Wizzley SEO
Wizzley is a new (started toward the end of May 2011) Web 2.0 site that allows writers to publish articles and make money off the ads. For a new site it seems to have gotten off to a good start, within a few days its Alexa traffic rank was up around 20,000. It has already started to get a pretty good following of writers and an active community.
Wizzley Format
Adding articles is similar to Hubpages and Squidoo. Modules are added to the new page and content is added to the modules. Wizzley already has many of the most popular modules from the other sites like text, Images, YouTube videos, Flickr Images, Duels, Link Lists, Downloads, Google Maps, Wikipedia inserts, Blog and feed insertions and others.
The text modules work well for subheadings. The title for the text module is displayed as a <h2> or heading two tag. If you’re not familiar with SEO and HTML, do worry, this is a good thing. Make sure the titles to your modules contain the keywords that you think people will use to search for the information on your page. Google puts a little more weight on these headings then it does on other text on the page.
Social Networking
Wizzley makes it easy for readers to give the page a “Thumbs Up”, “Google 1Up”, Twitter “tweet”, or Facebook “like”.
Making Money on Wizzley
Along with being able to add you adsense code to the site so it will display adsense ads for you, you can also use eBay, Amazon, Zazzle and AllPosters. Once your code is set up, it will be displayed 50-60% of the time and the rest going to Wizzley. That means if someone clicks on an ad on your page there is a 50-60% chance you will get paid, the rest goes to the person that referred you to the site or to Wizzley to pay for your use of the site.
Another good way to make money with Wizzley is by referring people to the site. When you refer someone to the site and they start adding pages to Wizzley 10% of the page impressions for the AdSense, Amazon, Zazzle and AllPoster ads will be yours (at least if you have all of those accounts set up).
Wizzley Profiles
Wizzley provides a similar profile as Squidoo and Hubpages listing your articles, fans, and also allowing you to put links to your Favorite sites, blog, twitter, FaceBook, MySpace and LinkedIn pages. Whizzley also encourages you to create a Wizzography page where you can write an article about yourself and greatly expand on the information you have on your Wizzley profile.
Wizzley Statistics
Wizzley has a nice, simple, quick stats display where you can look at all of your pages and quickly see basic stats or click and see some more extended stats. If you want a full stats package you can add Google analytics code to your settings and get the full stats from Google analytic.
Instant Traffic
One thing I noticed after adding my first article is the instant traffic. Wizzley seems to be well promoted and you will instantly start getting some traffic to your page from Wizzley itself. This is something you don’t get from the larger, older sites like Squidoo and Hubpages. On these sites you have to do quite a bit of promotion to start seeing any traffic. Of course for the long term you need to do some promotion and linking to your new page for it to start getting traffic from the search engines, but it is encouraging to see a little traffic the first day.
Content Moderation
Yes, there is content moderation with Wizzley. Really that is a good thing, if there wasn’t then it would quickly get overrun by spammers. Your article is published right away, but it can be taken down if corrections need to be made and then republished again. There needs to be a minimum of 400 words in your article. In most cases it is best to have more than that to really do well in the search engines, but it is nice to be able to get a smaller page up and indexed and continue to add to the page later.
Outgoing links
Wizzley allows outgoing links for promotion but the links need to be done in a way that they occur naturally in the article and link to sites and pages that would be expected by the reader when they click the link. For example, if you happen to be talking about Google’s guidelines and you make Google’s Guidelines an active link it would be expected that the link would actually go to Google’s Guideline page and not a page to another site. Obviously, if you were talking about how someone interprets these guidelines you could link to that page. Bottom line, links shouldn’t be spammy and the link destinations should be useful and make sense.
Wizzley Review
In my opinion Wizzley is a fast easy to use site with a lot of good features. The adsense and affiliate ad percentage is a little low, but it is still better that what you get from Squidoo. Their outgoing link policy is friendly enough to be able to use this to promote other sites as well as get some income off the articles.
By creating high quality articles and cross linking between your articles on Wizzley and articles you have on other sites, these pages should promote well and be valuable additions to ongoing article publication efforts and website SEO.