Danny Cutts

Hello Warriors,

Reviewazon has been out a long time now and I am wondering how many of you have used it and what your results are?

I am very familiar with affiliate shops and what not, I am just keen to know what you think of reviewazon.

Cheers

Danny

aquablue

That's funny, I got to this post via a google search, hoping for some opinions.

Anybody?

Janet Walker

Hands down the best plug in for Amazon available here at the WF.

Danny Cutts

I finally bought it yesterday.... I will see how much I make using it :-)

badcow

EDIT: Please my post #8 here ==> Reviewazon - Your Thoughts

If I had answered you before Halloween I would have told you how great I think Reviewazon is. BUT the day before Halloween I noticed that several of my microniche sites were plummeting in their SERP scores as well as free traffic.

Coincidence? Maybe, so I keep on working and building pages/posts and even more microniche sites. All of them use Reviewazon (which I bought in August).

Then another site begins the same nose dive in rankings. Then another. Today my newest 'baby' did the same thing. The one thing they all have in common is the Reviewazon plugin!

This really ticks me off. I enjoyed the ease of use from this plugin. BUT it doesn't matter how easy it is to use, if you get ZERO traffic!

So... buyer be warned. Go search it out and see if others are having this same issue. I wish it were not so, because I really do love working with this plugin.

CAVEAT: I guess Google has discovered a footprint in Reviewazon. If that is the case then a different application may work just fine. HOWEVER, if the footprint exists in one application, then it probably exists in the other apps that are similar to it.

BUT don't take my word for it. Go and search it out and see if others are experiencing the same thing. I know what I've seen with my own sites and my own experiences. BUT I am just one person out of thousands on this forum.

nichewebstrategies

Hey BadCow,

Did any of the microsites that dropped in rankings have unique content or were they just out of the box sites?

Also, what other plug-ins were installed on your sites?

Were the sites de-indexed or just pushed down into the search listings?

To say that ReviewAZON is the reason your sites lost ranking is a bit premature I'd say. I've had numerous ReviewAZON sites achieve great ranking and they still do now.

Also, if you want to shoot me a URL i'd be happy to have a look at your site to help figure out what the issue might be.

Best,

Brad

badcow

EDIT: Please my post #8 here ==> Reviewazon - Your Thoughts

I will shoot an email. Yes they have unique content as well as out of the box content. I don't have scientific evidence that this is the cause, but it is certainly the common thread between all my sites. Each are in very different microniches. Each have unique content and out of the box Reviewazon content.

I will email you.

badcow

I wanted to reply to let others know... on Brad's Reviewazon support forum, others have mentioned that they've seen similar things... BUT they believe Google Analytics is the culprit - not Reviewazon!

Now... I don't have any scientific proof that it is Reviewazon or Analytics. However, I hope its Analytics and not Reviewazon. I really do like the Reviewazon plugin. Nothing could be simpler to work with than Reviewazon.

Let me repeat: Reviewazon is a great app to work with!

When I saw SERPs dropping like flies, the most recent change I could think of was that I added Reviewazon to most of my sites recently in the last few months. So, naturally I suspect it of being the problem.

A few folks on Brad's Reviewazon forum have suggested I look at Google Analytics as the culprit. I know from other forums that some folks have suggested that Analytics gives the big G too much access to your sites and is asking for trouble.

Well... if it's Analytics causing me this stress, then... I want everyone here on WF (who reads this thread) to know... I can't say for certain that it is Reviewazon or Analytics or anything else for that matter.

All I know is my SERPs have dropped dramatically on several sites. So, please do your research and see if Reviewazon is right for you. It is a very helpful tool.

