As a registered Latest Articles Author, you can submit articles for publication on this site and for syndication/distribution to other sites.

This page outlines the things you need to know to use our service, and I strongly recommend you ALSO view the 7 Critical Article Marketing Errors You Must Avoid!

VERY IMPORTANT – Article Headlines which contain LOCATIONS, COMPANY NAME, PRODUCT NAMES or DOMAIN NAMES will generally NOT be permitted.

Examples:
“Business Cards in LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION From COMPANY”
“Excellent Web Designing services in LOCATION”
“Find the Right Property For Rent in LOCATION”
“Maximize Your Online ROI with LOCATION Interactive Marketing at COMPANY”"
“Find PRODUCT NAME from DOMAIN NAME”

Similarly, inclusion of such information in the BODY of your article will probably ALSO result in failure of your submission!

Please use the Author Box at the end to do your SEO!

Another important tip…

Submit no more than ONE article per day! Any more will usually not be published!

If you are just getting acquainted to our “system”, submit just one article to see if/where you may have problems that need to be corrected before you submit any future articles.

Ready to go?

First up…

Register For This Facility

Separate registration is required to use this service. It’s quick, painless and free to do…

• register here – a SENSIBLE username and your ACTIVE email address is all that is required.

  Important: the email address used MUST be one which you access regularly as you may need to be contacted to discuss potential problems with your submissions prior to publication. This address is used for that purpose ONLY.

• A “random” password will then be emailed to you.
• Once you receive your password, please login here to go to your WordPress Dashboard.

  Or use the “Author Login” box available on every page (RHS)

On Your First Visit…

Once you are logged in… click on the “Profile” tab (on the LH side) or on “your username” (up to the top right of screen).

From this screen, please enter:

1. your First Name and Last Name,
2. a new Nickname (if you don’t like the default suggested)
3. your Website URL (include http:// bit)
4. and some short Biographical Information about you.

This information is shown on a special “Author’s” page which is linked to from all items you submit, so it must be completed properly before any submissions are approved for publication. Here is my “Author Page” so you can see how this information is used.

Note you ALSO have an RSS feed of your posts (URL = http://latestarticles.net/author/YourUserName/feed/ ) – here’s mine…

You can use your Latest Articles author feed on other sites (like Facebook, Twitter or your own sites) to further promote your work!

Now, if you would like to change your password from the “random” one you were sent when registered, to one you can more easily remember, then do that too.

Now, click UPDATE PROFILE to save your details.

Once the information has been saved, scroll back down to the “Display name publicly as” and select how you would like your name displayed, and click UPDATE PROFILE again.

Now… Add/Edit Articles

To add a new article (or “post”), click on the Posts tab (top left hand side of screen).

This screen displays a list of any published, draft or articles pending review, which you have submitted. Click on the TITLE of any item to edit it.

To actually ADD a new article, click the Add New tab (on LHS)

Here you have FIVE things to do.

1. Add A Headline

   The very first box under the heading “Add New Post”…

   Here is where you enter the Headline for your article (see Very Important notice at TOP of this page)

   This will be stripped of any punctuation and will form the “address” of the item shown in the browser URL bar. e.g. This Is My GREAT Title, or What? will become:

   http://latestarticles.net/category/this-is-my-great-title-or-what/

   Remember… the headline of your article has to create an impression if you want people to read it!

2. Type In Your Article

   In the next box you have to enter the body of your article.

   You can use EITHER the visual (WYSIWYG) editor, or the HTML editor depending on your preference.

   While you “can” paste information in from MS Word and other word processing programs into this box, I would strongly suggest that you DO NOT DO THAT.

   It is preferred that you type each article into the box provided, rather than cut and paste from word processing programs.

   People who paste content in from MS Word usually (unknowingly) include a LOT of extraneous characters which do NOT work well with web browsers, and which will also cause your submission to fail.

   Start the article with this piece of code:
   <div style='font-style:italic;' class='byline'>by Your Name</div>

   Now begin with the first paragraph…

   Your first paragraph is particularly important here… Use at least two or three sentences in the introductory paragraph because it is ALSO used as an “excerpt” or introduction to your article, and appears in many places on this site – in searches, category listings, author display, and RSS feeds. So make sure it is useful at encouraging the viewer to read further.

   Please use TWO carriage returns to separate paragraphs, or ONE carriage return to create a line break.

   Basic HTML code is allowed to appear in the article, however if your HTML does not render correctly, the article will not be approved for publication, so use this ONLY if you really know what you are doing.

   If you want to UPLOAD IMAGES or other media files to include with your post, click the appropriate icon next to “Add media” to do that, and then the “Insert into post” option on the media screen, to place the media into your post. Alternatively, if you know HTML, you can link directly to media files on other sites, or paste in embed codes for YouTube video etc.

   VERY IMPORTANT: Outgoing links are NOT permitted in the BODY of your article! Please leave any such links to the resource box.

   Note that articles and/or resource boxes which contain excessive or inappropriate links will NOT be approved for publication.

   Articles which are little more than lots of bullet points are NOT articles – no matter how signifant the points are (these look like you are trying to conduct keyword spamming). Such “articles” will NOT be published.

   Finish this section off with an “About the Author” resource box, containing your name and contact details and a link to wherever you want the reader to go.

   Copy and Modify this code for your resource box…

   <div class='resource'><div style='font-style:italic;' class='about'>About the Author:</div>

   <div class='links'>Your Name is (describe yourself and what you offer) and <a href="http://www.yoursite.com" target="_blank">keyword link</a> to your site. Include <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/page.html" target="_blank">another keyword based link</a> to an internal page on your site if you can.
</div></div>

3. Enter Your Keywords / Tags

   Enter some keywords for your article into the TAGS field (on the right hand side of screen)

   Separate each key word or phrase with commas. And please don’t go overboard here! Just enter the main two or three keywords that are most highly relevant to the content of the article you are submitting.

   Excessive and/or inappropriate keywords will delay your submission.

4. Select a category for your article.

   Please familiarize yourself with the major and child categories available, to ensure your article is submitted to the most relevant one. Articles submitted to the wrong cateogry will not be published.

   Select (with a tick) the Category you want your item to appear in. While multiple categories may be shown, you can ONLY choose ONE category to submit your article to.

   If you forget to choose a category, or attempt to choose multiple categories, a warning message will be displayed.

5. Submit article for review

   Finally, click on the SUBMIT FOR REVIEW button (back up on the right side) to submit your post for approval.

   After a manual review of your article by our staff, if it meets our quality guidelines, it should be published within 72 hours (depending on the number of pending articles in the queue).

   During this period, the article will show in your “list” of articles as “Pending Review”.

   Once it has been approved, the article status will change to “Published”.

   If your article has been looked at, but there is a problem, the status will change and show as DRAFT and you will (hopefully) receive an email advising you of the specific problem so that you can fix it and submit for review again.

   Just Added – May 2010 – A new “NOTES” box in the top RH corner of the Edit Screen should include our comments on what is required to “fix” your article and allows you to reply to us as well.

Any questions? Then please get in touch.

And enjoy using this facility that is part of the WordPress CMS (Content Management System) here at Latest Articles!

All the best to you.
Stephen Spry