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 [...]
DonorsChoose contest update
Just a quick update – there are some more comments int he pending queue, we have been approving them as we are documenting them for contest entry – however – its pretty disappointing to see the results of the giving page. Perhaps the giving page type challenge that DonorsChoose offers is not the right kind [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Article Directory Clean Up Continues
We have been continuing to clean up some of the articles on the site, so if you notice any that you think we should remove, please email the urls and or the url to the author profile to us and we will have the editors take a look at them. So far we have removed [...]
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 [...]
How To Get 451 Articles Removed In 3 seconds
Ever wonder how fast you can get your account banned and all of your articles removed? Its really quite simple. There are several things that you could have done, but for this case we will cover what one person did. 1) Copy articles directly from another source and just change the resource box. This “person” [...]
Comment Spam
By ArticleSnatch on December 17, 2009
We have a comment policy on this blog, it is linked from every page as well as by the comment form, yet we continue to get “people” who leave comments using a keyword instead of their name. Even though the comment form very clearly says to use your Name. Well we have stopped reading these [...]
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