Urgent issue -Article Writers using submitters - Important question (Issue)
THIS IS NOT A PITCH - it's a true request for help.
For anyone who writes articles and submits them through a service or software to article directories, I need this question answered:
Does anyone know if there is either:
- new software for submitting articles
OR
- new online submission services for submitting articles
that has JUST been live for the past maybe two weeks or so?
The reason why I'm asking, is I'm getting pretty much 'bombed' by article submissions at one of my directories - which is fine....
EXCEPT that whatever system people are suddenly using, is putting the majority of the articles in the "NOT APPROVED EVER" pile.
Here's whatever the software or service is doing on EVERY single article that is coming through from it:
- Changing the submission date and time to anywhere from 2 to 36 hours ahead
- Changing the filenames (article title is typically the filename) to garbage like Harry-Potter and other obviously fake names
- The author's name "seems" to be valid, but it NEVER matches with the filename (which is suddenly usually a different person's name).
- The "email address" of the claimed author is always again, totally different and something like "Jimmy/@hotmail.com" (I added the / so that spammers don't scour here and think its real... just in case it is lol). It's coming through as a randomname@hotmail.com every time someone is using this software or service.
Again - its never the same as the author.
- The summary is cut off half way through a sentence at the EXACT 100 character mark
- The body is cut off at the 2909-2921 character range (about 460-505 words). So if the article doesn't finish in that character range, it is literally being cut off like the summary above, in the middle of a sentence.
My concern is that these articles (some ARE actually legit and not just spam by looking at them) are being dumped as if they ARE spam because of whatever this submission software or service is doing.
If authors are paying for this service or software, it's killing their articles up front, because it's likely happening to other directories too.
I can literally pinpoint it starting about 2 weeks ago. Prior to that, we had random ones that didn't keep with the guidelines, but extremely rare that we had ALL of these issues WITH MOST submissions.
Example: Here's a true submission that came in this morning (out of 400... that arrived overnight).
------ real article - no links obviously ----------
Article title: Conserve Income on Fuel and Gasoline - Use Drinking water Hybrid Tech
Category: Business (Wrong also)
Article filename: Arturo-Ward
Author Name: Dane Terry
Author Email: Domingo /@hotmail.com (obviously without the /)
Brief Summary: "I kept this at the back again of my mind and, as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot often states, wait"
Article body: "The do it yourselfer is several instances in a position of installing them simply because it is so simple and straightforward."
---- END SAMPLE ----
NOTE: This article was actually crap too, looks like it was used with a spinner or just random articles (i.e., those fake blog post things), however good valid articles are being submitted with all the other issues, they simply make sense in the article body.
In the sig file, they always have "just" a URL, no actual "about the author" info.
I'm getting close to 1000 articles a day from this system - that's a lot that are just going to the dump file.
Anyway - if anyone knows, can you PLEASE let me know what new software or submission service has been created or started very recently so that I can contact the owners of the sytem/software/service to make their corrections?
Otherwise all of those articles are getting deleted daily, and that's not fair to you the customers who have (likely) paid for their service/software or whatever thinking it will be actually doing something for you.
I would greatly appreciate it.
Amber
(PS - yes, I removed my sig file so no one can accuse me of spamming. This is a legitimate issue to article marketers).
For anyone who writes articles and submits them through a service or software to article directories, I need this question answered:
Does anyone know if there is either:
- new software for submitting articles
OR
- new online submission services for submitting articles
that has JUST been live for the past maybe two weeks or so?
The reason why I'm asking, is I'm getting pretty much 'bombed' by article submissions at one of my directories - which is fine....
EXCEPT that whatever system people are suddenly using, is putting the majority of the articles in the "NOT APPROVED EVER" pile.
Here's whatever the software or service is doing on EVERY single article that is coming through from it:
- Changing the submission date and time to anywhere from 2 to 36 hours ahead
- Changing the filenames (article title is typically the filename) to garbage like Harry-Potter and other obviously fake names
- The author's name "seems" to be valid, but it NEVER matches with the filename (which is suddenly usually a different person's name).
- The "email address" of the claimed author is always again, totally different and something like "Jimmy/@hotmail.com" (I added the / so that spammers don't scour here and think its real... just in case it is lol). It's coming through as a randomname@hotmail.com every time someone is using this software or service.
Again - its never the same as the author.
- The summary is cut off half way through a sentence at the EXACT 100 character mark
- The body is cut off at the 2909-2921 character range (about 460-505 words). So if the article doesn't finish in that character range, it is literally being cut off like the summary above, in the middle of a sentence.
My concern is that these articles (some ARE actually legit and not just spam by looking at them) are being dumped as if they ARE spam because of whatever this submission software or service is doing.
If authors are paying for this service or software, it's killing their articles up front, because it's likely happening to other directories too.
I can literally pinpoint it starting about 2 weeks ago. Prior to that, we had random ones that didn't keep with the guidelines, but extremely rare that we had ALL of these issues WITH MOST submissions.
Example: Here's a true submission that came in this morning (out of 400... that arrived overnight).
------ real article - no links obviously ----------
Article title: Conserve Income on Fuel and Gasoline - Use Drinking water Hybrid Tech
Category: Business (Wrong also)
Article filename: Arturo-Ward
Author Name: Dane Terry
Author Email: Domingo /@hotmail.com (obviously without the /)
Brief Summary: "I kept this at the back again of my mind and, as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot often states, wait"
Article body: "The do it yourselfer is several instances in a position of installing them simply because it is so simple and straightforward."
---- END SAMPLE ----
NOTE: This article was actually crap too, looks like it was used with a spinner or just random articles (i.e., those fake blog post things), however good valid articles are being submitted with all the other issues, they simply make sense in the article body.
In the sig file, they always have "just" a URL, no actual "about the author" info.
I'm getting close to 1000 articles a day from this system - that's a lot that are just going to the dump file.
Anyway - if anyone knows, can you PLEASE let me know what new software or submission service has been created or started very recently so that I can contact the owners of the sytem/software/service to make their corrections?
Otherwise all of those articles are getting deleted daily, and that's not fair to you the customers who have (likely) paid for their service/software or whatever thinking it will be actually doing something for you.
I would greatly appreciate it.
Amber
(PS - yes, I removed my sig file so no one can accuse me of spamming. This is a legitimate issue to article marketers).