Fill up your article directory with articles from Unique Article Wizard

 

I first came across about Unique Article Wizard or more known as UAW when the ‘founder’ (not sure if it was done by him or outsourced) left his product info in my contact form. At that time, I was skeptical and thought that this is another spam of the day and left the email up until recently, when I plan to change my article directory’s article distributor to get a different and perhaps fresher and unique contents.

Before that, if you’re an article marketer or article directory owner, you might have heard or used their service before. You can stop reading this article since this is for newbies. But you can read it if you like.

As usual, like established article marketers such as articlemarketer.com or isnare, their services are generally divided into 2 types

  • For article marketers who want to market their services/products through articles (BUM Marketing if I’m not mistaken) – UAW will distribute your articles to hundreds of article directories out there who accept articles from UAW
  • For article directory owner to get articles FOC for your article directory


I’m not really into the first part, being an article marketer, even though I did some before, using free articlemarketer tool before. I’m just not a good article marketer and writer (just an excuse). So leave this part to other internet marketing experts such as Dylan Loh or Jon Leger. Ok this article will talk more on the second point, as article directory owner.

Nowadays, there are thousands of article directories out there. It is similar situation like web directory. I myself operate a few article directories using different scripts, article sources and niche topic. It is almost impossible to create a new article directory with zero content, and hoping someone will accidentally found your article directory and submit 1 article. I tell you, if you use this way, you won’t go anywhere. Whereas other similar new article directory has hundreds or thousands articles overnight. You guess, if you’re a visitor, which article directory will you browse to? Which article directory will search engine crawls faster? Definitely the one that have more contents.

This is how article distributors such as UAW comes in handy. It is a win-sin situation between you and the authors. So far, I have been using articles from articlemarketer, articleMS and isnare for my article directories. I’m pretty much familiar on how each system works, the interface script between the article distributor/provider and the article directory. Some of them is quite difficult to be implemented for newbies or those not familiar with php. But after using UAW for sometime, I feel that it is the best.

Why am I saying it’s the best?

  • You can earn commissions from these articles by including the special link that enables visitors to grab their own version of that article. These links can be encoded, automatically, with your affiliate code so that you can earn two-tier commissions on all sign-ups resulted from them.
  • Instant setup with no hassle to modify the script manually – Download the script provided to your article directory, setup from there and immediately receive new articles in seconds
  • Excellent control Panel. Most of the functions below can be modified there, without having to open the script and modify certain flags or parameters
  • Manual approval or auto approval. Most article has this option too.
  • Limit the number of articles you receive in a day.
  • New article notification email – Whenever there are new articles, a notification will be sent to your mailbox.
  • Stop and resume article distribution without making any changes or renaming the script.
  • Change the categories of article you want anytime.


Their script is good, but apart from that, there is 1 downside which I think if they can enhance this, it would be a simply the best script. UAW has lesser categories compared to other article distributors. It takes default categories that your article directory script has. Eg: by default Article Dashboard has 20++ categories, so you can receive articles from this category only from UAW.

Want to know how to setup WordPress as article directory with auto/semi pilot (some of you might already know how). Stay tune for the next article

Check out the screen shot of the control panel below. Everything can be control from here. Easy and practical!!


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Article directory – part 6 – The structure of article

Articles basically contain 3 main parts consist of the title, main body and the resource box. This is how articles looks like for those who never read articles or visit articles directory before.

 

Title

 

 

Body

 

 

Resource box/About
the author

 

In the world of articles marketing, this structure might be a little bit different from informative articles which were written for an announcement of notification purpose only, whereas article marketing is purposely for drive traffic, attract visitors or to get link back to their website. In plain English the main purpose of article is for promotion which in turn will bring more traffic.

I’ll explain briefly what is each part above means and additional information required before submitting your article to article submitter (I’ll explain in detail later) or article directory

Article Title
Keeps it simple but eye catching as long as your title doesn’t desynchronize with the content (article body)

Brief Description/Summary
This is you summary of your article and normally this would become your RSS feed content. If you’re planning to attract visitor from RSS feed readers, write your summary containing main point from the article body

Article Body
As the name said, this is where your main points are. To have your article looks better and neatly organized, it is highly recommended, to format your article in paragraph, use numbering or bullet where necessary and the most important thing, make it clear and free from spelling and grammar mistakes (proofread). The most optimum length or your article should be around 400 – 600 words. However the content of your article will determine how attractive your article is

Resource box/about the Author
Other than article body, in my opinion, this is the second most important part of your article. This is where you’re promoting your self, what you’re offering and the link to your website.

Category
Normally, you should be able to choose the category from the drop down list. Choosing right category is crucial for your article, since the process of distributing your article is done automatically or by email, and the publisher won’t be able to review or read all articles one by one

Keyword
Put your keyword or tag related to your article

Article Submitter
I have talked about this on my 5th post about source of articles. As what I have mention ed before, other than distributing articles among the publisher, they are also accepting articles from author which will be distributed to thousand of registered publisher later after reviewed and approved by them. The service fee is vary ranging from free (with limited features) to few hundred dollar based on yearly or monthly basis. Having them as your article submitter is a great advantage, as they will allow you to submit your article to thousand of article directory with few clicks.

