s). The email started like this:

"Hi Elaine,

Did you hear that we stopped accepting articles with duplicate titles? This was a defensive move on our part to reduce the number of incoming non-exclusive rights article submissions. Now that all 86k of the articles listed have unique titles, that means that your future article titles may be rejected if it's already in use by another author... "

My

Building A Successful Home Based Business struck me as a pretty good title for an article concerned with home based business. Successful Home Based Business is a decent keyword phrase for the search engine robots and "successful" is on most lists of good words to use in advertising, so that should help attract human readers. Building a Successful Home Based Business is also accurately descriptive of the content.

I was especially pleased with this title because it occurred to me very quickly when usually it takes me longer to think up a title than to write a whole article. When it comes to choosing names, my brain just shuts down. It's always been the same, I can still remember the anxiety caused by having to choose a name for a childhood pet gerbil or goldfish . "Goldie" wasn't terribly original but it was the best I could manage for the fish and I think my mother eventually had to name the gerbil on my behalf. When it came to naming my children, the responsibility was almost unbearable: not only did I have to face the trauma of thinking up names, I had to try to guess if the child would grow up despising me for making an inappropriate choice. A name that suits a cute baby can sound ridiculous when applied to a clumsy school kid or, worse still, a moody teenager. It would be a lot easier if we could just call them "child 1","child 2" etc and let them choose their own names when they reach the age of twelve or so.

Anyway, back to Building A Successful Home Based Business. I had the article ready, I had the great title and then I received an email from the owner of Ezine Articles.com (one of the places I regularly submit articles). The email started like this:

"Hi Elaine,

Did you hear that we stopped accepting articles with duplicate titles? This was a defensive move on our part to reduce the number of incoming non-exclusive rights article submissions. Now that all 86k of the articles listed have unique titles, that means that your future article titles may be rejected if it's already in use by another author... "

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I was especially pleased with this title because it occurred to me very quickly when usually it takes me longer to think up a title than to write a whole article. When it comes to choosing names, my brain just shuts down. It's always been the same, I can still remember the anxiety caused by having to choose a name for a childhood pet gerbil or goldfish . "Goldie" wasn't terribly original but it was the best I could manage for the fish and I think my mother eventually had to name the gerbil on my behalf. When it came to naming my children, the responsibility was almost unbearable: not only did I have to face the trauma of thinking up names, I had to try to guess if the child would grow up despising me for making an inappropriate choice. A name that suits a cute baby can sound ridiculous when applied to a clumsy school kid or, worse still, a moody teenager. It would be a lot easier if we could just call them "child 1","child 2" etc and let them choose their own names when they reach the age of twelve or so.

Anyway, back to Building A Successful Home Based Business. I had the article ready, I had the great title and then I received an email from the owner of Ezine Articles.com (one of the places I regularly submit articles). The email started like this:

"Hi Elaine,

Did you hear that we stopped accepting articles with duplicate titles? This was a defensive move on our part to reduce the number of incoming non-exclusive rights article submissions. Now that all 86k of the articles listed have unique titles, that means that your future article titles may be rejected if it's already in use by another author... "

My

I could manage for the fish and I think my mother eventually had to name the gerbil on my behalf. When it came to naming my children, the responsibility was almost unbearable: not only did I have to face the trauma of thinking up names, I had to try to guess if the child would grow up despising me for making an inappropriate choice. A name that suits a cute baby can sound ridiculous when applied to a clumsy school kid or, worse still, a moody teenager. It would be a lot easier if we could just call them "child 1","child 2" etc and let them choose their own names when they reach the age of twelve or so.

Anyway, back to Building A Successful Home Based Business. I had the article ready, I had the great title and then I received an email from the owner of Ezine Articles.com (one of the places I regularly submit articles). The email started like this:

"Hi Elaine,

Did you hear that we stopped accepting articles with duplicate titles? This was a defensive move on our part to reduce the number of incoming non-exclusive rights article submissions. Now that all 86k of the articles listed have unique titles, that means that your future article titles may be rejected if it's already in use by another author... "

My

l kid or, worse still, a moody teenager. It would be a lot easier if we could just call them "child 1","child 2" etc and let them choose their own names when they reach the age of twelve or so.

Anyway, back to Building A Successful Home Based Business. I had the article ready, I had the great title and then I received an email from the owner of Ezine Articles.com (one of the places I regularly submit articles). The email started like this:

"Hi Elaine,

Did you hear that we stopped accepting articles with duplicate titles? This was a defensive move on our part to reduce the number of incoming non-exclusive rights article submissions. Now that all 86k of the articles listed have unique titles, that means that your future article titles may be rejected if it's already in use by another author... "

My

s). The email started like this:

"Hi Elaine,

Did you hear that we stopped accepting articles with duplicate titles? This was a defensive move on our part to reduce the number of incoming non-exclusive rights article submissions. Now that all 86k of the articles listed have unique titles, that means that your future article titles may be rejected if it's already in use by another author... "

My first reaction was: "Oh, good", my second reaction was: "Oh, no". The second reaction was caused by the realisation that things are going to get more difficult for people who take care over their work. Thousands of articles on every subject imaginable are being added to the vast Internet library each day. The quality of some of these articles is dubious. Many Internet entrepreneurs are putting their metaphorical pens to their virtual paper and churning out poorly spelt, ungrammatical, pointless articles just for use as vehicles for their resource box. Some Internet entrepreneurs cheat by having articles ghost written and then publishing the articles as their own. Worse still, there are unscrupulous Internet entrepreneurs who use software to churn out articles that they then pretend to have written. Worst of all are the Internet outright cheats who stoop to copying someone else's article, claiming authorship and slapping on their own copyright notice.

The non-duplicate title rule imposed by Ezine Articles is an excellent thing and should cause the cheats some problems. My point here, however, is not to lecture on the evils of cheating. There is a saying: "All's fair in love and a successful home based business" (or something like that) and I'm not about to start my own anti-plagiarist cyber police force. My really big concern about this deluge of articles is purely selfish: I fear that the cheats have used up all the best titles and I'll never be able to think up a new one. I haven't yet submitted "Building A Successful Home Based Business " but I fear it might get bounced straight back at me for re-naming..

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