The Nail In Buzzle's Coffin

myob

13 years ago

Can you spell syndication?

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samjaynz 13 years ago

Yes, it's spelled 'nice one captain obvious'

Of course syndication will still continue, but quick traffic doesn't seem quite so easy to be honest.
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JRCarson

13 years ago

Originally Posted by myob

Can you spell syndication?

I don't get it...

Okay, so you get content published all over the web. Your content doesn't link anywhere. Your author page doesn't link anywhere. Soooo...what's the motivation?

To have people go to Buzzle to find information from you?

Seriously, someone explain Buzzle to me.

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packerfan

13 years ago

Originally Posted by JRCarson

I don't get it...

Okay, so you get content published all over the web. Your content doesn't link anywhere. Your author page doesn't link anywhere. Soooo...what's the motivation?

To have people go to Buzzle to find information from you?

Seriously, someone explain Buzzle to me.

I could be wrong but I think he's saying focus on other forms of syndication. Don't just rely on a couple directories. Contact site owners directly, etc.

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Saito 13 years ago

If that is the case, then it IS a sign that [easy, traditional, time-effective] article marketing is dying.

And screw Buzzle. They can choke on their own pomposity, visions of grandeur, and self-defeating policies.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ankur420420
  
  There goes another way of getting backlinks
  
  Well ... maybe, but since you and I joined this fine forum in late 2008, that hasn't been an effective way of getting very useful backlinks anyway, Ankur, one could say? Not when you had to give them previously unpublished content. :rolleyes:
  
  Originally Posted by alan.brymer
  
  If that is the case, then it IS a sign that [easy, traditional, time-effective] article marketing is dying.
  
  Nah ... that kind of article marketing is positively flourishing.
  
  It's only the temporary newcomer "article directory marketing" whose funeral invitations are finally being sent out.
  
  Originally Posted by alan.brymer
  
  And screw Buzzle. They can choke on their own pomposity, visions of grandeur, and self-defeating policies.
  
  Can't argue with you there.
  
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myob 13 years ago

Originally Posted by packerfan

I could be wrong but I think he's saying focus on other forms of syndication. Don't just rely on a couple directories. Contact site owners directly, etc.

This easy, traditional, time-effective article marketing model of syndication is alive, well, and most vibrant!
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samjaynz

13 years ago

Originally Posted by JRCarson

I don't get it...

Okay, so you get content published all over the web. Your content doesn't link anywhere. Your author page doesn't link anywhere. Soooo...what's the motivation?

To have people go to Buzzle to find information from you?

Seriously, someone explain Buzzle to me.

Once upon a time you could submit an article to Buzzle with a link at the end to your own website/blog. They ranked pretty well in Google (this isn't the case anymore) and you could get your article syndicated with that link in it.

Now you are just submitting unique content for absolutely no benefit.

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JRCarson

13 years ago

Originally Posted by samjaynz

Once upon a time you could submit an article to Buzzle with a link at the end to your own website/blog. They ranked pretty well in Google (this isn't the case anymore) and you could get your article syndicated with that link in it.

Now you are just submitting unique content for absolutely no benefit.

Exactly. I actually had an account there once...

I just started getting really confused looking Buzzle all of a sudden now that there aren't links allowed!

People are still writing like MAD there! WHY? What are they expecting to get out of it? Is it like an "American Idol" mentality of the masses? "Maybe a famous publisher will see my articles and want to hire me?"

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Raindance

13 years ago

Originally Posted by JRCarson

Exactly. I actually had an account there once...

I just started getting really confused looking Buzzle all of a sudden now that there aren't links allowed!

People are still writing like MAD there! WHY? What are they expecting to get out of it? Is it like an "American Idol" mentality of the masses? "Maybe a famous publisher will see my articles and want to hire me?"

Buzzle is a very weird place. There TOS has kept on getting more and more unfriendly and the numerous people that write for it, I've heard from a credible source that they have been hired by Buzzle to write for them to make their site look alive. Firstly, they don't accept any content which has been published elsewhere and now no links. That's utter nonsense. They are acting as if big players like Wall Street Journal and Time magazine pick their writers from that site.

For Internet Marketing purposes, Buzzle was very less helpful and now no use whatsoever. Even I seriously wonder, who's gonna post articles there now that such stupid guidelines have been implemented apart from their hired writers, of course.

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arttse

13 years ago

If external links are disallowed then the only writers it will attact are those that want to focus on branding.

