing company to turn into printed albums.

If you simply tell us all about why you think your printing company is so good then you are wasting everybody's time. We will reject your article for being advertising driven and the places that accept it know that nobody will read your article (and because they don't care the page will likely never get indexed!)

2) Ask Your Readers A Question
And then start to answer it for them. Use the article to outline the question and what it means, teach the reader something but then make it clear that they can finish answering the question by following the link at the foot of your article.
So, using the example in Tip 1 above you might in the title ask 'How Can I make My Photographs Look More Clear and Sharp?'

Then you can start to explain about what makes a picture look sharp - how to focus and how to use depth of field to make important parts of the picture look more sharp. Then you can ask readers to come to your pages for more information and picture examples to show off the ideas.

Now you have a magnet to get real people to your site and you can sell them stuff when they get there. ;)

3) Don't Assume That Your Readers Know Nothing
This can be a toughie. Often it is clear that whoever is sending us the article knows very little about the topic and so they write YET ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT BACKLINKING that covers the absolute basics, the stuff from Wikipedia that took five minutes to get and does noting more than repeat what has been said hundreds of thousands of times before.
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If you want to get a good audience for your articles try to go beyond the basics. Take a topic and examine it. Maybe even write a series of articles that go into greater depth. On sites like mine that is easy to do as readers can easily click onto the other articles on the theme.

Because we get bored with these basic, basic articles that simply duplicate what has been written a million times before we sometimes reject from boredom. For sure though we hold such lazy writing up to a higher standard. If you are going to send the world's latest opus on why teens get acne then we WILL hold your writing to a higher standard in other areas! If you interest the reviewer then the chances are that your article will be published; the reviewer might even correct a spelling mistake or two rather than reject an interesting piece.

4) Make Sure That Your Article Makes Sense
Readers are easily put off by words that are in the wrong place, or in the wrong order or completely missing. If you want to get people to visit your pages they need to want to stay with you to the bottom of the article on my site. They need to trust that you will not waste their time if they go to your web page.
You break the deal when you write words that make no sense because the phrase or sentence is all jumbled up in order to squeeze in an anchor text link. When a reader comes across such things they usually click away from the page and my site. You have lost those eyeballs on your pages and now have no chance to get them to do what you want them to do.

So, use proper word order, ESPECIALLY when it comes to place names - towns, cites etc. We all know that there is a particular word order when we talk about things and places. We customarily reject articles where the writer does this: 'looking for an expert locksmith Guilford' because he thinks that the words 'expert locksmith Guilford' will rocket his page to the top of the SERPS. The search engines are better than that and your readers deserve more respect.

Write the phrase properly 'looking for an expert locksmith in Guilford' will get you published, get readers to carry on reading and get people to your pages.

5) Proofread Your Article
Every day we reject articles because the spelling is just too horrid. Is there some kind of version of Office or Open Office that does not have a spell checker built in? I think not!
Spell checking takes no time and makes a real difference to the success of your article marketing.

But it gets worse...
Each day several people will submit articles where the hyperlinks are not properly formed. Sometimes one is OK but the next is not.
Articles like these are simply rejected without delay. If you can't be bothered to make sure that your article is laid out correctly then why should we bother to read or correct it?

In conclusion:
Remember that each article that you send out is an advertisement for your business. Each time a reader sees poor spelling, bad grammar, nonsensical wording they see a business that does not care, is disrespectful of its clients and is not worth dealing with.

Your articles can all be silent salesmen for your business directing people to your site ready to spend money.
Sadly too many are like a gang of hoodlums hanging around outside a shop - nobody wants to walk past them to buy anything from inside.

Please send out an army of silent salesmen who will send your business qualified prospects ready and willing to spend money with you.