First of all I would like to thank everyone that has supported Article Depot in the past, keep those submissions coming. Hopefully you have begun to realize the benefits of taking the time to submit an article. There have been a lot of changes over the last couple of days and this has meant longer than normal waits to have your article reviewed. We are currently about 72 hours behind but hope to be caught up by tommorow. Some of the changes that have caused the delay: 1.) Mod_ReWrite - All of the url's at Article Depot are now SEO friendly for even quicker indexing. What once had variables at the end and numbers that gave no benefit has now become: http://www.articledepot.co.uk/list-Society.htm 2.) We have improved our back end Admin panels - Once we catch up this will mean most articles will be reviewed within 1 business hour 3.) Improved Search - We have worked out all the bugs with the Search function so you can now get the articles you need quicker 4.) Moved to new servers that will eventually be much faster 5.) Fixed a long list of bugs that help streamline the site (I was glad to contribute to the Weir Wedding fund for a lot of those) These features are added to the current ones of: 1.) Live links in both content and About the Author Box 2.) Anchor Text allowed 3.) Over 15,000 articles spread across over 100 Categories 4.) Quick and easy submission that doesn't require logging in We have only been at our new servers for around 24 hours so we are working on speeding up the site. Upcoming Additions: 1.) Add Steming to the Search and spped it up by allowing the user to select the number of results to display (Currently some searches bring over 2,000 results) 2.) An even more SEO Friendly Mod ReWrite that incorporates the title of the Article 3.) A Gold Author Feature - This will allow Authors to register for free and post their Articles that way. They will then qualify for all kinds of benefits and prizes. The "Simple Submit" will always be available as it is now. 4.) Adding a Report This Article feature that will be a button on each Article. No forms to fill out, just hit the button once and we will re-review the Article in question 5.) A redesigned Contact Us page that allows more interaction with our visitors and contributors 6.) Plus Many Many More If you would like to see any other improvements, please PM me or email us from the Contact Us Page We currently have 17,000 Articles, 5,000+ Pages in Google and an Average of 400 Unique Visitors a Day Thank You for Your Support
Congratulations on your updates, I hope you see the benefits you're hoping for. I love to write, wish I could think of a general topic, I would start submitting to you.
I just noticed we have no music category. Feel free to write Tuba Articles and submit them to Other while we create one. (Some music topics would go into entertainment but not instruments) PS. We are moving to a faster server (after already moving yesterday) so the site may be down for you at some point this morning. It will be real temporary and hopefully will make a big difference)
I actually have some plans to write up a series of general music education type articles. Let me think about it, I'm interested in getting some stuff on the net outside of the tuba world.
If you have any questions during the submission process (or in general) feel free to PM me. We will also be adding a REALLY comprehensive help section on writing good articles when it comes to both SEO and conversions. Until then, I will answer any questions you have myself. I look forward to them!