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There is always big demand for content rich articles. Many people struggle with understanding the process of submitting an article to a publisher for approval.
There is no guarantee a publisher will accept or approve an article. Rejection is very common in the writing industry. Each publisher will have their own guidelines for author's to abide by.
The process is usually slow. The article is submitted for review. It may take as long as four weeks for an editor to get around to review your article. Once reviewed, your article is approved or rejected. If rejected, you may receive an email explaining why, inviting you to make corrections before you're allowed to re-submit your article back to that same publisher.
Most prolific writers submit to more than one publisher. Because your signature line, or signature box will contain a link to your web-site, it's important to identify publishers with high Google and low Alexa page rankings.
When preparing to submit an article for submission to a collection of publishers, there's a certain amount of information I have to collect together in advance.
Article Title. It pays to do a Google search on any title you want to use to determine how much it's already in use.
Article Sub-title. I have never used this personally, and usually leave it blank when requested.
Article Category. Many publishers will ask for this separately. It's best to do this individually with publishers as category titles may vary.
Author's Name. Your legal name should be used. Most publishers will have a separate location for you to enter a "writer's fictitious pen name".
Email Address. This would be an email address to reach the author. It's best to provide a general email box, not a private email box.
Article Url. Every article I publish is first posted to a blog which I create specifically for the article. I use Google's Blogger.com for this purpose. This requires setting up a Gmail email account first, then the blogger blog site for the article. By doing this, the article is first published by the writer, and it is posted on the internet by Google, showing the date it was published. The article is also immediately put in line to be indexed by Google's spiders.
Article Email. This is where I'll use the gmail email address for the article blog URL.
Bio Info. In 250 characters or less, provide a description about the author including the author's name, website address in full (http://www.********.com), and what the author or website is about.
Resource Box. If you quoted any materials or person's in your article and are required to identify the source of the information in a footnote format, this is where you would place this information.
Resource Box HTML Version. The resource box information is repeated here. If there's no HTML involved, I simply leave this blank.
Keywords. This is a critical section. Take your time to select twenty-five keywords from your article which will help search engines target your article.
Description. In 175 characters or less, create a keyword rich description of your article.
Description HTML Version. In this section, if requested, I do a simple cut and paste of the content from my description box.
Article Body. This is the body of the article. It does not include the title, but make sure it includes your copyright line as well as your signature box at the bottom. Many writers assume the contents from the Bio section will automatically be entered at the bottom of an article. This is not always the case, and your article can be published unprotected. Make a concentrated point of including this information in your article body text. Your website link if listed in full will hyperlink automatically with most publishers. Some will ask you to indicate if you want it hyperlinked. If they do, answer "Yes".
Article HTML Body. I cut and paste my entire article body into this section. Some publishers will automatically strip out any HTML code from article bodies. I no longer place HTML code in my article bodies due to this, but as long as my website addresses are written in full, they do end up hyperlinked.
The easiest way to submit articles is to locate a software package where by you can in put this information once, then submit it to publishers by simply clicking a button.
Once submitted, it's still a waiting game, without any guarantees.
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About the Author
© 2008 James C. Tanner. All Rights Reserved.
James C. Tanner of http://www.silent-wonder.com is a retired entrepreneur, business trainer, investigator, and writer whose articles are enjoyed by 12.5 million readers monthly. Helping people make money online through internet marketing and homed based business opportunities.
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