Article guideline
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The document provides tips for submitting articles to different sites, including submitting an article to only one high PageRank site initially and including a reference to that site if submitting elsewhere. It also outlines guidelines for article titles, such as avoiding numbers, dates, and misspellings in titles to increase an article's longevity and marketability. Editorial style guides may differ between sites, so the document recommends double checking spelling, punctuation and avoiding unnecessary symbols in titles.
![Submit one article to only one site that has high PR and may approve your
article instantly or with in 1-2 days.
If you want to submit this article to other sites the you should give the
refrence of that site in which you have submit the article first at the end of
article as: “Ref. By: submitted URL of your first article site”
Article Title: Common Mistakes to Avoid
Hello Training Series Member,
Here is the next edition of the EzineArticles.com Article Writing and Marketing: Article
Title
Training Series.
Every site you submit articles to may have different editorial style guides. Here are some
helpful
tips to help you get your EzineArticles submission accepted faster:
1. Double-check spelling and word usage in your article title.
2. Commas are allowed, but only in the middle of a title.
3. Do not put a period at the end of your article title.
4. All colons (:) and semicolons (;), long and medium dashes, pipes (|), and slashes (/) are
to
be replaced with two short dashes (--), or changed to word equivalents.
5. Ampersands (&) and parentheses () are allowed.
6. Quotation marks are allowed to emphasize a part of a title, but not the entire title.
Please
remove quotes around the entire article as they are superfluous and of no benefit to the
author or reader.
7. Microsoft Smart Quotes: Please remove them. They break RSS feeds, emails, etc.
8. Never put an article number in the title of an article.
Example: [Wrong] Dog Grooming Tips-Article #3
Example: [Right] Dog Grooming Tips
Tip: The reader is most likely not privy to how many articles you may have written on a
subject. It also creates useless title bloat.
9. Never purposefully use commonly misspelled words in your article title to try and gain](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/articleguideline-121221015613-phpapp01/85/Article-guideline-1-320.jpg)
Article guideline
- 1. Submit one article to only one site that has high PR and may approve your article instantly or with in 1-2 days. If you want to submit this article to other sites the you should give the refrence of that site in which you have submit the article first at the end of article as: “Ref. By: submitted URL of your first article site” Article Title: Common Mistakes to Avoid Hello Training Series Member, Here is the next edition of the EzineArticles.com Article Writing and Marketing: Article Title Training Series. Every site you submit articles to may have different editorial style guides. Here are some helpful tips to help you get your EzineArticles submission accepted faster: 1. Double-check spelling and word usage in your article title. 2. Commas are allowed, but only in the middle of a title. 3. Do not put a period at the end of your article title. 4. All colons (:) and semicolons (;), long and medium dashes, pipes (|), and slashes (/) are to be replaced with two short dashes (--), or changed to word equivalents. 5. Ampersands (&) and parentheses () are allowed. 6. Quotation marks are allowed to emphasize a part of a title, but not the entire title. Please remove quotes around the entire article as they are superfluous and of no benefit to the author or reader. 7. Microsoft Smart Quotes: Please remove them. They break RSS feeds, emails, etc. 8. Never put an article number in the title of an article. Example: [Wrong] Dog Grooming Tips-Article #3 Example: [Right] Dog Grooming Tips Tip: The reader is most likely not privy to how many articles you may have written on a subject. It also creates useless title bloat. 9. Never purposefully use commonly misspelled words in your article title to try and gain
- 2. traffic from humans who misspell words in their searches. WHY? It's sneaky and it can ruin your credibility as an expert author. 10. Never put a year or date in the title of an article. This greatly reduces the "shelf-life" and marketability of your article. Tip: If you want to update or "freshen" up your article, update the copyright date in your resource box as a marker that will tell the reader when you originally wrote the article. Writing articles for syndication means that your content will be read for many years and decades to come. Consider that for a moment before you write your next article title. Having a smart article title is the key to hooking more readers, but the article title is only the envelope in our article marketing campaign. What's inside your article envelope will determine if the reader is satisfied enough to begin to understand and/or trust you. Follow the Quality Guidelines during article writing • Must Have Proper English, Which Includes Proper Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Capitalization and Sentence Structure. • Must Not Contain Self-Serving or Promotional Content in the Article Title, Body, or Summary. • Must Not Contain Rehashed Content, or Material Overly Similar to your Prior Submissions. • Must Not be Formatted as a Blog Post or Read as a Personal Email, Letter or Other Correspondence. • Your article body MUST contain all of the information promised in the title. • Articles are long enough to provide essential information to readers, while being brief enough to be compatible with the average Internet user's reading habits. • Word Count: Must have at Least 500- 700 Words • Ensure that no part of your article cuts off abruptly Keyword Usage in Article Body • Keyword density must be 2-3%. • Use long tail keyword phrases in your article title and body helps attract readers and is an important article marketing strategy. However, do not use this tactics, when keywords do not make sense or are grammatically incorrect.
- 3. Article Title Guidelines • The article body must deliver on what is promised in the article title. Below are specific details on this guideline: • Numbers - If the article promises a specific number of tips or steps, the body MUST clearly define and provide that number of tips or steps • Cover All Topics - Each WORD in a title needs to be talked about in the article body. • How-To" Articles - If your article title promises a "how-to" or states that the article will give directions or a recipe, the body must provide these details. • Localized Niche Articles - If there is a location in your title, you must offer unique content that is specific to that location alone.