Properly Formatting Articles - Article Submission!

Do you submit articles online? Did you know that 90% or more of all articles submitted are wrongly formatted? Learn how to make it easier for editors world wide by following these simple-to-use steps on formatting your articles for submission online!

How Do I Know How To Format An Article Properly?

My company owns and operates 5 article directories that have over 30,000 articles listed online. I've seen every type of article submission there is. We typically get 100's of submissions every single day!!!

Convinced? Let's move on!

Before we can get into the steps to take for formatting articles, we need to learn about the different types of submissions you may come across.

1) Real Time Article Submission: These types of directories simply offer an online contact form which you can copy & paste your article into. Most of these forms go to the editors/webmasters email account directly. If you don't format your article properly, editors may simply delete the email since it may take them a lot longer to add your article to their site.

2) Author Login Article Submission: These types of article directories require that you sign up as an author to get your own personal account. You then need to login and submit articles. These directories usually have all their article format requirements listed when you submit your articles. This process is where many fail to format their articles properly.

3) Text Only Article Submission: Some "Real Time" directories and "Author Login" directories demand that you ONLY submit raw-text when submitting your article to them. In this case, they do not want HTML edited text, they just want the raw text in order to give them the ability to format your article by their own editor requirements. Below I will show you how to format a "raw-text" article the right way.

4) HTML Edited Article Submission: Some, not many but some ezine article directories allow you to pre-format your article with simple HTML included within the article. Typically these directories are strict on what HTML code commands you can add within your articles. Below I will show you easy to use HTML that will not offend any editor’s world wide.

Now that we have gone through the types of ezine article directories out there that we may encounter, we can now break down how to format your articles for the above submission types.

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1) Article Formatting - Text Only (Raw Text)

This type is the most commonly used for all article directories. The reason why editors want you to submit raw text only, is because when you submit HTML formatted articles, you may compromise the websites FONT properties, COLOUR co-ordination, and will probably make the destined directory look pretty gimmicky. Many webmasters spend a lot of time on the "look & feel" of their directory. By not adhering to their specifications, your articles might simply get deleted as fast as they are submitted.