Q. What if I forget my username or password?
Q. What is the difference between an Article, News Release, or Commentary?
Q. Can I still post articles or books for free?
Q. How do I edit my article?
Q. Why does my bid not appear?
Q. How do I bid for an article?
Q. How do I stop someone using my article without my permission?
Q. How do I add articles to my E-zine?
Q. How do I know when my e-zine is completed?
Q. How do I distribute my E-zine?
Q. How do I test the E-Zine builder without the author’s permission?
Q. How do I report an offensive article?
Q. How does your reward program work?
Q. What is Article-Publicity's proofreading service?
Q. What is Audio Fire?
Q. Can I submit articles or books for free?
A. Yes, you can submit books and/or articles for free. People will still be able to search the system and find them. The bidding system gives those who want prominent positioning exposure on our popular home and channel pages. Our site receives over 1.3 million page views/month, so it's a great boon to those who have back-end products to sell or who are trying to increase their search engine positioning through prominent placement on our popular site.
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Q. How do I find out my username and/or password?
A. If you have lost or forgotten your log-in details, Click Here to have it emailed to you. Please note this will verify your e-mail address in our system and send you the corresponding username and password associated with that e-mail. Please, therefore ensure that enter the same e-mail address you used when you joined.
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Q. What is the difference between an Article, News Release, or Commentary?
An article is usually a help or information piece 500-1000 words in length. It will sometimes have quotes, but not always. It is used to get people interested in something on your homepage. This is called indirect advertising and is more acceptable to most editors and publishers.
A News Release with be a news worthy event about something you are doing, it will always quote the owner(s) or their associates and is usually about 500-600 words. Most editors will edit this down to fit their format. A new web service, a new book, management changes, and other topics can be included. A News release is not news if it is a current service you are selling.
A Commentary is a first person opinion. It can be about any subject and we will accept it if it does not condone racism, hate, or other illegal activies. It can be a biased article, but it cannot be a libleous article, such as telling unproven or undocumented fiction. However like with Political commentaries, if it is widespread information you can put your feelings in there, as long as it is your opinion, and you are not making up more stories.
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Q. Why does my bid not appear?
A. This usually happens when, for whatever reason, Paypal does not send you to our confirmation page to enter your confirmation number. Please allow 2-3 business hours to complete this process and then if your bid still is not activated, you may email us at webmaster@article-publicity.com.
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Q. How do I edit my article?
1. Go to http://www.article-publicity.com.
2. Log in with your username and password as a WRITER.
3. Find the article that you want to edit in the list that comes up.
4. Click the EDIT link next to the article title.
5. Edit the article on the form that comes up.
6. Submit the changes with the button at the bottom of the form.
Your changes will be shown immediately in the system.
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Q. How do I know when my E-zine is completed?
There is no ''finished'' button as such in the E-zine builder. It just creates it as you go. At any time you can link to the URL that is listed for the issue on the main My Pubs. It's ''finished'' whenever it looks the way you want it to. And it saves as it goes.
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Q. How do I distribute my E-zine?
Go to your E-Zine in your Web browser. Then, in Internet Explorer, on the menu select, File, Send, Page by Email. This will open up your Outlook Express (or other email program) and insert your E-zine within it.
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Q. How do I test the E-Zine builder without the author’s permission?
Select the articles you want and add them to the newsletter. When you select an article, it will lead you to a form to ask permission from the author. You can add all the articles you want to the newsletter. You are simply not allowed to publish the newsletter until you have obtained permission from the author(s).
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Q. How do I add articles to my E-zine?
If you don't already have one, sign up for a free writer account with article-publicity. Go to http://www.article-publicty.com/ and click on 'Sign Up for Free' under the Writer heading.
Once you have an account, you can log in and click on 'Add New Article. Fill in the blanks
to add your article to the article-publicity database. Once the article(s) are in the system,
you will be able to select them with the Toolbox.
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Q. How do I stop someone using my article without my permission?
