Check this for your first question. http://www.isnare.com/guidelines.php

For the next, we always ask to give us 4 to 7 days allowance to review articles submitted FOR distribution… which means submitted with distribution credits or from Platinum members…

It does not have to be always 7 days.. it depends on the volume of articles.

We take that long because we do not just do a simple go through the article… each article has to be checked with several things other than grammar and spelling… it includes format, keyword density, if SPAM, duplicates and etc…

With the complexity (to check and make sure editors approve only real ezine articles) and with literally ‘thousands’ of articles to review each day. I’d say I have to be happy for my editors that they only take that long (7 days max)… but then again sometimes they do get it too well they can make it 4 days long or 3 days long…

Also, I heard that the approval rate of articles can up to a week. Is this true? If so, why that long? That would be unappealing to say the least.

That feature would be taken seriously and hopefully rolled out in our next future release.

However, in the side and thoughts of the article directory in question. It would certainly be a bit harsh on their part if they do display the article resource box properly. They just need to do a little more of a Policy Enforcement or a Policy Visibility for publishers and a lot of monitoring.

Scrapers are everywhere even at iSnare but we do monitor regularly and I am sure the policy of the resource box be respected and reprinted well is clearly delivered to anyone reading in any iSnare article.

It would be wiser to contact the article directory first and I do personally hope they respond positively.

Just my thoughts…

However, a couple of the directories my article was distributed to aren’t very careful about requiring the resource box. The directory itself displays the resource information, but there is nothing on the site telling others they must include it. As a result, a number of sites have reprinted my article without recognizing me or my sites.

Even worse, I have discovered many sites just scrape the content from the directory site. They do not credit me or my site in any way. At the bottom of the article they display the words “source:” and list the article directory. Thus I get no credit from the article, but the directory gets a link!

I have found many sites where the search engines indicate my content appeared, but I can find no trace of the article when I check. I assume these scrapers are using the content to get search engine ranking, then removing it in hopes they won’t be caught. The old content is replaced by new content they grab off another directory. It seems they continually rotate the content, without giving any attribution.

I question whether it is worth fighting this. By the time I find and complain about the uncredited content, they have already removed it and replaced it with articles written by someone else — which are also uncredited.

This is in no way a complaint about iSnare. The results are great and I will continue to use the service in the future.

Would it be possible to request my articles not be sent to certain directories? I have found one directory in particular, is used by numerous scrapers. The directory itself includes my resource box, but most of those using the article only credit the directory. I would like to eliminate that directory from my distribution if possible.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Tom Bonner
http://alphatracks.com

Aaron Brandon