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Article Marketing - Trying Something Different

by bhuff85
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I've been article marketing now for a few years. I stopped doing article marketing for a year to work on some other business models and now I'm slowly getting back into it. Seems there have been a few things that have changed, but most of the same principles still apply.

Anyway, to me (for some reason), EzineArticles doesn't seem as powerful as it used to be. Maybe this is because everyone and their mother (and their mothers mother) are using it. Or, maybe it's because I just haven't given myself enough time to really get back into the swing of things. With that said, I'm going to change my direction for a few weeks and try something new.

I logged into my Buzzle account about a week ago for the first time in roughly a year. I have roughly 7 articles (yes, just 7) that are published via Buzzle. And surprisingly, every single one of those articles has views in the 4 digits. These 7 articles outperform nearly TRIPLE than roughly 45 articles I have on EZA in one niche I'm in. Nothing special about them either. They are written and formatted no differently than any article I've written at EZA.

So, my point? I'm going to focus on Buzzle for the next two weeks and see what sort of traffic/sales I can get. I think you can only submit 2 articles per time, but if I can write less articles and bring in 4 digit views nearly every time, then who cares?

The buzz is all over EZA and always has been, but I'm going to give this a shot. Pick some low comp/long tail keywords, get some backlinks to your article and it's easy to get on Google's 1st page for your keyword. Why compete with everyone at EZA when Buzzle has just as much power?
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  • Profile picture of the author reliablepat
    Thanks for the tip. I never posted any articles on Buzzle. I'm definitely going to have to give them a shot.

    I personally have only been using two articles directories. EZA and ArticlesBase. My ArticlesBase articles tend to outrank and outperform my EZA articles on a pretty regular basis.

    You may want to give them a try while you're at it. They are really beginning to give EZA a run for their money.
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  • Profile picture of the author secrets2010
    Have you tried pick some low comp/long tail keywords, get some backlinks to your article with ezine articles?

    even using ezine articles is difficult to rank on first page of google nowadays..too much competition...but try as you said low comp/long tail keywords and check competition of ezine articles when you choose the title...
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    • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
      Originally Posted by secrets2010 View Post

      Have you tried pick some low comp/long tail keywords, get some backlinks to your article with ezine articles?

      even using ezine articles is difficult to rank on first page of google nowadays..too much competition...but try as you said low comp/long tail keywords and check competition of ezine articles when you choose the title...
      Yes - I've done this for quite some time now. The competition can be draining at times, so I figured why not try something different? Seriously - The views from these 7 articles are insane. I did a test with 1 article in another niche. Wrote it last Thursday and it went live today (due to the holiday) and it's already at 50 views and I'm seeing traffic roll in to my website. With some more tweaking and testing, this COULD be a better route to go.

      Like I mentioned, target those low comp/long tail keywords and you could have some serious traffic on your hands. I'll keep testing and keep you updated on the progress.
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      • Profile picture of the author Raiser
        Originally Posted by bhuff85 View Post

        Yes - I've done this for quite some time now. The competition can be draining at times, so I figured why not try something different? Seriously - The views from these 7 articles are insane. I did a test with 1 article in another niche. Wrote it last Thursday and it went live today (due to the holiday) and it's already at 50 views and I'm seeing traffic roll in to my website. With some more tweaking and testing, this COULD be a better route to go.

        Like I mentioned, target those low comp/long tail keywords and you could have some serious traffic on your hands. I'll keep testing and keep you updated on the progress.
        I got the same feeling about EZA. I have been writing articles for quite a while. I stopped for 1/2 year and continued recently.

        Results are pathetic. I did a self evaluation and honestly compared my current writing to what I did in the past. In fact that I'm conservatively writing as well as I did or better.

        The view is pathetic and the click through...worst.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gwen_Iler
    Good post.......we would be grateful about any news you bring on your next thread regarding on your endeavor about BUZZLE..... Good Luck....
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  • Profile picture of the author blue_gurl
    Thank you for sharing this!
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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    Buzzle is great - you can get just as much traffic (maybe even more) as you can from Ezinearticles.

    The only thing is that you can only have 1 link and the article has to be unique and never published anywhere else. Plus you can only have 3 articles in the queue to be published and sometimes it takes a while for them to approve them.

    But totally still way worth it to publish to them.

