How to Find Article Syndication Partners?

I do this. I send the one that I think's the "best fit" for their site, explaining why I think it's a good fit for their readers/visitors/subscribers. See the last paragraph of post #2 above. Then after that I send more, slowly and gradually, taking every opportunity to chat and build a relationship with them, because article marketing is a real relationship-building business.

(I don't myself use that nettop20.com list - sorry).

I tie that in to the comments I make about his site, and his interests, and his content, and his readers, and his visitors, and so on (making it as much as possible about him, and not about me), and then say something like " ... ... which is why I thought this particular article might be something you'd perhaps wish to share with your readers").

Yes, I can certainly see that it could, if you did it "the other way round" and started off by saying something like "I write to offer you this article, which ... " and basically talk about yourself and your article (not so suitable at all!), rather than his site, his interests, his presentation, and so on - which I always do, making two things clear ... (i) I'm not sending him a "duplicated/template email", and (ii) I've genuinely studied his site and I'm interested in it.

I do this later, after I've at least started building a relationship with them.

But in the first instance, I want to send them one article, in a plain text email, with no links, and no attachments.

I prefer not, in the first instance, to draw their attention to the fact that it's already been published. Because there are still some people about who equate syndication with "duplicate content". :rolleyes: :p

Obviously I'm not hiding the fact that it's already been published (and some will check that, though many - wisely - don't care either way). But I'm not drawing attention to it, either. Of course, some are people who already have other syndicated content (e.g. from Ezine Articles and/or elsewhere) on their sites, and they're not going to mind, either way.

I don't think there's any "right and wrong" about these things, though ... it's just "what works for you"?

Thanks for asking Alexa Smith this question.

I learnt something new.

Hi Marko,

Oh yes - like those of many full-time article marketers, all of my articles in EZA were originally published and indexed on my own blogs/sites first.

EZA specifically invites people to do this, in the introductory email course they send out to new authors who sign up for it (it's free, and pretty good, albeit understandably written from their own perspective).

They also make available a special WordPress gadget for people to publish their articles on their own blogs and then submit them to EZA for subsequent approval and publication there, too.

The articles need to be of adequate length and comply with the rest of EZA's editorial guidelines too, of course.

Article directories don't require previously unpublished content.

As is so often the case when a simple "yes" or "no" would be very convenient, the answer is "it depends".

Mostly, it depends on what you'd be doing it for and what you hope to gain by it.

Don't do it "for EZA's backlinks" (they're worthless).

Don't do it hoping to generate potential customer traffic to your site from EZA (for all the reasons explained in this post).

But do it, by all means, if your purpose in doing it is to make those articles available for other people to republish on their own sites, or in their own ezines. In other words, if your plan is to use EZA as a stepping-stone (and if the articles are written for syndication in the first place) then yes - by all means, go for it with any that are suitable.

This is all an article directory is, really - and it's the only benefit an article directory can fulfil for you, these days: it's a stepping-stone. All explained in this thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

If I read this correctly (and I pride myself on my gibberish), he thinks that the OP should instead focus on building relationships with websites that will actually want to share his content and be happy that it is already published.

So you know, he thinks he should do article syndication.

Yes I have included everything that needed.

Thanks for the tip I will start with other method first.