Articles are a great way to get added exposure to your website and business, and also a great way to increase your status as an expert in your field. Because of this fact, article writing and article submissions have skyrocketed. It is still an effective form of advertising, but you must be careful not to do things that will waste your time and effort. As an article directory manager, there are some things I see that cause me to delete articles that are submitted to the article directories I manage. These are 80% of the reasons I delete articles, so if you manage to avoid these problems, you will probably have a very good chance of getting your articles accepted by many of the article directories.

Submit Articles That are Relevant To the Article Directory Subject

Most article directories are general in nature and have a subject in just about every area, but there are now more article directories popping up that have more narrowly focused and specific subjects. These are called the niche article directories. They are not as large as the general directories, but their subject matter is much more highly relevant to a specific niche.

Visitors like to focus on these niche directory sites because they don’t have to wade through thousands of unrelated articles. Article directory managers like to manage these sites because they are much easier to manage. niche directories don’t grow as fast, but when it comes to having a site that is tightly focused, it’s hard to beat for bringing value to the sites visitors.

Having said that, it still amazes me to see so many people placing obviously irrelevant articles in these directories. As an article directory manager, these articles get deleted without a second thought. Continuous offenders will get their accounts deleted. It does no good to continue this practice and only promotes bad will.

Don’t Submit Articles That Are Taken Unchanged From Reprint Rights Packages

The overabundance of private label articles rising out of nowhere, creates a lot of temptation to just take the article, add a new headline and post it willy-nilly to all of the article directories you can find. This tactic is becoming less and less likely to work as article directory managers are now aware of the article redundancy. No one wants to have a site with 10,000 articles only to find that there are really 3,000 unique articles. When I find articles that are like this, I delete both articles from the directory.

Remember, most article directory owners are wanting to provide value to their visitors first and foremost (I did say ‘most’ as there are always exceptions). Having someone slog through 10 articles where the only difference is the synonyms used, isn’t providing the reader much value. Article directory managers who care about their visitors will usually delete these types of articles, and sometimes the accounts of the repeated offending article submitter.

Link to Decent Sites in Your Resource Box

A nice benefit to reading articles is that it allows the reader to go to another site to find more information if they are interested in the subject of the article. Nothing is more disappointing than clicking the link on the resource box and going to a site that ends up advertising viagra or some other completely unrelated and questionable topic.

Look at it this way, if you don’t feel comfortable sending your own mother to the site, then you can probably bet that someone who is reading about gardening tips or home repair isn’t going to be too happy about ending up at a site like that either. I have deleted some, what I thought were good articles, because they went to these sites, or they went to some really crappy software generated site that provided the reader absolutely no additional value. Those article submissions unfortuantely were a wasted effort.

Think of it this way, as linking becomes more important, in the eyes of the search engines, do you think people are going to willingly want to link to sites that are sure to get banned, if they haven’t been banned already?

Write Articles That Are a Useful Length

Articles that are too short (usually less than 350 words) are considered more like blog entries or extended ads. Article directory owners like articles that provide value to their readers, because articles that are higher quality will be picked up by more website and ezine publishers who are looking for quality content.

Articles that provide value usually solve a problem, tell a reader where they can find information to solve a problem and why it is a good source to use, give the reader a fresh spin on a particular topic, or just educate the reader about how to do something. Articles that are only a few paragraphs usually tend to be glorified ads to a product or service. You will get much more mileage out of writing valuable content, with a link back to your site in the resource box, than by writing 3 or 4 paragraphs as to why someone should use your product or service.

Writing and submitting articles to article directories can be a very worthwhile marketing activity, however you can waste a lot of your valuable time if you use the techniques that will get your article deleted. Just use common sense about what you write, how you write it and your submission process, and you can enjoy rewards that article publishing can bring you.

Copyright 2006 B Hopkins

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At first, I noticed that I could have written many of the articles that appeared in Instructor magazine. Having earned a B.A. in elementary education and taught for a short time, I had some experience in dealing with challenges in the classroom and wanted to capitalize on it. I also read writer’s magazines and reference books, which encouraged me even more.

