Patant Consultants International Free Article Directory Guidelines
Compliance with the following Article Submission Guidelines insures
your article(s) approval and inclusion in our Article Directory.
These guidelines are necessary to maintain the degree of professionalism
we promise our Readers, Publishers and Authors.
All of your approved articles will be included in Patant Consultants International
Free Articles Directory for distribution to
other publishers.
While Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory understands, supports,
condones and encourages
Article Marketing , we have established Guidelines for Authors to adhere
to in an effort to offer articles to Publishers and readers that are well
written and informative, but not blatant advertising.
Please read ALL of the following
Article Submission Guidelines completely. Understanding and adhering
to the Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory Article Submission
Guidelines:
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Basic Guidelines:
- Authors submitting articles to Patant Consultants International
Free Articles Directory for
approval to be added to the Patant Consultants International
Free Articles Directory directory
will not be compensated in any way, for the writing or submitting of
any article.
- All author's will reserve and retain all copyright
to their articles.
- Author's are only permitted to submit an article to one category.
If you don't see a category listed you feel is most appropriate
for the subject matter of your article, please Contact
Us using our "Contact Us Form" as the SUBJECT.
Normally we approve all reasonable new category and Sub-Catagory's,
and notify you of their availability by return email. Patant Consultants
International Free Articles Directory will reply
to your email within 2 business days with our decision.
- Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory reserve the
right to publish your articles anywhere on our web site, blog
or syndicate through RSS Feeds. Other Patant Consultants International
Free Articles Directory users have
the right to publish your articles on their web sites, in their newsletters
or ezines, and more as long as the article is left in the original state
including the information in your Resource Box giving you credit as
author, and any links within the article or Resource Box.
- All articles submitted by you must be written/authored by
you. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Plagiarists will be banned
without recourse. Anyone proven guilty of copyright infringement will
have their Patant Consultants International Free
Articles Directory account closed, all articles removed from the
directory and be banned for life. We do track IP addresses.
- Your article should serve to educate and inform rather
than just serve as a promotional piece. Include How To's, Tips, Strategies,
Techniques, Case-studies, Analyses, Opinions and/or Commentary in your
articles from your own experience.
- Naturally, Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory
is looking for QUALITY articles with content
that is informational and well thought out. Articles with grammatical
or spelling errors will be rejected. Formatting will be covered below.
- Article Submission does NOT mean your
article will be automatically accepted and listed in the Patant Consultants
International Free Articles Directory. Patant Consultants
International Free
Articles Directory has the sole authority to except or reject any
article. As long as your article meets the requirements in these guidelines,
your article will be accepted. However, if your article
is not up to the general standards of our guidelines, Patant Consultants
International Free Articles Directory will indicate
the reason for rejection in your rejection email notice.
- If your article is rejected, you can resubmit your article
2 additional times only, with errors corrected for approval. If errors
are not corrected in the 3rd submission, it will not be reconsidered
for approval again.
- Spamming of this directory will not be tolerated. Submitting
multiple copies, (2 or more), of the same article using different Titles,
or with only slight modifications is strictly forbidden. Offenders will
have their articles deleted, account terminated and be banned from future
submissions.
- Offensive content will be cause for immediate account termination.
Articles must not promote hate, racism, pornography, hacking,
bomb building, terrorism and other illegal and/or offensive activities.
- While direct affiliate links will
NOT be tolerated , you are allowed to have links to pages
on your domain that redirect to your affiliate program. NO Pop-Ups
Allowed, NO Java Scripting Allowed. NO "Promotional" links are allowed
in the Title, Summary or Body of your article. However,
Resource and Source Credit links, Up to a maximum of 2 "Source"
links, (Links to a third party work you are referencing for credibility),
in the body of your article ARE
allowed.
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Web Site Active/Inactive Links/Anchors/URLs
- Download links are STRICTLY Forbidden. No direct links
to any type of digital download are allowed.
- Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory does not accept
articles that have the same ACTIVE link more than once. Do not submit
duplicate identical URLs.
- We allow a maximum of three (3) self serving links (active or inactive
URL's) and a total of not more than six links in your article.
- Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory does not knowingly
allow any URLs in any of our articles that are banned by Google or if
your web site engages in questionable SEO practices and reserve the
right to reject your articles.
- Patant Consultants International Free
Articles Directory does not auto format URL's that are in
the BODY of your article or resource box.
- Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory does not allow
inactive/active links in the first sentence,or first paragraph or above the fold
of an article.
- Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory does not allow
articles which have strategic keyword anchor text links in the
body to your domain that do not add informational
value to the article. Any use of anchored text links to web sites
that you own should add value to the article topic rather than stand
out as an obvious abuse an anchored text link. The goal with this policy
is to be a good net citizen by only allowing articles that add value
with the anchored text links rather than purely for SEO reasons.
Example: Within your article, you
link the word "bird dog" to an article that you wrote about bird dogging.
This is a good example of an anchored text link vs. linking the same
text to your home page as it doesn't really add informational value.
- BANNED LINKS: Patant
Consultants International Free
Articles Directory will not accept articles with links (in the Article
Body or Resource Box) to adult oriented web sites, including but not
limited to web sites that include nudity, pornography, adult-oriented
shopping sites and adult-oriented sexual content or any other potentially
offensive or illegal content promoting hate, racism, hacking, bomb building,
terrorism or any other illegal and/or offensive activities.
