No Spawning

I admit it. I’m a serial entrepreneur. I love building businesses and then handing them off to a seasoned management team so that I can do what I do best.

This week I’m making a shift in my thinking to halt spawning the success that we’ve had with EzineArticles into other projects so that this project can have an even higher level of concentration/focus.

If you’ve got any ideas as to how we could grow this project exponentially without dramatically expanding our labor expenses… I’m open to hear suggestions and your ideas. :-)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 22, 2005 at 8:42 am

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Two Exceptional Authors

I literally have thousands of new articles sifting through my fingers weekly and it takes a lot to impress me.

Two authors that I really enjoyed reading this morning:

Fran Briggs - What Oprah might look like if she knew how to be an online diva.

Michael Losier - Because he has an excellent and brief way of explaining the simple laws of attraction.

Of the 4,328 new articles that were added in the last 21 days of March, these two were exceptional for me. Fran because I love her positive attitude and Michael because I really enjoy his topic.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 21, 2005 at 11:34 am

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Forward To Friend Voyeur

Every article has a link to a recommend-it script that allows people to forward an article to a friend. About 27-55 of these are sent daily by a wide variety of people.

We filter out 72 known swear words in various languages (even though I’m sure we don’t get them all) and keep an eye on the flow to be sure our system is not being abused. Every use is logged and tracked.

Here are the most common “comments said” when people use our “Forward An Article To A Friend Feature” and leave a nice memo with their forward:

1) Love you, Mom
2) Print this for me please.
3) Rate my article.
4) Here’s the article that talks about what we just talked about.
5) Here’s an article for your next newsletter or ezine.

Honorable mention for this type of comment:

Big apology comments from guys who are sorry for irritating their girlfriends or for being a big baboon and are begging for forvigeness. ;-)

About 5% of the comments are in a non-English language.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 20, 2005 at 8:39 pm

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Joel Comm

This blog post is for the AdSense publishers in the house.

Joel Comm wrote an excellent guide on “What Google Never Told You About Making Money With AdSense!” and I’ll be interviewing Joel for a One-Time FREE Teleseminar on Tuesday night, March 22nd, at 7pm CST USA time.

I hope you can make it. Here’s the details so you can get your free VIP ticket: http://EmailUniverse.com/adsense-secrets/

If you can’t make it for the event, sign up anyway and I’ll be able to email you a copy of the MP3 after the event as I’m having it professionally recorded.

Before I read Joel’s AdSense book, I had pretty much bought and read every other AdSense book. Joel’s is the best by a long shot.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 20, 2005 at 1:02 pm

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Andy Williams

Wanted to publicly thank Andy Williams for referring new authors to us.

I hope he doesn’t mind, but here is a relevant excerpt from his blog that caught my interest or ego: :)

Think about this as a plan for 2005:

1. Carry out some keyword research.
2. Write a keyword rich article.
3. Include a link to your site in the resource box at the end of the article.
4. Submit to EzineArticles.com
5. When it gets indexed in Google, there is a good chance it will rank highly.
6. You article will get a lot of visitors.
7. Some may publish your article on their site.
8. Others may visit your site by following the link at the end of your article.
9. You get seen as an authority on the subject - branding you as an expert.
10. You get more traffic, more incoming links, more sales.

Try it, and I think you will be surprised by the results.

Andy’s Blog:
http://ez-search-engine-optimization.com/blog/index.php?paged=2
(Continue Reading…)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 19, 2005 at 11:22 am

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Doctor Authors

Dear authors who are Doctors:

We know you are smart but we do not need to read 4,000 of your words to know that you are smart.

Please make your articles 200-800 words in length so that we may enjoy your brilliance in easy to digest bites rather than short novels.

:-)
Love,
Dr Chris

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 18, 2005 at 2:48 pm

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100,000 1st Time

For the first time ever, we hit 100,000 page views in a 24 hour period.

It was actually 103k, and this number is stripped of the tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of legitimate search engine bots that are indexing our site daily.

More human page views for us means more traffic delivered for every author!

3,296 new articles were added in the last 17 days of March so far.

Unrealistic goal for this month was 12,000 new articles added but we’re taking a whole bunch of steps backwards this month to train 3 new part time Associate Editors.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 17, 2005 at 7:30 am

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John Kremer

Tonight, I was reviewing some of the referral sources for where our new members came from.

John Kremer, Book Marketing Maven of http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/JohnKremer/ gave us a mention back in February in his Book Marketing Update. I surfed his site and while it was not very hip-hop, it was a mile deep on quality content of interest to authors who are learning how to market their books.

To learn more about John: http://www.bookmarket.com/

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 16, 2005 at 9:44 pm

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Article Fraud

There is no honor in putting your name on articles that someone else wrote completely for you.

But, there are different levels of article fraud.

I’m not talking about copyright infringement here, because that is illegal. I’m talking about authors who buy reprint rights to mass hordes of articles that can be prostituted for their own use.

How can we take you seriously when we are obviously reading someone else’s intelligence?

Your name will be “MUD” in less than a few seconds if you engage in buying reprint rights to articles that can be relabeled with your own name on them.

In the Internet, you get one chance to break the trust with your potential audience. If you submit articles to our site that came from Larry Dotson, Allen Says or anyone else selling reprint rights to articles…you may lose your Platinum status, your account and articles may be removed as we do not accept NON-original content.

BTW: Ghost writing is different because with ghostwriting, usually you have an EXCLUSIVE license to the content.

Buying reprint rights to articles that gives you a NON-EXCLUSIVE license to them is what makes this practice un-wanted in our site.

Why why why? Because we do not want duplicate content on our site and it’s an SEO no-no. If we can prevent duplicate content from being submitted, we’re going to do all we can to keep the “dupies” and “article reprint rights groupies” out of our website.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 16, 2005 at 10:17 am

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142 Per Day

Someone had asked me how many submissions we receive per day.

Yesterday, 142 came in. That’s a pretty typical day.

If we are doing any kind of email promotion, it’ll normally scale to 325-400 submissions per day and it’s been a while since it’s been lower than 100 per day.

23 have come in so far today in the first 7 hours. The bulk of articles are normally submitted between noon and 8pm CST.

My gut feel is that the number of articles per day that are submitted are directly related to how fast our system responds when an author is logged into our system… meaning, if they have a fast experience, they are more likely to submit more and if our system drags…then they will give up more easily.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 16, 2005 at 7:05 am

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