Add Articles Cleanup to Your Spring Cleaning Routine check

Bring Out Your Article Portfolio With These Tips!

You want to make sure only the best content appears along with your name to build your trust, credibility, and exposures. That’s why you should perform a little “spring cleaning” on your article portfolio to remove any old article, under-performing articles that may be reflecting poor on your reputation.

Are you ready to bring out your article portfolio? Grab your “feather duster” and “trash bins” by taking the time to consider whether you should keep, update (and resubmit for review), or toss articles using these tips.

1. Determine if your article is out-of-date.
   Current events will often shape our writing and out-of-date content will come in, whether we want it to or not. Out-dated references can confuse readers as well as make you appear out-of-tune with your niche.
• Keep: The article should be evergreen and contains no dated materials. Alternately, the article should cover a major milestone in shared history; e.g, landing on the planet Mars Exploration Rover.
• Update: The article contains only a few references to dated content that’s no longer relevant and can easy to removed; e.g., “Recently in the news …”  brief mentions that date your content.
   
• Toss: The entire article is out-dated and no longer relevant to your audiences. Updating the articles would result in a massive overhaul; e.g., promotions of recently recalled things or the entire article topic is considered “old news.”
2. Consider whether the articles meets your quality of  standards.
   All articles should be relevant  unique,  informative  and itransperant based on the needs of your readers or visitors. firstly, you may be unsure how exactly how specific to your articles should be to meet the expectations of your audience. As you continues to write, you may have or will discover better writing techniques and topics to capture your readers’ interests.
• Keep: The article contains strategies,  quality tips, techniques, case-studies, analysis, opinions, and/or commentary based on your own perspective.
   
• Update: The article overall should have value, but requires minor edits to bring it up to meet currentquality standards.
   
• Toss: The article does not meet latest quality standards, lacks originality, and/or lacks specifics.
3. Testing the links in your articles and the Resource Boxes.
   Use the Article Diagnostic Center to monitor whether your links are responsive and active. Addition to this , consider whether your links provide a great user experience.
• Keep Link: The link should pass through quality test.
   
• Update Link: The minor out-of-date features of the link that be can easily be removed.
   
• Toss Link: The link is entirely problem free ; e.g., it’s should not be unsafe and contains malware, viruses, etc. or the website has been under construction, blacklisted, deleted, or removed.

Measure and track Your Article Performance

Finally, you can measure the performance of your articles using the Performance tab of yourMy.EzineArticles.com account. Discover traffic sources, activity, and ranking data to help you fine-tune your articles for better performance. Are you an EzineArticles  level member? Check out your weekly Summary section for article performance reports featuring your traffic summaries and top performing articles.

Don’t forget to keep your EzineArticles account up-to-date so we can continue helping you write and publish quality original articles to reach your desired goals. Click Your Account Accuracy Checklist for more details.

Do you “spring clean” your article portfolio? What key indicators do you look for in outdated content? Have you found your quality standards have improved (or even declined) since you first started writing? What do you do to update your Resource Box and links? Let us know in the comments section below – we’d love to hear from you!