Does bidding make a big difference in how much your articles get picked up and distributed or syndicated?

Answer

First, let me explain that articles on IdeaMarketers are sorted first from highest to lowest bidder and then by the expiration date of the bid (or the date the article was submitted if there’s no bid on the article). This gives top bidders prominent positioning on the most popular pages of the site – the home page and the channel pages. The top bid articles also recommended on other articles that are in the same broad channel category. For example, the top 8 bid articles in the Business category will appear on all business-related articles.

In relation to syndication and distribution, bidding for article promotion does the following:

1. increases your chances of having your article (and thus your web site) picked up by spidering search engines ;
2. increases the chances of your article being picked up by webmasters, editors and print publications, because it’s more prominently placed on our site;
3. increases the chances of having your article syndicated through our category syndication. The articles we stream out to other sites are sorted first by bid amoun and then by date. We syndicated out roughly 3 million page views each month to other web sites. Bidding helps bring you toward the top of those syndication feeds;
4. increases the chances of having your own syndicated column picked up because if you have a bid running on at least one of your articles, we promote you as a syndicated columnist on your profile, your articles, and also on www.SyndicatedWriters.com

To learn more about the bidding process, go here.

If you have an article on the home page of IdeaMarketers and you have changed either its title, summary or the photo that goes with it, the change will not take effect immediately. Our site is on a periodic update to prevent strain on our servers. But, you can refresh the home page yourself by logging into your writer account and going to Article/PR Admin and selecting Update Home Page. Once you do that, the home page will refresh.

If it still doesn’t refresh for you, then you can press F5 on your keyboard to refresh the page in your browser.

Idea Dollars are what IdeaMarketers.com uses as “currency.” You can use them to

• put an article on the home page of IdeaMarketers.com;
• put a press release on the home page of the site;
• put a book or ebook on the home page of the site;
• have one of our editors proofread your article so that it can have a “Ready to Publish” logo next to it as well as appear on our sister site ReadyToPublish.com which only contains human-edited content.

You can add Idea Dollars to your account, by logging into your writer account and going to Manage Account, Add Funds.