We are approaching roughly one month since we put into place a LOT of changes to the site. We are still working on many more improvements to the site and decrease page load times and optimize the speed of the site as well as quality of the information delivered.
Traffic to the site has increased (global traffic has increased sharply) and is back to more than it was before the filter was applied at the end of august.
A lot of moderating has taken place with thousands of articles removed. Oddly enough only one person has contacted us and asked us why their articles promoting an online casino were removed. articles linking to online casinos aren’t allowed plain and simple (but we are looking to creating a space for them either here or on another site).
We have caught and removed several large spammers – but i’m sure more will still show up to fill their shoes.
If your reading this and you have noticed that all of your articles are suddenly gone when you try to find them, feel free to email us and we will be happy to discuss your situation with you case by case. Some people had articles removed because of bad email addresses, linking to questionable neighborhoods, etc.
The growth we have seen in the last month is causing us to expand to some new hardware as well, this will help the site continue to be able to handle the traffic in addition to improve the stability and accessibility of the site.
We have started testing some new ad formats — if you have feed back about any of the ads on the site, please email us or use the contact form, we would love to hear thoughts and opinions on them.
Thats all for now — back to work on some more changes for the site. feel free to leave comments & thoughts here.
I must agree here that the most important thing nowadays is content. All of those spam articles must have done a lot of damage in Your Google-view and made You less visible on internet. Now when You removed all of this harmful content I can see that Your results went skyrockets. I wonder how will this improve in near future.
Thanks for the post. Now I have something to think over..
article snatch is a great website my articles get ranked in google search within a day or two after submission thanks
That is right. It is really important that you have a very good content in your site. Rochester Party Bands
Very nice Post.
Content is most importent these days. Spam can be a pain in the ass.
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I agree what Seth said also. It doesn’t surprise me that your ranking increased. I have seen some spammers and think its kinda a dumb idea in the first place. If you think about it, really those people are spending all this time spamming with little or no good to begin with. When you could put the same amount of time to put quality into the web and get better results that will last long term. I think everyone needs to emphasize this through the web. It kinda makes me angry to see some people still teach these spam like methods. Well anyway, this is my first time at this site. To submit an article, is it suppose to be about internet information? It looks like it.
Eric – you can submit articles about anything. if you look on the main portion of the site – http://www.articlesnatch.com/ – there are over 200 categories for you to choose from so pick the best one for your article.
Content is king as they say. I will keep a watch on this space. Going by your picture, you have an enviable amount of traffic, most likely down to quality articles.
P.S. You currently have the Hello World post being displayed.
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It’s been interesting to see the changes that have been made over the last few months, especially when they’ve resulted in great gains. Thanks for sharing the traffic graph; it’s nice to know that good decisions lead to good performance.
Content is king but I don’t have time to write. Anyone know a good article author? Thanks
I’m really happy to see that this was a move in the positive direction. The more transparent and helpful you are on the internet these days, the better Google’s perception will be. While there was a time when my previous sentence was just a theory, posts like yours above have constantly proven that it’s true. thanks
It’s truly important that blogs should have a beautiful content. Sad to say, many people used autoblogs and getting contents on blogs they subscribe.
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I am a newbie blogger, and I just don’t understand spam. People say the world is divided into two types of people: those who are basically good, and those who are basically bad. I like to think of myself as the former, but the “trolls” and online scammers are starting to turn my way of thinking.
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I use article snatch regularly and what I like is the way in which you do clearly read and moderate articles and remove those that are useless. It’s great to see the level of page views increasing especially as it is clear that so much time and effort is put into the site itself.
I must say the site seems to be awesome and your results are amazing. Seeing your results makes me think I should clean up a few of my sites as well.
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Good, I like that you are taking action and cleaning up the articles!
Nice work on the site upgrades. ArticleSnatch is definitely one of the better quality article sites out there. Keep up the good work!
I would love to start up with more articles on my own, i wish i knew all the posting places.
Just out of curiosity, how much of the site’s total maintenance is just cleaning spam? It must be incredibly tedious.
It all depends – on how much is submitted
I do a fair amount of article writing in my spare time, I have been a big fan of EZA currently, however lately they have been EXTREMELY slow in approval time. This post showing how much traffic your site has received has sold me. I am going to give your site a try. Smart idea posting an article showing the immense amount of traffic you receive!
.-= Chris´s last blog ..Visco Elastic Mattress Topper =-.
Chris,
Glad to have you aboard – looking forward to your articles
That is QUITE a spurt you got there in october… And non-US people? That’s nuts!
It is quite crazy indeed – we are continuing to try to figure it all out whenever we can.
The graph looks like a rollercoaster, It is quite interesting you got such a rise in traffic so quickly, and then it dropped off almost as fast. I am however glad to see that you seem to be sustaining roughly twice the traffic that you were getting before the large bubble. Keep up the good work!
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Just so you know I was really interested in reading your blog, but since you chose to ignore my two comments I have removed you from my bookmark list, It really bothers me when I take the time to give honest feedback and you block my comments for some reason
Sorry about that, for some reason the comments triggered the spam filter.
Just so you know I was really interested in reading your blog It really bothers me when I take the time to give honest feedback and you block my comments for some reason…dont take any other chance
The graph looks like a rollercoaster, It is quite interesting you got such a rise in traffic so quickly,I am however glad to see that you seem to be sustaining roughly twice the traffic that you were getting before the large bubble. Keep up the good work! and then it dropped off almost as fast.