Review: Article Marketing Automation
Article marketing is an easy way to get links and traffic, but it’s also very time-consuming. If you’re serious about article marketing you’ll try to automate parts of the process, especially article distribution.
A few weeks ago I mentioned that PLRPro was expanding its services to include some new features. One of these new features is the Article Marketing Automation service. It’s free to PLRPro members but is also available independently for $47/month, which is substantially less than the $197/month PLRPro is going to be charging soon for its members.
Article Marketing Automation
AMA is actually two things:
- a network of independent sites and blogs that have agreed to distribute AMA articles; and
- a human-controlled content rewriter
Let’s look at the network first.
The Article Site Network
A key characteristic of an article distribution system is how many sites are in its distribution network. The more sites you can get you content to, the more links you’ll get to your own sites. Unlike other systems, though, AMA isn’t limited to established article directories. Rather, it targets blogs and CMS (content management systems) based sites — any site that has a remote publishing API (application programming interface — a way for computer programs to talk to it) can be added to the network. This includes WordPress blogs (both self-hosted and on WordPress.com), Blogger blogs, Drupal sites, Joomla sites, etc.
Note that you don’t have to subscribe to the service to have your site included in the distribution network. Just sign up for a free AMA account and add your sites to the network.
Sites get added into specific categories on the network, and site owners have the option of seeing and manually approving any and all articles before they get added to their sites. This is a great way to ensure that only quality content makes it onto a site. The only restriction is that site owners are not allowed to modify the links in the articles.
When you submit an article to the network, the article is not broadcast to all sites on the network. Rather, it is “drip-fed” to a few random sites at a time over several days or weeks, and only to sites that match the article’s category. So links build slowly over time, which is a great feature.
Note that unlike every other system I’ve seen, AMA doesn’t restrict you to using links in the “bio box” of an article. In fact, you don’t even need a “bio box” if you don’t want one. You can embed up to 3 links anywhere within the article content. That’s a big plus in my book! You can even vary the links using the article rewriting feature.
The Article Rewriter
The article network is the most important feature of Article Marketing Automation, but close behind is the article rewriting system. Now let me point out that this feature is completely optional: you can submit articles directly to the network with no rewriting and they’ll get distributed with no changes.
Content rewriting is all about generating “unique” (or at least “semi-unique”) content. You do this by replacing words, phrases, and paragraphs with alternate versions that have the same meaning. AMA builds a “unique” article from the alternate text you’ve submitted.
Here’s a simple example:
When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the {red~blue~green~brown~yellow} ones last?
This would generate any of these phrases:
- When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?
- When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the blue ones last?
- When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the green ones last?
- When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the brown ones last?
- When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the yellow ones last?
The replacements can include HTML and can even happen inside links. So you can vary anchor text quite easily:
The <a href=”http://www.memwg.com”>{best~most fantabulous~super} AdSense blog</a>
You can even vary the link destinations if you want. You can also nest alternatives within other alternatives.
This is not the first content rewriting system I’ve used, but it’s more powerful than the ones I’ve seen so far because of its flexibility — it’s implemented the way I would’ve done it myself.
Note that article rewriting is non-trivial if you’re doing more than simple synonym substitutions. But if you’re concerned about creating unique content, it’s worth the effort and this system is quite flexible. (There’s also a more traditional wizard-style interface that lets you do rewriting if you’re not comfortable with inserting the special syntax into the content yourself.)
Conclusion
So far I only have a few articles in the system, but the results are encouraging, I’m seeing a bit of traffic already. I can track how many copies of each article have been submitted and published and over time I expect to have lots of links going back to my sites. This system is great for getting backlinks and traffic, and it’s all very whitehat stuff. If you’re looking for an article distribution system, this is the one I now recommend.
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The Article Rewriter looks to be a great service. Slightly rewording articles is hugely beneficial. Thanks for sharing this - I’ll check it out over the next few days.
This does seem like a very useful feature. Sending out your one article that could spawn 40-50 different articles with 10 or so different anchor texts would be really huge in getting you the link juice you need without triggering a G bomb.
I may have to try this out. I spend a lot of time submitting and then resubmitting articles. I think the biggest thing will be to see how the network of sites ends up being.
Interesting method. This actually helps in understanding how to rewrite your own articles and methods to use. I think I’ll probably use some of these suggestions when submitting to directories. I haven’t tried that tactic of article submissions yet due to the time consumption factor but may in the future.
