Can anyone please tell me what sort of articles get most acceptance ratio in article directories. I am NOT asking about the NICHE of the article, but whether it is a review of a website, review of a product or service, a promotional article or a general article of a niche linking to a website as an example. Thank you.
Niche is not a big factor, it should be a quality article what you write to review on article directory.
One of my hosting clients runs an article directory site. (Actually he runs a couple of them) He complains constantly about how folks just copy and paste articles from one site and submit them as their own. Or just change about a dozen words. Folks hope that they can sneak it by but he usually catches most of them. His favorite is when folks copy from one of his article directories and submits it to another of his. Write your own stuff. Spell check before submitting. Check for grammar and typos. If you remember it from high school, the five paragraph format still works. Good luck, -drmike
Well it is not new that the same article is submitted to many article directories, dp service section is full of them. So I thought it doesn't matter if you copy one article and submit to another. Thanks for the tip
The better the article directory the better quality articles you need to produce. Ezinearticles is considered to be one of the best directories and their acceptance criteria are accordingly strict, but the links you gain will benefit as they come from a site that is highly regarded. A few quality articles would be better than loads of trash - they will be up there for a long time and carry a decent amount of link power, so take you time with them is my advice. With regards to your original question, around 3% of my submissions get rejected. They have got much better since I started writing.
I've never had an article declined except when I failed to read the submission guidelines and assumed something (like only 2 links instead of 3). I think that the quality (usefulness / readability) of the article is the primary importance. However, I never write an article about a website or a specific service (provided by a specific company -- more or less a website review), and I think that would be a mistake if you're submitting to more than a very small handful of directories that allow it. If you want broad acceptance: Write something that does not promote a particular website in the body -- save that for the bio. Be sure that your article holds value or provides something useful for the reader. Be sure that your article is grammatically sound -- no spelling mistakes, awkward English (or whatever language), non-usage of the all important comma or apostrophe, etc. Article should be 400-words minimum, 550-words minimum for the best acceptance ratio across a multitude of directories (at least in terms of minimum-word count). There are exceptions to all these rules, but I've been doing this for a couple of years professionally (and manually, I might add), plus I track approval timeframes, etc.. So, I would avoid any type of review unless you have a small list of directories / websites that you submit to. Otherwise, you're going to be spinning your wheels submitting to a bunch of places and getting little in return.
Articles which are original, well-researched, free of grammatical errors and informative. Don't go for trying to write a sales page instead. That applies to certain article directory like buzzle which has strict submission guidelines.
I tend to only use four sites that I consider to be worth submitting too. If anything fails then they normally send me an email explaining why a particular article hasn't met their guidlines. As long as the article is written well then they normally go through 100%.
as long as the articles are original and of decent quality, most of the directories will approve them. given that you are not submitting content that is not acceptable by the directories. for example, ezine don't accept any pharmacy related articles and none of the mainstream article directories accept adult content. other then that, original content with decent writing style wil get you approved. majority of the small directories will even accept duplicate content but original content is suggested for better result
What if I submit 2 or more articles about the same application or website to the same article directory? Will the second one get declined because they already have one article?
Depends on the site's policies I would think. I'll bounce this off of my client but considering what he complains about, if there's no real difference between the two, I have a feeling he'll reject the second one.