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Support for Unique Article Publisher Customers
This page provides support for customers who have purchased Unique Article Publisher. If your question is not answered here please contact us at support@uniquearticlepublisher.com.
Installation
Unique Article Publisher is distributed as a Windows Installer MSI file. Just double-click on the file and the standard Windows software installation process will start.
Follow the instructions in the installation process to select a directory where to install the program.
Windows Installer 2.0 is required to be installed on your computer. Windows XP already has this installed. If the installation process does not start when you double-click on the UniqueArticlePublisher.MSI file, then you may need to download Windows Installer 2.0 from Microsoft:
Update Data Files
The first time you start Unique Article Publisher you will be prompted to update the program.
Click OK (twice) and when the main screen is shown click on the Update button. A status message is shown briefly at the top of the screen when the update process is started. Be patient and wait several minutes until another status message is shown briefly. Click on the Close button and restart Unique Article Publisher. If the update process was successful then the program will start immediately without the update message.
Periodically new updates are made available and you will be then be prompted to update Unique Article Publisher the next time you start the program.
Creating Resource Boxes
The resource box is the section at the bottom of an article with information about the author. You have 3-4 lines of text to promote yourself and your website. The text should contain a link back to your website. This will be picked up by search engines and improve your search engine ranking. Be sure to enter the complete URL including the http:// prefix. Example: http://www.UniqueArticlePublisher.com
For Unique Article Publisher you do not create just one resource box. In order for the program to submit many variations of your article, including the resource box, you should create as many variations as possible of your resource box. Use your imagination and create at least 20 variations for maximum effectiveness.
Create a simple text file using Notepad, or your favorite text editor. (If you are using MS Word or another word processing program you need to save the file as a text file.) Write the first variation, and then leave a blank line (but not more than one) before the next variation. It is important that you do not leave any blank lines at the end. Go to the last line of the file and press backspace until the cursor is just after the last character on the last line of text in the file.
All publishers have their own particular preference for how they would like the article formatted. To serve the needs of most publishers and that of Unique Article Publisher, you should ensure that each line in your resource box and your articles do not exceed 60 characters.
Save your resource box as a text file in the Unique Article Publisher directory (e.g. c:\Program Files\Unique Article Publisher). The recommended naming convention for the file is: topic-resource.txt, e.g. music-resource.txt
Write Your Original Article
The first line of your article is the title. Leave exactly one blank line between the title and the first paragraph of the article.
Continue writing the article with exactly one blank line between each paragraph. For maximum effectiveness of Unique Article Publisher, your article must be at least 5 paragraphs long.
Each line of text in your article must not exceed 60 characters (just like the resource box).
Save your article as a text file in the Unique Article Publisher directory (e.g. c:\Program Files\Unique Article Publisher). The recommended naming convention for the file is: topic-1a.txt, e.g. music-1a.txt
Write Article Variations
For Unique Article Publisher to work its magic you need to create two variations of your original article.
Open your original article topic-1a.txt and immediately save the article again (in the Unique Article Publisher directory) as topic-1b.txt
Rewrite the article, including the title, one paragraph at a time. Each paragraph should say essentially the same thing, just with slightly different wording. It is important that you keep the same structure of the article and exactly the same number of paragraphs in each variation of the article.
Repeat the same process once more; saving the article as topic-1c.txt
When Unique Article Publisher submits your article to an article directory or an ezine, it will randomly select each paragraph from the set of three article variations. The resulting article for each publisher is very likely to be unique. If your article has just 7 paragraphs plus a title, the number of unique articles that can be created from your 3 article variations is 6,561.
Rewriting My Article Is Too Much Work
If you only want to use the article submission feature of Unique Article Publisher, you can technically submit the same article to all publishers. Just save your original article-1a.txt as both article-1b.txt and article-1c.txt
But we really recommend against this. Rewriting your article doesn't take nearly as long as writing the original article. By spending that little extra time, you will benefit greatly from the enduring inbound links resulting from all the unique variations of your article.
Publish Your Article
Start Unique Article Publisher. In the main screen enter your author name (or your pen name) and your email address. The URL field is automatically populated based on your email address. If your email address is different from your website address, e.g. if you're using a Yahoo or Hotmail email account, then you need to change the URL manually.
Then enter the filename of the original article, e.g. music-1a.txt. If you have followed the suggested naming conventions above, then the other fields will be populated with the right values. If you didn't, you can manually change each field.
