Wishing for more dollars to write on Constant Content dot com? But it has its own rule!

Constant content is a worth a try if you really want to sell your articles. But first, what style of writing you are accustomed to? For some reasons, first-person point-of-view articles are turned down. As stated by its site guidelines, these are not generally accepted. Why don’t they accept personal accounts or narratives?

1. Customers purchase content on an as-needed basis. There is no opportunity for the author to build a relationship with readers, as would a writer of a weekly column. Therefore, the reader is not invested in the personal life of the author because the author is a stranger; they will not empathize with the writer and may find the emotions/opinions of a stranger to be irrelevant.

2. Their customers look for web content. Web customers or people who search for information on the internet are searching for just that—information. They are less interested in experiences that may be unique to the author and are more interested in information that will be immediately useful to them—how to care for a burn, what to do if their ficus is looking a little brown, how they can lose ten pounds before the wedding next month.

3. Customers want content that will be found by search engines and ranked high so that customers will visit their pages. Pages that are relevant to a wide group of people - that is, articles that address the audience, rather than use introspection - will rank more highly because they will be more likely to get link backs, will more likely be visited by people looking for information, and will more likely be given more credit by those who use internet search tools like Stumbleupon or Digg.

4. Personal narratives have a difficult time balancing information and style with sentimentality and emotion. First-person accounts are often so subjective that the reader will be turned off by shows of emotion (especially if it is negative) because there is no common ground between the reader and the writer. Successful autobiographical authors use objectivity to help others see the world through their eyes and show rather than tell about situations. However, Constant Content is not a good place for narratives - fiction or nonfiction - simply because customers are in the market for the type of content described above.

Please avoid using the first-person point-of-view (either a single time or multiple times) in your articles, except when a requester has specifically asked for personal accounts.