Should I submit my articles to seeking alpha?
I received an email from SeekingAlpha.com, to which I used to be a contributor, which prompted me to read the link to one of their articles. As it turns out, the article had several comments from bloggers/contributors to SeekingAlpha imparting their thoughts on the pros and cons of contributing. My particular situation did not arise in the comments section, so I thought I'd post my experience and questions to fellow bloggers both here and in their article.
I am one of the few bloggers cited who left the SA network in the past couple months. I had mixed emotions about doing so and still do. I'll expound on the motivation to do so and perhaps some fellow bloggers can provide their insight into their thoughts on the decision...
First, I want to say that when I requested to have SA stop the auto-syndication of the articles since I was going to go off in my own direction, they were very professional and reacted immediately. As such, I've never had a bad thing to say about SA or their conduct. I left the badge on the page and still refer friends and investors to the site.
My rationale for leaving: When I started getting a decent amount of search traffic from Google (as viewed from my sitemeter), I'd click back to the Google search page with that term and notice my link there; in some cases in the top position. This was great; but occasionally, I noticed it only lasted a day and next thing you know, my link was down below the same article as published by SA.
Obviously, they have a higher page rank, so by posting the same content, unless Google had some sort of method to sort out syndicated articles, the SA article was always appearing first. The example that really got me thinking was when I was getting about 50 hits per day on a single article for a day or two, and then practically nothing. If you extrapolate for that common search term and added in my ECPM, that one article was worth a few hundred bucks a year. And in a day, gone.
On the flipside, a fair amount of traffic had been coming from the SA articles published. Perhaps some of the advertisers that approached me came from SA as well? Not sure how they stumbled upon my site. So, there was a trade-off. As of now, I'm not part of the network, but (if they'd have me), I'm on the fence as to whether to request to rejoin. Any thoughts on the pros/cons that could help inform my decision?
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