You guys know how much I like writing for Examiner.com -- in the past year I've made around 30k with them and therefore, I've urged lots of other writers, designers, etc. to sign up with them.
One of my friends is a very talented designer who runs -IZE ON DESIGN, a site that showcases her fabulous design work.
Naturally I thought she'd be a great fit for Examiner. She applied and was accepted as the Cleveland Modern Furniture Examiner at http://www.examiner.com/x-65785-Cleveland-Modern-Furniture-Examiner -- but last night I talked to her via Facebook and discovered that her articles haven't appeared since Thursday!
I don't know if this is just some specific problem with a few Examiners or many, and she's already sent a support ticket for help and I will update this site with more news as we hear it. But in the meantime, I wanted to know how the other new Examiner.com writers are doing.
If you just started writing for Examiner.com around August or September 2010, are your articles appearing online? I want to make sure the folks I tell about Examiner are having a positive experience, not a bad one. Since I'm still able to publish just fine, and I see lots of other Examiner pieces flowing through Google News, I assumed everyone else was still able to publish as well.
I don't spend too much time in the forums -- I find that forums can sometimes turn into a cauldron of bellyaching, with the loudest complainers sometimes taking over, so I usually spend that time doing other things. I only pop in every blue moon -- specifically, after the recent controversial switch to the Drupal 7 CMS platform.
Let me know if you just got in to Examiner, and please leave me a comment letting me know if you're able or not able to publish. Thanks! Just curious..
One of my friends is a very talented designer who runs -IZE ON DESIGN, a site that showcases her fabulous design work.
Naturally I thought she'd be a great fit for Examiner. She applied and was accepted as the Cleveland Modern Furniture Examiner at http://www.examiner.com/x-65785-Cleveland-Modern-Furniture-Examiner -- but last night I talked to her via Facebook and discovered that her articles haven't appeared since Thursday!
I don't know if this is just some specific problem with a few Examiners or many, and she's already sent a support ticket for help and I will update this site with more news as we hear it. But in the meantime, I wanted to know how the other new Examiner.com writers are doing.
If you just started writing for Examiner.com around August or September 2010, are your articles appearing online? I want to make sure the folks I tell about Examiner are having a positive experience, not a bad one. Since I'm still able to publish just fine, and I see lots of other Examiner pieces flowing through Google News, I assumed everyone else was still able to publish as well.
I don't spend too much time in the forums -- I find that forums can sometimes turn into a cauldron of bellyaching, with the loudest complainers sometimes taking over, so I usually spend that time doing other things. I only pop in every blue moon -- specifically, after the recent controversial switch to the Drupal 7 CMS platform.
Let me know if you just got in to Examiner, and please leave me a comment letting me know if you're able or not able to publish. Thanks! Just curious..
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tell your friend not to worry because all of my articles are starting to publish only now but my application and approval to them is 3 weeks already. so it is normal for us new publisher to experienced that.
good luck paula and if you have time, please visit my site
sarah geronimo examiner
http://www.examiner.com/modern-furniture-in-cleveland/10-reasons-modern-design-fans-deserve-special-treatment
thanks so much for your support
I began writing for Examiner in May of this year as the Tampa Bay Love and Marriage Examiner. In June I became the Tampa Environmental Health Examiner and it was suggested I focus on the Gulf Oil Spill.
My second topic definitely brought a higher yield, however I did notice after the platform change my site stats dropped dramatically from several thousand to say, 2. Yes, two. Some days zero and that's on both of my topics.
In the past month I would attempt to publish, have everything formatted, linked and ready to go only to have the article be booted out by the system upon hitting the "publish" button. I normally write everything in Word and then paste as plain text. If I were a writer who wrote directly in the editor alone I would probably lose my mind over that.
I became so frustrated that I went from writing around five articles per week on each subject to two. In the past two weeks I have written one and only one. The only reason I wrote that one was because the marketing director of Publix supermarkets specifically asked that I cover a new service being offered in our area. A piece I had written months ago on something else they offer led to that recommendation.
I had good readership and sadly since the switchover it's dropped to nothing. More often than not my pages bring the Examiner, "Um...oops well this is embarrassing," splash screen which informs the reader that the page cannot be found at this time.
I have noticed throughout the Examiner site that examiners with very high numbers still seem to have the visibility and stats, but low volume writers, newer writers or poor content writers have nearly dropped off the screen.
On a side note I would like to thank you. Immediately after I was given my login links and all the information which follows the hiring to Examiner.com, before writing my first piece I did some quick research about SEO. Of course, because you've done your work well you're links came up on top. I saw an immediate profit and overturn using your suggestions even in a topic as obscure as Love and Marriage in Tampa Bay.
Respectfully,
Heather L Jeffries
I'm loving Examiner's new platform.