One of the best SEO tactics of all time is article marketing. Distributing articles for links “the old way” was a 100% winner… until now.
My friends, Marc and Daniel at PLRpro are releasing a new system called “Article Marketing Automation” and, I can tell you from my tests… it rocks!
Their system lets you build…
On-topic backlinks within your articles using anchor text you choose drip-fed to your site over time… from a massive blog network.
This is the next step in article marketing. It’s huge.
Anyone who continues to do “old style” article marketing will get left behind.
If you can already see the power of this system, head over to the AMA site and sign up…
Here’s more detail for you…
1: Google knows the Article Directory sites. In November last year, their PageRank got slapped and so did all the sites who got links mainly from Article Directories… OUCH!
Solution: Use a big, distributed network of blogs for your articles. Marc and Daniel’s system has 2,000 blogs signed up, and it’s just emerging from beta. Daniel told me they’ll have 60,000 by the end of 2008.
2: Article directories don’t usually let you put links to your sites in the body of the articles, but only in the “author box”, which doesn’t look like a natural link.
Solution: Distribute your articles using a system that allows you to put links within the articles. The links look like “natural links of love” and there’s no “author box” at the bottom to let Google know these are distributed articles. This is what Marc and Daniel’s system does… the articles don’t look like “articles”, they look like natural blog posts. 
3: Article directories send your articles out in one “blast”, which isn’t a natural way to get links.
Solution: Drip-feed your articles over time. Some article directories are moving to this system, but with Marc and Daniel’s system, it’s built-in.
4: If your article is distributed to many sites, Google will most likely not bother counting most of the backlinks. When you search Google for a phrase from your article and it shows 3 results and “click here to see more very similar results”, my guess is that Google doesn’t count links from those “very similar” pages, or rates them poorly.
Solution: Carefully craft your article with sentence replacement so that each version distributed is different, but still readable and of high quality. Again, some article directories are starting to do this, but Marc and Daniel’s system has this feature built-in… if you want to use it.
Article marketing has changed, forever. It’s no longer good enough to write an article, slap an “author box” at the bottom, blast it out and get backlinks.
Just as visiting each article directory was replaced by desktop software that allowed you to visit each directory and submit your article, and that was replaced by article distribution services, this is the future.
Now you can include your backlinks within your articles, lose the “author box” and distribute slowly, over-time to multiple on-topic blogs. If you like, you can even use the sentence-replacement feature to make the articles different from each other.
Just ask yourself… whose sites will get the traffic?
Will it be the people using the old system, or the new?
If you agree with me, Marc and Daniel, you need to start using the power of Article Marketing Automation.
PS, when Allan Gardyne says, “This is awesome!” and, “Daniel calls this a “ranking machine, I call it brilliant“, you know the Earth has just moved. I’ve never seen Allan so impressed by a new system, but I do know why.
BTW, I’ve spent many hours chatting with Marc and Daniel about this system via instant messenger and Skype. These guys are smart. I suggest you sign up for this new system right now, and start building genuine, quality links into your websites.
Neil,
It’s difficult to buy into this if the their sales pitch website doesn’t provide even a sampling of the article/blog network they submit to…I looked at the website a beta tester mentioned in his testimonial (effective-acne-treatment) and they are mostly PR0 sites and those backlinks are coming from sites that look like they were slapped together without much thought. I don’t know about you but I’d much rather get back links from more qualified sources. Seeing PR0 crappy backlinks doesn’t really help much – it might even hurt. The guys at PLRPro that made this site could do better at the sales pitch to make it more convincing. The only way to see anymore is to subscribe? I know they offer money back guarantee but still, I would want additional proof…screenshots, and maybe an example site that they built up and submitted through this service that potential subscribers can do a backlink lookup. They need to show proof that it works. Or maybe they don’t show it because of the poor PR quality from the backlinks.
Just my 2 cents.
Hi Gus,
I understand your points, and I’ll see if Daniel can provide more of the ancillary information you’re requesting.
Regarding the low pagerank of sites in the network, you’re right, these aren’t going to be high pagerank sites. Of course, when you submit articles any other way you don’t get high pagerank backlinks either, but that is still the “default” way people are told to get links. So if there’s merit in article marketing, there’s greater merit in what Daniel and Marc have created.
