Syndicate my articles

Hi There:

I have several articles on my website for small business owners and I continue to inlcude new content every few weeks. Currently, I have been posting the articles on various free ezine sites. I am getting a few hits but I've been told that I should syndicate them.

I know that you can do that if you have a blog. Is it possible to syndicate my articles directly from my website so that I don't have to create a blog? If so, please let me know how to syndicate them and post them to the various syndication sites. Thank you.

The benefits of using a blog are so huge that I highly recommend you go that route. Unfortunately there is a steep learning curve in doing that on your own domain.

Perhaps you can find another blog owner willing to feature your articles in their blog. Or you could start a Squidoo blog which is much easier to do. The advantage is that they handle all the technical aspects, monetize the blog, and share the revenue with you.

The disadvantage is that you don't own the domain so what you post there is not totally under your control and you cannot really move it the way you could if it were on your own domain.

I am working with a company that is developing highly SEO optimized turn-key WordPress blogs; however, we are not yet ready to make them widely available.

What would be best for you to do now depends upon your intended goal. Strategies for articles intended to attract business may be different from those for generating an income from the articles themselves.

Both are best done with a WordPress blog on your own domain but which other option would be best if you aren't ready to do that could be different.

Hello Flyingrose!
I am new on the block with my first website finally done. I also have a blog. I am very interested in your comment about the benefits of a blog being huge and I am wondering what you meant by that? I have a lot to learn and I have been studying but still so much to learn... Thanks, Tickleberry

Hi Tickleberry,

There are ways to interconnect related blogs in a manner that makes each individual blog's readership your readership. How that is done is pretty complex and most of us are just really learning the skills and technology involved.

That is why methods have to be created to handle all the technical issues so that bloggers can focus on writing. I don't personally know the founders of Squidoo yet but I recognize that IS what they've done.

That is the place I recommend to anyone who doesn't have a blog today and wants to learn the power of blogging. Just remember that it is not as powerful as having your own blog on your own domain.

It is also what makes StumbleUpon (SU) so awesome in many ways; however, both have drawbacks. The primary drawback for both Squidoo and SU and many others is not owning your own domain. One way to use them is to be active in those communities and use them to drive traffic to your own blog.

That isn't the most powerful way but it is a lot easier to get started on them. The disadvantage to Social Networking communities like SU is that you cannot easily control how information in organized.

SU works fine if you have only a handful of interests. If you are a visionary you end up with far too many subjects and their preference for showing them in tag cloud instead of alphabetical order makes it challenging for anyone else to quickly and easily find what you've written that they want to see.

Most "real" blogs have that issue too: they're simply one long string of posts with no real order to them. They're more like a conversation and less of a reference resource.

Wise bloggers must make an effort to organize their posts in a logical manner to make it easy for visitors to extract precisely what they want to know that moment.

If you want to know what cutting edge online traffic specialists know join Sphinn, identify who is sharpest on what you want to know, and read what they say.

Sphinn will allow you to figure out who REALLY knows their stuff and who is just a good promoter and doesn't truly understand what they're recommending and all the pros and cons.

Bear in mind that they believe they do know; they just don't see the big picture. They're like the four blind men feeling different parts of the same elephant and each being absolutely sure they know what the entire elephant looks like.

Thank you Flyingrose! You have been very helpful! Have a great day!

You're welcome tickleberry. I hope to see you here, at SU, at Sphinn and in my blog.

Yes, you can syndicate article directly to your site, just create another pages that is exclusive for your article and add links that will view your article. It is a better idea to have article pages directly to your site because it will help boost traffic to your site. You can submit your article to article submission and submit it to social bookmarking site.


Is it possible to syndicate my articles directly from my website so that I don't have to create a blog? If so, please let me know how to syndicate them and post them to the various syndication sites. Thank you.

Thank you guinanie. You are correct that the best thing to do is have the articles on your own site and let others link to them. Instead of having to submit them, once you develop connections within your niche others will automatically pick up on them.

Although it is best to have your own WordPress blog on your own domain, you can also use Squidoo or possibly even better a brand new site called Yuwie.