Archive for the ‘For Writers’ Category

Author Levels Explained

Posted by Editing Staff

Some of you have already noticed that we recently changed the way a contributor advances from Basic Author to Premium and then Expert Author status. We wanted to take a moment to explain why the change was made, and how it is better for you now. In the past we used ...

Don’t Waste Your Time Writing Bad Articles

Posted by Editing Staff

For every article that we review and accept here at Content Caboodle, over 35,000 to date, it seems like we review and reject 2 others; and it's not as though our submission guidelines are very strict compared to other article publishing venues. The sad truth of it is that a lot ...

Why We Had To Update The Submission Guidelines

Posted by Editing Staff

For several years now we've maintained a good relationship with all parties who use the Content Caboodle service. From authors to readers and also web site and eZine/newsletter publishers who reuse the fresh and valuable content from our database. We struck a nice balance right at the start with liberal ...

Getting Free Images To Illustrate Your Articles With

Posted by Editing Staff

We encourage writers to include images, screen captures or other illustrative media with their articles whenever possible because our stats clearly show that articles with media get far more reader views and comments than articles without--which means authors using media are likely getting a lot more link clicks too. So, I ...

Quickly Flush Out Quality Articles On Most Any Topic

Posted by Editing Staff

Image by xclockwerkangelx via Flickr Fast writing is almost never great writing, so by no means is this posting meant to suggest we encourage speedily written, low quality articles. However, one thing that I've seen over time in working on my own writings and with others, is that for many people, getting ...

Why Was My Article Declined?

Posted by Editing Staff

We get asked this question several times per day by authors so I felt it was a good idea to talk about it openly and hopefully help some of you avoid ever having to wonder about it in the first place. I have to start by saying if you have an ...