One of the goals of SeededBuzz is to help you make your articles work for you. SeededBuzz is a fantastic way to increase the web traffic to your site by allowing you to promote your own articles. The more articles you Seed and Buzz, the more likely the community will discover your site and Buzz your work. Another way that SeededBuzz helps is by providing you tools for you to use to increase your exposure (and revenue). So I want to introduce you to a service called BlogBurst.
As stated on their website, “BlogBurst [is] a syndication service that places blogs on top-tier online destinations.” What BlogBurst does is it uses your RSS feed to pool your articles with articles written by other users for professional media organizations to reference. If the media likes the article written, they can take the article and run it on their website, giving you greater exposure. But exposure isn’t the only benefit.
BlogBurst keeps track of how many times your article headlines are displayed on the media outlets websites, which they use to rank your activity against others. At the end of each quarter, those authors who rank in the top 100 of headlines displayed will earn a cash award. The minimum payout is $50.00 USD, and the maximum is $1,200.00 USD.
In 2009, I was fortunate to be in the top 100 with my website U.S. Common Sense. During the Second Quarter (April 1st through June 30th), my articles received over 800,000 headline impressions through the BlogBurst service, with my articles being read over 870 times during that period. During that period, my work was picked up by many media outlets including:
- Chicago Sun-Times (Chicago Sun-Times, Post-Tribune, Lake County News-Sun, SouthTown Star)
- Cox Ohio (Dayton Daily News)
- FoxNews (Fox Business)
- Houston Chronicle
- Palm Beach Post
- Reuters
- Time Warner (Road Runner)
- USA Today
- Wall Street Journal
- Ziff Davis Enterprise (eWeek Microsoft Watch)
I finished in 93rd place (I peaked at 80th) at the end of the quarter, earning me $50.00. Not a bad result for simply writing articles that were an interest to me. The following is a chart of the activity of the site during that period:
As you work on the articles you plan to Seed, or on Seeds that you are Buzzing for fellow community members, why not let those articles go to work for you behind the scenes? Quality work will always draw attention and lead to increases in audience. Put SeededBuzz and BlogBurst work together for you.
NOTE: BlogBurst is a free service, though there are certain requirements that your site must meet before being approved (much like with SeededBuzz).