Review: Unique Article Wizard
A few months ago I meant to try the Unique Article Wizard service, but only recently did I find the time (and the inclination) to fork out the money for the subscription. At $47/month it’s not overpriced, but it’s enough to make you think hard about doing it. Still, I’d heard mostly positive things about it and so I thought I’d give it a try. So far, I’ve been pleased with the results.
Unique Article Wizard (UAW for short) is an article distribution service. It lets you post your articles to up to about 800 different article directories, groups and newsletters. That seems like a lot, but the actual number of submissions will vary depending on the niche you’re targeting — the articles are only submitted to relevant sites.
Article marketing is something I’ve discussed here many times, with a comprehensive post on the subject called Articles 101: Writing Articles For Traffic And Profit. AdSense publishers can use article marketing both to get links (and traffic) to their own sites and also to create their own directories.
As good as article marketing is, however, it does involve some drudgery. Finding a set of article directories to submit your articles to and formatting them appropriately for each directory takes time, time I’d rather spend on the articles themselves. That’s why many Internet marketers use automated (or semi-automated) tools for article submission. Or outsource the process entirely to someone who’s willing to spend the time and effort to submit the articles on your behalf.
UAW does more than just submit articles, however. It also generates unique versions of your articles for each directory. It doesn’t do this by rewriting the content, changing synonyms, or any other automated means. You’re actually involved in the rewriting process and can directly control what’s happening, which means the generated articles will always make sense. Which is great. (The terms of service forbid me from telling you exactly how the unique versions are generated, but anyone with a half a brain can figure it out, I’ve actually seen at least one other tool that does something similar. But since I want to keep using this service, I have to abide by their restrictions!)
Here’s an example of an article I submitted recently using UAW:
Electronic Pet Fences Stop Dogs From Digging
by Eric GiguereWhen a wooden fence wasn’t enough to keep our golden retriever from digging her way out of our backyard, we decided it was time to install a proper pet containment system to keep her safe and enclosed. Most dog owners install electronic fencing as an alternative to visible fencing, but the two systems can actually work together to secure your backyard.
The Invisible Fence brand system we chose works like all wireless pet containment systems. First, a wire is placed along the property line (or the containment area). Second, the dog (or dogs) is fitted with a special electronic pet collar. On approach of the property line, the dog’s collar buzzes or beeps to warn the dog to back away. If the dog continues to approach, a short but surprising electric shock ensures that the dog returns to the safe area.
Electronic pet fences are very effective, but they’re not completely safe. Dogs only receive a small shock, and a dog that is determined to cross the line can still do so. That’s why proper training and conditioning is essential, something that many wireless fence owners don’t do.
You can get better results by using a pet fence together with a real fence. That’s what we did by installing an Invisible Fence system in parallel with our existing wooden fence. The electronic fence was easy to install in this scenario, because in most places we could simply attach it to the back of our wooden fence to save us a lot of digging.
The advantage of this system is that the physical fence keeps the dog from jumping off the property while the wireless fence keeps the dog from digging its way under the other fence. You can also adjust the pet fence’s electronic field to be fairly narrow, which means the dog can still approach the physical fence quite closely before being warned away.
So if you’re having trouble keeping your dog contained, consider combining a regular fence with a wireless electronic pet fence. It’s the best of both worlds!
Learn more about how we used an Invisible Fence pet containment system with a normal fence to keep our dogs contained in our backyard.
Nothing fancy, just a basic article of decent length with a few carefully-chosen links in the resource box at the end. The article promotes my pet fence guide, which I’ve discussed here many times before as an AdSense case study.
That’s one version of the article. Here’s a different version of the same article generated by UAW:
How To Stop Dogs From Digging With Wireless Fencing
by Eric GiguereYou’d think a tall, wooden fence was enough to keep our golden retriever in our backyard, but it wasn’t. She just dug her way out! So we decided to install an electronic pet containment system to keep her safe in addition to our wooden fence. It seems weird — most dog owners install wireless fencing as an alternative to visible fencing — but the two systems work well together to secure our backyard.