Initially, my biggest challenge was summoning courage to just go ahead and describe my idea to the magazine’s editor. My query letter began with a hook that lead to my working title and a brief description of the article’s contents. Toward the end of this letter, I explained why my related experience made me the perfect writer for the job! A few weeks later, a reply arrived from the magazine. They were interested in seeing my article and would I please submit it on speculation.

So I wrote an article, which filled a single page, and submitted it. A few weeks later, it came back in the mail bearing a rejection slip. Feeling discouraged, but unwilling to give up, I developed and submitted an idea to another education magazine. I really felt good about this idea. Evidently, the editors did as well and a few months later, accepted my article, paying 75 dollars for it. Subsequently, I submitted ideas to Instructor and after a few more months, saw my work featured in the magazine.

During that time, I learned my lessons and include them below:

Lesson 1: Don’t think about “writing something some day.” That time will never come! Make up your mind to follow through and do it now. There will never be a better time!

Lesson 2: Familiarize yourself thoroughly with a magazine or a book publisher’s offerings. Look at and read ALL of the articles. Pay attention to their format and contents. Then consider what was unsaid. For example, the author might have briefly mentioned something in a paragraph, but did not develop it. Why not expand that idea? You wouldn’t be plaigerizing, but would be putting the idea in a new perspective. Yours.

Lesson 3: Make a list of everything that was unsaid and which you could expand upon. Long before writing a query which Scholastic positively responded to, I filled sheet after sheet of paper with words relating to my subject. My object was to write a book for substitute teachers in the elementary grades. I wanted something more than the usual, so I considered my experiences as a substitute teacher and asked myself what I would appreciate having and using. The answers helped me to put a different spin on a familiar subject.

Lesson 4: Give your article or book project a working title. Brainstorm a list of possible titles. Write everything down and don’t worry about your titles being wacky or “wrong.” That’s your inner editor speaking. Ignore it until you are ready to choose one title.

Lesson 5: Take the time to write a good query letter, keeping in mind that it is going to be the first writing sample that an editor sees. First impressions are important! Write rough drafts, allow them to cool, and revise them again and again until you are happy with every single thing! If you have the slightest concern or question about any part of that letter, revise it again.

Lesson 6: Since it will be weeks and possibly months before you receive a reply, write your article or book chapters and develop more ideas. Keep the wheel spinning!

Lesson 7: Don’t allow yourself to be discouraged by rejections, which you will surely receive. Experienced, published writers are rejected all of the time. If you give up too early, your work might never be published.

Dorothy Zjawin’s published work, thirty Instructor articles and a book, Teaching Ideas for the Come-Alive Classroom (Parker Pub. Co./Prentice-Hall) was based on her teaching experience. More ideas appear in her website, http://www.profitable-pen.com

Malignant mesothelioma is a scarce cancer of the tissue that lines people’s inner organs. Almost 2,000 new occurrences are diagnosed every year in the whole US. Of this group, nearly three out of four of cases involve the sac that protects the lungs, referred to as the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In around ten to twenty percent of occurrences, mesothelioma may affect the tissue that encompasses abdominal organs, referred to as the peritoneal membrane, resulting in what is then acknowledged as peritoneal mesothelioma.

Being introduced to asbestos is absolutely the primary risk factor for this uncommon disease. After exposure to asbestos, the time to development of the mesothelioma disease might be two to four decades. Due to work introduction, cancer of the mesothelium is about 3 times more routine in men, than in women. Because the mass of instances rises with your age, there are around 10 times more cases in the males over age 64 than in the men in their midlife.

Developing Cancer of the mesothelium is a grave sickness, which, at the current time, has a very bad percentage of long-term continuance. On the other hand, if it is spotted quickly, regimens are then obtainable that might considerably prolong the patient’s life. New approaches continue to be and are being promoted by the way of clinical trials.

It is the dog days of summer, and here in North Carolina it is Hot and Steamy. I’m talking Tarzan jungle hot and humid. It is hot enough that I am making several adjustments to my exercise routine. I normally run outside every day, but this is the time of the year when I least appreciate it. Consequently I am using the elliptical trainer a few days a week, and the other days I head out for a real good sweat.