This is not a problem. Anyone who sees the article will have to ask your permission
before they can use it. All you have to do is say, ''No.'' If you're one of our Best Writers and have the option of preauthorizing the article for use by Publisher's Toolbox Pro subscribers, do NOT preauthorize it if you want to only use it for yourself.
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Q. How do I report an offensive article?
Because we get hundreds of submissions every day, it is impossible for us to check each one individually. There is a link on every article which you can use to report abuse of our system.
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Q. How do I bid for an article?
The article-publicity.com article bidding system gives authors who submit their work to us the chance to gain increased prominence on our web site. They can bid to have their work featured on our home page and also get an enhanced position within out category pages.
Articles appearing on our site are arranged in two ways:
First, they are sorted by the amount bid for position;
and secondly, they are sorted by the date they were submitted.
The home page will display the top 20 bidders in each of the following 2 groups:
Group 1: Business, Marketing, Technology, Finance, Travel and Tourism
Group 2: Education/Nature, Entertainment, Home/Family, Writing/Publishing and Personal Development/Lifestyle
The top 8 bidders in your sub-category of article are also listed on the right-hand side of every article within your sub-category. The sub-categories are
The category pages display articles in order of bid amount and either date submitted or the date the last bid was made.
Choosing a Category
Whenever you submit an article or book you use, you choose a category in which to place it. You can change the category afterwards, even although you have already placed a bid. The categories are monitored, so do NOT choose a category unrelated to your article purely to obtain a good placement. We will simply move it to the appropriate category.
Bonus Exposure
If you bid at least $5 or more, a star will appear next to your article AND if you have given a picture URL in your writer profile account, the picture will be displayed beside your article to make it stand out!
The Bidding Process
Every bid lasts for seven days. If you want to increase your bid because you have been beaten then another seven day period will start running.
Whenever you submit an article, you can choose whether or not to place a bid on the article, or alternatively, from your main login screen which shows all your articles posted to our site, you can choose to bid on any article displayed there.
The current bids on articles within your category will be displayed, so that you have an approximate idea of how much to bid.
Enter your bid amount and submit. You will then be given a bid confirmation number which you should make a note of.
Click the Paypal link and pay for your bid. After your bid is successfully paid for, you will be redirected to a page where you can put in your unique confirmation number to activate your placement in the system.
If, for some reason, you are taken to the confirmation page from Paypal and you have to log in again, then you have timed out for some reason. Make a note of the confirmation page (bookmark it) and then Log in and then go to the confirmation link again.
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Q. How does your reward program work?
We have designed our own special rewards scheme to encourage authors to submit consistently high quality work to us.
 The Bronze Award will be awarded to writers who have 20 or more articles in our database.
 Our Silver Award is similar to the Bronze, except it is for authors who have submitted 100 or more articles to our database.
 Our Gold Award is given to authors who have submitted at least 250 or more articles that have been proofread to our database and thus have made a significant contribution to our site. (Note: The Gold Award is updated daily. So if you add your 250th proofed article, this icon won't instantly appear next to your article, but should within 24 hours.)
As an added bonus, all Gold Award winners’ articles will not only be included in the normal way, but will also appear on an exclusive page solely restricted to them.
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Q. What is Article-Publicity's proofreading service?
As part of our program to ensure consistently high-quality articles are available for publishers we offer a proofreading service to our authors to make sure that your article appears as you intended.
After you have requested your article is proofread, please allow us a minimum of 2 to 4 working days for any necessary corrections to be made, and our staff to re-upload your article to our server.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you have a backup copy of any article you wish us to proofread, as we will not accept any responsibility if there are any errors in our system. Any responsible author should always make backup copies of their work anyway.
 This logo indicates that an article has been proofread by our staff and is therefore available for instant use.
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Q.  What is Audio Fire?
Audio Fire is our innovative service where you can use your own recording or a professionally-produced one to further promote your articles, books, web site or simply to tell site visitors about yourself. Click here for more information. This icon will appear where relevant.
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