Anyone used Synnd?

$67 per month with a $1 trial offer

OK, I never make a post, (and I know I should more) but lets put aside one persons attempt to get people to click-on an affiliate link and take into account what really needs to be addressed and that would be...

Is this a good Produce or not! So to have some integrity here. I am going to disclose that I do use Synnd for my bookmarking and content syndication. I also use traffic-bug. Yes: yrre7 - It is much better the traffic-bug on some levels, but there are a few options with traffic-bug that are not offered yet with Synnd that I find very useful for building backlinks and generating traffic. A couple of examples are; Being able to submit your URL to multiple Directories and RSS Submissions are just a few. With that said, Here is my Review of Synnd and by the way, I am removing my sig. and no affiliate or promo links. Just a straight up review of the produce.

1. Synnd will not submit you content to social news sites if they appear to be sales-y or spammy; The guideline they use are only to submit content that is one of these 3:
A. Educational
B. Enlightening
C. Entertaining
The 3 E's

2. Unlike submitting your own content or trying to open up dozens of different bookmarking accounts. Synnd submissions are first reviewed by really people. (quality control) Then your bookmarking are actually submitted by other people.
Which give the content more authority and relevance in respect to the search engines spider-bots and of course people reading your content.

3. You can set up campaigns on (keyword rich) content you just posted. To have that Bookmarked - Digg - and also have other Synnd users leave comments on your Post, which is great for adding relivance to your post.

Now This is only the Tip of the iceberg of what Social Media Science and Synnd has to offer. I don't have Time to go into their free video resources and Step by Step instructions they give you on, not only setting up a Wordpress Blog, but which Plugin's to use to best optimize it (SEO mumbo jumbo...)
So I hope this helped someone understand Synnd a little better.
Don't just take my word for it. You can visit their site and download their free PDF Report and make your own decision if This Platform is good for you or not.

thanks for your time
Mike

You might not be able to do that due to Synnd not allowing Adsense within the actual text in the article (unless you do regular bookmarking campaign).

I'll agree with the last post. If a campaign is rejected you often get the same response 'refer to the manual'.

The concept is great and I will try it a few more months because I am seeing some improvements in organic traffic but unless their is much improvement in the browser interface and the reasons for rejection I can not justify the price going forward.

I think you're right. The concept behind Synnd is spot on. Their execution on the concept seems to be another matter?

Both videos I watched were top shelf, but if your assessment is accurate, then yeah, maybe hit the pause button for a few months.

I already got my web content ranked on Page 1 of Google for some high volume search terms

-- I wanted to add Synnd to my Mobile Local Fusion service offer and my G1 SEO Training

Red Flag - Only 4x entries in their Forum and the latest one was Jan 2010, kinda dated.

Blue Flag - (socialmediasciences.com) has an Alexa Rank of 33 and with some interesting money keywords w/ 3 min. site visit (mine is 9 minutes)

I found an email I got from Charles H. of SEO 20/20 dated Mar 09 so I know he's been working on Synnd for awhile now, who did his videos?

The 10 min. walk-thru demo I was was pretty strong

I just saw the new promo video via Deborah T site and filled out he opt-in again to see how their sales funnel works and what arrives in-box.

If their drip marketing mix is in place, then that's telling as well.

Attn: Charles (Synnd) if you've set up a Google Alert on your social profile as we are want to do, I hope you see this WF thread finds its way to your gmail priority box so you can weigh in on this timely discussion.

Hi Rain,

The process is entirely automated unless you want to earn extra credits by manually completing tasks yourself. SYNND will automatically complete a set amount of tasks for you daily without any intervention required by yourself. Certainly, you have to create your own campaigns if you want them submitted to the network, so that's a manual process. If that's what you mean by a lack of automation then I think it's unreasonable, for obvious reasons.

I'm afraid that's simply not true. You can use word or phrase spinning without any problems, provided you don't make any syntax errors (as you have in your example) and provided you supply enough permutations to cover the amount of submissions you want to be created, or the number of "buzzes" in SYNND terminology. The rule is you need at least one unique permutation per submission. So if you want 100 submissions you need to ensure at least 100 permutations of your title, description and tags can be generated. Otherwise your campaign is rejected. This is to ensure that no duplicate content will ever be submitted to the network and that's a good thing.

