50 Articles on Wizzley: Things I’ve Tried, Learned and Mastered

Quality is becoming ever more important with Google algorithm changes. Plenty of web 2.0 sites have been devalued and even removed off Google searches. It’s affected them so much that they’ve had to rethink their own ways of working. Infobarrel bought in scoring system while HubPages introduced the featuring system to determine whether a hub would be available for search engines to index. Squidoo went on a rampage of removing lenses that didn’t meet quality control. All of this just to get rid of the SEO rubbish that had been placed up over the years prior to the Google changes.

Wizzley didn’t have to change. The quality was there from the beginning. Only hubs that were informative and useful for readers were allowed. Excessive advertising has never been allowed and it made authors think about the topics they were going to publish.

That was when I decided to start on the history pieces. I’d already found that they were good for HubPages but I wanted to focus on different topics and start looking deeper into topics; Wizzley seemed like the perfect place to do that.

The Wizzley system has actually been really easy to use. The interface is friendly and it’s quick to get something posted. I have found that whatever I’m writing needs to be done in a word document first though. From there, I can see how I want it to look in the hub and manipulate the different capsules based on the text that is already written.

It now doesn’t take me long to create a long, interesting (I’m biased but I think they are) and informative page. My history pieces take around an hour to write to get all the links right, find the items for Amazon, Zazzle and other capsules and make sure that all the specific details are right. For other topics, it’s much less since there’s not as much research involved.

I’ve tried writing on different topics and have seen different results. The things that I thought would do well, haven’t while those that I thought wouldn’t do so well have built up a large following, earned Editor’s Choice awards and gone on to work out really well for me. I don’t regret trying the other types of pieces though.

I love learning something new and I view my experiments as that. If I didn’t try them, I would simple wonder “what if” or “could they…” I hate those questions when I know I can do something about them!

Other things I’ve tried are different methods of monetizing. I tried Vigilinks for a short time but found that I wasn’t even getting non-sale clicks. That didn’t quite add up for me since I remember checking Amazon stats to find that I was getting clicks but no sales. There have also been some changes to the percentage of commission so I’ve decided to go back to Amazon and the separate components.

I’ve wondered about trying Chitika instead of Google AdSense ads but I’ve not quite built up the guts for that. AdSense is finally starting to show up now, so I think I’ll stick with it. That being said, if anyone else use Chitika and sees good results, please share (not details of course) your experience and maybe it would work on here.

Well, you’ve probably realised that I’ve learned how to use the platform and create pieces that people want to learn but my education here has been much more than that.

I’ve learnt that it’s all about community. That’s something that I’ve lacked on other similar websites and never really thought about it. However, after reading JoHarrington’s article about how the community helps, I’ve found that my Wizzley score has increased and it really has helped my positioning.

I now make sure that I read and comment on at least two pages per day—well, most days; there are days that I take off from the computer completely—and keep the networking up. I’ve even started posting more regularly in the forums.

I have definitely learned that it’s all about quantity though as well as quality. The more pages I have, the more I’ve seen my statistics grow—financial and viewer ones. Of course, they’re not all pages purposely designed to add another to the tally. They’re all thought out, planned and offer quality for readers who want to know more about a topic.

Right now, it’s all about continuing with what I’ve been doing. I’m focusing on posting more regularly. At first I was doing one every now and then or when there was something in history but now I want to post one every couple of days at a minimum. The goal is to reach 100 and get the maximum share but I definitely won’t stop there.

While I want this to become a good passive income option for me, I enjoy writing and sharing my knowledge, experience and tips. You’ll always see something from me—so I hope you don’t get bored!

However, Wizzley isn’t the only place I’m writing. I like diversifying my income streams, as well as my topics. I’ll continue to post on HubPages and Infobarrel and I am spending some time on Bubblews. I also keep an eye out for other similar websites, so I don’t “put all my eggs into one basket”.

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