Okay, let me see if I got this right about Article Syndication...

This is the procedure i take, and it seems work very well...
1. TwitterFeed

TwitterFeed.com allows you to update your Twitter status automatically whenever you write a new blog article. The service syncs your Twitter account to your Blog RSS

2. Facebook Notes

With Facebook Notes, you can import posts from one external blog so that they appear along with your notes and displays the article on your Facebook Fan Page wall.

3. Linkedin – WordPress Application

With the WordPress App on Linkedin, you can sync your WordPress blog posts with your LinkedIn profile, keeping everyone you know in the know.

4. Onlywire.com – Automated Content and Bookmark Distribution

Onlywire allows creators and authors of online content to efficiently reach billions of readers globally. Its publishing list consists of the best-in-class social networking sites list includes Facebook, Digg, Twitter, Delicious, StumbleUpon and many others (40 active services).

5. EzineArticles

Ezine Articles is an article marketing, publicity generating, pre-qualified traffic building, and article exposure service designed to get your expert articles in front of their content-hungry ezine publisher audience.

6. The Unified Tribe

The Unified Tribe is exactly that….People helping People with a major emphasis placed on the concept of reciprocity. The more you help other people promote and distribute their content, the more you will get back in return.

Hi Avy,

Haven't we all?!

Sounds good to me.

And don't forget ezines, too. You can get floods of highly targeted traffic, that way.

A suggested answer is here (near the end of the post): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6575732

I send one complete article, in the first instance, as part of the text of a plain-text email, following all the important stuff I say to them first, as mentioned in the post linked above.

No "partial" articles.

No links.

No attachments.

Just my perspective.

Right. I don't mention this at all.

Many of the people I'm approaching have already syndicated other people's content, of course (indeed that's even how I found some of them in the first place!), and are therefore already known not to have a problem with it. There are always some people who are confused between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content", but let them bring the issue up if they want to - there's no point in focusing their attention on a perceived/potential problem that doesn't actually exist.

I do it ...

"Right" that you wouldn't normally want to do that, yes. (I suppose one might be willing to consider it for some exceptional authority site with a ton of highly targeted traffic which, for some reason, one knew one could never attract in any other way? But I never have, so far.)

I've done plenty of guest blogging using previously published content, though. And very beneficial it can be, of course.

Agreed. This is quite important.

Discussed further in this post: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3188316

This is the only comment in your post with regard to which my experience and beliefs are totally different from yours.

Every time I've done a 6-month split-test (that's 4 times, in 4 unrelated niches, which is "enough, already") I've built bigger lists with a squeeze page but made more money from the smaller lists simultaneously built without one.

I can typically opt in twice as many people (or maybe even more) with a squeeze page as I can through an opt-in on a content-rich site, but the smaller lists comprise different people who buy a lot more.

It's the same for me, in all of my niches (that I've tested): the best future customers are the ones some/many of whom simply won't opt in through a squeeze page and I've proved that for myself, repeatedly and reliably.

It depends whether you want to measure "number of people opting in" (the quantitative approach), or the money in the bank (that's actually the qualitative approach ).

So for me, an opt-in box on a content-rich site is the clear winner. (I do prominently incentivize it, and put bullet-points next to it, "squeeze-page-style", on my home page).

It's like so many things ... you have to test it for yourself. But don't try to measure the results according only to the number of people who opt in, because they're different people and those are not the "results" you need to measure!