Article Publishing 18 posts by 8 users

Posted: 07/04/2008 at 10:59AM

I've done well on associated content - google/yahoo indexes them pretty fast if you're good with your keywords/topic - AND they pay you based on pageviews. One article I wrote there sends me about 100 visitors a day :) Others though haven't done anything, so it all depends on how you write it I suppose.

Posted: 08/19/2008 at 05:40AM

it is a matter of quality over quantity... it is much better to submit your article to 15-20 relevant sites than submit it to 200 irrelevant one.

Posted: 08/19/2008 at 08:42AM

Here's a note to all of you article authors . . . we've added a Free Real Estate Article Directory here at BiggerPockets, and I hope that you guys with quality work to share decide to share your articles.

Just go to:
http://www.biggerpockets.com/articles

Posted: 08/19/2008 at 04:09PM

Gary -
You're quoting a disclaimer from the forums, not from the article directory.

We retain no ownership of any article submitted to the article directory, and merely provide a forum for people to get visibility for their work.

Thanks for asking, though.

Edited: 08/19/2008 at 04:18PM by

Posted: 08/25/2008 at 04:52AM

There is conflicting wording in the various areas here, but you have it from the big guy himself, right there, they retain NO ownership interest in articles.

But, there is, in my opinion, a more basic flaw in their article guidelines...

May not contain any links or images within the body of the article.

Articles on the web build upon other articles and content on the web, without being able to cite sources, with links, it is impossible to verify the content in an article or even review the sources the author relies upon. So, to discuss something in much detail you are quickly over their maximum word length for the articles. So, without the ability to cite references the articles can't have the depth of knowledge they could.

Joshua, an article area is a great idea but I would encourage you to look at the way other successful article sites have handled things like this. Look at Wikipedia, references to source material are encouraged. So much so that when they aren't there, the system flags it with a "needs reference" tag. It isn't always someone trying to spam the site with links back to their own sites.

Posted: 08/29/2008 at 04:42AM

Josh, thanks for clarification... I will post my articles here..

Posted: 08/29/2008 at 07:05AM

1000 words is equivalent to approximately 3+ pages of text. If your articles are so detailed that they exceed the 1000 word limit, it would make sense to break it up into multiple articles if you're interested in submitting it to the site.

For some reason, though, I don't see that happening.

Posted: 08/29/2008 at 07:40AM

Sounds good to me.

Does anyone need any more clarification on anything?

Posted: 09/11/2008 at 10:06AM

Halille -
You just submitted to our article directory (which was summarily rejected) an article that belongs to the BBB. Copyright infringement is a serious crime, and trying to pass someone else's work as your own is a bad idea (and a fast way to being sued).

I question whether you should be giving advice to people on article marketing when you appear to be violating the #1 rule of article marketing - Never use the work of others as your own.