I’m one of those people who sweat profusely. By the time I am done my body and my gym clothes are soaked. This means I am draining some serious fluids, which is not a problem as long as I adequately replace them, and I monitor any abnormal physical symptoms.

Heat related illnesses are usually due to people ignoring the warning symptoms. They include weakness, dizziness, headaches, muscle cramps and nausea. This means you need to be aware of your mental state. What appears to be fatigue can progress to unconsciousness.

So I have been doing my research and have come up with a list of valuable suggestions to make certain you summer outdoor workouts are healthy and rewarding:

Stay Hydrated

Even in cooler temperatures, there is a tendency not to adequately replace expended body fluids. In the summer it is an absolute necessity. It is important to drink water or sports beverages before and after your workout. If you are engaging in extended outdoor exercise (running, walking, bicycling), replace fluids periodically. For runners, consider a hydration pack. If you do not maintain your fluid levels you risk circulatory failure.

If you are exercising for an hour or less, water is sufficient. Longer than an hour and you need to replace carbohydrates. Warmer weather metabolizes these substances faster. Consider one of the popular sports drinks that contain carbs.

Time of Day

When they are predicting some scourging weather, schedule your workout early in the morning or later in the evening. Avoid the mid-day heat and humidity. Workout indoors if that is the only time you have to exercise

Humidity

Be aware of the relative humidity. The body responds to overheating by the evaporation of moisture through perspiration. When the humidity is high, the air is less capable of evaporating excess moisture. Consequently your natural cooling mechanism is compromised. Monitor your vitals. If you start to feel light headed, or you feel completely drain, immediately stop, find a place to cool off and once again replace those vital fluids.

Cool Clothing

No, I am not talking about the latest fashions. When exercising in heat you do not want clothing that will retain heat. That includes cotton apparel. Go for synthetic breathable fabrics that release moisture from your body and allow efficient airflow. Hats are good for preventing the sun from heating up the blood vessels lining your scalp. But remove the hat occasionally to let the heat escape.
Problems of Pollution

Due to some misguided political policies and our desire to drive gas-guzzling vehicles, the air quality in urban environments in the summer often sucks. During days when there are orange, red or even purple alerts it is best to limit your outdoor activities. And air pollution is not limited to just cities. For example, the air quality in the mountains of North Carolina during the summer can be equivalent to the air in Los Angeles. The trees are actually dying in the high altitudes. Furthermore, the air quality in a number of our national parks and beaches can be potentially hazardous during the summer months. Excessive physical exertion in areas of poor air quality can be detrimental to your health.

The summer offers an incredible opportunity to enjoy the beauty of nature while you exercise. A walk or run on a tree-lined trail or sandy beach surely beats the congestion of a health club. But when it heats up outside use common sense and caution. And if those dog days of summer start barking consider heading indoors.

Fred Waters worked in the fitness equipment industry for a number of years and is author of the Elliptical Trainer Review site. Learn about the benefits of a low-impact, total body workout when you exercise on an elliptical trainer.

Many years ago, when I was in high school, I was thinking about what made the popular girls popular. (Yes, I know, this is probably not something every 10th grader thinks about, but you have to understand that I have spent a lifetime observing why people do the things they do.) So, anyway, I was watching these girls and decided that it wasn’t the hair or the make up or the clothes that made them popular, it was their self-confidence.

As soon as I realized that, I started having a conversation with myself about how I was going to improve my own self-confidence. I decided that a few things would help: 1. smile as much as possible; 2. sit up straight and walk tall; 3. be friendly with everyone; and 4. find qualities that I liked about myself and concentrate on those. Now, these may seem petty and simplistic, but they worked. The biggest thing I realized was that nobody could make me feel good about myself – I had to do that myself. The best way to do that is to have good, positive self-talk.

That plan started a path to becoming who I am today. It has taken me twenty years to get here, but I feel as though I am exactly where I need to be. The interesting thing to me is that it all started with a conversation with myself about how I wanted to change. I proved to myself that my thoughts really do create my reality.

