High-quality, syndication-ready articles--where can I find examples?

Hey Benny,
I'm a bit new to this business model myself, but I get the impression a lot of people are over-thinking what constitutes a "syndication article." The whole idea behind writing for syndication is just to stay away from "passable content" and focus on penning copy other people will want to pick up, put on their websites, send out to their lists, and link to, etc.

And then get as much coverage as possible by coupling that content with the strategies Alexa Smith talks about.

In fact, the best indication of whether your "syndication writing" works is whether it gets syndicated or not. So if you put some stuff out there and it's not working, adjust as needed.

To get started, I recommend taking the voice and command of English you used to write the post above, do some heavy research on a worthwhile topic, have some fun with it (thus injecting personality), and just start writing.

Maybe start reading more, especially magazines as the language is similar to online writing. You'd also do yourself a huge favor to follow CopyBlogger.com if you're not already. The most awesome thing about this business model is that it just allows writers to get back to what they enjoyed in the first place - the writing craft.

If it helps, you'll find article syndication articles on just about any major website online - content-rich sites, that is. Think sites that come across like magazines (another fantastic place to see examples of syndication writing).

For example, I don't even have to look to know you'd find syndication-worthy content on MensHealth.com, TreeHugger.com, Bodybuilding.com, AskMen.com, or Forbes.com. You don't have to write quite as well as the people on these sites, but if you want the most out of your content, I'd sure as hell try.

The closer you get, the more likely syndication will work for you.

And in fact, while you're writing, pretend you're writing for an industry leader. This will put you in the ideal mindset for creating great content, and before you know it your own site will be a leader in its own right.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
James

EDIT: Another interesting thing about writing high-quality work is that you'll often make plenty of sales without even marketing your content. I have a website that I rarely writer for, but whenever I do, I get sales (and in fact, it gets sales even if I don't write anything at all).

It could do a lot more with some proper effort towards widespread syndication, but still great food for thought.

Hi Benny,

Whilst I do not think that anybody doing quite well with article syndication would reveal an article or niche to you (I might very well be wrong here) - I'd strongly recommend that you subscribe to some ezines within the niche that you're looking to target.

Not only will you find high-quality articles that you're looking for, but you'll also be able to reverse engineer those articles so that you can do two things:

1) Figure out how to structure an article and the resource box in a manner that ezine publishers are looking for, and...

2)Take a chunk of that text and run it through Google in the hopes of identifying other outlets that have accepted this syndicated article - these are places that you can sell yourself and your articles to in order to get yourself in front of a starving crowd.

Take Care.

You'll find some of mine here, if it's of any help:

Free Newsletter Articles - Syndicate Articles by Dr.Mani

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Dr.Mani

I like your articles, Dr. Mani. They speak to your knowledge and are easy to read yet aren't empty. Just like I've seen with other syndicated works, paragraphs tend to be smaller and keep readers scrolling. I can see where that can bode well for a site that has products and ads all along the side bars.