I DO like Reviewazon as a great tool to help you quickly build up product review pages, or to add an Amazon product 'ad' on your website in just a few mouse clicks.

indie08

Hello,

Here is my opinion on this topic. If I were you I would just start to create quality content and then build a nice variety of backlinks to your individual post. This is the way to go...I used to use plugins like this but it is just not worth it. Now I'm building quality sites. This is what Google wants, period. If a human comes along to look at your site, it's toast. That is if your using a plugin like this all by itself...hope this helps.

bfas

Badcow,

I don't know anything about your sites or Reviewazon other than what I've read, but I can tell you having Google Analytics on your sites isn't the cause of any shift in your rankings.

bfas

Danny Cutts

Well I am doing a pretty intense test to see what can be done with reviewazon. And I have to say so far I like what I see

Danny

lefty359

Well, the Mage Guru, Greg Jacobs has warned in his webinars to not use Google Analytics.

Danny Cutts

I cant see how it would effect it.... but we shall see :-)

getsmartt

Quite simple actually, using Google Analytics will allow Google to associate all of your sites to one owner, makes it real easy for them to "slap" all of your sites.

Danny Cutts

Oh so by putting all your sites in one basket... well I think theres probably an easy solution to that then :-)

getsmartt

True enough you could use multiple Analytics accounts, but I still feel that you are giving up way too much information to Google.

Maybe I have gotten "paranoid" in my old age, I used to use Google Analytics exclusively, but have seen way too many weird thing happen.

I now like self hosted analytics stat packages such as.
http://piwik.org/ and FireStats

neddag

A lot of people saw a massive drop in their rankings on that day. I know I did. I lost over 50 sites that were sitting on page 1 of Google. They didn't get deindexed, just took a hit down to pages 3, 4, or 5. I also had well over 50 others that were completely unaffected and remain on page 1.

Here's the thing. The only thing I can chalk it up to is an algo change. There was no one thing connecting them. Some were Wordpress, some were static sites. Some used Reviewazon, some did not. Some had AdSense, some did not. Some were microniche sites, some were authority sites with hundreds of pages. None of them had Google Analytics. All had 100% unique content of at least 400 words on every page. Some were EMD's, some were not.

The same goes for all my sites that are still on page 1 and survived the change. I have no idea why this happened, but to blame it on Reviewazon just doesn't mesh with my experience.

Ned

Spot the Ball

Id be very carefull building any sites now with any software that relys on Amazons api to load its content, Seems like they are leaning more towards less suport for it and I,d hate to one day find all your sites taking sales hits due to changes.

homejobcreator

Thanks for the links - are they both user friendly?

Danny Cutts

Well dont put all your eggs un one basket... Multiple streams of income is teh way forward... if 10 of my sites crash I can still pay the bills because I have such a diverse empire...lol

Danny

Danny Cutts

I thought I better update....

I have been using reviewazon for a while now and I am using it very differently than most people but all I can say is oh boy!!!

making money hand over fist with it at the moment and i mean hand over fist!! New domain names literally only live a few weeks and they are ranking and producing good steady traffic and I am literally spending 3 hours on each site :-)

This is a doddle thanks Brad :-)

I might start doing some SEO next week on a few and see what we can achieve :-)

Danny

warriortrades

Hey Danny,
I'm building up my site with ReviewAZON as well. I'd be interested to hear more about your experience. I'm not just throwing up reviews which is what most people are doing. Later.

On a side note. Does anyone know why the forum removes signatures. They took mine down and I'm not sure why. I asked them but they never responded.

.X.

Too many reviewers provide reviews with
bias that slants towards promoting whatever
is in their signature. It's a good move to
remove signatures from this forum.

.X.

My two cents on *all* automation tools -

They should be used to enhance content,
but they should not be the sole content.

I don't *know* but it sounds absurd to
think Google is going to penalize anyone
for using their product. That sounds to
me more like "Hey, here's a way to avoid
the truth."

I work with lots of online entrepreneurs,
particularly people who've gotten into
hot water with Google, and 99% of the
time they're doing something that stands
out like a sore thumb wrong.

Reviewazon is a cool tool but I wouldn't
use it to simply scrape Amazon content
and consider the job done - you MUST
provide unique, relevant content on ALL
your pages IN ADDITION.

Otherwise you're just doing Traffic Equalizer 2.0