    I actually just got done posting a bunch of articles on Eza and then rewrites on Buzzle and I'm getting a lot more "views" on Buzzle (but I kind of think the views might be a bit inflated). The articles were going for the same keyword and the Buzzle one outranked the Ezinearticle (by 1 spot) plus it's still there and the Ezine one has danced out of sight.

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    • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
      Originally Posted by cashcow View Post

      Buzzle is great - you can get just as much traffic (maybe even more) as you can from Ezinearticles.

      The only thing is that you can only have 1 link and the article has to be unique and never published anywhere else. Plus you can only have 3 articles in the queue to be published and sometimes it takes a while for them to approve them.

      But totally still way worth it to publish to them.

      I actually just got done posting a bunch of articles on Eza and then rewrites on Buzzle and I'm getting a lot more "views" on Buzzle (but I kind of think the views might be a bit inflated). The articles were going for the same keyword and the Buzzle one outranked the Ezinearticle (by 1 spot) plus it's still there and the Ezine one has danced out of sight.

      Lee
      Yeah - The views may seem inflated, but the traffic is there. The rankings seem to be there, too. I've just had yet to do this on a larger scale.

      I've seen someone mention ArticlesBase, which is also a good directory, but I hardly ever submit unique content there and STILL get tons of views and traffic. Duplicate content myth debunked right there. In fact, I never spin articles to other directories or spend hours rewriting. I've only focused on one or two top directories and my own site and use other article directories for backlinks. If I get traffic from those other AD's, then that's a bonus. And, sometimes I get lucky and one oddball AD will end up ranking my article on the 1st page of Google (this only happens for extrememly low comp/long tail keywords and where an article from EZA for that keyword is already on the first page ranking).
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarah Russell
    Thanks for sharing - I'm definitely going to look into this resource. Let us know what your results are like.
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  • Profile picture of the author BonganiS
    Thank you for sharing such an information. I have never tried Buzzle but I have been using Ezinearticles, Articlebase and others. I will try it to see where it can take me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Innercore
    Hi Guys
    I want to move from EZine! Buzzle looks promising.
    Does buzzle needs 100% unique article?
    If I post my article first on my site and buzzle next like Iam doing for Ezine right now, Does Buzzle allows that?

    thanks for your initial input and waiting for your replies

    thanks
    Jay
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    • Profile picture of the author noodle2005
      Originally Posted by Innercore View Post

      If I post my article first on my site and buzzle next like Iam doing for Ezine right now, Does Buzzle allows that?

      thanks
      Jay
      No they wont accept it, they require unique content so even though the content your submitting to them is your own work, they will reject it if its already published
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      • Profile picture of the author Daedric
        Originally Posted by noodle2005 View Post

        No they wont accept it, they require unique content so even though the content your submitting to them is your own work, they will reject it if its already published
        Even if your Buzzle account has the same name as Ezine's? I know Ezine won't mind you submitting to other article directories as long the accounts have the same pen name as Ezine's.
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        • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
          Originally Posted by Daedric View Post

          Even if your Buzzle account has the same name as Ezine's? I know Ezine won't mind you submitting to other article directories as long the accounts have the same pen name as Ezine's.
          Sure - Ezine won't mind as long as you submit to them FIRST. And yeah, Buzzle won't allow dupe content. Just unique content. But in all honesty, rewriting an article isn't that tough to get on Buzzle. I'm just going to try using Buzzle solely for a couple weeks, rather than use EzineArticles and then rewrite articles to submit to Buzzle. People can tell me "why don't you do the latter, because you're really getting double the benefit", and that's what I'm truly testing here -If the benefit from Buzzle is greater and I can write less articles and get MORE views and traffic, then I'm getting more for less. If it doesn't turn out that way, then I'll shoot for Ezine submissions then rewrites to Buzzle for additional traffic, but traffic and views for my articles over at Ezine has been less than stellar recently.
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          • Profile picture of the author Tyson Faulkner
            I'd be really interested to hear your results with this. I think EZA, while still powerful if used right, is not near as good as it used to be. The better options may start becoming dedicated sites that only accept unique content like Buzzle.

            That would probably be better for the net anyway. People using spinners and all this mess to get content floating around all over the place is a little out of control.
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            • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
              EZA views daily have dropped about 20% for me over the last 6 months so
              I would say that EZA is not what it was or it's just become extremely
              competitive.

              Fortunately, my income hasn't dropped by the same percentage. In fact,
              February was my best month in 2 years with May coming in a close second.