With spring in the air or possibly winter soon disappearing now is the time to put away the winter apparel or bring out the flip flops! It is also the time to revivify and recondition even if it be yourself and the condo. Scented 1 are also a considerable approach to usher for revived season. It can be time to put away those cinnamon or pine perfumed Scented Candles and embrace the essences of the new season. Flowery or maybe fruity fragrance are what one will probably experiencing at the moment. With a breeze coming through one’s home, the new Sweet-smelling candle flavor may afloat all over a apartment. They are likewise astonishingly alluring when the person is entertaining throughout the spring months. When one’s occasion is beginning to relocates outdoor, adding swimming 1 to some decor is a certain fire approach to tack on new feel. pool 1 come in so countless forms or measurements nonetheless my favorite are also the flower shaped candles. Floating your larger pieces within a swimming pool or maybe an pond take back memoirs of cotillions & charming affairs of moments gone by. Votivo Scented Candles will from time to time be tried out in the place of Placing candles. Make certain to use the votivo candles out of their metal jar so that it can drift properly. Do you want to begin looking for pillar candles, have look here.

By the more pleasant time allowing the public to satisfy outdoor & reside open-air candles care might well shift. Of course Positioning candles played with outside is magnificent however, what occurs As there is breath or greater still what occurs as there is an enormous wind? One’s Scented Candles go out and out and out. It will probably get highly aggravating, so for those breezy patio nights candles holders are also excellent. Candle holder turn out in various shapes & measurements just such as every other candle. I myself enjoy the ones which include some translucent appearance as these give off a different glow. The candles holder are creating a barrier for the candles safekeeping them on & cheerful. One comment of help nonetheless, once obtaining candle holders for utilization in the outside, make sure that these can be found no cutouts, otherwise people can be found back to square one with your candles going away faster than b-day candles at a 5 year olds b-day bash! Those will act in the indoors or perhaps mild nights still not if these is any whiff? Another alternative on these nights is to use electronic h

Dallas is a booming city with numerous benefits that enhance one’s quality of life, but that’s not to say there still aren’t some drawbacks to living there, or in any big city. Crime is prevalent not only in Dallas but everywhere in the world these days, and more and more homeowners are investing in home alarm systems to give themselves piece of mind that is truly priceless.

The Dallas/Fort Worth area is one of the fastest growing metropolises in the United States, so it should come as no surprise that there is a market for companies vying to provide a home alarm system for residents. In fact, the Dallas/Fort Worth area is projected to be the fourth biggest metropolitan area in the United States by 2010, and some sort of home alert system is a wise investment by those who can afford it.

Some features in home alert systems commonly work in conjunction with outdoor lighting, a telephone ring suppressor and other fixtures for optimal safety. Companies that provide home alarm systems advise that a homeowner should not pair his or her name with the mailbox on the premises. A seemingly innocent act of labeling items to facilitate the work of the mail carrier can lead to a burglar casing the premises to more information. The burglar can dial 411 to obtain the phone number of the residence and may call the owner’s home phone to see if he or she is still at home.

Having less information visible is usually more advisable so that burglars have less to use to their advantage. However, Dallas homeowners who have a home alert system installed have significantly less to worry about along these lines than someone who doesn’t.

Obviously heads up poker is a very different story from playing at a full casino table. A lot of it comes down not to the cards you are dealt, but to how you and your specific opponent reacts to situations and to spots. In fact, one of the keys to succeeding in this venture is knowing or realizing the subtleties of your opponent’s game, how he acts in certain situations, and how much he varies.

The act of the standard continuation bet (betting on the flop after raising preflop, regardless of what comes) when in a heads up situation changes even more, it seems. While continually applied pressure often can be enough to succeed in the right spots, picking those spots and knowing when to relent is also key.

