SearchWarp users... you might not know this
Hi,
A few months back, SearchWarp added a new related article site called Search-O-Rama. When articles are submitted to SearchWarp, they seem to be randomly placed on one or the other of these two sites. They don't appear on 'both' sites, which would make more sense.
Yesterday, I posted a new article on SearchWarp and thought I'd take a look at it today now that it has been approved. It popped up on Search-O-Rama. The explanation given to me a few months back is that articles that don't quite meet their "standards" are put on the second site, rather than being dumped entirely.
So I went through the last 5 articles I've submitted since November and 2 are on SW - the rest on SOR. The articles on SW have between 40 and a few hundred views, while the ones on SOR have 0 or 1.
If you are relying on SearchWarp for publicity, this might be important to you since a) SOR doesn't get the traffic/views, and b) SOR isn't even ranked by Google.
SW, on the other hand, has a rank of 4. All of my articles that appear on SW have received hundreds and thousands of views over the past few years. In fact, my SW articles usually show 50 views within a few days or weeks of publication. SW has sent me considerable traffic that persists today for a few articles. I don't see the same returns from their new site. Not sure how old SOR is, but I think it's close to a year old now.
The explanation they gave about quality of article seems irrelevant. SW puts a star rating on your articles at the review stage, and they've seen fit to give me 3-1/2 to 4 (out of 5) on my articles, yet these are not 'quality' enough anymore for SW?
This change in their policy is unfortunate, because SW is an excellent article directory that can bring you a lot of traffic - as long as your articles actually get posted to the site you intended, ie: SW.
I'm unclear why they have taken this approach because their original procedure proved that their visitors are finding what they want on their site. So why move the content to an unknown site?
BTW, I've been writing on the same subject for 2 years so this recent discovery has nothing to do with my topic.
Anyway, I just wanted to give SearchWarp users a heads up on this.
Sylvia
A few months back, SearchWarp added a new related article site called Search-O-Rama. When articles are submitted to SearchWarp, they seem to be randomly placed on one or the other of these two sites. They don't appear on 'both' sites, which would make more sense.
Yesterday, I posted a new article on SearchWarp and thought I'd take a look at it today now that it has been approved. It popped up on Search-O-Rama. The explanation given to me a few months back is that articles that don't quite meet their "standards" are put on the second site, rather than being dumped entirely.
So I went through the last 5 articles I've submitted since November and 2 are on SW - the rest on SOR. The articles on SW have between 40 and a few hundred views, while the ones on SOR have 0 or 1.
If you are relying on SearchWarp for publicity, this might be important to you since a) SOR doesn't get the traffic/views, and b) SOR isn't even ranked by Google.
SW, on the other hand, has a rank of 4. All of my articles that appear on SW have received hundreds and thousands of views over the past few years. In fact, my SW articles usually show 50 views within a few days or weeks of publication. SW has sent me considerable traffic that persists today for a few articles. I don't see the same returns from their new site. Not sure how old SOR is, but I think it's close to a year old now.
The explanation they gave about quality of article seems irrelevant. SW puts a star rating on your articles at the review stage, and they've seen fit to give me 3-1/2 to 4 (out of 5) on my articles, yet these are not 'quality' enough anymore for SW?
This change in their policy is unfortunate, because SW is an excellent article directory that can bring you a lot of traffic - as long as your articles actually get posted to the site you intended, ie: SW.
I'm unclear why they have taken this approach because their original procedure proved that their visitors are finding what they want on their site. So why move the content to an unknown site?
BTW, I've been writing on the same subject for 2 years so this recent discovery has nothing to do with my topic.
Anyway, I just wanted to give SearchWarp users a heads up on this.
Sylvia