Article Directories And Directory Submission Guidelines III

You might find that if you use HTML where it is not allowed, and the submissions are not manually checked or edited, your article could be sent out in plain text format with all your HTML tags showing. This makes you look very amateurish, and should be avoided. Many authors never bother to use HTML except in some specific directories that they manually submitted to when using HTML formatting.

Always make sure you know of any minimum and maximum word count limitations in the body text and the resource box. If there are, and you don't stick to them, your text will be truncated at the maximum count. With respect to resource boxes, not all directories offer them. You might be allowed links to your website but they have to be included at the end of the article. Be careful with this or your automatic submission could end up with nothing linking back to your site because your bio box has not been included.

Every directory will have its own guidelines since there is no universally accepted format for article submission. Take your time to understand those for all the directories you submit to; auto-submissions are not always able to take this into account. Sometimes submitting one article to hundreds of different sites just does not work, due the number of different submission rules applied by the various directories.

Read what the directory submission guidelines permit then take advantage of them. You should be able to make maximum use of the features that each of the article directories allow.