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Article Quality: Determing Yours is Definitly Impossible

What defines a good article? This definition of quality is extremely subjective. What is a good article for one person might be completely out of the quality standards for another person. However some quality guidelines apply to all articles and these ones you can master to speed up your success with articles.

1. An article should have at least 200 words and never more than 500 words. According to some studies, the attention span after that number of words goes down very quickly, and less than 1% of the people read articles longer than 1000 words. If you are creating huge articles, maybe you are wasting most of your time. Instead split that article in many parts. Some magazines opt for 50-100 word articles and then split that in 30 parts or more.

2. Article quality is almost impossible to determine accurately. Ezine articles say that they need up to a year to train a new editor in full. As long as the article contains accurate information, few I or Me or Myself words and has the right grammatical style is a good article. Everything else is just an opinion.

3. All articles should have several links to related pages in the keywords. This consumes a lot of time tough. Wikipedia is the perfect example. All important keywords are linked to the page that contains information about that word. To do that to your article will use you the same time it would use to create ten more articles and more ten articles are more profitable than all those keyword links.

4. Finally your article should credit all the places you visited to write that information. Even life experiences need some credit. If you write information based on personal experiences, write down all the experience so the read can see how you got to that conclusion.

In the end the article quality it’s all subjectivity and opinions.

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