If you leave the checkbox for "Submit To Internal Publication List" checked, your article will be submitted to the thousands of publishers already configured in Unique Article Publisher.
If you have created your own external publication list (see below for instructions) and you want to send this article to that list, then check "Submit To External Publication List". When you check this checkbox you also need to fill in the fields below it:
- SMTP Server - This is the name of the mail server you use, e.g. mail.comcast.net.
- Subject Line - The subject of the email sent to each publisher in your external publication list.
- Template - The filename of the email template to use. See below how to create this template.
- External - The filename of your external publication list.
When all the fields are filled in, click the Submit button. At the top of the screen a status message will show the progress and how many publishers your article has been submitted to. Note that this process can take an hour with a fast Internet connection, and several hours if you have a slower connection. During the process it is normal for Unique Article Publisher to consume 50-90% of the CPU. So don't plan on doing other resource intensive things on your computer at the same time.
Adding External Publications
You can extend Unique Article Publisher to submit articles to your own lists of publishers. This is done by creating external publication lists, and you can have as many lists as you want.
An external publication list is a simple text file with the following format:
email address,name of publication,first name of editor,last name of editor (optional)
If you don't know the name of the editor, use "Editor", or a similar generic title.
Example:
articles@coolezine.com,Cool eZine,Jane,Smith editor@bignewsletter.com,The Big Newsletter,Editor
Do not enter any spaces around the commas.
There is no limitation on how long each line may be. You can even enter more fields (separated by commas) with your own comments after the last name.
Save your article as a text file in the Unique Article Publisher directory (e.g. c:\Program Files\Unique Article Publisher). The recommended naming convention for the file is: topic-external.txt, e.g. music-external.txt, where the topic reflects the type of articles the publishers in the list generally accept.
Creating an Email Template
An email template is used when you send articles to an external publication list. The article itself is sent as an email and the text you place in the template is included in that email.
Here's an example of a template:
Hi {ezinefirst},
I have enclosed a copy of my latest article. You may use it
in your ezine {ezinename}, or on your web site.
Regards,
{fromname}
Here is the article:
*********** BEGIN ARTICLE ***********
Text surrounded by brackets, e.g. {ezinefirst}, is replaced with values from the external publication list file. Here are the valid variables you can use:
- {ezinefirst} - The first name of the editor.
- {ezinename} - The name of the ezine.
- {fromname} - Your name, i.e. the name you enter in the Author Name field on Unique Article Publisher's main screen.
The text of the article is added at the end.
Make sure that no text line in your template exceeds 60 characters. This ensures that your email is readable in most email programs.
Save the template as a text file in the Unique Article Publisher directory (e.g. c:\Program Files\Unique Article Publisher). The recommended naming convention for the file is: topic-template.txt, e.g. music-template.txt
Error Messages
Line Too Long
You may not have any lines in your article that exceeds 60 characters.
Open your article in Notepad. If you don't see the status bar at the bottom of the window select the menu View / Status Bar. The status bar will show you the current column. Move to the end of each line and insert line breaks as necessary to ensure that no line is longer than 60 characters. It is important in this process that you don't insert any blank lines, since they will begin a new paragraph.
Illegal Character
Before submitting your article it is scanned for valid text characters. If you write your article in MS Word and save it as text you may encounter problems with some characters like smart quotes, ellipsis and the long dash.
Load your article in Notepad and fix any illegal characters.
Too Few Paragraphs
In order for Unique Article Publisher to create enough unique articles it needs at least 5 paragraphs to work with.
Paragraph Mismatch
All three versions of your article must have exactly the same number of paragraphs.
Don't forget to check the end of each article. There must not be any trailing blank lines.
Missing Article Version
You must fill in all three fields: Article Version "A", "B" and "C".
File Not Found
If any of the filenames entered do not exist, then you will receive one of the above errors messages. Keep in mind that all data files must be stored in the Unique Article Publisher directory, e.g. c:\Program Files\Unique Article Publisher.
You cannot store any file related to Unique Article Publisher in My Documents or any other directory than the one where the program is installed.
SMTP Service
If you are submitting to your external publication list, you need to enter a value in the SMTP Server field.
If you don't know what to enter here, check your email program:
- In Thunderbird see Tools / Account Settings / Outgoing Server (SMTP).
- In Outlook see Tools / E-mail Accounts.