Article directory – What we have learn so far

Today would be last day before I go back to my hometown for 4 days. As usual it was another busy day with a lot of works to do in a workplace. I have had plan to post something today, but I think I should postpone it to other time

What I have learn so far, have I translated into 6 articles which I hope will benefit everyone. I would like to reiterate back what I have posted before. Please apologize me for the grammar mistakes that you might seen inside

Article Directory-Earn an income online on part time basis-part 1

Article directory – part 2 -The benefits

Article directory – part 3 – choosing your topic

Article directory – part 4 – choosing your article directory script

Article Directory – part 5- Source of articles

Happy reading and feel free to write any comments

Article Directory – part 5- Source of articles

When I first plan to have my own article directory, I always ask my self, how do i get tonnes of traffic to my directory? Who will submit the articles to my directory? Are there any people out there interested in reading my article directory? And not forgetting how to monetizing my article directory (even in very early stage of planning, I already thinking about money). There are so many ‘what’, ‘who’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ keep flashing on my mind? 6 months ago, I’m totally absolute newbie with zero information about internet marketing, but I’m a little bit proud now with what I had achieved, even though there are a lot of holes that i still need to cover up

Articles Source
Ok, back to this topic, to get tonnes of articles to our articles directory is not as hard as what you imagine before. To get started, let’s go to some of best content providers that I ever know

ArticleMarketer.com
This is the first article source that i know. The main concept of article marketer is they will accept articles submitted by authours (you must register and pay small amount of money to have full functionality) verify and approve the articles before distributed it to thousand article directory out there. To receive articles, you must first register (free of charge) before choosing topics that you’re focus on. If you’re using Article Directory or Article Live script, you will be able to receive the articles using script provided by your article directory provider. Otherwise you have to receive the articles by email which I think require more effort and time. Read back my article title ‘Choosing your article directory script

iSnare.com
This is my secondary source of articles. Like Article Marketer, iSnare also provide articles to be publish to article directory owner. Registration is free. Again, for Article Directory owner, you will have slight advantage because there is a script provided to automate the process

ArticleTrader.com
I never use their service before. But some of you might interested to give it try

Pay attention on this
ArticleMarketer.com and iSnare.com are services that I’m currently use. So far it works pretty well, but there are some important point that you need to pay attention about automated content receiving process

1. Since the process of receiving content was automated, there are possibilities to receive duplicate content. If you’re using Article Dashboard, it has menu on admin panel to list down and delete the duplicate contents
2. Using automated receiving content will easily increase the number of articles and authors on your directory. But keep in mind, not all articles has quality on it
3. Do housekeeping on your article directory at least once in a month. Even though your content’s provider has taken necessary steps to filter out those spamming articles such as porn and scam, some of them still reach us. Browsing your article directory from time to time will give you an idea what’s going on inside
4. The more articles that you have means the more disk drive needed and more powerful server to handle all those operations and visitors. Keep loading time as low as possible is highly recommended to attract visitors staying longer in your directory and possibly comeback again in future

The importance of manual article submission.
Although I’m not denying the importance of automated article submission especially for new directory, having actual author registering and submitting articles is more important in a long run. You will get loyal visitor who will come visiting your directory from time to time. In my opinion having this visitor is more important than visitor who came to your directory via search engine. I can bet that none of authors submitted by your content provider will ever reach your directory if not referred by search engines.

Article directory – part 4 – choosing your article directory script

After having a rough idea of what kind of article directory you want (or you opt for general article directory) it is now to get started. Please bear in mind, some basic skills such as PHP, HTML and javascript may needed in order to mod the this script to make them look better or add on the new features. W3schools is a good place to get started about all this stuff

Article Dashboard
Frankly speaking, i have never try article directory script other than article dashboard. I’m not sure how i came across this script, but for me Article Dashboard is quite awesome. Recommending you using this script solely because it was offered free of charge is not really cool. Do find out yourself here . To get more out of it, visit official forum which allow members to discuss almost everything about Article Dashboard

Pro – FREE, a lot of features such as RSS, tell a friend script
Cons – Encoded with ioncube, less modification, no formal support except from the forum

Article Friendly
Article Friendly was developed by one of the original Article Dashboard strong back ender. Like Article Dashboard, it do have a lot of feature with 2 different things. The script is not free, it cost you USD49 to get the it, but the good thing, is that, it does not encoded. Members are free to modify whatever they want. I have plan to build another article directory using this script soon icon smile Article directory   part 4   choosing your article directory script

Pro :Modifiable, a lot of features and add on, not encoded
Cons : Not free

Article MS
Another free article directory script form Article Trader I have no idea how it’s look like, but if you’re interested, you can view featured article directory such as Article Devil

ArticleLive NX
A product of Interspire You can view the script in action at cyblogger

There are thousands of article directory scripts out there to choose from. You can simply get million’s name by searching from Google or Yahoo. This is some of the script that i found from Digital Forum that i think might worth to be tried. As a newbie, to get started, you might try Article Dashboard before moving on to the paid script.