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samjaynz

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris Kent

Buzzle is dead then. As someone said, it will only attract those who want to brand.

Yet another directory who was happy to use us while the going was good and then want to fleece those who helped make them.

Yup, just the same as Ezinearticles and all the others.

Makes you realize just how prescient people were in saying 'build your OWN website first'

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myob 13 years ago

Originally Posted by samjaynz

...Makes you realize just how prescient people were in saying 'build your OWN website first'

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This, precisely.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  "Buzzle" was dead to me before I even got online and started: it was the only article directory which wouldn't re-publish an article already posted and indexed on my own site. Even when I first started off, with very little idea of what I was doing, and was making almost every mistake known to article marketing, I knew "Buzzle" was a non-starter. I don't want to sound too overcome by schadenfreude here, but it really was pretty entertaining, around the time of the famous Panda update, that their ludicrous policy of requiring previously unpublished content didn't seem to help them at all.
  
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  Alex Barboza 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Alexa Smith
  
  I don't want to sound too overcome by schadenfreude here,
  
  Well, you do . But seriously, who wants to waste their time or efforts sending un-plished content to article directories?
  
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Anup Mahajan

13 years ago

There goes one more way of getting traffic. Haven't used Buzzle much in the last few months but I agree that once upon a time it was a great way to get links and traffic.

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axus_auto

13 years ago

Frankly, without a link, there is no point putting any article there

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Lee Murray

13 years ago

Buzzle never got much respect from this kid. Only one link allowed (now zero... that's half, right?

), content must be totally unique to their directory, and their cute little "Intelligent Life on the Web" slogan... yuck!

And now that they're losing traction in the SERPs and don't offer any real benefit to their contributors, they are truly a lost cause. G-H-E-T-T-O!

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Zeus66

13 years ago

Google is trying to tell us, if we'll only listen...

Be unique and give your visitors a good experience. Stop trying to game the system. Content for content's sake is going bye bye. Put your stuff on your own site, make it damn good, and do the things you need to do to impress visitors. Do you think Google "sees" the typical affiliate site loaded with nothing but affiliate outbound links and some garbage rehashed nonsense for content as worthy? They're getting better at sniffing those out. If that's all you have, you better start figuring out how to spiff things up.

Or...

Ignore Google and find other ways to get your traffic. Hey wait! Can that be done? :rolleyes:

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Bradley J Anderson

13 years ago

Is that direct links only? Or can they still be used within relevant anchor text?

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samjaynz 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bradley J Anderson

Is that direct links only? Or can they still be used within relevant anchor text?

Nope, no external links of any kind are allowed.
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- ankur420420 13 years ago
  
  There goes another way of getting backlinks
  
  No external links= No use to Internet Marketers
  
  Does it even help in Branding??
  
  I hope Buzzle soon realises their mistake and give this a second thought
  
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Paleochora

13 years ago

Glance down and look at the auto-generated tags for this thread.

Never have I seen a thread summed up so well in just three words.

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Tom L

13 years ago

There are plenty other opportunities out there, I've noticed that they erased some of my articles that were already present on the account. Only one is left with a link still attached. Move on to shallower waters with actual fish in them... forget Buz.... what was the name of it...

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Cosmo Demopoulos

13 years ago

I've used Buzzle with good results but then they mysterious closed my account down. Now I don't need to worry about them.
And yah, I was giving them very good unique content too.

(they were about polite as Google when they shut down an AdSense account too)

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NicoleBeckett

13 years ago

I can't even imagine what service they think they provide if they're going to eliminate all outbound links. I can see wanting to crack down on shady or irrelevant links in content, but to get rid of them altogether is short-sighted IMO. All it's going to do is cause people to go elsewhere. Sure, it will get rid of the spammers, but it will also get rid of the quality writers.

It's just another reason to have a variety of good article directories at your disposal. That way, when something like this happens, you won't lose everything.

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JamesGw

13 years ago

Was never a fan of Buzzle. Since they're alienating most of their content producers, I see them falling off the face of the Earth unless they want to adopt a MSM model and compete with those companies. Good luck with that, though.

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Steven Wagenheim 13 years ago

What's Buzzle???? :confused::confused::confused::confused:
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- Bruce NewMedia 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim
  
  What's Buzzle???? :confused::confused::confused::confused:
  
  Exactly.
  
  I have a list of all the places I've placed articles for myself and clients, and Buzzle wasn't even on it. If they keep this up, they'll be bought by AOL.
  
