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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Merry Christmas and Site Hackers
First Merry Christmas everyone, sure Christmas is December 25th, but that was yesterday, so I’m a tad late. I hope you had a safe and happy holiday. Just got done fixing the site after some hacker at 5:33 EST from an ip address of 211.72.36.100 decided to hack our site and insert a random redirect [...]
Monday Updates Dec 14
Its been a pretty busy weekend, we have been reviewing authors to get the nofollow removed, if you would like us to review your account send us an email, most who email us have accounts reviewed within a business day hour. So far we have reviewed authors who have contributed 74000 total articles (UPDATE 12/14 [...]
More Progress Being Made
For those who have been keeping track, it has been a longer than we originally hoped to get the author review process in place to remove the nofollow from your links (Read about the nofollow and other changes here). Thanks in part due to a call from a distressed author, we got the programmer kicked [...]
OMG Article Directory Google Slapdown!!!
July and August were terrific months traffic wise, the best we have ever had over here at ArticleSnatch.com. It was a nice test of scale for the platform that we are running on. At the end of August we noticed something that other sites have seen – the dread Google Slap! Google Slap Toward the [...]
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