The Invisible Fence brand system we chose works like all wireless pet containment systems. First, a wire is placed along the property line (or the containment area). Second, the dog (or dogs) is fitted with a special electronic pet collar. On approach of the property line, the dog’s collar buzzes or beeps to warn the dog to back away. If the dog continues to approach, a short but surprising electric shock ensures that the dog returns to the safe area.
As good as they are, of course, wireless pet fences aren’t foolproof. The shocks are small, and a determined dog can still cross the buried wire if they want to. Proper training and conditioning is essential to ensure that the dog immediately turns back away from the protected area, something that many owners neglect to do.
The best combination for safety is to use an electronic fence in conjunction with a normal fence, which is exactly what we did. Our Invisible Fence system was installed parallel to the wooden fence along the perimeter of our backyard. We didn’t even have to bury it in most spots — we were able to just tack it to the existing fence.
The advantage of this system is that the physical fence keeps the dog from jumping off the property while the wireless fence keeps the dog from digging its way under the other fence. You can also adjust the pet fence’s electronic field to be fairly narrow, which means the dog can still approach the physical fence quite closely before being warned away.
So if a real fence isn’t enough to keep your dog out of trouble, consider combining it with an electronic pet fence to get total safety and peace of mind.
Read more about how we used a wireless pet fence system with a normal fence to stop our dog from escaping our backyard.
Just as readable as that first version, but different. I can generate umpteen different versions of the article at any point, which is useful if you want to submit the article manually to sites that aren’t supported by UAW. (EzineArticles is the biggest omission from the list of article directories because of the strict submission guidelines they have… but if you have an EzineArticles account it’s trivial to grab a unique version of your article from UAW and submit it. It works, I’ve done it.)
Creating your articles takes longer, of course, because of the rewriting. UAW has a nice set of web-based wizards that step you through the entire process, however, and it makes it very simple to do — you don’t have to use a text editor like Notepad anymore. UAW also includes a handy tool to generate your resource boxes, which are arguably the most important parts of your articles since they’re the ones with the links.
Before submitting your articles you have to give UAW a list of relevant keywords and also rank the articles according to some predefined category lists. UAW uses this information to winnow inappropriate directories. So far, each of my submissions has been submitted to 200-400 directories, which I suspect is fairly normal. This is good, I’d rather have my articles listed only in relevant directories, it gives added oomph to the links.
As I mentioned, there’s a wizard that walks you through everything and makes it very simple to create and submit your articles. Submission is not automatic, however, as someone at UAW eyeballs your articles before they actually get sent out to ensure they’re readable and relevant to the appropriate keywords/categories, which is a great feature. The approval happens within a day or so, after which unique versions of the article are generated and submitted to all the appropriate directories. Directories have the option of refusing any article, of course, but most of them will accept the articles. You’ll get confirmation messages from some directories and pingbacks if the links in your resource box refer back to a blog.
After submission, you get a report listing how which directories your article was submitted to. You can also track the progress of your articles using some simple statistics that it gathers for you. UAW likes to use Yahoo for its tracking, so you’ll have to track Google stats by hand. But it’s pretty easy to do.
And yes, you can use pseudonyms when submitting your articles, something I’ll be talking about shortly in a different post.
Unique Article Wizard is definitely a service I’m staying subscribed to. It’s not cheap, but it’s not outrageous. But don’t sign up for it unless you have the time and the inclination to write articles for submission — you’ll be wasting your money if you don’t use this service to submit at least a few articles a week. Also, article marketing is a long-term thing, so be prepared to wait before you see any upswing in your traffic numbers. You may also be interested in using UAW as a content source for your own blogs/article directories: the “unique article” certainly makes their content more appealing than that of regular directories.
Eric Giguere is the author of several printed books and knows a thing or two about content monetization. Subscribe to his AdSense blog today and never miss any of his insightful comments. And the not-so-insightful ones, for that matter.
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Eric, is there a unique article generator that you would recommend that is not a monthly subscription?
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