RE Passages copyright MICHAEL DAVID COFFEY
RE 'Getting Published' copyright BRANDIE KING is a writer and author who teaches other writers how to write, as well as promote, using articles. She is currently looking or a wide variety of articles on a wide variety of topics for her article directory. You can submit absolutely free. http://www.articlesubmission.com

BRANDIE KING
Getting Published 



If your articles aren't getting published very often, or you just want to 
increase the chances of them being published, then you will benefit from 
the tips in this article. 

1. Article Length 
You should always keep you article 500 to 800 words long.
If you can't fit what you want to say into that amount of space, 
then break your article up into more than one part. 

2. Resource Box Length 
When writing your resource box, keep it 5 to 6 lines long. 
In a resource box you are simply trying to get people to request 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 to 60 to 65 characters per line. One 
consequence of not doing so is that, in some email programs, 
your article may appear with every line at a different length. 

You can get your article formatted, as well as learning its character,
line, and word count, at the following website for free. 
http://www.fwointl.com/FWOFormatter.html
 
4. Is Your Article Actually An Article? 
Publishers want to provide readers with actually useful information 
and you should want the same. If you write an article that is just 
a sales letter or press release it will be rejected 99% of the time. 

5. Inactive Links 
Before publishing or submitting your article, you MUST check that 
all links within it are active and working. Nothing irritates more than 
to click on a link for a site you're interested in only to find that it 
no longer exists. 

6. Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar 
If you submit it full of errors, your article will be thrown into the 
trash bin so fast that your head will spin. Submitting articles 
with these types of errors not only makes you look extremely 
unprofessional, but it shows disrespect for both the publisher 
and their readers. 

7. S*AM Triggers 
As a courtesy, you should run your article through a program that 
will check it for triggers that could possibly get it rejected by filters. 
This isn't a necessary step but it will definitely impress publishers 
and increase the chances of your article being published. You can 
check your article for free at http://www.lyris.com/contentchecker. 

8. Publisher Guidelines
This should be understood without having to say it, but it is still 
important enough to mention. Always, always, always follow the 
publisher's guidelines when submitting an article to them. Not doing
so will get your article rejected quicker than anything else. 

Read this list, print it out, and keep it by you when you are writing an article. 
Read each tip and make sure that you are following it. 

Making the above mistakes will insult the intelligence of both the publishers 
and their readers, as well as wasting your time and theirs. 






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