Vertical Line Count
A tip to help get your articles approved/accepted faster:
Make sure your resource box vertical line count doesn’t exceed 15% of your article body vertical line count.
Here’s an example from a real submission that was soft-rejected this past week:
The article body was 23 lines long.
The resource box was 25 lines long.
That means this members resource box was 108% of the size of their article body.
Our internal guideline is that your resource box shouldn’t exceed 15% of the vertical line size of your article body. We’ve been known to allow upwards of 20% when the quality and originality of the article body is top notch, but it’s awfully hard for us to justify allowing a resource box that is 108% of the size of the article body.
How do you know your line count? Use any text editor (I use EditPlus) and it’ll give you a vertical line count.
In this specific example above, that means if their article body was 23 lines long, their resource box should not exceed 3 to 4 lines TOTAL.
Make sense?
Well that only makes sense because it would mean the intention wasn’t to write an article. It would mean that the only intention was to promote oneself in a free public domain.
The purpose of EzineArticles.com, as I understand it, is to share what you know and let what you know showcase your expertise. Having a resource box, that is bigger than the article, suggests to me that the person might be better off paying to be placed on a referral site or just have their own blog to do as they pleased.
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