2000 Bloggers Thanks To Tino Buntic

Thanks to the creative genius of EzineArticles expert author Tino Buntic, we’ve had a small flood of traffic incoming to this blog this week. Check out Tino’s, 2,000 bloggers project at this url: The Faces of 2,000 Bloggers

In fact, even with a 24″ wide monitor, I couldn’t fit them all in one screen, so I had to stretch the screen to two monitors:

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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 23, 2007 at 1:47 pm

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Podcast- Stuart Crawford Interviews Jim Hart

Received word that EzineArticles expert author Jim Hart of Smart Books Media was interviewed by EzineArticles expert author Stuart Crawford of the Calgary Small Business Show podcast (Using Articles, Blogs and Link Exchange to Grow Your Business) on Wednesday the 17th.

Jim said, “I like EzineArticles.com.. It blows away the competition”. He also said he is very careful as to where he posts his articles and he hovers around 3 places to submit: EzineArticles.com, BestManagementArticles.com, Buzzle.com.

He said we have 20,000 visitors a day, but it’s more like ten times that. :)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 22, 2007 at 11:02 am

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JF Directory Awards-2006

EzineArticles expert author Jonathan Farrington has an interesting entry on “The JF Directory Awards for 2006.”

According to Jonathan, speed of publication of submitted articles is #1 in importance, followed by visual presentation of the articles and fast author support responsiveness.

Besides naming some of our better competitors, he also identifies several business niche sites that are worth a look especially if you write business management or sales training & management articles.

Lastly, an ‘attaboy’ to Jonathan for including his ezine (Jonathan Farrington’s Newsletter For Dedicated Sales Professionals) in his EzineArticles expert author bio.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 21, 2007 at 1:58 pm

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Articles on Home Page

Mike writes:

How come my articles that are accepted, never hit your home page as recently added articles?

I just had an article that was just approved, but I do not see it on your home page. Also, how long does that link stay up there, even
if it is inserted (unlike mine).

Answer: Unless your articles are in a restricted category (sexuality for example) they will usually reach the home page unless pushed under heavy volume.

Currently, we’re only displaying 20 articles on the home page at any one time. Today, we approved 564 articles so far…which means, the home page turned over 28 times in about a 10 hour span of time while our editors worked. In a typical day (such as Friday), the home page will turn over 50-70+ times and all in a compressed time span of somewhere between 4am till 9pm CST while our editors work.

Because it is possible that your articles never made it to the home page if we approved more than 20 articles in a 5 minute span of time (say, multiple editors are working), I think what you are identifying is that we should probably lose that statement from our new article approval alerts because we can no longer guarantee your article will reach the home page every single time. Sorry…

We’re open to hearing how you think we should change this issue?

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 20, 2007 at 6:37 pm

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More Than This

Between my home and office, I listen to Sirius satellite radio… and usually if I don’t have dance music or 70’s rock, I’ll have on Fox News or CNN. One of my pet peeves with both news corporations is that right before a commercial break, they will tease me with a reason not to flip the channel…and then the story they promised won’t be available until after the commercial, then more news, then commercial and then they will finally give me the promised story. Liars I call them because it’s implied that the story will be available right after the commercial but it almost NEVER happens that way.

This morning, they teased me with a story about how going to the gym may be worse for your health than not going to the gym. Of course, I wasn’t going to buy the story but I arrived at work, it’s 7 degrees outside F. and I sat here waiting in my warm truck for the story they promised 2 commercial breaks ago before I head into the office.

The guest expert goes on to spew fluff after fluff after fluff and as I got angry that I waited the extra minutes to hear the fluff, …it occured to me…ohh no, it reminded me of some of the poor quality articles that make it into our site every day. There must be MORE THAN THIS?

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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 20, 2007 at 2:02 am

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Salute To Mexican Authors

Hola… a quick salute to our (33) expert authors from Mexico as I enjoyed visiting your country over the past week for a little bit of business & a day or two of sunshine.

Over the years, I’ve been to Ciudad de Cuernavaca, Mexico City, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco, La Paz, and this trip was my first to the East side of Mexico in the Riviera Maya region.
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 19, 2007 at 9:37 am

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8 New Sub-Categories

Eight new categories have been recently added, from Paranormal to Real Estate Law! How’s that for a bit of dichotomy?

• Real Estate Law - Articles relating to Real Estate Law/Lawyers
• Timeshare - Cheaper travel is only one 90 minute presentation away.
• Sleep & Snoring - Topics including Sleep Apenea, Insomnia and getting a good night’s rest.
• Ergonomics - Better your posture, carpal tunnel solutions, etc.
• Pain Management - Everything from relieving physical pain as well as managing/avoiding it.
• Financial Aid - Need cash for college?
• Psychic - You already knew about this category, didn’t you?
• Paranormal - Ghosts, vampires and other spooky things.

This is a call for articles in any of the above niche topics… if you’re an expert in one or more of them, we invite you to submit your best original articles.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 19, 2007 at 9:10 am

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Mary Bauer - Author Spotlight

This week’s author spotlight is on EzineArticles expert author, Mary Bauer. Mary was selected at the suggestion of one of our editors who had this to say about Mary’s articles:

“This author is AWESOME… one of the best set of articles I’ve ever approved… but that might be a bit biased considering she wrote of us Wisconsinites!”

So as we say in Wisconsin, or at least in northern Wisconsin from where I originally hail from, “ya der sure, we’ll hafta put Mary in da spotlight.”

Mary also utilizes the Amazon ISBN feature we added to highlight the books she has written. Mary’s articles are well written and overall good reading with a very inviting nature.

Guru Sharing Fear

Blog discussion starter question of the day:

What is your biggest fear when writing articles for syndication?…and what would you do differently if you no longer had that fear?

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 17, 2007 at 12:23 pm

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Article Title Tip- Expand by 40 Percent

More than a year ago, I had clearly identified a pattern that indicated you could attract more traffic per article by putting high value keywords or keyphrases in the first 4 words of your article title instead of junk words (such as conjunctions).

Today, it’s clear to me that isn’t as important as it used to be and what is more important today is expanding the LENGTH of your article title by 40% more than you’re used to (unless you already write very long article titles now).

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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 15, 2007 at 7:40 am

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