Article Marketing Automation vs. Linkvana vs. My Article Network?

What I mean is you won't see result with instantly getting 2 or 3 links a day, not for a month because the link power is very low ....

Linkvana will show result faster with less links, may be a month or so!

But the best is Angela, Paul or Backlinks Goldmine, you can see result in weeks!

Try for yourself - or get my backlink package, see my signature.

No love ...

Lots of talk on both of these in the Reviews Forum

The point is that posts are sent via XML-RPC and they are just like the posts that you are doing on the blog. You will not know that this is a blog added to FTS or not - if we don't tell you.

Surely if there is some sort of plugin installed on all blogs, or blogs are just 100 domains with 100 subdomains each and then we boast of "10,000 blogs in the net" - then it is easy to catch.

But if we are talking thousands of blogs, from all over the world, different IPs, domain owners are different, no plugins, no backlinks back to the "mama" site - then this is how all other blogs in the net look.

I don't see why Google would have a problem with networks like AMA, Traffic Kahuna, Free Traffic Systems and such..

So they form a network of blog owners who publish content contributed by members..what's wrong with this..?

I would say that the 3 way linking services are built on somewhat shakier ground because they just link from site to site with no content..

Yes it seems to work for now. I belong to several of these services too...but the fact is you just don't know how long that's going to last...where if you have your content on huge numbers of blogs that's got to be a better long term approach.

Hmm...anybody ever ever consider that a Google low level employee is charged with hanging out on forums like this one and being given the heads up through their reading to all the link network and otherwise being mentioned here?

Who needs fancy algorithm changes to find these networks. Just put on the hat of an internet marketer and hang out in places like Warrior Forum LOL. Even become a member of these "hidden" link networks and be given all the details about what they do on silver platter.

Pretty simple really.

Carlos

Quite interesting discussion, guys. You pulled me in, so I decided to share my own opinion.

I personally been using Article Marketer for almost 3 months now. Their membership is the cheapest compared to all other similar services ($99 for 3 months).

The difference between AM and others is that this service only submits your articles to article directories. They will not be submitted to blogs or any other sites. Some disadvantages are that articles have to be 400 words at least, and sometimes it's a bit tricky to get articles approved.

So far, comparing the services I have used, I think AM is the best link building service on the Internet. Now let me explain why:

Article Marketing Automation ($47/month) - yes, it's a cheap service, but it takes quite a lot of time, before your articles get published a "decent" number of times, while with AM they get distributed to 100's of directories within few days.

MyArticleNetwork ($47/month) - as people have already said, it's the same as AMA, and maybe even worse, because the network is smaller, I believe.

Unique Article Wizard ($67/month) - a bit more expensive than the other 2, but I've heard people saying lots of good things about UAW. First of all, what I don't like about this service is that you HAVE to rewrite your articles. Of course, it's good for having different content distributed across many directories, but I believe the benefits are not worth the time spent.

Linkvana ($147/month) - haven't tried this myself, but $100+ monthly seems a bit too much for this kind of service, considering there are many alternatives. The only hope is that their service is MUCH different from others, otherwise it's just poor value for money.

Thanks

Yes of course you're right about there not being enough blogs in that category which was sort of my whole point. I would have thought that home and family articles would be picked up more. I heard that AMA had about 10,000 blogs in the network at that point..?

Maybe it's mostly filled w/blogs about internet marketing and Forex and people in other niches hadn't gotten the word about these blog networks enough yet..? Dunno..

Don't forget Free Traffic System guys.

I currently belong to ArticleMarketer but I've been trying to pick out another distribution service that works the backlinks from a different angle (contextual links vs. author's resource box).

My instinct it to pay for all of them and spin different version across multiple platorms...but cost is a factor and you're looking at close to $1000 p/month to belong to all the power linkbuilding services (Linkvana, AMA, FTS, ArticleMarketer, Backlink Juicer, IBL Builder etc) plus having the content generated and spun to pump across all the networks.

That being said, I feel that Linkvana is too expensive and I'm not a fan of their 1-to-1 ratio of article to singe backlink. Not at that price. I'd go there, but not until a site can support the cost. AMA was on the top of my list, but Free Traffic System seems to have more benefits overall.

The only issue is the size of the network. I dunno which one is larger.

