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I just updated the site with a new little feature.  All published articles now have a “Post to Twitter” button at the top right hand corner of the article.  If you click it, it will redirect you to a page where you can Tweet about the article.

If you don’t know what Twitter is, it is a micro-blogging site.  Think of it like a status updater on steroids.  It is hard to explain.  The best way to figure out what it is would be to just sign up and use it for awhile.  You will get addicted to it I promise.

Tweeting about your articles and about other articles that you enjoy on the Informative Post will give more exposure to us.  The more exposure and traffic for us, the better it is for the whole Informative Post community.

If you haven’t been following my Tweets on Twitter yet, you should be!  I tweet updates about all my sites over my Twitter account much more quickly than blogging about them.

http://www.twitter.com/dlbrown06

This blog post was inspired to answer a few questions from an Informative Post author.  To view the article I’ll be referencing and its comments, please refer back to: http://www.informativepost.com/2008/01/25/Expedite-Your-Review-272.htm

No problem answering your questions Topper! What is a blog? A blog is short for web-log, or basically an online journal. Like on the Informative Post, our blog is used to update our members on new features and other updates. We did move the Informative Post blog to BrownPHP.com. Let me know if I need to explain it in more detail.

I think you are confusing “featuring” and “expediting” articles. Featuring an article puts your article on the top of the homepage that has already been published. While it is being featuring every page view that the article gets will be multiplied by 3. So while it is being featured, it will get more traffic for being Featured at the top of the homepage, and all that traffic will get multiplied by THREE. If the article is written well, and was on a “buzzy” topic, this can increase an author’s AP greatly. BUT you should only do this with an article that people will want to read, because if it doesn’t get any traffic… it won’t get and page views… the page views won’t be tripled = a waste of money.

Now, expediting an article you basically forfeit the money that you would earn if the article were to be published in exchange to have it reviewed within 24hrs.

Many authors have had their AP rise from under 10 to over 200 by writing about a current event that is getting a lot of press, then expediting it. Right when it gets published, they would feature the article. So all the traffic they get from that article gets tripled.

To review: Yes they did forfeit the few bucks they could have earned initially, but they increased their AP so much that all the articles that they write from then on will be reviewed much much more timely, and not to mention they made their money back in page views. But again, it all depends on how much traffic that the article could potentially draw in.

I’m glad to see you found your way to BrownPHP.com!  This is my personal blog that I want to use to post Informative Post updates.  The reason for this is because a lot of what I do on the Informative Post relates to the readers of BrownPHP as well, so there is no reason to have two right?!

To find all the articles relating to the Informative Post, just click on the Informative Post category, and it should organize all the posts about the Informative Post chronologically for you.  In the Informative Post category, you can also find a category called, “Needed Content”.  This category should help give you an idea about the article topics that we are looking for at the Informative Post.