Monetize Your Site

iSnare is one of the major article directories on the web. They offer a service to deliver articles to your WordPress blog installation. You add a file to the blog directory and articles begin to show up as drafts in your posts list.

I set up several blogs with the iSnare service. When I first set these blogs up the service was a bit spotty and the targeting of the articles was not too good. This is not too serious with this program because it is a delivery service and not an auto-blogging package. You make the final decision on publishing the articles.

As I mentioned, at first the delivery was spotty, but then it stopped completely for several weeks. I was not sure if they were just out of articles or if they had discontinued the service. The service has now resumed and it appears that they were doing some serious tweaking to the system. One of the sites has had about 130 articles delivered in the past week. I just went through those articles and only found three that were not on some phase of my target topic. The three that I rejected were loosely associated with my topic and possibly belonged in the general category.

I have looked at the articles delivered to one other blog and the new articles are similarly well focused. I don’t think that I have seen one that I had to reject on that blog, but I have not gone through them all in the way I did with the other one.

Since the iSnare service seems to be running well at this time I am discontinuing the WP-Article Fetch service that I had set up on a few blogs. The quality of the delivered articles was poor when it worked at all. The idea is good and the price is right, but the implementation leaves something to be desired.

I researched the free auto-blogging software that I had run across. The developer admits on the Warrior Forum that the software is black hat. They use scrappers to pick up their content and scrub all the links out of the posts. It does function and the Deep Link Engine does work with it as best that it can.

I also found an alternative that I like better in some ways. There is a bit more work involved but the result conforms to the article marketing terms of use. The author’s resource box is retained and the article keyword list is supplied. This is a free service of iSnare, one of the frequently mentioned article directories. There is a free script that you put into your blog folder that populates article drafts into your database. You are free to choose the articles that you use.

I had tried a similar service from ArticleUnited, but was very disappointed with the results. The iSnare service seems to be much better. I will be adding it to a couple of other sites this week. I added it to the MC Rally site this evening. That is one on which I had the other service installed. There were only three articles that the script ever pulled and they were not well targeted. The new service had pulled at least a half dozen articles when I checked this evening. They are primarily on one topic, so I may spread them out a bit.

I will test this a bit more and then provide the links, but Google knows now if you ask the right questions.