We have had some problems with new authors signing up, but I am pleased to say it is all now fixed.
The new design seems to be a great success and thank you to all the people who have sent messages of encouragement. It is greatly appreciated.
Happy New Year.
I hope 2009 brings health and wealth to you all.
You will notice the new design of the site. It has been completely revamped and we are using a new script that will provide greater security and greater SEO capabilities.
I am sorry if your articles are no longer with us. We tried and tried to transfer the old databse but there were just too many problems in the end. So, here we are fresh and new!
The new site will allow us greater control over the articles submitted, it will allow us to ban certain e-mail addresses from signing up, so perhaps we wont get spammed as much. We will accept only quality articles that are of benefit to you, me and the site in general.
Any problems please contact us.
We have a number of very specific categories here so I am sorry to those people who, for instance, submit an article about adsense and place it in the general business category. It will be declined.
If I was to re-categorise every article that came in my day would be full. If you can’t take the time to select an appropriate category then I am sorry it will be declined.
Please take an extra 5-10 seconds and save me a lifetime. Thanks!
Two new categories have been added in the last few days to cope with an influx of new articles. These are as follows:
E-Bay (under Internet) and Digital Photography (under Technology).
Please place all relevant articles in these new categories.
Thanks!
Why do people spend time getting their articles together only to refuse spending a further 20 seconds choosing the correct category.
It is not our job to choose the category for you. If you write an article about internet marketing and place it in the accounting category or just the general business category we will decline it. We have up to 100 (and growing daily) articles a day to approve and we will not waste our time correcting your articles.
It is YOUR responsibility. Thank you.
I had an e-mail the other day asking why after submitting 10 articles, none were accepted. The reply I gave did not seem to satisfy them but their articles were just ‘cut and paste jobs’ with no categories selected and re-hashed articles I had seen before.
At the moment only about 20% of articles submitted are being accepted. They are being declined for:-
1. Being under 500 words
2. Containing sneaky links within the body
3. Selecting wrong category (if you can’t be bothered why should we)
** For some articles we do select the correct category for you, but don’t bank on it **
4. Articles that are just not suitable (perhaps if I needed viagra or a Russian bride ……)
We have today streamlined our categories. This is now a complete business only article directory.
Only business orientated articles will be accepted from now on.
We had 121 articles to approve today.
Over 70 were deleted immediately due to being under 500 words. Some of these articles were probably very good, but we run a simple script that just deletes them. We don’t even see them – let alone read them.
The other articles were a ‘mish mash’ of articles with about 25 being accepted. That’s 25 out of 121.
PLEASE follow our terms and conditions. We are trying to build a quality directory here and c**p articles will not be accepted.
Happy New Year to all.
Improvements to the site are planned and will be with us soon.
May the best of your past be the worse of your future!