I guess we all have different experiences with support, but to say it is "non-existent" is simply untrue. So far I have received excellent support, so it certainly exists! I haven't had to ask much though, as the manuals and support site made things very clear as far as I'm concerned.

Why do you say, "so-called"? If the process has rejected your campaigns then it will be for a reason. Logically, therefore, the control process is real and fulfils the stated task. Campaigns will be rejected if they do not comply with the network rules. If they do comply they will be accepted. These rules are set out clearly in the documentation. I have now created eight campaigns and all of them have been accepted, six on the first attempt and two on the second attempt because I forgot to spin my keyword tags. On both rejections there was a note in the remarks section explaining the rejection.

However, I have seen other members complain of not being adequately informed as to why their campaigns were rejected. This is a topic in the main SYNND forum if I recall correctly. So, even though my own experience is the reverse, you do raise a noteworthy issue here. Today members received an email confirming commentary in the forum is taken into account in terms of making improvements and enhancements to the service. Time will be the judge of that. In the meantime I suggest you carefully review the manual and best practise documentation again.

As for the approval process taking 4 days, once again that has not been my experience. 2 to 4 hours for an initial submission and 30 minutes for a resubmission is about the average I have witnessed with nothing ever slipping into a period of days. If you have only been a member for 48 hours it's a bit unfair to be commenting on 4 day resubmission periods.

The concept is, indeed, very good. The team makes no secret about SYNND being in constant development. But what they already have works just fine based on my actual experience. The development they speak of relates to enhancements that will only make the application more powerful. As for perfection, like anything else you could mention, I doubt that will ever be achieved. The question here is not whether SYNND is perfect but whether it's a worthwhile investment. After only a month I can't answer that and after 48 hours I don't think you can either.

Again, very unfair and misleading. On what basis do you claim a refund is unlikely? Have you asked for one? Has it been refused? So you've had a poor support experience? Equating that to a lack of integrity on the part of the vendor is unjustified unless you have some evidence to the contrary.

Actually you don't have to leave the PC on 24/7, but it does need to be on for a significantly long period to run the daily tasks. It is advised to leave the PC on all day to ensure the tasks are run successfully. But you could figure the schedule and switch on your machine accordingly. Anyway, PCs are designed to be on all the time. With laptops it's different, I accept. If you really want to switch off your PC there's a remote hosting service that will run the service for you.

I have to say, despite your hope, I doubt if your review helps anyone at all considering it is very misleading on almost all the points you make. If you are going to review a product it would help if you actually knew how to use it. Clearly your main problems revolve around your own inability to use SYNND correctly and your resulting frustration rather than any fault in the application itself.

Wouldn't it be a lot better to get some solid experience with SYNND and then come back and comment? The best you can really do after 48 hours is give a first impression. Okay, so you have issues with SYNND. But the whole tone of your review makes it seem like a badly constructed, poorly supported product which is unfair and in direct contradiction to the experiences of others.

And yes, I'm a new member here with only a few posts - far less that your own 20 odd - but I'm not part of the SYNND team, I'm not an affiliate, you don't see any links in my posting, so hopefully you won't slap me around in the righteous manner you dealt with another member here.

SYNND is a moderately complex product for moderately competent users. It doesn't pretend to be anything else and it advises time and again to read the manual and apply the best practices. Do that and I think you'll be just fine.

Sorry for the epic posting but it needed to be said.

As one of the developers and owners of Synnd and Social Media Science, LLC I can state with 100% fact that none of the comments above in favor of Synnd were from employees or developers.

We have no need to twist the truth and could really care less if you join or not. Synnd has sufficient power with its current 800+ members to achieve what is stated on the sales letter. For us, Synnd is a tool to manage our SEO clients results. Synnd itself is not our primary source of income.

I admit our support was lacking for quite some time due to an explosion of growth. I had promised all our members that we would hire more support staff and this is exactly what has happened... We now have 24/7 support. We're humans driving a powerful machine and it got away from us a bit... I/we did all we could do suring that turmoil.

On a side note...

Social Buzz is a completely independent ranking factor, not to be confused with "link building". Synnd is a Social Buzz building tool... not a link building tool... This is a common misconception. Social buzz effects rankings regadless of nofollow/dofollow attributes and is a completely separate ranking factor.

