Comments on: Landing Page Quality Scoring

By: EM Sky

EM Sky — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:39:36 +0000

It is tremendously important for authors to provide a quality website to back up their quality articles. But what about the quality of the publishers who are picking us up? I’ve been less than pleased with some of the “publishers” I’ve seen picking up my own articles lately. I’m not personally of the belief that all publicity is good publicity… I’m curious what others think about this.

By: Marte Cliff

Marte Cliff — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:14:54 +0000

You know what? This is your site, and if you want to implement quality controls, then you should do it with no argument from anyone. We should all thank you and be glad to be associated with quality because it reflects well on all of us who are accepted as members.

I personally think we as authors are shooting ourselves in the foot if we take people straight to a squeeze page without giving them an opportunity to get acquainted.

How many people do you lose by being heavy-handed?

I also agree about the contact info. After being burned a few times, I just plain will NOT do business with any site that doesn’t have a name and a phone number where I can find it easily. If someone wants to hide, go for it… but get a different customer, ’cause it won’t be me.

One concern, however. For those of us who have been posting for quite a while and have had changes in our web sites, autoresponder hosts, etc. Is there a simple way to go back into old articles (en mass) and change the resource boxes to reflect current information?

I’m hanging on to a subscription from an old autoresponder just because of those old articles.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:16:29 +0000

These guidelines look good to me. The only other thing I can think of as a visitor to a site that makes me exit quickly are: slow to load and difficult to navigate.

I would appreciate the feedback that all of this would offer.

By: EM

EM — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:37:30 +0000

Why thank you, Marte. You’re a sweetheart! :)

By: EM

EM — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:10:16 +0000

LOL, no not an employee. Just a writer out sick today–joining in the converstion because I’m bored out of my mind lying here all day, but I’m too sick to work on anything important and too awake to sleep.

And you’re right that it doesn’t compare to print, but EA is still a moderated third-party publisher, which is a lot more prestigious than publishing stuff on your OWN site. My input is for more quality control to make EA’s “Expert Author” status mean more. That’s all I’m saying.

And now back to my DVR…

By: Marte Cliff

Marte Cliff — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:08:34 +0000

What is with people? See something complimentary and think it’s fake.

I’d say that EM really does have a “Mind Unbound” but I’m not so sure about some other people! I’m with EM.

I do think it’s fun to occasionally write about something different, but if the rules change and that’s not OK, then so be it. I will still appreciate the opportunity to submit articles to you.

Thanks!
Marte

By: Christopher M. Knight

Christopher M. Knight — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:45:47 +0000

The post from EM was NOT an employee of EzineArticles.com.

EM told us that her domain name is (MindUnbound.com).

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:00:01 +0000

I don’t know how anyone can compare ezinearticles.com to a print magazine! Magazines typically PAY the authors for their articles, and it’s a lot more prestigious to be published in a magazine than on a website.

Frankly, I wonder if that last comment was written by an employee of this site, since it’s so syrupy sweet.

By: EM

EM — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:01:02 +0000

Hey there. I certainly would hate to see you (heck–us–as an author, I’m part of the network!) lose good content because authors are feeling too intimidated to submit. But I’m still behind ANY and ALL quality control you’re willing to do. The better the articles and resource links on the network, the better I look for being on here too. I wouldn’t even mind if you added qualifications for the landing pages that had to do with layout, organization, and even asthetics.

Frankly, if you raised the bar so high that I no longer made the grade, I’d simply make whatever changes I needed to in order to be included again. The more my “Expert Author” status means to people, the better it is for me–because it also means more to editors, publishers, readers, consumers, etc. Your good reputation raises our reputations, and vice versa.

So go ahead, raise the bar. It’ll still be a heck of a lot easier than getting published in quality print magazines–I figure that gives us a lot of room to work with.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:17:01 +0000

I am new to most of this and so far am just happy with putting the link to the one webpage that I am working on in my signature.

However, I plan to write on a variety of topics, and not just send people to one web page to try to sell them something.

I enjoy writing, and want to submit more articles but it is intimidating to think that my website is going to be judged if the content does not match the articles.

Other than that I am to new here to write more of what is on my mind.