Yahoo Buzz is a new community based news content website. It has combined the features of syndication & social bookmarking through user interfaces and simultaneously, allowing better editorial control. With Buzz, users are permitted to publish news articles or links from their own website or links of another person’s website containing complete story. Buzzing links allow the traffic to increase on a website. Yahoo Buzz is sure to create a large market for websites researching and publishing their own news stories and articles.
The only query, which might ring in the head of a blogger, is “Why should they use Yahoo Buzz†when there are more established sites available in the form of StumbleUpon, Technorati, Reditt, Mixx & Digg.
There are several advantages associated to Yahoo Buzz, which might make you realize the “12 reasons why you have to use Yahoo Buzzâ€Â.
Popularity of the brand ‘Yahoo’
Although Yahoo has lost its domination on the web to Google, still it is quite popular amongst web audience. The popularity of brand ‘Yahoo’ is what can serve well to all webmasters, who look for greater results (in terms of page viewing) from social bookmarking.
Anyone can submit in Yahoo Buzz
From August 18, Yahoo Buzz has opened its doors to everyone for posting their news stories in the community.
Previously, only a handful of invited guests could post a Buzz. Now, promotion of contents through Buzz is open to every one, who is having a Yahoo account.
You are getting better editorial control
If you have been regularly submitting social news contents on social bookmarking sites, you might know the difficulty associated with editorial control of the posts.
Yahoo Buzz has chosen to supplement editorial discretion features for determining headlines, which will reduce gaming. With Buzz, you are getting better editorial control of your posts.
Your stories on Yahoo homepage
There is no denying the fact that traffic of a website will increase, if it can get their way into the homepage of a top search engine. By submitting to Yahoo Buzz, your headline stories will get promoted on Yahoo homepage. Such a method of promotion is sure to provide massive traffic to your domain.
Feature to Buzz Up/Down Stories
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