Just so you guys know, I've now signed up with the following services and rank them in value in the following order:

1) The Link Juicer - great concept that automatically creates your own "multi-layered" blog farm for your money site. If you have a REAL blog farm then you can create campaigns for each post on each of the blogs in your farm to "juice them up" and channel more link juice to your money site. KILLER KILLER KILLER tool.

2) Free Traffic System (pro version)- works similar in fashion as Article Marketing Automation in that it distributes your blog posts across a syndicated network. It has some extra features though that actually means you get more backlinks to your site than with AMA. Also, while it seems AMA may have a bigger network, you don't have access to all the sites anyway as your stuff only goes on sites in your selected category...so it's not really an advantage after all.

3) Article Marketer - good site for traditional articles with an authors resource box at the bottom. They are kinda picky on their approals though which means it can take days to get your stuff distributed out there...but it has probably the largest distribution network of any of these sites.

I've not used Linkvana or ILB yet...so I can't comment on them.

Once distributed and published, your articles are unaffected when you stop using the services.

This is definite; the reason being that your articles get published on 3rd party websites which the article distribution services don't have control over.

Of these, we have positive experience with Linkvana and talk about this is a couple other Linkvana threads and our own Linkvana WSO service special to get you cheap rates without having your own membership. Linkvana does well for our clients, too. Excellent customer service there, too.

A couple of the Linkvana threads for more info are:

http://www.warriorforum.com/internet...ng-i-know.html

and

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...n-special.html

Finally, I've found a post who has the same problem I faced with AMA. You are absolutely right, their support team really terrible.

AMA also steal my affiliate commission. When I refer this problem to the support team, their answer is "This issue has been resolved". Yikes! What's that suppose to mean? Up until now, AMA still haven't paid my commission.

I've become AMA member for two months and I have submitted several articles to their system who so called to have 15,000 blog networks or so. Guess what, after two months, the highest backlink numbers I got was 20 only. Two months and only 20 backlinks??? You've got to be kidding here. Slow is good especially when you want to build a natural backlinks but 20 backlinks, common, give me a break here. That's $94 of my money just got wasted. I can do much faster backlinking if I do it myself.

After getting a terrible experience with AMA, all I can say is that this program who claim to have 15,000 blog networks is nothing but lie.

AMA and MAN are very slow. I got maybe 20 links a month when I tried MAN. Linkvana is pretty good, I got decent results from using them. I am currently using Unique Article Wizard, which seems to be the best I have tried so far.

If you've read my post earlier, you will found out that AMA is a bad idea.

You don't have to get a minimum number of people under you to get paid. The question is whether they will pay you or not.

Anyhow, if you really want to try out, go for My Article Network. Actually I've heard some bad reviews for both AMA and MAN.

I use AMA and I like it.
I like the rewriting facilities which are not just a simple spinner (although that is there too). I like the workflow and support has not been an issue, for two reasons:
1) You don't need to be a rocket sceintist to do this stuff
2) Support is actually pretty responsive BUT a while back it was not working acceptably well

As to the speed of the link building.
I do not use AMA to build huge backlinks fast. My highest number of submissions is over 300 and I have quite a few with over 200. The good thing is that the links tend to stick quite well. I was, coincidentally, this morning, checking up on some older posts I had made and found that the links were, in large part, still present and correct and ready for repromotion.

I'd suggest that if you need loads of backlinks fast then a blog network is NOT the way to go. A blog network is great as PART of one's marketing mix but over the past year or two I have seen that those who rely upon blog networks for loadsa links fast are the ones who tend to fall by the wayside. Use EVO 2 or Linking Loophole for that stuff and then mix in article submissions and blog network use.

Kinda like this:
Indexing and rapid movement from volatile links (LL/EVO 2/Scrapebox)
Medium term growth and authority building (article directory submissions)
Long term, stable links from sites that tend to increase in authority and rank over time (blog networks with member supplied blogs)

If you only do any one of these things your goals are unlikely to be met. Do all three and you will do fine.

AMA is cool because the way the rewriting process works makes it a doddle for me to generate 'unique' content for the other promotion tools and methods I use so my workflow reflects it and makes it more likely that I will use AMA ongoing.

NB. I have only used blog networks where the blogs are member supplied and run such as AMA, Syndicate Kahuna and PortalFeeder. I have a decently founded prejudice against some other methodologies.

Not for long tail keyword!

Long tail keywords seems to be working well with all kinds of old style SEO, but if you want to build authority sites, then you are right.