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Jeremy Banks

13 years ago

They are basically just going to be a private site now, probably changing directions and having their writers do all the work.

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H.Miller

13 years ago

I was never a fan of buzzle. Glad I didn't waste anytime posting articles on their site.

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Dean Jackson

13 years ago

Well I guess its "Intelligent Life On The Web" slogan just went down the pooper lol...

Nice, Buzzle. Nice.

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Shazia Mirza

13 years ago

First I want to congratulate you, many people don't even get accepted into Buzzle.

IMHO, I don't blame Buzzle for doing this. Their goal wasn't to get article marketers to produce content, I am pretty sure they wanted content from quality hobby writers that have experiences to share.

Hopefully Buzzle is not taking off links on the existing articles, I will be losing a fair amount of link juice.

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13 years ago

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arttse

13 years ago

What has "nofollow" got to do with this thread?

Originally Posted by affhelper

The "nofollow" tag is tricky. I have done some testing with it and sometimes
Google does take them for consideration. For example, I set up a brand new
1- page site and posted an article on a well known portal. I watched my
server stats and after 2 hours of the article going live Googlebot came to
check out the site. There was no other links to it and no pinging was done
either. I specifically wanted to see how Google will react.

Anyway, nofollow links might not pass link juice and PR directly, but a good
amount of them could be an indication for Google to give you better treatment.

What I think is happening is that Google evaluates all your nofollow links
and assigns a score based on traffic you are getting and quality of the content
where the link was used.

Don't bet on that though, I am just assuming

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affhelper

13 years ago

Originally Posted by arttse

What has "nofollow" got to do with this thread?

LOL sorry, I read the thread wrong. I guess I haven't woken up yet.

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Alex Barboza

13 years ago

Originally Posted by affhelper

Are you serious? Look at the original post

OP stated he didn't like that Buzzle changed their links to "nofollow".
I said that it could still be beneficial in some way.

Actually, the op says that Buzzle allows NO links at all from now on

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website12

Banned 13 years ago

I loved when buzzle was good and we could get some good article links and traffic.

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viktor

13 years ago

Buzzle is now deleting some articles, about 30% from one of my accounts and 50% from another. No warnings, email notifications or reasons. Articles are just gone. I see no patterns, so I believe they'll remove them all.

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Ephrils

13 years ago

I stopped using Buzzle long ago and after re-reading their updated terms when I paid them a visit , maybe a year back, decided I wasn't about to give them content that I was getting the short end of from linking and visibility.

They did find 3 words to kill a business. "No linking allowed".

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evollusion

13 years ago

I could understand if they wanted to start profit sharing with their writers, but this makes no sense at all.

What would really get me upset is that if I had a great deal of content there and they just did it. I checked things out and it looks as if they just went and dynamically changed everones outgoing links to internal pointing links. So, they've esssentially taken someones content who put it there in exchange for an external link and removed the "payment" for the content.

I would write them a pretty ugly nasty-gram stating that I want them to remove all content which I had produced and hold the copyrights for.

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Aunty

13 years ago

Time's change and things move on. No use bemoaning how things used to be - new things will be bigger and better and if they don't exist yet or we haven't found them yet, that's just a reason to be excited about what is yet to come. (oooh optimism ... I LIKE IT!!)

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thebitbotdotcom

13 years ago

I have never submitted an article to Buzzle. From the first day I saw their policies, I knew I wasn't interested.

With respect to duplicate content, Buzzle is full of it despite their policies. Thinking a policy can stop that is insane and they have known it all along.

The easiest way to school them is, of course, to submit to them before all of the other copies show up in Google. It's all about timing.

With respect to them not linking out. That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. They are no longer a resource then. Resources link to other resources.

With respect to article marketing dying...not even remotely close...changing? Yes. It will be interesting to see if Warriors catch on to the change happening as we speak.

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LilBlackDress

13 years ago

Such a lack of respect for the authors who helped build the community.
They delete the articles and don't have the courtesy to notify the authors.

I just saw that in my case they deleted my articles, stripped the link and even stripped by name from them.

Happily I never did much at Buzzle and I have Google's cache and just took a screen shot of the article titles. I saved my articles and will now be plastering them all over the internet for the links.

So much for Buzzle only wanting the articles on their own site.

Really hard to believe they would have the nerve to strip the author's name out and the link.

Yet another GREAT reason to build your own websites!

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omk

13 years ago

It's interesting that you said you haven't logged in for a few months! - that's one more indicator of their decline, lol

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