RSS vs. BLOGGING

The market has spoken and told us that BLOGGING and RSS articles should not be included in the same category any more as they are too unrelated from each other enough to each deserve their own category. Today, we agree.

Therefore, the old BLOGGING-RSS category has been separated into separate categories for BLOGGING only and RSS only.

In addition, this also means that those who were subscribed to the BLOGGING-RSS category via RSS will now need to re-subscribe to one or both of the new RSS feeds for the Blogging RSS feed or the RSS RSS feed. *whew*, sounds confusing I bet if you don’t use an RSS reader yet. :) Did I mention that I love RSS?

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 20, 2006 at 5:55 am

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Top 7 Reasons EzineArticles.com Accounts Go Bye-Bye

Since Sept 25th, 2005, 525 Author Accounts have been removed from EzineArticles.com. Here are the Top 7 reasons why accounts have been removed without warning, in no particular order (the names have been changed to protect the innocent). All of these could have been avoided if the person had simply read our Editorial Guidelines before creating an account or sending in their submissions (hint, hint).
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4 Engine Planes

A decade or more ago, aviation folks were studying whether it was safer to fly with 2 engines or 4 on a plane. The thinking was that 4 engines were better than 2 because then you could lose 75% of your power and still fly or land safely. Years later, they learned a valuable lesson: 4 engines are twice as likely to break than 2 engines… meaning, if you have 4 engines instead of 2, you just increased the number of engines that can fail. Today, it’s widely known that 2 engine planes are safer than 4 engine planes because there are 2 less engines to break, right?

How does this relate to EzineArticles.com you ask?
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 19, 2006 at 8:21 am

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Soni Pitts’ Article Marketing Lens

EzineArticles expert author Soni Pitts recently launched a new Squidoo lens on “ArticleMarketingBasics” that is worth a peak. :-)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 18, 2006 at 5:11 am

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Jamaican Authors

This week, we’re honoring Jamaican authors because I’m visiting their fine country in search of something we don’t have much in Wisconsin during Winter: Sunshine & 80′F degree temps.

It’s been at least 4 years since my last visit to Jamaica ‘mon and I’m hoping to see an improvement in the availability of Internet access.

Within EzineArticles.com, 5 authors represent the island country of Jamaica with the bulk majority of submissions coming from 2 Jamaican authors, Radhika Venkata and Nicholas Dixon.

It’s too bad that I’m not a beer lover, as Jamaica is famous for their Red Stripe beer…and friendly hospitality. I love the songs they sing when they meet you in the airport (some Bob Marley reggae tune)… :)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 9, 2006 at 5:52 am

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Quantify Quality

Quality vs. Quantity Article Debate: Over the past year, I’ve been encouraging you to increase or double your article inventory. It seems like every time that I discuss QUANTITY, someone will blast back at me and say, yeah, quantity is nice… but QUALITY will suffer, right?

While the definition of QUALITY is somewhat subjective when it comes to reviewing articles, I really believe it is possible to quantify quality.
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 8, 2006 at 4:04 pm

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Big Reveal

Perhaps I have been watching all of those *before and after* reality shows, but it wasn’t until this week that we all got a chance to see what expert & prolific author Lance Winslow looks like:

With 3,434 articles under his name (anyone else notice the pattern of how his number of articles always lands on some number that could be a pattern or reason?), Lance is clearly the pace setter and he’s closing in on his first million page views for his articles. Nice Job!

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 6, 2006 at 8:13 am

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2005 EzineArticles.com Stats

For the year 2005, here are some select stats to share:
101,787 - Articles Human Approved
36,675 - Articles Edited/Modified By Authors & Re-Reviewed
23,885 - Articles Forwarded To A Friend
16,400+ Unique Authors Represented
16,000+ Author support emails asked and answered (:-)
5,378 - Email List Members Receiving Daily New Article Alerts
1,469 - Comments Added To Articles By Registered Commentors
1,744 - Duplicate Articles Submitted & Rejected at the front door
8,745 - Articles Rejected For Problems That Could Be Resolved
6,743 - Articles Fixed After Being Notified To Fix
2,002 - Articles Still in a Problem Article Status Dec 31
1,455 - Member Passwords Forgotten and Looked Up
1,805 - Good Looking Author Photos Uploaded :-)
496 - Blog Entries and 1,046 Comments (thanks for participating!)

Looking forward to helping more authors and publishers in ‘06!

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 3, 2006 at 4:35 pm

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December 2005 Top Authors

Top 12 Authors By December 2005 Submissions Accepted Are:

Platinum : Lance Winslow - 342
Platinum : Don Diebel - 293
Platinum : Michael Russell - 184
Platinum : Christopher Luck - 174
Platinum : Jeff Herring - 162
Platinum : Gabe Mirkin, M.D. - 157
Platinum : James Hunt - 129
Platinum : Carrie Reeder - 126
Platinum : Shelley Lowery - 105
Platinum : Chris Robertson - 90
Platinum : Kal Bishop - 88
Platinum : James Monahan - 84

Nice Job!
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 3, 2006 at 4:22 pm

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ePubPros launches

Howdy and Happy New Year!

I’m launching a private discussion list on Tuesday called
“Chris Knight’s ePubPros”:

There are over 700 members on the list as we were previously a public discussion list known as EPUB since 1999 with mostly email newsletter discussion topics…that I’m converting to a new private list for intermediate to advanced level entrepreneurs only and expanding the topics to include web publishing/management/etc.

The list will be closed to new members for a few weeks as the list transitions from public to private along with a pruning of members who don’t want or need a high volume unmoderated discussion list as part of their business or networking strategy. I’ll sneak invites out after the dust settles on the re-launch and repurposing of the ePub list to the new ePubPros format.

Details: http://ePubPros.ChrisKnight.com/

Update: Unlike some of the private mentorship programs or forums for newbies and beginners, ePubPros is strictly for advanced level netpreneurs.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 1, 2006 at 11:43 am

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