The refunding process promised by DYA has not gone smooth. First request they responded with an email to try to talk me out of it. They question my common sense in wanting a refund.

I replied and insisted I get a refund. WoW, I have gotten refunds in my time, but DYA wants to make the refund process as unpleasant of an experience as possible. Other internet companies that honored their refund policy was as simple as requesting it and you got the refund. Chris (DYA Rep & I think owner) must think others never had a refund to their paypal account before to compare DYA’s bureaucratic nightmare to be refunded as they promised.

Despite their refund policy, I was persistent and did as they asked. Now I wait for the refund or their next excuse of not refunding as they promised.

p.s. if you do decide to deal with DYA, keep copies of everything and also, check out the sites they submit your article to.

Next I decided to check out some of the sites they submitted my article to that I never heard of. Within the first 20 links I clicked, one was reported as an attack site by google, another was a broken link, another had a wordpress plugin problem, another said the article site was suspended, etc. Goodness, that happen within the first 20 links. I didn’t have the heart to continue clicking the rest of the links.

I asked for a refund from DYA. Their policy is they will give a full refund within 30 days. We will see how that turns out.

Conclusion. I have tried several of these Article Distribution Sites and none have lived up to their promos or promises. You are 100% better off submitting your article to 5 or 6 quality article sites manually than to have it submitted automatically to 130 junk sites.

Thank you, best wishes for you too. Article Marketer’s founder left a comment here lately, but I erased it by mistake (second time).

I hope you all the best with the new distrbuteyourarticles

Best,
Franck

I’m Emma Anderson, a forum moderator for Distribute Your Articles, and I wanted to thank you for your vote of confidence. We are very excited about all of the changes and new features being offered at DYA, and we think our authors are, too. :)

I wanted to address the questions about our service here, and welcome any others that might be floating around.

Distribute Your Articles offers the same services as Article Marketer did, with many new features in place and more in the works. We launched with the basic AM services plus unlimited pen names, and have since added the Insta-Correct feature which essentially kisses curly quote corrections good-bye automatically. While some of the new features are still being tested, in the end we’ll have the killer article marketing app. You can find out more about who we are, what we are offering, and our vision for the future at Distribute Your Articles. Feel free to become a part of our free Community Forum as well.

Best Wishes,

Emma Anderson
Distribute Your Articles

Thank you for passing by. Article marketing has always been the main component of my traffic strategy. Today, I included web 2.0, blogs and many other things to the mix.

I remember when you launched article marketer back in the days. Great job.

I hope you all the best with the new service.

Franck
Internet Business Coach

I checked it out for you and CC will accept articles of 300 words or better. But don’t expect them to be picked up as well by publishers as those 400+ words pieces. It’s just an article marketer’s fact of life. lol

My ghostwriters are required to give me at least 550 words for the pieces we produce for others, so I never really knew what the rock bottom word count limit was at CC, or Article Marketer either, for that matter.

Any way, look for ward to seeing you there and let me know if I can be of assistance to you when you get there.

Regards,

Mike Lawson

Too bad about the 400 word limit – I have hundreds of articles already written in the 200-300 word range.

Cheers, Dick

You said: Is there an article distribution service that accepts articles shorter than 400 words?

I have, by the way, been trying to ask questions of Content Crooner but their support system won’t accept my email or password, even though I have been able to log in to my new account (I was an Article Marketer customer).

Can anyone tell me the difference between Content Crooner and Distribute My Articles?
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I don’t know of any off the top of my head that will accept fewer words. The reason being, no one will take articles any smaller than that to publish anyway. That word count is set by the publishers, not Content Crooner.

You must register from an account at the support desk. Your regular username/email addie will not work there until you do. I know it’s a pain, but it’s just the way they have it set up. Sorry about that, but it’s how it is. You can always ask questions over on the blog (which I manage) and I’ll try my best to find the answers for you. http://www.contentcrooner.blogspot.com/

I won’t speak for Distribute Your Articles. They can come here and address your questions on their own behalf. You can see what Content Crooner offers here: http://contentcrooner.com/features.php.

The biggest difference between the two that I see is that CC’s platform is on the ground and running strong and DYA is struggling to get out of the starting gate and may never actually even be in the race.

Also, all of CC’s features are live and functional now, most of DYA’s features are projected as future upgrades to come if and when they can launch their service successfully. If the past month is indicative of the future, that looks doubtful.

When Article Marketer split in two, the existing customers were divided randomly, yet equally, between CC and DYA. The farther away from the starting point we get, the greater the migration of the DYA customer base to CC.

Why? Because they are not being served what they need, want and paid for at DYA. It’s as simple as that. All the bells and whistles on earth don’t mean a thing if you can’t get them off the blackboard and under the hood.

Obviously, my interests lie with Content Crooner and my opinions should be taken with a grain of salt. Don’t listen too much to either side but rather watch how they perform. That will tell you more than anything else.

Regards,

Mike

You may want to check with Mike, he left a comment on this post.

Try to get Content Crooner team’s phone number. It’s too bad because customer service is what makes the difference today on the web.

As for the real difference between the two, they seem to be pretty similar services.

Franck