Article Deletion
Article Deletion
aka How You Can Waste Your Time and Ours by Submitting Garbage
Over the past several months the staff at High Profile Articles 3 has received a number of emails asking why articles have been deleted rather than published or declined (along with an email explanation). The reason is quite simple. The articles deleted do not meet our guidelines and probably don't meet the guidelines of most other article sites. So, we delete them. We don't send a declination email because it's a waste of time, most articles we delete have multiple problems and we've found authors are unlikely to fix them. After all, they didn't read our guidelines in the first place.
However...since we would like authors to continue to send their articles we will include on this page the most likely reasons your article has been or will be deleted.
Article Category: The category you choose gets your article deleted when...
1. The article is submitted to the wrong category for the article's content. Choose carefully.
2. The category selected matches the resource section rather than the article content.
Article Title: The Title gets your article deleted when...
1. The title is in ALL CAPS.
2. The title has a period at the end, or excessive punctuation.
3. The title has a url in it.
4. The title has html in it.
5. The title is an advertising headline.
6. The title doesn't match the article's content.
7. Words in the title are spelled incorrectly.
8. The title's grammar is really bad.
Word Count: The word count will get your article deleted when...
1. The word count is less than 350.
2. The word count is more than 1500.
Keywords Section: The keywords section gets your article deleted when...
1. Sentences and paragraphs are placed in the keywords section.
2. The keywords section is longer than the summary of the article or just excessively long.
3. The keywords don't match the article's content.
4. The keywords section contains a url or web address.
5. HTML tags are included in the keywords section.
Article Summary: The article summary will get your article deleted when...
1. The article summary is the same as the title. That's not a SUMMARY!
2. The article summary contains multiple paragraphs.
3. The article summary doesn't match the article's content.
4. The article summary isn't a complete sentence or paragraph that drops off like
Article Body: The article body gets your article deleted when...
1. The article's body doesn't have paragraphs.
2. The article's body doesn't have a space between paragraphs.
3. The article's body has too many spaces between paragraphs.
4. The article's body contains urls/links.
5. The article's body contains words that are spelled incorrectly.
6. The article body attributes the article to someone other than the submitter.
7. The article body is written completely or partially as an advertisement or press release instead of an information article.
8. The article is written poorly. This includes poor grammar and articles that are clearly "spun".
9. The article has a copyright notice included that violates our policies.
About Author: The "about author" or resource section gets your article deleted when...
1. There are more than three links in the section whether live or not.
2. Any link in the section leads to adult, porn, or otherwise objectionable sites.
By the way, these policies about article deletion apply to our other sites like Actual Articles