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- Choose your niche from the extensive category list
- Our Diamond Assurance™ reviewers follow strict guidelines before approving an article for distribution to you. See them in the Best Practices guide
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- What's involved in the article review process?
- Who sets the review guidelines?
- Why do you review articles?
Articles Posted Directly
to Your Web Site
The article and author data is sent to your script by the POST method.
If you don't understand both:
- the web form POST method
- your article submission script
you'll need to find someone who does. That's how this works.
You Make a New Script
You will create a new article submission script on your site.
Why must it be a new script?
The script must match the author and article data sent by Article Marketer to specific tables and fields in your database. While this script will be very similar to the script already refrenced by your article submission form, it is unlikely that our data fields and your form fields share EXACTLY the same names.
In most cases, any qualified programmer can quickly modify a copy of your existing script to accept Article Marketer data in addition to your form data.
You must understand both the concept of web scripting and your database layout to receive articles directly into your database.
Article Dashboard Users
If your site uses Article Dashboard, the folks on the AD forum created a script you can download. They'll even set it all up for you for a nominal fee.
Get the "Article Marketer Site Submission" service here.
Article Live Users
If your site uses ArticleLive, ArticleSnare has created a product you can install.
Get the software here.
Data Sent to You
Each article will be posted to your script as data fields for you to insert into your database. Here is the data you can expect:
Required Author Information
This required information will be sent the first time we send you an article from a new author.
| first_name | Author's first name |
| last_name | Author's last name |
| Author's email address | |
| username | Author's username |
| password |
Author's password |
You can use this information to create (or to enhance) author accounts in your system.
You can use this information the author accounts in your system.
Posted Article Information
This required information will be sent with each article. Note that author information is included with each article submission. This allows your script to match articles to your author accounts.
| first_name | Author's first name |
| last_name | Author's last name |
| Author's email address | |
| username | Author's username |
| password | Author's password |
| newsletter | Subscribe to newsletter? (1=yes, 0=no) |
| title | Article title |
| article | Article body |
| category | Category description |
| cat | Category number |
| resource_box | About the Author |
Optional Article Information
We do not require authors to enter the following data however many do.
| author_url | URL to author's web site |
| company_name | Author's company name |
| address1 | Author's address |
| address2 | Second line of author's address |
| city | Author's city |
| state_2digit | Author's state for US and Canada, e.g. CA or ON |
| state | Author's state for US and Canada, e.g. California or Ontario |
| zip_code | Author's zip code or postal code |
| country | Author's country |
| phone | Author's telephone |
| description | Brief description of the article |
| keywords | Keywords applying to the article |
Upload Your Script
to Your Site
Upload your script to the correct place on your site. That may be the same folder as your existing script, it might be somewhere else altogether. Because you are in total control, you maintain total security. By sending article information to you via the POST method, Article Marketer never interferes with your site security.
Because we only call a script that you create, own and manage, your database structure and all of the data within remains completely secure. The dataflow is strictly unidirectional. Data can only be entered via your script and existing data can be neither read nor changed because we are not accessing your database directly. Your site security is ensured.
Our system uses the POST method to deliver data to you just as if it were a form. Your script takes that data and makes the necessary updates in your database. Your script will create author account records and insert new article records. You might want to use two separate scripts. That's entirely up to you.
Tell Us Where
to POST the Data
After you upload your script(s) it's simply a matter of telling us where to POST the articles. On the next page, you'll enter your site guidelines, choose the categories of articles you want (we offer over 300 categories) and tell us the URL(s) of the script(s) you have uploaded to your site.
This is NOT the URL of your current submission form. Your current submission form does not know how to process the data that will be POSTed to you from Article Marketer.
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