All Right Gentlemen, I’m Convinced
If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you may have caught my recent rants about the underwhelming quality (and overwhelming quantity) of some new authors’ submissions. Deleting everything that was submitted overnight was making a lot of extra work for me, and distracted me from promoting everyone else.
In a mad moment of frustration, I rejigged the whole sign up process, and now new authors must request approval from me and give a short explanation of why they want an account at WAHM Articles.
So far it seems to be working, and there have been two major outcomes so far. One I expected; the other caught me by surprise, but I’m going to follow it through and see how it goes.
First of all, the new sign up method is saving me oodles of time, so I have the freedom to explore and develop avenues of promoting the article directory and your articles. This is what I hoped for, and I’m thankful it seems to be turning out so well.
The second is that several gentlemen have requested account approval, and included some very persuasive why WAHM Articles readers could benefit from their articles.
Well, they convinced me.
The WAHM Articles directory is now open to male and female authors. Welcome, gentlemen!
You can sign up for a WAHM Articles author account here.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Hi Denise, do you have any examples of bad articles. If there are so many there must be some common mistakes. Or are they spam type articles?
July 4th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Hi Jan, what a great question!
I was deleting mostly spam articles.
There are some common mistakes, but they’re usually a result of not following our submission guidelines http://www.wahm-articles.com/submitguidelines.php
In most cases, we decline the article and give the author suggestions of how they can be reworked so we can publish them.
Here are some examples of common mistakes in submitted articles:
Promoting your product or service in the body of the article. Things like “If you buy this product from me, these wonderful things will happen to you. ” Promoting your business is welcome (and encouraged) in your resource box, but doesn’t belong in the body of the article.
Articles that have links in the body of the article.
Resource boxes that have more than two links
Resource boxes that link directly to an affiliate product.
Articles that haven’t been proofread. If there’s just a few spelling errors or typos, we’ll let it go, but if there are so many mistakes it becomes difficult to read, we decline it.
Again, if an article has these types of mistakes, we won’t delete it. We simply decline it and work with the author to get the article fixed up and ready to publish.