Buzzle

by Raindance

Posted: 13 years ago 9 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I was checking buzzle.com to put up some articles there for backlinking purposes. To my surprise, I checked some 10 articles and none of those articles had any links. They were all plain articles and the only links I could find in between were those directed at another article by the same author.

Another similarity I found were the authors. Most of the articles I checked were written by Indian women.

I went through their guidelines and they do allow the authors to link to their pages or websites. The website doesn't even share its adsense revenue with their authors so it makes me wonder why are people even writing articles for it? The only reason I could think of was accumulate all your articles at one spot so that you can display it as sample to your freelancing clients. Even for that purpose, there are other websites where the authors get paid for their articles like Squidoo, Hubpages and many many more.

I found this behavior very strange.

#buzzle

Marketing Cheetah

13 years ago

Buzzle ranks very high in search engines. Most of the articles in buzzle are written by their own team of writers. I own buzzle account and you can add one link at the bottom of every article with your own anchor text and a small description about the link.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Raindance

I found this behavior very strange.

Many things about "Buzzle" are pretty strange.

It's the one article directory which many (most?) professional article marketers simply refuse to use because of its bizarre terms of service. They require previously unpublished content (

), to which they therefore get "first indexing rights". (And they offer no payment at all!).

I'm all in favour of using article directories as part of my article marketing, but I'm certainly not giving them content before I've published it myself: I'm in business to develop my websites and income, not theirs.

It's absolutely loopy.

They get away with it only because:-

(a) So many people don't understand what duplicate/syndicated content and original/unique content are really all about, and ...

(b) So many people imagine that it's "difficult" to outrank an article directory and don't understand that they're getting published there only on a non-context-relevant PR-0 page.

But I'm really happy for all my competitors to use them.

Originally Posted by Marketing Cheetah

Buzzle ranks very high in search engines.

Understood ... but for some of us, that's yet another reason to keep well away from them (as if one were needed).

When a potential customer puts one of my keywords into Google as his search-terms, the last thing I want him finding is an article-directory copy of my work: I want him coming to my own site, of course (if they go to an article directory, I'm going to lose about 60%+ of them before they ever even see my site, aren't I? This is a real no-brainer ...)

... and you certainly don't want to end up with an article directory outranking your own site for your own keywords, because that's hardly a way to build a business.

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Gran Reserva 13 years ago

Buzzle pays those writers to put their content on the site. The accounts are controlled by Buzzle. That's why you're seeing the articles linking within buzzle.com. Those writers can not submit content through their accounts that is not contracted through Buzzle.

Buzzle administrators know SEO, that's why they don't take articles that have been published elsewhere previously. There is still value in submitting content there, because you can get a good, contextual backlink, and the articles rank well.

You can also add a link from within the article on Buzzle if you do not also use the "add link" feature at the bottom which adds your link below the article, similar to a "bio" section in EzineArticles.com.

I am currently looking for someone with a private account on Buzzle, that can submit content for me. I will pay them to do the submissions. Please PM me if you are interested.
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Chri5123

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

... and you certainly don't want to end up with an article directory outranking your own site for your own keywords, because that's hardly a way to build a business.

I have had mixed results with Buzzle - they do rank well overall but for me this is too much of a headache!

Like you say you can't syndicate your content - surely they are going to have to move away from this policy since the update to Google.

Also if you publish your content to them first you are giving them the authority over your own sites which is not good.

Although I totally get the point you make about Article marketing and article directory marketing.

As long as people keep thinking article directory marketing is the way forward these sort of article directories can make all the rules they want...

Chris

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Gran Reserva

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Chri5123

Like you say you can't syndicate your content - surely they are going to have to move away from this policy since the update to Google.

Also if you publish your content to them first you are giving them the authority over your own sites which is not good.

In my opinion, the best way way to use sites like this is to created original content solely for those sites. This will not hurt your site in any way.

In fact, I am of the opinion that it will make the backlink more valuable since it is contained within an original piece of content on a high ranking website.

I manage quite a few SEO campaigns for other companies as well as my own websites, and we regularly budget out content creation solely for the purpose of publishing on other sites to build links. It has been very effective.

What some people don't realize (not talking about the people who posted in this thread), is that it is a "privilege" to be able to get your content on another site with a link and recognition. No website owner is required to accept article marketing, guest posts, etc. Often times, the benefit you will get from the link is much greater than the website owner will get for publishing your original content.

For example, I run some successful blogs where I pay writers to add a lot of content regularly. Because I buy so much content, I get it at a good rate. I have no need for "guest posts" because of this. The time it takes for me to add a guest post negates the small benefit from it in the overall scheme of things.

So I charge people to post their content (either guest posts or advertorials).

Some of those people think I'm crazy for not taking a guest post. Others realize the value my sites have (due to pagerank, organic rankings, and traffic) and readily pay $120 or more to submit an article to them.

That's the same position Buzzle is in. They don't want the easy UGC that is submitted in masse on Ezinearticles, so they make it more difficult to get your content published on their site. I just wish they had a paid option like Ezine has now. It would make sense for both parties.

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himanuzo 13 years ago

Buzzle can help you to rank any keywords with low competition at Google. But the approval process can take 1-2 weeks.
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mvt82969 13 years ago

How do you add a link to your website from them? I found this in their guidelines:

External Link

Link to any external website is not allowed.

Important: Article will not get published if it contains any active external link (linked using HTML) or inactive external link (non-linked URL of a website).

Email addresses are not allowed in articles.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mvt82969
  
  Link to any external website is not allowed.
  
  This is correct.
  
  Things have changed at "Buzzle": it's no longer an "article directory", per se, for article marketing purposes.
  
  After Google's famous "Panda update", finding that its bizarre and unaccountable policy of accepting only articles not previously published elsewhere (discussed in post #3 above) had given it absolutely no protection at all from the "Google article directory hammer", it changed its business model entirely.
  
  Cross it off your list, Chris.
  
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Steve Faber 13 years ago

I just checked Buzzle after not being by there for about 6 months or so, and they deleted all my articles, presumably because they had links (which were within their TOS when the articles were published). Thankfully, I only had about 10 articles there. As everyone said, decent results, but too strange. I'm wondering why anyone bothers to publish there at all now, because it appears some still do.
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