I just posted this to the Forum, so I guess I’m creating some duplicate content here by quoting it again. It’s about the process of getting an ezine article approved, and subsequent editing, but goes on to arrive at an important insight into a problem with my practice as a digital publisher.
After reading all the advice in this thread I edited the bio in my article whilst it was still waiting to be reviewed, so it didn’t point to my dead tumblr any more.
Then my article was approved and I got “expert author” status.
So for my first ever ezine article submission, it took approximately 4-5 days to get approved. I was happy with that, and started promoting the article just a little bit. Then I noticed a typo, right near the beginning - oh no! It was one of those hard to spot typos like “the the” which the brain just corrects automatically without noticing. It was in the abstract as well. So I corrected it by editing the article and removing the superflous “the”result: My article has gone back into review and no longer exists at the published URL
I see a pattern emerging, about the way I use the web. I’m a wiki editor. I publish stuff and then change it all the time. I do it with blog posts too.Write - publish - read - edit - republish
It’s the read/write web. 2.0 interactive
But now I am learning that search engines don’t like me doing this. They want me to write an article, check it carefully, publish and then LEAVE IT WELL ALONE. I’m going to find it hard to adjust.
