Website Article Wizard Review
Priced at $197. Software by David Watson, 30 day money-back guarantee.
Website Article Wizard is a PC-based site builder that builds pages for an article site, with the generated files then ftp’ed to your web server. It also contains a database of over 20,000 articles to choose from. It is a complete turnkey site builder, with nothing else required other than hosting.
There is a complete video accessible from the Website Article Wizard site, and a well-written 34 page manual. I had my first test site built within, literally, a half hour of receiving the software! WAW uses a very simple, intuitive pull-down and tab driven menu system.
In a nutshell, here is the site-building process:
- Start a new project
- Enter general settings, including domain, template, title, number and size of snippets and links.
- Select articles. There is a search feature that will pull from the included article library based on keyword searches and/or categories. You can also add your own articles in this section.
- Enter Adsense code, channel, and alternate url.
- Enter ftp information.
When done, click “generate pages” to do the build. Then “upload pages” to have them ftp’ed to your server. This is a very simple process that takes about fifteen minutes total, depending on how much time you spend selecting articles.
I have made a sample Website Article Wizard site, on the topic of internet marketing. I purposely made this small, about 20 articles, even though WAW returned over 200 related articles in a search of its article database. This is made using one of the four included templates.
Once you look at the pages, it becomes apparent how this program can separate itself from the others. Article snippets are sprinkled throughout your pages, in little blocks of text. To the reader, these look like normal. However, if you do a “view source” on the page, to view this like a search engine would, you see something else. The snippets are mixed in with the article text. The result is a completely customized article. The more snippets you include, the more the “standard” article is broken up. You can control the number and length of the snippets.
There are four sets of templates included with Website Article Wizard. All four are fairly simple, clean-looking templates, using css. They are generic enough to use with just about any kind of site. By changing out the header picture, you can make the site more personalized to the topic if you want. I always recommend people customize templates that come packaged with software, but I didn’t see any footprints on these that need to be removed. And they are simple enough so they look like millions of other sites. There are 23 tokens available that correspond to the different setup items you set.
In addition to generating article pages, WAW allows you to select one article to make into the index page. It also generates sitemap.html and sitemap.xml pages. Here is the html sitemap and here is the rss feed from my test site.
There is quite a bit of flexibility allowed in article selection. You can search through the article database, and add any or all of the articles found in your search. You can re-do a search, and add more of those articles. Plus, you can enter the text of articles you have, by copying and pasting. There is a powerful article import feature that allows you to import text files from a directory, from an ArticleMiner search, or from a MySQL dump. Since the formats of these can be tricky, there is a feature that attempts to “clean” these imported articles.
What is the best way to use this software? Try this strategy:
- Pick your niche. Let’s say internet marketing, just to stay consistent with our test!
- Find an affiliate product to add a sales box for on the site. Clickbank is usually a good place to look for these.
- Pick your template, select your articles, and build your site.
- Put links to this site on other sites you may have, blog farms, purchased links, or any other place you have to show to an SE to help bring spidering.
- Write a few articles on this topic, being careful to choose keywords for the articles that have fairly low competition. Or hire someone else to, or re-write a plr article you own. However you do it, come up with at least a few unique articles. Make sure you include links in these articles back to your new site.
- Submit these to article directories. Done right, this will expand the amount of incoming links your site gets, therefore increasing its value to the search engines. This is a tactic that can separate your sites from many of the others.
- As is said so often in this business, “rinse and repeat.”
The nice thing about this software is you can make sites very quick, yet you have the flexibility to do it how you want. You can generate sites by the hundreds based on public articles, or you can use this as a powerful builder to showcase your own articles. It is easy to add articles to an existing WAW site. Just open the project, go to the article section, add the article, generate, and ftp.
Now, about the upgrade coming out in the next several days. I have not beta tested the new version, so I’m only re-printing what is promised:
Ability to allocate keywords to pages.
Insert user-defined paragraphs into article pages.
Insert keywords and secondary keywords into user-defined paragraphs.
Ability to upload additional pages over user-definable periods - “drip-feed”.
Add RSS feeds to pages.
Add Affiliate links via tokens.
Addition tokens for user-defined data.
RSS2BLOG export routine.
Built-in HTML editing.
Additional import routine.
Facility to created additional keyword based pages, that are not included in snippets.
There are several other features, but that gives you a quick idea.
Overall, I strongly recommend Website Article Wizard as a powerful, fast generator for building article sites.
Please e-mail me with any comments or suggestions you have regarding this review, or Website Article Wizard.
Happy building!
David