Of course, you would want to do other marketing techniques such as submitting to directories, issuing press releases, commenting on blogs, exchanging links etc… but if you *were* doing article marketing, then you should realise that the article marketing automation system is the next step forward.
Neil.
Thanks for the information, i found it a good read.
Cheers
Oliver Mahoney
Hi guys,
Thanks for your feedback… By the way the testimonial guy also does other things on his site, AMA was used for certain keyphrases.
We will correct the sales page with a video & what you can expect plus make it a bit more clearer.
At the end of the day… You are getting first page google rankings for long tail keywords, and even main keywords (especially if you are promoting youtube videos).
This system will hands down beat any other article marketing system around… So much so that it is now even part of my entire SEO team’s daily tasking
Neil thanks for the post… Brilliant post, we will be with your permission expanding on some of the points you have mentioned to give a stronger message at our site.
One thing we try not to do is overhype things (even though this really is fantastic) and I think you really hit the nail on the head with all your points.
Thanks Much
Marc
Hi Neil,
I like this service and the test articoes I put in there have been syndicated and are triggereing my google alerts.
Since you can’t control who links to you it should not hurt getting links from PR0 sites. Some of those sites may build up over time because they are getting built up with original article content.
Also I will still take links to my site to deep pages with anchor text of my choice over having no links.
So far, an excellent system.
Regards
James
An interesting idea. $47 a month is a bit pricey. How does it get over the duplicate content problem (if at all)?
There is no duplicate content problem when articles use sentence substitution, if that’s what you’re referring to.
Neil.
do we get a money back guarantee if pagerank is negatively impacted? it is a fair request and i fear being labeled spam.
Joe, I think you may need to read more about how PageRank works… unless I’ve misunderstood your question.
External links cannot negatively affect your PageRank because, if they did, people could bring their competitor’s sites down by linking to them in such ways.
Neil.
Sounds nifty, but I have reservations…
If Google is “figuring out” article directories, etc., it seems like they’ll figure this out, too. I don’t know what kind of similar footprints the blogs have, etc., but it seems inevitable that G would crack this code.
Also, I hate the sentence substitution thing. It creates mangled trash in 9/10 circumstances. I know the purpose is backlinks and not actual readability, but I don’t like the idea of being part of the low-quality net.
Despite those objections, though, I’m really curious… I’m going to wait a little while to see how things shake out, though.
Hi Syd,
Google figured out which domains were hosting articles to build article directories… it wasn’t very hard. :p
It will be a huge magnitude of difference to find a distributed blog network on multiple different servers, with no obvious footprint. The service itself leaves no footprint, and it will be hard to identify a footprint from the articles themselves, especially re-written ones.
As for spinnig articles, I agree, when it’s done sloppily it produces rubbish, but I try to make each sentence make sense in the context of the article. There’s no reason why you can’t make a few changes and still have the original meaning of the article stay the same.
Neil.
Sounds cool, just one question, where do the blogs come from? How do they manage to make those blogs popular? thanks for the tip
That does sound like a better way of marketing articles. I signed up for a service that posts my blog articles to other blogs. It’s called ShareaPost. Works with the same concept I guess, except it allows you to basically exchange blog posts like they were articles. I knew someone had to come up with something better.
I have been using articles distribution application for quite some time, at least 1 year and they are good enough to broadcast your articles to many directories. However, you mentioned that we get to place links within content which i believed will be a better choice.
Rif Chia
Rules shouldnt change, the thought process of most blog owners need to change…This is my perception…
I use a similar network and it works well… get decent links to my sites.
The only thing to watch out for is that the blogs in the network don’t have too many posts per day, making the blogs look “unnatural” and possibly raising red flags with Google.
-Riggie
I shall be checking out this facility when I return to work next week. I am a little concerned by the cost – but overall is does sound like a better way of marketing articles, if the sentence replacement doesn’t turn them into gobbledegook.
This is certainly interesting topic. Seems to be pretty hot in the SEO world right now too so I’ll be doing some investigating on it as well.
This is great, everyone is always trying to stay ahead of each other in the SEO game, and if you’d just sit back and get your link backs naturally and over time people wouldn’t be sitting around going wtf pagerank drop wtf
I used articles submission services which promotes one unique articles to hundreds of directory. It is faster in this way, however it costs money.
Roger Hamilton