I wrote a an article which in my opinion was really good. It took us absolutely ages to get it right. I then, submitted the article to loads of free article sites. It was then that I realised that I made a mistake and none of the single link/anchor text on the sites was correct. I really cant change the article any further and make it as good. Can someone suggest a way out of this? If I wait a couple of months and re-submit the article, will it have any negative effects? Is there a list of good paid (but not too expensive) article sites that I can submit the article to and at least get some sort of gain from it? It really annoys me as the article took ages to write and all that time is now been wasted. Any ideas?
In what way was it wrong? If you made a mistake with the URL, say you did www.mysite.com/wrongpage.htm instead of www.mysite.com/rightpage.htm you could always make a redirect that sends visitors from the wrong page to the right one. Otherwise, the only other alternative I can think of is to go through all the places you submitted the article and alter them manually, if you can. Not fun.
The link was completely broken. I did not do the submission myself, it was a service I bought (over 400 article sites). I have asked if its possible to delete them but had no reply. The person in question did refund the $ back, but as you can imagine, that is absolutely no compensation for the damage done. I have to admit the guy did a great job in the past, so I suppose mistakes happen. Although I do wish he double checked it before submitting. 10 seconds check could have saved me days.
I very much doubt it's possible to delete them, as that requires contacting all the sites individually. Looks like you're best course may be to try and manually alter them. Incidentally, do you have a link to a site with your article, so we could look at it?
Damn, yes that looks totally screwed. Think you're going to have to do it manually for each site. Sorry.
I cant really do that as i dont have the login details. What will happen if i wait a few months and resumbit it?
Depends on the site really. In a lot of cases, unless you change the name of the article, the site in question will just reject it as a duplicate. - which to be honest, it is. Some sites may even reject the duplicate with a different article title. Maybe contact each article site yourself describing the problem?
I know this doesn't help but oddly enough, the 5 articles that I checked from this site all had bad links in one way or another so at least 5 other people had article submitted improperly.
thanks all. I will submit the original article to some paid article sites. Can anyone recommend any? I have just submitted it to ezinearticles btw.
Is there any reason why you need paid ones? There are quite a lot of free ones available. If you do want to pay, consider submitting to Article Marketer and iSnare. Both these sites will submit your articles to lots (thousands?) of other sites.
The reason i wanted paid ones is that they are the only ones this mess was not submitted to. Thanks for the suggestions... ill have a look.
I think there are probably hundreds of free sites that your article hasn't been submitted to. Although they vary quite a lot in quality. Only list I can think of off hand is this one though http://www.info-sales.co.uk/index.php?page=article
Your link has \ before the " - Did you put this in or the article trader software? I too run article directory and I always make sure that the links are valid otherwise I don't accept the article. Since a lot of articles on my site come through auto submit software - lot of these articles get deleted. In your case, your only way out of this is to manually edit all the articles.
I think that you should rewrite the article and pay the guy to submit them again. Or maybe he will do it for free seeing all the work he put upon you.
or maybe go to each site and put on the comment abou the mistake... but it is almos the same as del or edit it one by one... good luck and learn from the mistake.