Hi Eric, takes for bringing this article distribution system to our attention. Much appreciated. However, I think it would be useful if you can add in two more points:
1. How many articles are subscribers allowed to submit per month?
2. What is the waiting time before articles start being distributed.
Thanks.
Hiya Eric, nice work mate, keep submitting and check over the next 90 days, I think you’ll like the results you see
Daniel
No limit on the number of articles, and they start distribution within a few hours of submission.
Eric
Hi Eric,
This looks interesting (and similar to Unique Article Wizard - a service we already use).
I’d like to get access to more info on how the article spinning works though, to compare it to UAW and their system.
Is there somewhere I can read the manual without having to become a member, or can/will you email it to me for review if possible please?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Eran
Yes, it is very similar in many respects to UAW, which I also use. In some ways they’re different, though, because UAW targets article directories — you still require a bio box for UAW articles. But both spin content and submit to a large network of sites. Probably makes sense to use both.
There’s an article spinning guide available once you join, but you can join as a free member (for receiving articles only, not submitting them) and read through the guide and watch the tutorial videos. Just register for free here.
Eric
The article re-writer is something new. May try it someday.
I agree with you and I recently made a research that shown that all the best ranking competitors of my site depend heavily on article marketing,
However I have a question here does it hurt SEO not to use article re writer and make duplicates from same article and same back links.
I am always writing articles and distributing them to directories. It does take time, but I would rather do it through Isnare and Ezines. Other services I hear are frauds and do not really help. I will however look into this one you had suggested. Thanks for the info.
The point of an article rewriter is to make the articles look more unique, i.e. so they don’t get flagged as duplicate content.
Of course, duplicate content isn’t necessarily a big deal, it depends what you’re looking for with the content. Duplicate content is more of an intra-site issue than an inter-site issue — mostly you don’t want duplicate content on your own site.
Eric
yes don’t use same article content and same links.
Thanks for the post. We’ve used Article Marketer in the past, but this appears more flexible. I particularly like the variable text feature as we do have to rewrite articles to avoid dupe content penalties. Keep us the good work!
I’m not a big fan of the article spinners, or rewriters. From a user sense they can seem quite a tool, but you are basically using another mans hard work in order to capitalize on your own ignorance. From a community point of view, it is just rewriting the same information, thus not contributing an iota to anything. Spend a little time writing your own stuff, make it interesting, and you will get natural back links and seo.
Brian Krassenstein
This actually helps in understanding how to rewrite your own articles and methods to use. good job
article re-writer is new techique to avoiding the duplicate content??
Article Marketing Automation looks to be a great service!
Thanks for the post..
I am usually submitting articles manually because I don’t trust automatic submitting service…but I will try this one! THANKS!
Confirmed to work, I use it myself!
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Eric
Why would i want a computer to write our articles ?
We have a very strong content team at movies.iexplorehere.com, infact i’m one of the writers here, and take a lot of pride in the articles we write.
computers are fast replacing humans, is the day far where I might not be needed anymore ? ?
Ramesh
http://www.iexplorehere.com
Hey guyz,
UAW is really a good service and I highly recommend you to join it.
UAW is a great software to boost your backlink but you will need articles to archive it.
I’ve only just started experimenting with article marketing so it is great to find out about this service, might have to give it a try along side my other efforts and see how it works in comparison.
Thanks for the review. I was considering joining AMA, but didn’t find many helpful reviews. After this one i shall i give them at least one try. I seems that a lot of backlinks can be easily gathered with this system.
Thanks for giving the information. I want to know how to be a PLRPro member?
Article marketing is a great way to promote one’s sites. But the article submitted at multiple places should read significantly different else that page of links is suppressed by Google reading duplicate content. And most article spinning s/w are hardly any good.
Are the articles submitted to article directories such as ezinearticles, goarticles, buzzle, article dashboard?
Does your article submission have to be an original, unique article or can it be a plr article?
Do you have to register for all of the sites that the article will be submitted to?
Which one is better: UAW or article marketing automation?
Thanks for the great review. I appreciate the link to the free version, that info was not readily available on the AMA site or in other reviews.
As part of my free signup they are giving me a free trial to send up to 5 articles for 2 weeks before deciding on going with the service or not.