Why Most Articles Are Not Accepted

There are thousands of articles being submitted to article directories every hour, of every day. The effectiveness of your article being accepted will depend solely on just a few reasons, which I will explain here.

Article Title:
Use the KISS (K.I.S.S = Keep It Simple Stupid) method for any article title. Having an article title that delivers advertising headlines is a sure way to not get accepted, as in a title like "Amazing Software Service For Bargain Prices" will find the junk heap fast. Your title is the window to your readers and will determine whether your reader continues reading or clicks away.

Make your titles accurate to the content of your article. If your article is about software services then try and keep the title specific to that subject, like for instance a title that intrigues the reader. Example: Why Software Services Gain Respect would be a clear indicator that the article warrants a read.

Always make your titles concise, relatively short and try and use a question or reason type title to intrigue your readers.

Authors Name:
One of the most simple areas of article writing seems to be one of the most difficult areas for writers to deal with. For reasons unknown, a lot of writers want or think that if they write about web site design then their author names should be the same or related to the subject line. We've had many a writer's submission be deleted straight away, as soon as they have submitted it because of their authors name.

In this case the authors name was, get this, Mr Website Design. Now really, I mean, did this persons parents decide at a very early point in time that their child's first name should be Website. Were they following the celebrity nuance of naming their child a ridiculous name so they are noticed by others, or for that matter, ridiculed, bullied, targeted by others because of their name.

Come on, if you have a name, use it as the author. Your name is your ticket to life. If you don't want to use your real name then use a ghost name, but use a name that might actually sound real, or base your ghost writers name on your real name.

Your name when writing is a direct window into who you are, your credibility, your worth so don't, and I mean don't submit articles written by Mr SomeoneWhosNameIsA TotalPeiceOfCrap, really.

Article Length:
Every article that we delete has the same non-qualities, time after time. And this particular issues is right at the top of our list. The article length. Would believe some writers actually think their article will be accepted although it's just 120 words in length, that includes the title and summary. This isn't an article, it's an ad. It's a note to oneself. It's a joke, really.

Any article worth it's salt will have a length of at least 400 words or more. Now there's an article, not an ad, note or summary. If you are a writer with some knowledge or experience in something or another you will write about it, thoroughly, not just throw a few choice words together and hope you have a chance of gaining readers respect or even attention.

Research if you have to, but give your article a reason to be accepted and always write 400-2000 words of real, practical terminologies that readers will understand and relate to. If not, your destined for the deleted scrap heap, which contains thousands of miss-guided, self supporting fools that will not ever see the light of article marketing daylight.

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Zax Stevens is a writer of blogs, web site content, advertising copy and articles. He also runs and maintains his own article directory Articles FYI

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