What is the Article Submission System?
The Article submission system, in its simplest terms, is a way for independent web games to let us know of their presence in the gaming world.
How does it work?
After completing a simple registration process, you will be given a unique voting code that you can attach to a button, banner or a text link somewhere on your website.
You will be awarded points for sending unique visitors/readers through to Thirteen1 magazine every 24 hours.
As we are physically unable to keep a check on the popularity of every game on the internet, which helps us to determine the best time to feature a title, the amount of points you are accumulating will be our indication of your current growth and popularity.
If you would like to register multiple games to the article system, please ensure that each individual game has a unique voting link.
If we discover that this rule has been broken, your chances of been featured in Thirteen1 magazine will be severely hindered or removed completely.
How do I earn points?
Points are earned by sending unique visitors through to our website, with additional points earned if the visitor then completes a particular goal (such as reading the magazine) during their referred visit.
Article Points will be added to your game in the following manner:
- Every Unique Visitor = 1 points
- The visitor reads the current magazine = 5 points
- The visitor reads a past magazine = 3 points
- The visitor subscribes to the magazine = 5 points
Unique visitors will be recorded on a 24 hour basis.
Though this is the case, please note that we will be tracking the trends of your visitors and researching the quality of the traffic that you have sent us before considering you for an article.
How do you decide when to write an article?
When you reach 100,000 points, our system will alert us of the fact and we will automatically begin the process of considering you for an article.
Please note that reaching 100,000 points does not mean that you will definitely receive an article in the next edition of Thirteen1 magazine. But also note that reaching this milestone will now mean that we are very aware of your game and will be tracking it for article consideration.
At this point, if you continue to send us a consistent amount of traffic (or an increasing number of traffic, which will show game growth) we will contact you about a feature in Thirteen1 magazine.
When 500000 points are reached, you will be guaranteed an article in a future edition of Thirteen1 magazine. Whether this is a simple up-and-comer editorial or a full-blown feature will be decided once we contact you.
Why are the points based on your site conversions?
This is not just a way for us to boost our overall traffic stats and website conversions, that would be both underhanded and against our ethos!
We instead judge the quality of your gamer based traffic on the way that they interact with out website, which ultimately allows us to best judge the way to feature you within the magazine.
For example, if the visitors that you send are only staying on the site for a very short period of time, or are only reading the smaller features within the magazine, then we know that your target-audience is most-probably a 'casual gamer' that likes short bursts of information, meaning that a single page editorial with a concise overview of your game would appeal to your potential new gamers the most.
Why should I do this?
It really is something for nothing. We are dedicated to providing games of all sizes with coverage within the magazine, and this is purely one of our systems for keeping a check on the growth of your title.
You are effectively making us aware of your presence on the internet by just submitting your game to the Article Submission System.
When it looks like you're ready, or we deem it a good time, we will contact you about an article in Thirteen1 using the address that you have provided.