              But at the rate EZA is dropping, I can't count on things to stay as they are
              so looks like I too will have to bite the bullet and do more submitting.

              Just when I thought I could retire.
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              • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
                Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

                EZA views daily have dropped about 20% for me over the last 6 months so
                I would say that EZA is not what it was or it's just become extremely
                competitive.

                Fortunately, my income hasn't dropped by the same percentage. In fact,
                February was my best month in 2 years with May coming in a close second.

                But at the rate EZA is dropping, I can't count on things to stay as they are
                so looks like I too will have to bite the bullet and do more submitting.

                Just when I thought I could retire.
                I know - It's just crazy how much of a difference there is in just a year. I remember quite a few articles that I didn't put much effort into SEO-wise and they still generated a fair amount of views and click-throughs. That was before anything else was applied to 'help' the article (such as social bookmarking and other backlinking methods).

                Now, I'm lucky to get much of anything, which is why I think it may benefit to check out other high PR directories with much less competition. So much emphasis has been put on EZA, and a gazillion products have developed with EZA as the focal point, which has obviously helped blow them to an even higher level and oversaturate them with millions of new authors.

                I would just encourage others to give some higher PR AD's a shot (like Buzzle and ArticlesBase). ArticlesBase is also awesome, and I think I may start submitting a few unique articles there as well. Like I mentioned above, I've only submitted unchanged articles that were approved at EZA first to ArticlesBase, but I've still managed to get thousands of views and traffic from those unchanged articles.

                So, this is what I've got so far:

                - Submit unique articles to Buzzle
                - Once approved, submit same article (only altering the title) and using ArticleSubmitAuto to submit to roughly 25 other AD's
                - Do my regular backlinking via my own blog network and social bookmarking

                Only downfall to Buzzle is tracking the click-through rate, but I can come close by analyzing my web traffic and using Google Analytics.
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            • Profile picture of the author nubchai
              It's a good test since EA and Buzzle are both PR6. Can't wait to hear your results.
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  • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
    One quick question for those of you who know a little more about Buzzle than me - They used to have a 2 article "waiting to be approved" limit. I've already got 2 pending today. Went to click to submit another article and it looks like it will allow me to (as it didn't in the past - roughly 1 year ago).

    So, does Buzzle allow more article submissions than it did in the past? I'm going to write more and submit to see, but just wanted to clarify if anyone out there does happen to know.
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  • Profile picture of the author rehema
    thank you for sharing your succesos with us but It will be better if you can also add the same articles to enzine articles and see which site is really performing. Because getting into early conclusion might bring you to great consequences that will make you end up regretting.
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    • Profile picture of the author bhuff85
      Originally Posted by rehema View Post

      thank you for sharing your succesos with us but It will be better if you can also add the same articles to enzine articles and see which site is really performing. Because getting into early conclusion might bring you to great consequences that will make you end up regretting.
      That is, in a sense, what I'm doing. I already know how my articles perform at EZA. I am also aware of exactly how much traffic they bring. My point is, I have hundreds of articles written at EZA, but 7 at Buzzle. Just 7 measly articles!

      I took nearly a year off of article marketing, so to me, it's not like I'm wasting any of my time testing this theory. Like I mentioned above, I want to see what Buzzle itself can do, because I'm well aware of the power of EZA (although I could say that the power has somewhat diminished to a certain extent). I'm already pumping out articles as we speak and will be able to mold together some results within at least 1 to 2 weeks.
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  • Profile picture of the author brieat
    Would be interesting if someone split test this, put 5 articles on buzzle and then 5 on ezinearticles with roughly the same keywords and report back to see which generates more traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by brieat View Post

      Would be interesting if someone split test this, put 5 articles on buzzle and then 5 on ezinearticles with roughly the same keywords and report back to see which generates more traffic.
      Unfortunately, you can't do that. If EZA sees the article is on another
      site, they will reject it and same with Buzzle. It's one or the other.

      Even if the article is on your own site, EZA will sometimes give you a hard
      time over it until you show them it's YOUR site. But on Buzzle first, forget
      it. You'll have a hard time getting EZA to accept it.
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      • Profile picture of the author JasonB
        Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

        Unfortunately, you can't do that. If EZA sees the article is on another
        site, they will reject it and same with Buzzle. It's one or the other.

