If you are doing article marketing you are most likely using EzineArticles.com and other article submission websites. If you are actively doing article marketing you most likely saw the changes in the EzineArticles.com article submission form. Until today it seemed like a simple visual change but the people behind the changes made some modifications in the background to help us, the authors, publish better quality articles and get articles approved even faster.

Here is what they have done with this new submission form:

Here’s a list of the items that are automatically checked when you submit a new article. Each of these will result in an error window asking you to correct it.

Title

• No author name is allowed in the article title
• No pipe (|) character is allowed in the title
• No HTML/PHP/JavaScript is allowed in the title
• Title is confirmed as unique – You have the option to change or accept a duplicate title
• Title must be no longer than 100 characters
• Excessive or duplicate punctuation is not allowed (i.e. !! and ??, etc.) in title
• Title cannot contain a URL or domain name

Article Summary

• No author name is allowed in the article summary
• No HTML/PHP/JavaScript is allowed in the summary
• The summary must not be too short (less than two words) or too long (more than 200 words)

Article Body

• No links are allowed in the first (3) paragraphs (“above the fold”)
• Body must not be empty
• No images may be placed in the body text
• No JavaScript is allowed in the body text
• Article body must be longer than 250 words and shorter than 5,000 words
• Keyword phrases can comprise no more than (2%) of body’s total word count
• Anchor text (linked text) may contain a maximum of (5) words (we suggest 3)
• Body must contain more than one paragraph

Resource Box

• No PHP/JavaScript is allowed in the Resource Box
• Resource Box must be no longer than 300 words
• Anchor text (linked text) may contain a maximum of (5) words (we suggest 3)

Keywords

• Keyword fields may not be left blank
• No HTML/PHP/No JavaScript is allowed in keywords

 

As you can see, now, they make sure that your article is of quality, respecting some sort of “template”. Yes it brings some more rules upfront but the rules were already in place in the background. So this is great news. If you save 5 minutes per article because your article is approved immediately, imagine how many hours you will save after a year…

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