- EMAIL 'MAILTO:' LINKS: We highly recommend including
a link to your web site in the Resource Box, but do not advocate including
a mailto: or email link to your personal or work email account. Spammers
will abuse it. Better to just include a web site URL and let potential
customers find your email address on your web site.
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Formatting Your Articles For Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory
- Title
- Your article Title must be in Title Case (i.e.. I
Write Great Articles First letter of each work is capitalized. Never
all UPPER CASE.
- No Author or Web site Name or URL is allowed in the Title.
- No HTML tags are allowed in the Title.
- Do not put a "period" or "full stop" at the
end of the Title.
- Article Body
- The article must be 450 words minimum and 3,500 words maximum.
The ideal article size to us is between 500 to 1,500 words. Less
than 400 words does not amount to much more than an advertisement.
We are looking for actual informative and original content.
Please do NOT repeat the article Title
in the article body.
- Do not submit articles that are pre-formatted with excessive hard
carriage returns such as articles that are pre-formatted to 60-65
characters per line. The article text should flow continuously and
wrap naturally. To effect a new line, press the "Enter" key
once; to effect a new paragraph, press the "Enter"
key twice to create a vertical white space.
- The following HTML tags ARE allowed
in
the article body:-
- bold
- italics
- blockquote - to indent text
- Numbered or Bulleted lists
- Hard Breaks - should be used in moderation
- The following HTML tags are NOT
allowed in
the article body:
- Title tags
- Paragraph tag
- Image tag
- Font tag
- Header tag
- Horizontal rule tag
Author Name and Pen Names
- Author's Name
- Your full name is required for your first article submission.
Allowable: You can use, First & Last or, First - Middle Initial & Last
or, First Initial - Middle Name & Last. Name prefixes such
as Mr. Mrs. Ms. are not allowed . Name Titles such as
Dr. (Doctor), Prof. (Professor) Capt. (Captain), are allowed .
Name suffixes such as Sr. (Senior), Jr. (Junior), III (The third)
are allowed. Suffix Titles such as Esq. (Esquire), M.D. (Medical
Doctor, etc, etc.
- Pen/Alternate Author Names:
- Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory will only allow one author
membership account
per individual, but you are allowed to have Pen/Alternate author
names under your account (such as a pen-name or if you are an
author's assistant or manage articles for multiple different
authors.
- ALL of the same rules for the Author's Name above apply to
the Pen/Alternate Author Names.
- The Author Terms Of Service applies to any ALTERNATE AUTHOR
NAMES just as it does to you directly. So, be sure you
have written permission to submit the articles under any Pen/Alternate
Author Name that you might setup.
- Attention Affiliates - Pen Names: We don't accept articles
with affiliate links in them. With that said, PLEASE do not setup
a Pen/Alternate Author Name of a guru of an affiliate program that
you want to promote. This will be considered "Impersonation" of
another individual and will be cause for account termination. You
can add alternate author names from your MEMBERS PROFILE once you
are logged in to the members only area.
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Adding Keywords
- Adding the top keywords related to your article helps Patant Consultants
International Free Articles Directory
to bring more traffic to your article.
- Please make sure you put a comma between each KEYWORD.
Ideally, your keywords should be optimized based on the most commonly
searched keywords as published by Overture.com for your particular
niche. It helps to use a good keyword research tool to help you determine
which ones are best to use.
- You should have a minimum of 4-5 keywords and a maximum of 25.
Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory does not accept keywords that
are completely unrelated to the content of your article. If you do your article will
be deleted immediately, without prior notification.
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Article Category or Sub Category
Choosing A Category or Sub-Category
- Please choose the best existing category or sub category based
on the theme of your article and not the theme of your business.
- Suggesting/Requesting a new Category or Sub-Category is permitted.
If
you are unable to find an existing Category or Sub-Category you feel
is appropriate for your article's content/information, you can suggest/recommend
a Category or Sub-Category by entering it in the* BODY
*
field/box as shown in the following examples:
- (Entered in the * BODY *
Field/Box using ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS),
NEW CATEGORY = Business - SUB-CATEGORY = Advertising
- (Entered in the * BODY * Field/Box
using ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS),
NEW SUB-CATEGORY TO Business = Advertising
- Requesting/Suggesting a new Category or Sub-Category does
not guarantee the new Category or Sub-Category will be listed for
your article. However, Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory is understanding
of all such requests and will take it under advisement. All reasonable
(In the estimation of Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory Staff), Request/Suggestions
will be implemented. Please understand however, the process may
slow the approval of your article by as much a 2 to 3 business
days.
- Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory reserves the right to make
make minor changes/edits/additions
to the above guidelines at any time without prior notice to our
Member Authors. However, when there are any changes/edits/additions
of a substantive nature to the above guidelines, Member Authors
will be emailed notification of upon implementation.
- The articles in the Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory on line article directory
are provided for information purposes only and for redistribution as
outlined in our guidelines.
- Patant Consultants International Free Articles Directory does not accept any
responsibility or liability for
the use or misuse of the article content on this on line article directory,
by any other publisher or the reliance by any person on the content of
any article.
The Patant Consultants International Free
Articles Directory Administration and Staff hopes you find our publishing
process user friendly and effective.
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