Wizzley, Seekyt, InfoBarrel, Bukisa: A Writer's Comparison

These sites mostly have a easy to learn writing system. Wizzley has the most flexible and extensive selection of tools. So the finished articles look great but the other sites have all the essentials you need. The Wizzley and InfoBarrel systems are very similar as are Seekyt, TopicSpotter and Bukisa so if you have trouble learning to use writing tools you would be able to swap easily from one to the other in these cases.

In general the sites have a single system that is used for writing articles. Bukisa on the other hand appears to be unique. It provides different tools for writing an article vs a how to guide.

Adding Affiliates

All the sites let you use main affiliates like Amazon. The Wizzley system has the biggest choice of affiliates which means it's very easy to add products. I find I earn the most money from Amazon with my Wizzley articles. 

Inserting links is only a problem in InfoBarrel. I had many articles knocked back for inserting just two of the following links:

• Amazon
• Articles I wrote on my other sites
• Articles that were added as interesting go to resources with no personal gain.

I found this problem has discouraged me from writing on InfoBarrel.

Inserting Pictures

Seekyt and TopicSpotter are the only sites that shows you when you have written the minimum number of words. On these sites the writing area border changes color. This is a very handy tool. With Wizzley you only know if you have written enough when you go to publish your article. Wizzley automatically lets you know how many words you need to add to meet their minimum requirements. InfoBarrel does an automatic word count for you every time you save your article draft. Bukisa does not provide this service so you will need to either cross your fingers and hit the publish button or check your word count via a Word document. 

Final Words about Creating Articles

Wizzley, Seekyt and TopicSpotter have very active, helpful and friendly writing communities. This may not seem important but I have learnt a lot from my fellow writers. It's also nice to share the writing experience with others.

InfoBarrel is VERY strict about keyword density. This can make it very hard to write articles on topics that do not have alternative words to use like asthma. I didn’t find this community as active or helpful as the others. 

Being able to save your draft is helpful for writers. You can save your article as a draft for at Wizzley, InfoBarrel and Bukisa. Seekyt and TopicSpotter don’t have this so you either need to write your article in the one go or write it in a Word document first and then cut and paste it for publishing.

It may seem strange to include being able to delete your articles but I feel better knowing I can delete an article if I want. Being able to delete my articles means I feel like I still own them. Wiizzley, Seekyt, TopicSpotter and Bukisa let you to delete any article you want at any time with the click of a button. InfoBarrel does not. I have asked them to delete one of my articles. They did this quickly and without any problems. But I still like keeping control of this. 

I have found Wizzley, InfoBarrel and Seekyt are all giving me great placement in Google, which is creating excellent traffic for my articles. I think TopicSpotter will be the same. In regards to Bukisa all I can say is What Traffic??? I could not find my own Bukisa articles in a Google search even when I typed in the full title in inverted commas to narrow the search. Something I found very concerning. Once I moved my articles to Seekyt they gained good attention.

I have found Wizzley and Seekyt seem to work best for me with Adsense. But I have heard of people earning good money with InfoBarrel. I think TopicSpotter is going to work well for me too.

I must admit I do like how InfoBarrel has both Adsense and Chitika advertisements on every article page. This is something no other site offered until Seekyt started doing this recently.

I guess given my limited amount of traffic to my Bukisa articles the site performed okay with Chitika. I earned a few cents. Wizzley and Bukisa let you choose between using Adsense or Chitika. 

I think the best site for earning money though affiliates like Amazon is Wizzley. Then Seekyt and TopicSpotter. Bukisa does not provide any special tools like Wizzley but it does not stop you using affiliate links like InfoBarrel. I got the feeling it would be a hard  to earn affiliate money at InfoBarrel, but I may be wrong about this. 

Choosing a passive income site to write for is actually a personal decision. It's important for you to read about the experiences of others. But the only way to really get the feel for a site is to try them out. I discovered this with InfoBarrel which I had read very good reviews of. But I just didn't click with the site. So pick a couple that look good to you, sign up and see how things go. Good luck and happy writing.