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8 tips for editors to notice
If your articles are not published very frequently, or you just want to increase the chances of them being published, you will benefit from the advice in this article.
1. Item Length
You should always keep your article at 500 to 800 words. If you can't fit what you want to say in that amount of space, divide your article into more than one part.
2. Length of the resource box
When writing your resource box, keep it 5-6 lines long. In a resource box, you simply try to get people to ask for more information, not sell them something. If you want a longer ad, buy one!
3. Line length
The lines in both your article and your resource box should be formatted 60 to 65 characters per line. One of the consequences of not doing so is that, in some email programs, your article may appear with each line at a different length.
4. Is your article really an article?
Publishers want to provide their readers with really useful information, and you should want the same. If you write an article that is just a sales letter or press release, it will get rejected 99 percent of the time.
5. Inactive links
Before you even think about publishing or submitting your article, check that all the links it contains are up and running. Nothing is more irritating than clicking a link on a site that interests you only to find that it no longer exists.
6. Spelling, punctuation, and grammar
If you submit your article and it is full of errors, it will be thrown in the trash so quickly your head will spin. Submitting articles with these types of errors not only makes you look extremely unprofessional, but shows disrespect to both the editor and your readers.
7. S * AM activators
As a courtesy, you should run your article through a program that checks it for triggers that could possibly cause filters to reject it. This is not a necessary step, but it will definitely impress editors and increase the chances that your article will get published.
8. Guidelines for publishers
Always, always, always follow the editor's guidelines when submitting an article to them. If you don't, your item will be rejected faster than anything else. Read this list, print it out, and save it when you're writing an article. Read each tip and be sure to follow it.
Making the above mistakes will insult the intelligence of both editors and your readers, as well as wasting your time and theirs.