Questions regarding article syndication (after much research)
1) What I'm wondering is, how can I determine whether it will be a good traffic model for my niche?
The site is going to be in the dieting category, but a very specific type of dieting (There are only two products at the moment available for it). My plan is to throw a few reviews of the products on the site and have a combination of short SEO'd articles along with longer articles specifically for syndication (Published on my site first.)
2) Is it important for the articles for syndication to be exactly the same on my site and the article directory? I ask because I was considering having a decorated version of the article with pictures or videos on my site while putting up a plain text version on the directories. I'd probably have to change a few sentences here n there to maintain the flow of the article if I did this so I'd like to account for that.
3) Can you place backlinks to your site in the body of the article? If yes, how many and what's a good practice to go about it? Would you do this in the first article you send to a publisher when trying to contact them?
4) As far as the resource box goes, I'm thoroughly confused as to how I should implement it into my article. Could you give me a few examples of how the resource box is structured? I read one of Alexa's posts in which she suggests just adding it as the last line or two when approaching a publisher for the first time. But in what format?
Do you say "[Name] is a fitness author blah blah and you can read more on his website www.site.com, you will also get his free report "," by signing up"?
(Not sure if I should incentivize the resource box either but I've seen it done)
Anyway, thanks in advance for all your help. Looking forward to your replies.
Jake
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