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

Well, there you go folks a little light about the reality of making a good choice versus going for less with less quality.

And by the way…

I just heard from the ladies at AllWomenCentral.com… they will not charge $5 or $15 per article (it’s too low for a good article) and they are not planning to go back to RentACoder/Elance days.

Every now and again, people come to my site and complain about

the high price of ghostwriting. Then they run off to Elance to

hire a writer for $5, $10 or $15 an article.

Sometimes they try to stand me down and push my prices down to

that of another ghost writer. I don’t play along. My ghostwriting

prices are as low as they are going to go.

I understand that a business person must try to keep their costs

down, but there is another side to this.

Writers are skilled professionals. Other skilled professionals

such as plumbers, electricians, etc. are paid a minimum of $55 an

HOUR for their time. They charge $55 just to knock on your front

door, then they charge $55 an hour after the first hour.

You pay it because you have to get the work done… Either that

or you have to do it yourself.

A well-written article can take anywhere from one hour to two

hours to write. Depending on the topic and the necessity for

research on the topic, a well-written article on some topics will

require 3-4 hours to research and write.

Good writers know their worth. I know of a professional

copywriter who writes only sales materials. He knows his worth

and he charges accordingly. Through him, a five-page sales letter

will cost a cool 10 grand. And, he is worth every penny he

charges for his services. His sales copy produces lots of sales.

With the constant pressure to push our prices down, some writers

have decided to take the work that has been offered to them.

After all, they have bills to pay and families to feed.

Now, they write articles for $5, $10 and $15 an article. But,

when they compromised their prices, they also made a compromise

with their integrity. They still believe that they should be paid

$100 or $150 for an article, so what they have done is to take

the jobs at a lower rate to get some income, then they turn

around and sell that same article to ten or twenty people.

Their justification is simple. “The person who bought this from

me screwed me, so I will screw him back.”

Once the first person has pushed the writer to compromise his or

her integrity, there is no going back. It is all about the money

now. They are going to make their money one way or another. And

the market has forced them to do it in a way that they may not

like to do.

It is a mindset. If you pay a writer what he or she thinks they

are worth, then they will not feel inclined to screw you over.

If you treat them right, they will treat you right.

All of us are skilled at something. Do you bring your best skill

to the table and then accept being paid peanuts for your skill?

Yeah. And you expect others to behave differently?

Instead of telling your writer what you are willing to pay, ask

your writer how much they need from you in order to GUARANTEE

that they will not sell your material to anyone else. Then pay

your writer what he or she asks from you.

To do otherwise is inviting trouble.

Isnare is not the only article directory putting the brakes on

duplicate content. Directory managers everywhere are putting the

brakes on this practice.

What is is coming to is if you do not pay the fee required to

Guarantee exclusive content, then you are flushing your dollar

bills down the toilet. People are going to know that you are using non-exclusive articles and they will penalize you for doing
so. You are trying to pass off that you wrote the material
youself, and everyone knows that you did not. If you wrote it
yourself, how come others are saying they wrote the same content

themselves. You couldn’t both have written it.

thePhantomWriters.com guarantees that they will not sell your

articles to anyone else. Allwomencentral.com does the same.

We still have our integrity, and we do not discount our prices to match other ghost writers. We know our worth, and you should too.

Bill Platt - Owner
thePhantomWriters.com