We’ve been making small incremental changes to our article database design in order to improve speed and reduce lag.
On Friday, in the previous 24 hour period, we had 6,418,429 MySQL database queries of which ZERO have failed :-). This is a good thing.
When we have bad or sloppy code or the server can’t keep up, we get error messages in the database (db for short).
This is all useless trivia, but it’s part of the making of an article marketing super site.
I am aware that some processes are still taking 4-20+ seconds per process, so please be patient and only click on SUBMIT once when you are creating a new account, sending in a new article, updating your profile or adding an alternate author name. We are planning on addressing these speed issues over time so that everything is returned in a second or less with 5 seconds on a bad day.
Posted by
Christopher M. Knight on February 16, 2005 at 3:21 pm
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I was gone for the past 7 business days on a 3 island Caribbean trip that included a visit to St Thomas, St Martin and St Lucia. For me, there is nothing that recharges my batteries better than a white sandy beach with waves crashing, plenty of warm sunshine to go around and good friends to share it with.
It’s also good to be back in freezing Wisconsin with snow on the ground and good old high speed broadband Internet access. Might even be able to take a snowmobile trip within the next two weeks.
The EzineArticles team did a great job of keeping the article marketing ship a float while I was offline. They endured multiple hardware failures on our web and list server, but here are some interesting statistics on what’s been accomplished:
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Christopher M. Knight on February 16, 2005 at 8:01 am
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If you want to achieve maximum distribution of your article (meaning if you want to have an exponential return from putting your article into distribution), the word count must come down below 500 words … and best if they are somewhere between 400-500 words per article.
1,000 word articles are best split in half. Think about it: Surely you can prove your expertise in 500 words … so therefore why not get 2x the ROI from your 1000 word articles?
I’m considering investing in a small study to figure out scientifically if my gut feeling is right or not in terms of how an identical topic achieves different levels of distribution with one at 500 words and one at 1000 words with a near identical title.
What are your thoughts?
Posted by
Christopher M. Knight on February 10, 2005 at 4:11 pm
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EzineArticles.com has now scaled beyond my capactity to be involved in every aspect of this site with the same level of detail that I’ve given to this project to date.
In the past week, I’ve reviewed over 1500 new articles and I’m at break point personally as my other larger goals are not getting attention because of the huge load that we’ve been blessed with.
I just realized that I’m now squarely in the way of our own growth by being too involved in daily operations. Over the coming month, expect to see me get more involved in setting the quality control standards that our site must maintain and delegating much of the daily flow associated with this project to our growing team.
My acid test is my right wrist.
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Posted by
Christopher M. Knight on February 4, 2005 at 2:55 pm
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As you may know, every day we get 50-100 new members who create Membership accounts with us and we ask them to tell us how they heard about EzineArticles.com.
I found this answer humorous:
How Did Hear About EzineArticles?: BY CHANCE
The Law of Attraction at work. :-)
Posted by
Christopher M. Knight on February 4, 2005 at 12:44 pm
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If you’ve noticed that EzineArticles.com has periods where she slows down to a crawl, it’s not just you that has noticed.
Not sure if the average person knows this, but we’re fully database driven and that means that 99% of our site is dynamically created upon every single one of the 50-70K+ page views our site serves up each day.
Our database engine has been queried 27,893,534 times in the last 7 days alone. It’s insane… and a good problem to have.
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Christopher M. Knight on February 2, 2005 at 8:44 pm
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Got Page Views?
Do you have one million monthly page views or more?
If you’ve looked at our publisher terms of service, then you know that we only allow 25 articles to be reprinted per site per year.
Before we begin licensing content on a fee-basis, we’d like to consider offering licenses that would allow more than 25 per year to publishers who can follow our posted terms of service and can prove they have at least 1 million true page views per month in traffic.
If you think you might be a perfect partner for us, please Contact us.
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Christopher M. Knight on February 2, 2005 at 7:45 pm
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How much customer service do you expect from a free article submission site?
We’ve begun to draw the line at editing articles for authors who want us to fix things with their articles because our labor expense is climbing into the near 5 figures per month range and we give each author the tools to edit their own articles 24 hours a day.
I peaked my nose out to some of our competitor sites the other day and it was near impossible to get them to return an email much less a few of them had no way to contact them.
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Posted by
Christopher M. Knight on February 1, 2005 at 4:26 pm
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We don’t just want to improve ourselves on a daily basis, but the EzineArticles.com team and I want to evolve this project beyond a simple article directory.
Just added rotating tips on the author login page:
http://ezinearticles.com/members/
(Go ahead and refresh it a few times)
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Posted by
Christopher M. Knight on February 1, 2005 at 11:23 am
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Wanted to introduce you to Dr. Lynella Grant as she has a site on the topic of promoting with articles:
http://www.promotewitharticles.com/
I’m not sure which direction Dr. Grant is going to take her project, but we welcome her to the Article Marketing discussion.
Posted by
Christopher M. Knight on January 31, 2005 at 3:48 pm
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