About Active Article Syndication :

by Lucian Lada

Posted: 13 years ago 26 replies

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So I want to give a try to active article syndication:
My plan was to write a good article then google "write for us + my niche" and find people who want to publish articles.
The problem that I encounter is that most of them say something like

It must be unique and never published before on other website
After publishing it belongs to us
We will search with Copyscape before publishing to check for duplicates

This doesn't go along with my idea of active article syndication.
They all want unique articles...
So what do I do ?

#active #article #syndication

Ken Marc 13 years ago

Perhaps you are searching for wrong places to syndicate your articles. What you describe seems to be more of guest-blogging to me.

What you should be looking for is places (sites, blogs, ezines etc.) which publish/syndicate content from article directories (such as EzineArticles, GoArticles, ArticleBase etc.). You may publish one of your articles in these directories to see if there are any takers.

P.S. I see you are new here, so am I. What I said above is based upon my reading only, and hopefully others will chime in shortly to correct me if I am wrong. Till then, chew above to see if that makes any sense
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Nicola Lane 13 years ago

It look like you are finding people who are paying for content rather then people who are looking to syndicate content. Perhaps "write for us" isn't the best search string.

I'm sure some of the more experienced syndicators will be along shortly with more advice.
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Lucian Lada

13 years ago

I sure hope so Nicola Lane.

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Google search can be quite a good way of finding them, but you need to get a bit inventive/imaginative with the search-terms, to find blogs/sites relevant to your niche, rather than revenue-sharing, content-buying and content promotion sites.

This is a brilliant source of ezine publishers who are looking for content: Directory of Ezines (not cheap, I'm afraid, but worth every penny).

This is a great source of explanations/suggestions for syndicating articles: Turn Words Into Traffic (low cost, very good value).

And in this post (and in many others) Paul Uhl offers suggestions on syndication which work very successfully for him.

But note that, to achieve syndication, your article must first be written for syndication).
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AnniePot

13 years ago

Oh dear, that was a disappointing and unfortunate start. In a recent post on my blog, I suggested the following search criteria:

[niche keyword phrase] +"write for us"
[niche keyword phrase] +"submit"
[niche keyword phrase] +"author guidelines"
[niche keyword phrase] +"writer guidelines"
[niche keyword phrase] +"article submission"
[niche keyword phrase] +"submit content"
[niche keyword phrase] +"submit an article"
[niche keyword phrase] +"author submission"
[niche keyword phrase] +"article submission guidelines"

Also, another excellent idea put forward by another Warrior recently, suggests that you locate some good articles in your niche, probably published on Ezine articles, select a sentence from within those articles, enclose it in quotation marks, and do a search on Google.

This should return any webmasters who have picked it up and published it on their own sites, although it won't help locate any ezines which are totally distributed by email.

Contact those webmasters and offer them a sample of your own work for syndication.

A final solution, and one which most professional syndicators uses, is to buy a lifetime subscription to Charlie Pages' Directory of Ezines. (not an affiliate link).

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AngieDixon

13 years ago

Lots of good advice here, but I'll pick up and run with the difference between syndication and guest blogging. Guest blogging, writing original content for blogs, can be a great way to drive traffic and build a reputation. You might consider it in addition to your article syndication efforts. I've had really good results with it.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by AngieDixon

Guest blogging, writing original content for blogs, can be a great way to drive traffic and build a reputation. You might consider it in addition to your article syndication efforts. I've had really good results with it.

I agree - so have I, but please excuse the observation that guest blogging doesn't normally have to be "original content": it can often be syndicated content.

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AnniePot

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I agree - so have I, but please excuse the observation that guest blogging doesn't normally have to be "original content": it can often be syndicated content.

I agree. The approach I often use when I'm guest blogging is to begin with a paragraph or two of fresh content, then cut and paste sections from an appropriate article from my own site with a clear reference to where the article in its entirely can be found.

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Lucian Lada 13 years ago

Thanks for the responses!
Another question : how much traffic do you usually have from one article syndication / website that republished you article ?
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- AnniePot 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by canyon
  
  Is there a cheaper alternative to Directory of Ezines? It's quite pricey for me at the moment.
  
