I’ve used Unique Article Wizard for over a year now. In the past few months, however, I haven’t been making use of it enough to justify the monthly expense of $67. I’ve been looking at and testing a few alternatives, and so far, there are a few that I like and am considering using *instead* of UAW.
Unique Article Wizard vs. Other Article Marketing Programs
Unique Article Wizard is, well, unique, in the sense that your article is distributed to a number of blogs and sites related to your niche. You write and re-write an optimized article 3 times, then UAW takes that article and the versions of that article and distributes it to sites that have opted in to the system. One article can end up being posted on over 500 sites if you have a general category (say finance, for example). Those articles contain a link back to your site via the “About the Author” paragraph, and if the article is posted on high ranking or relevant site, that can lead to traffic and rankings.
The negative part of UAW is that a lot of the sites that your articles are posted on aren’t highly trafficked, have low in bound links and PageRank, and are just spammy made-for-adsense sites. You may get a lot of links, but those links don’t end up being very beneficial in the long wrong — quantity over quality in this situation. For some long tail, non competitive keywords, UAW can work wonders. If you are looking to start an online reputation management campaign for a name or specific product related keyword that doesn’t have much competition, UAW can be helpful in pushing links to optimized sites and profiles that may otherwise not receive many in-bound links organically.
Other article marketing sites, such as Ezine Articles or GoArticles, allow you to post an article and then allow others to copy and repost that article, keeping your author profile and links in tact. This method can sometimes lead to better quality links to your sites and, in some situations, the article on those sites will rank highly, but you won’t receive as many links. Quality over quantity with those types of sites (although quality can sometimes be argued here, as well).
Alternatives to Unique Article Wizard
ASHelper and Article Submitter
Both of these free, downloadable applications let you upload your article, author bio, links, categories, and other information, save the article, then submit to a number of article submission sites, including the popular ones like GoArticles and Ezine Articles. For those sites that require registration, both programs allow you to also save that information. These programs make it easy to submit articles to some of the more credible article submission sites in a short time, instead of having to go to each site separately.
Article Submission Helper | Article Submitter
Distribute Your Articles
Similar to Unique Article Wizard in the way that they distribute articles to blogs and networks, but this is more of a community than UAW. Worth checking out if UAW has stopped working for you. 3 different plans, rangingn from $34.99/month to $129.99/month