        Even if the article is on your own site, EZA will sometimes give you a hard
        time over it until you show them it's YOUR site. But on Buzzle first, forget
        it. You'll have a hard time getting EZA to accept it.
        Steve,

        I know you know your article marketing, but I have the "EXACT" same article, article title, keywords and resource box on EZA, that I do on other article directories, blogs, forums, and websites.

        They won't always reject it. They only reject those articles if they find the same article on another site that is attributed to another author or has no author name.
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        • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
          Originally Posted by GuruCreation View Post

          Steve,

          I know you know your article marketing, but I have the "EXACT" same article, article title, keywords and resource box on EZA, that I do on other article directories, blogs, forums, and websites.

          They won't always reject it. They only reject those articles if they find the same article on another site that is attributed to another author or has no author name.
          Yeah, I know...but the problem is, it's a crap shoot with those guys
          especially if you get a new editor who doesn't look to see if it's YOUR
          article just submitted somewhere else. Then you get rejected, have to go
          through all the BS of writing to the senior editor to tell her that it's YOUR
          article.

          For me, it's just not worth the hassle so I submit to them FIRST so that
          there's no headaches to have to deal with.

          Naturally, if I do that, Buzzle is out of the question. So if I do submit to
          Buzzle first, I'm taking my chances by submitting to EZA second and my
          time is too valuable to me to bother.

          Unless I know for certain that the only way I'm going to be rejected is
          for the content itself and not because some anal retentive editor sees it
          at another site first, I don't have time for the nonsense.

          Besides, I know pretty much what kind of views I get from the majority
          of my articles at EZA so if there is a big difference between them and
          Buzzle, I'll see it right away.
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          • Profile picture of the author Samuel Baker
            I had never heard of Buzzle until I had read this post it looks like a great new platform and will definitely be giving it a solid go as my results from EZA are lower than expected.
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          • Profile picture of the author JasonB
            Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

            Yeah, I know...but the problem is, it's a crap shoot with those guys
            especially if you get a new editor who doesn't look to see if it's YOUR
            article just submitted somewhere else. Then you get rejected, have to go
            through all the BS of writing to the senior editor to tell her that it's YOUR
            article.

            For me, it's just not worth the hassle so I submit to them FIRST so that
            there's no headaches to have to deal with.
            Yeah, the hassle is just not worth it, because if there is a problem with your EZA article, its just not as easy as 1, 2, 3 to get it fixed and approved.

            Submit to them first and then do whatever you want with that article "AFTER" they have published it.

            It took me some time to see exaclty how EZA operated and what they were looking for in articles. It took me about 50 articles to become a platinum member, but ever since then, I seem to be having problem articles all the time.... lmao!
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    • Profile picture of the author JasonB
      Originally Posted by brieat View Post

      Would be interesting if someone split test this, put 5 articles on buzzle and then 5 on ezinearticles with roughly the same keywords and report back to see which generates more traffic.
      That would be a really great idea. Let me take action and see what I can come up with.

      Those 2 directories might not agree with each other, but, you never know until you try, right?
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  • Profile picture of the author BrainCopy
    Thank you for the tip. To be honest, I've never even heard of Buzzle.
    I'll give it a go. With Eza, I've heard that it's quantity over quality. Don't really
    know how accurate that statement is.

    Best Regards,
    Anthony
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  • Profile picture of the author BrainCopy
    Quick question. What's the time frame to get your article published at Buzzle?

    Best Regards,
    Anthony
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    Quick question. What's the time frame to get your article published at Buzzle?
    It's usually a day or two but I had one the other day that was published in an hour. I guess it depends on how many other submissions they have.

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  • Profile picture of the author Richnana
    thanks for the tip. I am kind of buzzed out with EZA anyway. It takes too long for the articles to show up and then they just seem to have gone from a site that really checks the quality of articles to a site that will accept anything if it is paid for.

    I will try buzzle. I am putting up my own article site very soon. Some of the hoops you have to jump through for some article sites seems too much for the exposure. So buzzle seems to be a good alternative. clicking over to them now. Again, thanks for the buzz
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  • Profile picture of the author H.Miller
    I agree, EZA doesn't seem as powerful as it once was. My articles on ArticlesBase and ArticleSnatch get ranked better than my EZA articles. I still post to EZA but not as much as I use to. I focus more on ArticlesBase now.
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    Thanks for the tip I'm getting into article writing now and this could help tremendously.
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