If your site is not designed correctly or your content is designed to PUSH sales rather than PULL prospects then Synnd will not work for you (in making sales anyways). If your site is poorly designed for the search engines you WILL NOT see results (from an SEO perspective). Synnd is not some magic bullet that can fix a broken marketing strategy or a poorly structures web site.

Thank you for raising the debate and thank you for taking the time to read my response.

- Charles

Hey meerawatts, sorry to hear that. I personally have been with Synnd Network since Aug. 09 and have seen some up's and down's with them building there software and biz out. This is probably far to say with any new biz. But one things is for sure - Charlies Heffin and his Team are first class people. They have one of the most powerful social media tools that i know of. What make's this system different then say Only Wire or traffic bug is that other people (real people) are bookmarking your content. Any one that is using Social Media correctly, knows how power other people digg'in (Voting) or bookmarking your content has, not only social Buzz but showing up in the SERP's. They are in a growing period. They are also in the works of added new web 2.0 properties every week. along with what they already have up and running. like Digg - Reddit - jumptags etc. They are also going to be adding ezine and video submissions and commenting features. I can say that your correct in saying that $67 a mo is a lot money If your not getting support or replies. from the staff.

I hope you find value out there.

Looks like Synnd has increased the price from $67 to $97/month. So, does it mean that you if you need extra credits, you will have to pay on top of the $97 per month? No doubt it's an impressive framework!

Synnd is possibly one of the best SEO software modules out there. While one does deal with the minor annoyance of the bugs getting worked out due to new system upgrades, the thing gets SEO results like I've never seen before.

If you add this to any of your backlinking efforts, your campaign will be on steroids IMHO. I have gotten first page results in veeery competitive niches for example:

Search economic collapse (which gets 27,100 searches a month according to Google at the time of writing this) and there you will find my website on page 1 called Economic Collapse Survival dot com
(not promoting my site - just proof of Syynd - check out how many tweets I've gotten! All synnd and I guess Google noticed!)

Synnd was the ONLY SEO tool I used for this

I also rank for many other related terms

That is my review of Synnd itself. As far as Tom and Charles go (the creators of Synnd), nicest guys ever. I've even talked to them personally on the phone - when do you ever hear of that?? I've never talked to any other internet guru EVER so this tells me something about these guys - they are honest, earnest, sincere, giving, and available to help.

I have been with Synnd about 5 months. We just went through a major upgrade - with some major issues.

In fact Charles and the gang gave out extra 'credits' for our 'patience' waiting for them to get the bugs out. I am still waiting for those credits BTW.

Support still is an issue. IMO, as Charles said, they really do not care if you join or not.

I can't tell you if it works yet. From what I see most people are looking for ways to scam the system (aren't we ALL trying to do this?) so the quality of links does not last, the bookmarks are on accounts no one sees, and the twitter accounts are junk. (So are mine. Why would I want all these mostly DA posts on a nice Twitter account???)

So admittedly I am part of the problem.

And I do not know the answer.

Affiliate marketing via PPV maybe?

LOL. Sheesh.

Do you mind explaining what you mean ? Are you saying that they are traceable due to the niches their users are using?

From your notes above it sounds like the user would need to take a little extra care when working with niches such as toenail fungus because if they start to generate a social buzz around it that exceeds the kind of buzz associated with such niches then google will know they have been gaming the system -

But surely the social signals etc that you have created for your niche could be from users on fivver or even ebay - How will they know its from Synnd ?

So what has this got to do with Synnd ? Surely this would apply to all methods of getting social signals - including fiverr giggs and the various services available on the net and not just Synnd -

Again - dont create too many social signals, your in charge right..

this is why we dont get trigger happy with software - Just dont do what you noted above - simple

Software can be your best friend - but you need to know how to use it

In short to me it sounds like you got hold of Synnd and maxed it out on your site and didnt see great results as it wasnt properly planned -

I'm not affiliated with Synnd but I know how effective social signals and social links are, especially when obtained from multiple unique accounts that are active and have history -

Maybe try to contact the guys at Synnd for some training or show them what you have done while with them - I am certain they will be able to give you 101 pointers, but I guess you have already noted many of the dont do's in your post

thanks