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Unique Article Wizard

Unique Article Wizard (UAW) is my top pick as far as the free content networks go. The content that you get from UAW is much like you would see on article directories where the links show up in the resource box at the bottom, and it shows the pen name of the author. This content is great for running a niche article directory but can be used on blog platforms as well.

UAW supports several platforms, including email to retrieve content. The fact that you can just pull in content by email and not specify your platform makes it the most versatile system. You simply copy and paste the content anywhere that you want it to go. There are also easy to use plugins created for popular content management systems including Article Beach, Article Dashboard, Article Friendly, Article MS, Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. It also lets you auto-post to Blogspot blogs, so it isn't restricted to just self-hosted platforms.

The filtering options for the content that you want to receive are more flexible than the other networks. You can specify keywords for the content that you want and/or select existing categories. You aren't forced to select both categories AND keywords. A great feature of UAW is that you can specify negative (or exclusion) keywords as well. In other words you can specify that you want to receive articles from the "health" category as long as the keyword "hoodia" doesn't exist within them. This offers great flexibility and very targeted content.

The "tags" or "keywords" that come in with this content seem to be auto-generated and don't make much sense. Often you will see single letter tags. It's a bit annoying but easily fixed.

You can also specify that you do not want video and images showing up in the content you receive, unlike the other networks.

Although 1000's of unique renditions of the article that you receive will exist on the network, from my experience so far, they seem to do a pretty good job of not sending you multiple versions of the same root article for the same site.

A really cool feature of UAW is that you can get a link added to the bottom of each article that you receive that let's someone republish the content on their own site, but not the same version. They must signup to UAW to get that content and they will receive one of the unique versions, and when they sign up they use your affiliate link, and if they go on to become a paid memeber, you get credit for it. Also, the republished version will include a link back to your site where they originally pulled the article from, including the anchor text you chose when setting this feature up! This feature alone makes this my top pick.

So, all in all, UAW is the most flexible system with support for the most platforms. Also, if you are submitting content to UAW, it's nice that your content will be spread across multiple directories, blogs and other websites, instead of just blogs.

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Article Marketing Automation

Article Marketing Automation (AMA) is a pretty decent network for getting free blog content. I've been using it for quite awhile now. It's a tie with Syndicate Kahuna for my 2nd pick.

There are no plugins or anything to install with AMA. AMA submits content to any platform that supports the XML-RPC API or Atom API, which includes WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and also some non self-hosted platforms. You have to specify your login credentials to AMA in order for their system to get access to your platform.

When choosing content you pick from a huge list of categories or subcatgeories. You cannot specify inclusion or exclusion keywords though making it less targeted. For example, I couldn't pull "acai berry" related content and leave it on auto-pilot because there is no "acai berry" category and I couldn't specify that as a keyword. An example of where exclusion keywords would be handy... I'm getting content for a video game site that I setup and I get great content for it but the bulk of it has to do with "world of warcraft" which I don't want for this particular site. So, having exclusion keywords would be good in this situation. But, since I don't auto post the content, I receive an email which contains an "accept" and "reject" link so I only publish the content that I really want.

A good thing about the email approval system with AMA is that it won't put the content on your blog at all, not even as a draft like the other systems do. This way, that content gets put back in the pool for someone else to pickup and doesn't go to waste. I know that there are sometimes 1000's of versions anyway so it might not matter but if the person submitting the content was lazy with the "spinning" of there content, then they might only have a dozen or so unique articles available so every single one is important in that case.

A big drawback with AMA is that you will receive numerous unique versions of the same root article for the same site. Apparently not something they considered when building the system. Syndicate Kahuna, on the other hand, does a great job with keeping multiple unique versions away from the same site.

Category matching with AMA is great. If you want content from multiple categories because your blog has multiple subjects than AMA handles this well. If you want content from the "weight loss" catgeory on AMA you can tell it to drop the content in your "lose the pounds" category and so on. AMA is probably the best of the 3 as far as category matching goes.

AMA does a good job of monitoring the submitted content by keeping it in the proper categories for the most part, while UAW seems to let more slip into the wrong categories. Also AMA's tags seem to be more human generated and are fitting for the content. Also, when turning on AMA, you can expect to receive content very quickly, sometimes within minutes of activation.

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Syndicate Kahuna

Syndicate Kahuna is another great network for getting free blog content. It is a close tie with Article Marketing Automation. It depends a lot of the blog I develop, whether I choose AMA over SK. For example, since AMA doesn't allow keyword selection but only categories, when I created my automated "acai berry" blog, I used SK for the content. With SK you must pick the categories from which you want your content, plus you must pick the keywords that you want to exist in the content of your chosen categories. This allows you to get very targeted.

EDIT: It just came to my attention that you can match up categories now with the existing categories on your blog. There is a small link in the SK welcome screen that gives you can alternate way of adding a site. I selected an option to bypass the Welcome screen awhile back so I completely missed it.

I don't like the way the category matching goes though. It's flexible in one way and not another. When choosing the categories that you want content from, you are able to change the SK category names to match the categories on your blog, which is great. For example if you want content from the "weight loss" category on SK and you want it in your "lose the fat" category, you just have to change the SK category name. If you don't change the name, SK will create a new category on your blog.

What isn't flexible however, is that the keywords you specify apply to all your chosen categories. So, if you wanted to get "natural remedy" content from SK's "health" category to be put in your "natural remedy" catgeory AND you also wanted "weight loss" content from SK's "weight loss" category to be put in your "weight loss" category you couldn't do it with SK, because SK will looking to both of your selected categories for content matching both of your keywords.

EDIT: It just came to my attention that you can match up categories now with the existing categories on your blog. There is a small link in the SK welcome screen that gives you can alternate way of adding a site. I selected an option to bypass the Welcome screen awhile back so I completely missed it.

So, SK forces you to get very "micro-niche" in a way. But you know, a lot of the most successful affiliate sites are very micro-niche anyway, so SK may be doing us a favour.

SK only works with WordPress at the moment. You must upload a binary file to your server so that SK can communicate with WordPress via XML RPC. There is no need to supply SK with your login credentials. EDIT: You now have the option to use XML RPC (by supplying your login credentials) or uploading the binary file.

You can filter out content with certain keywords as well as content that contains links from certain domains. Also, you can opt in or out of getting adult related content. It's off by default.

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