  Here is a link to some lists of Ezines. I've no idea how accurate these lists are, but it could be a good starting point.
  
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Lucian Lada 13 years ago

Thanks Annie!
In the meantime I've changed the question b/c I thought it will be more relevant to me.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by canyon
  
  In the meantime I've changed the question b/c I thought it will be more relevant to me.
  
  Please don't do this, Canyon!
  
  First, it makes a complete nonsense of the thread and makes it quite impossible for anyone else to follow, and benefit from it at all; secondly, it makes us all look pretty silly, because all the answers/references/lists of information we've provided for you in answer to your question now look as if they're answering a completely different question from what you actually asked (or at least as if we've missed the main point about which you were asking). :p
  
  Sorry to go on about it, but forum "netiquette" is that you don't materially change things to which there have already been replies - and certainly not replace one post with another: it's just as easy to post your new question as it is to announce that you've now removed your earlier one and replaced it with something ...
  
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Lucian Lada

13 years ago

ok. I understand.
The reason is that AnniePot already gave me a cheaper option : "to search on google" and I didn't want to be replied with "i just told you, google and find new people ".

P.S: I didn't change it after her response, but while she was in the process of replying so I didn't know there was a response.

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JohnMcCabe

13 years ago

canyon, Annie gave you some good search strings to try. If you start finding too many "content buying sites" and others that only want previously unpublished content, you could try adding +"powered by Wordpress" (in quotes) to your queries. This will restrict the search to sites built with WP and still displaying the footer notice.

You can also try adding +"Article Source: http://ezinearticles.com", which will pick up articles copy/pasted from EZA. As was mentioned above, you know these sites use syndicated material.

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GoodnightSweetRatRace

13 years ago

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

You can also try adding +"Article Source: http://ezinearticles.com", which will pick up articles copy/pasted from EZA. As was mentioned above, you know these sites use syndicated material.

You don't realise how much time and effort you've saved me with that one simple search string.

THANK YOU.

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Lucian Lada 13 years ago

Ok so I wrote the article. Now I'm looking up for emails from the link that AnniePot provided. How many email addresses should I search for ? 50? 100 ? 300 ?
The more the better?
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- AnniePot 13 years ago
  
  The more the better - there cannot be too many. Set up a list and try to slightly personalize each inquiry email you send.
  
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Lucian Lada 13 years ago

I was thinking of using a software to send more emails at once. Is this a bad idea? or will they land in their spam folders?
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- AnniePot 13 years ago
  
  That's your call, but it's not something I would do. For the best results you need to convey a more personalized approach.
  
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- Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by canyon
  
  I was thinking of using a software to send more emails at once. Is this a bad idea?
  
  It's definitely not what I'd do, myself. You can't gain anything from doing it that way (apart from a little bit of time, arguably) but it's easy to see several potential disadvantages. Especially "loss of individuality", as Annie mentions.
  
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Lucian Lada 13 years ago

I was thinking of purchasing a membership to DOE , because I heard so many things about it. Do they have lots of ezines on weight loss ? I searched the internet but nobody talks about it..
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Lucian Lada 13 years ago

another question that I have : do webmasters decline the offers to syndicate my article if they don't like my website that I refer in the About the author box ?
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- TiffLee 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by canyon
  
  another question that I have : do webmasters decline the offers to syndicate my article if they don't like my website that I refer in the About the author box ?
  
  They have the right to decline to publish your material for any number of reasons.
  
  ... this certainly could be one of them.
  
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- JohnMcCabe 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by canyon
  
  another question that I have : do webmasters decline the offers to syndicate my article if they don't like my website that I refer in the About the author box ?
  
  I know I do...
  
  Links out are like an endorsement of the site being linked, so links to questionable sites are undesirable. Exactly what constitutes an "undesirable" link destination will vary from webmaster to webmaster.
  
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Lucian Lada 13 years ago

@TiffLee , is there a way I can contact you besides PM ?
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Lucian Lada 13 years ago

About article syndication and I read you do copywriting as well.
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