In judging whether to continuation bet, it’s always good to know the way a player tends to respond after the flop, based on past experience with him, or watching him play. Does the player tend to call continuation-style bets when they have a piece, or reraise? Do they check-raise often? How aggressive are they? How capable are they of restealing off your raise with a bluff when they know you are continuation betting and can make you lay down? Do they play numbers of feel? All of this info should be put to use before you go blindly continuation betting a heads up opponent every time just because most aggressive online poker players say it is what you should do.

The nineteenth century playwright and philosopher George Bernard Shaw wrote
many articles about the abuse and deterioration of the English language. His story,
‘Pygmalion,’ was used as the basis for the Lerner and Lowe musical, ‘My Fair Lady,’
and Oscar-winning movie, about a Cockney street woman, Eliza, with horrible
speech, transformed by Professor Henry Higgins into a society lady with proper
pronunciation. Today, we have a similar challenge. It’s slowly been infiltrating our
lives since the advent of e-mail, and later, text messaging.

Stenographers, still seen in courtrooms, had been using short cuts for years, by
breaking common syllables into cryptic characters, which they later translate back
into typed words. But beyond that, there is no excuse for what the latest generation
is doing to butcher our sacred language. Sure, we’re used to simple silly
abbreviations like ‘U R’ on everything from bumper stickers to greeting cards.
Substituting numbers for words, as in ‘4′ and ‘8′ is also fairly widespread. But the
real difference is the use of letters for whole phrases or sentences. LOL (laughing
out loud) and ROTFL (rolling on the floor laughing) are two examples. Add an
emoticon, the little face made from the punctuation keys, and you’ve got a whole
new language

As cute as all that is, I’m afraid that we eventually may lose our words and
become a symbol society of coded messages. If we don’t know the meaning of the
following letters, we may be delegated to the world of the literary dinosaurs:

AFK Away from keyboard….BAK Back at keyboard….BFN Bye for now

BBL Be back later….BRB Be right back….CU See you….CYA See ya

LTNS Long time, no…IFUEE I forgot you even existed

TTFN Ta ta for now….L8TR Later….GAL Get a life

HAND Have a nice day….OT Off topic….PU That stinks

TSWC Tell someone who cares….GFETE Grinning from ear to ear

There are probably so many more letter phrases that are being invented as I
type. We’ve come a long way since my early days when ‘Pig Latin,’ was all the rage.
Like ave-fay, un-fay for ‘Have Fun.’ Both of these methods of communicating are
cute and silly, but what if the next generation is so used to these initial shortcuts,
they forget how to write real words or how to spell? Will we be seeing whole books
written using ‘U’ and ‘R’ for the actual words? Will every book come with a decoding
section? Will future dictionaries begin including all these acronyms?

I’m not an alarmist or a wet blanket, but IMHO, (in my humble opinion) I’m just a
bit concerned. It’s probably time for the EOD. (end of discussion) Is Shaw spinning
in his grave? I wonder.

Jeffrey Hauser was a sales consultant for the Bell System Yellow Pages for
nearly 25 years. He graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Advertising
and has a Master’s Degree from Monmouth University. He had his own
advertising agency in Scottsdale, Arizona and ran a consulting and design
firm, ABC Advertising. He has authored 6 books and a novel, “Pursuit of the
Phoenix,” available at amazon.com. His latest book is, “Inside the Yellow
Pages.” Currently, he is the Marketing Director for thenurseschoice.com,
a Health Information and Doctor Referral site.

Womens lingerie sales are rising even in these credit crunch markets. With massive department stores suffering a dip in sales and high street shops closing down faster and quicker, the womens lingerie market is seeing sales rise at a generous rate.

A well known female underwear retailer in the UK has reported a sales climb by six per cent. The main reason looks to be clear, girls appreciate to feel lovely irrespective of how the British economy is doing. With further girls spending time at home instead of going out, women are finding the plus points of being sexy for their partners.

For the hottest in beautiful underwear, lingerie retailers provide a range of alluring and recession busting lingerie. For the female that likes to appear angelic and virginal there are silk chiffons, and for the more adventurous female there is satin bras and stockings. For the women that are looking to seduce then there are plunge bras and open knickers that is sure to please their partner.

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