Under the Hood of the New Submit Form of EzineArticles.com

Under the Hood of the New Submit Form of EzineArticles.com – On May 27th EzineArticles members received a new and improved submission form that assists in eliminating errors during the submission process. The good news is — Now articles can be approved even faster. A lot of people have asked EzineArticles.com for a list of the specific errors the under-the-hood logic is looking for, which makes a lot of sense!

What better way to avoid making errors than to know in advance what those errors are?

So with that thought in mind, here’s a list of the items that are automatically checked when you submit a new article. Each of these will result in an error window asking you to correct it.

Title

• No author name is allowed in the article title
• No pipe (|) character is allowed in the title
• No HTML/PHP/JavaScript is allowed in the title
• Title is confirmed as unique – You have the option to change or accept a duplicate title
• Title must be no longer than 100 characters
• Excessive or duplicate punctuation is not allowed (i.e. !! and ??, etc.) in title
• Title cannot contain a URL or domain name

Article Summary

• No author name is allowed in the article summary
• No HTML/PHP/JavaScript is allowed in the summary
• The summary must not be too short (less than two words) or too long (more than 200 words)

Article Body

• No links are allowed in the first (3) paragraphs (“above the fold”)
• Body must not be empty
• No images may be placed in the body text
• No JavaScript is allowed in the body text
• Article body must be longer than 250 words and shorter than 5,000 words
• Keyword phrases can comprise no more than (2%) of body’s total word count
• Anchor text (linked text) may contain a maximum of (5) words (we suggest 3)
• Body must contain more than one paragraph

Resource Box

• No PHP/JavaScript is allowed in the Resource Box
• Resource Box must be no longer than 300 words
• Anchor text (linked text) may contain a maximum of (5) words (we suggest 3)

Keywords

• Keyword fields may not be left blank
• No HTML/PHP/No JavaScript is allowed in keywords

Invest a few minutes committing this list to memory because knowing what errors NOT to make will significantly speed up your submission time for every single article you submit to EzineArtcles.com.

Think about it – if you save even (1) minute per article by submitting 100% error-free articles, your savings in the course of a year could be hours of valuable productivity!

To Your Article Writing/Marketing Success & Passion!