Article Word Counts
We all have read great 500 word articles and articles that have 200 words of content and 300 words of filler. A good author can tell the difference and will produce 500 words that are great. We have implemented a new 350 word limit for all new submissions – this “floor” as we like to [...]
Free $25 gift card to DonorsChoose (ended)
If you have never been to DonorsChoose – go there right now – then come back here and read this post. DonorsChoose allows people to pick from a wide selection of education related projects available for funding. You pick where the donation goes and whom gets impacted. Teachers and educators around the country can [...]
Submission Guidelines Updated and General Tips
We just published an updated version of the submission guidelines – this came after several emails asking for clarifications on policies and procedures. We tried our best to get the information in there. But a summary is below. Submit your own work, no plr, no sold several times articles, no content you just “rewrote” Use [...]
Database Downtime
Apologies to those who were inconvenienced by the database being down today (Sept 22), we resolved the issue shortly after being notified. The automated scripts we use to track and monitor uptime of the site were reporting that all systems were good to go. We have a programmer looking into changing those scripts so that [...]
Authors With Fake Addresses Banned
Working on some more clean up of some of the spam that seems to have slipped through the first round editors. A lot of it was submitted by users (abusers really) who create accounts using fake addresses. The good news is, assuming you used a real address, this shouldn’t be a problem. However if you [...]
The Lazy Hazy Summer Update
Things have been cruising right along over here at ArticleSnatch.com – hopefully summer has been treating you as well as it has us. We have a number of projects in the works to expand the offerings of the site Spam removal continues and will be an ongoing project. In general we remove everything that promotes [...]
Out Of Control Voice Broadcasting
While this post may seem a little off topic here, it is worth noting the call volume we receive from recorded messages left by voice broadcasters. Most of these messages come from people promoting home based businesses, mlm, network marketing, cash gifting, or voice broadcasting itself. Many of them simply want you to buy the [...]
Another Plagiarist Banned
We have just removed the accounts of a few more people who have just stolen other people’s articles. So if for some reason you felt that you were allowed to copy someone else’s articles and post them here, then please login and delete the articles from your account. Should we discover them, we will ban [...]
ArticleSnatch.com Best Practices, Tips and Advice
Article Marketing can be a challenging task if you don’t keep a few things in mind while doing it. Remember this is not a race and consistency will pay off more in the long run that burst work (i.e. you would be better to submit one article per day, than 30 no and wait a [...]
First Plagiarist Removed In 2010
Today we were informed that someone going by the name of Santosh Bhol from an Indian SEO Company, www.kkblr.com (PLEASE DON’T visit it set off my antivirus when I tried) was stealing articles from other authors and using them. I double checked what someone had emailed me and Mr. Bhol had copied pieces of articles [...]
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