Couldn't get Article Samurai this morning,did i miss a cool product??

If you already have Market Samurai it basically becomes an article submission service for $97 a month. There are cheaper options available. They were unclear as to where the articles were being submitted. Maybe they have their own network use link SEOLinkVine?

Maybe someone purchased this morning could chime in.

I managed to grab a copy of Article Samurai as part of the first 500 user release. Here are my initial thoughts:

I have used it to create 3 new articles so far. I found the interface really clean and easy to use. However, as expected, I found the automated spins provided via the partner facility with Content Boss read poorly and the extent of the rewriting necessary made the process cumbersome. Added to that, the spun phrases rewriting mechanism is quite slow and awkward. Especially compared to manually spinning with The Best Spinner which is my usual tool for this task.

No problem, though, AS allows you to import a spun text file - so I simply drop in my prepared article. No time lost there.

The submission process is a breeze - complete a couple of options and click a button. That's it. Really quick and easy.

So overall, in terms of time to creat / spin / submit, it's a winner.

BUT: the acid test will be the acceptance for syndication and extent of distribution. It's too soon to comment on that yet. I'll report back as soon as I have progress to assess.

As to whether it is good value for money - IF the distribution meets the claims they have made, I feel it will be a good buy for me. I use many tools for SEO on a commercial basis and their cost is all part of running a profitable business. My own personal IM activities benefit from having these tools as a spin-off. If all I did was my own IM I might have to think harder about whether it would provide value for money, but as I said, if it does meet its claims then I would expect that the return on investment should make it worthwhile.

I was willing to give this a try too, but got locked out of the offer mid way through my purchase. I watched all of the sales videos, and the main reason I was willing to give this a try is, access to the $40,000 per month in paid networks they are offering/claiming. I guess time will tell if it's worth it....
Tony

I'm also in the $99/month crew for AS since I was in the beta, currently testing it vs other services like AMR and UAW

I had started this case study while it was in beta but it did not last very long so it's too early to see results and I ended up buying it: http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...urai-beta.html

Anyway, I"ll know for sure in a few weeks. At the $100/month price point it better work very well .

For those interested in the UI, It works very well for importing spin syntax with only level 1 of spinning (meaning only word, when I import my articles with sentence + word spins it usually messes up). That's a bit of a shame since I like to always have 2 levels of spinning for the title and ressource box...

Anyway, as far as the 50 tokens of content boss that come with it, I feel the content boss spins are REALLY weak for anyone who already has the best spinner (I definitely do!). It's not much smarter then doing a "best synonym replacement" on TBS.

I used it for a few articles I did yesterday, we'll see if they get accepted by the AR review people. If they do not I'll just scrap using it in the future, might as well just use TBS or have someone else spin articles for me which is what I usually do...

I would have thought that 'The Best Spinner' (or alternative) plus 'Article Marketing Robot' would be a much better investment - especially as they aren't giving any details to the quality of the article directories that are in 'their' network.

Actually, I am a little shocked this was a monthly product from them, as it didn't need to be. They could have just solid it as a competitor to AMR without a monthly fee.

The bigger issue I have with Article Samurai is that from what I've heard on the rumour mill, their "partners" they've alluded to in the videos are actually Unique Article Wizard and Article Marketing Automation.

I already have a UAW subscription and I cancelled my AMA subscription because it was getting me poor results.

So effectively Article Samurai would cover the Keyword Research and Competitor Analysis I already get in another one of their products, a spinning tool that by all accounts is poor so I'd need to use another one TBS that I've already paid for and article distribution services I already have or discounted.

Not really good value for me.

I thought the same. I already have Spinchimp and AMR so what would be the point really? And I've said as much to the NS team. Put SeNukeX into the mix for everything else and use them all INTELLIGENTLY and you've got no need to outsource unless you want to have someone else write your content. I did suggest that the price was far too high for what it was. But I also suggested for them to create their own "senuke x" so to speak. Can you imagine that?

Review Update:

Ok I promised I'd update. I started getting pingbacks yesterday on posted articles. So within 48 hours of posting my first item it was 'out there'.

24 hours later I have had at least 50 pingbacks and more are coming all the time. I also checked for a few unique phrases on Google; I have found that many are already indexed!

Very impressed so far.

Now if only they could incorporate The Best Spinner...

I outsource all of my article syndication but thought Article Samurai would be a great buy as it claims to include several networks. My biggest question and the reason I didn't click the buy button in time was WHICH NETWORKS?

If they told me it was UAW, AMA, and SEOlinkvine Id join right now as I use all 3 of those networks. Guess there probably not even allowed to disclose it as it would damage the value of the other networks.

Well, I do know for a fact that if you watched their sales video closely, you could EASILY call shenanigans on their case studies.

I know someone who outranked them in five days for their main keyword in one niche they said took three months to rank for.

And if you go visit the sites they apparently were building, go to SEMRUSH and check them out or look on Open Site Explorer to see where their links are.

The sales videos were shenanigans of the one-click software/photoshopped Clickbank numbers variety.

I am one of the 500 subscribers to Article Samurai and I am currently ranked number 3 in google for a broad match search for my main domain keyword and number 1 for the phrase match of the same keyword and the top 2 positions for the broad match are taken up by the (rather large) manufacturer of the product I am actually promoting. This is after submitting 2 articles via AM and I am getting ping backs every day. So I am impressed so far.

I have a new niche site I have just launched with only one article published and that is already indexing on the second page of Google for the broad match search.

I am a newbie at internet marketing and one of the problems I found was incorporating the different software you can use and then tracking the results, as AM does this all in one package it was the perfect solution for me and it has definitely been a game changer.

I suspect if you are a seasoned pro AM is not going to impress you that much as you can probably achieve the same results with your current set up however for a newbie like me it is perfect and I can now forge ahead with having to worry about my set up.

Also I have had mixed results with the Content Boss spinner however it makes no difference as I usually go through my article after spinning anyway to add extra content or edit items. The AM interface is easy when it comes to editing, it isn't as free flowing as I would like but I keep telling myself it is not a finished product and it is improving all the time. I think because Noble Samurai have invested in the product and done a lot of research before its launch gives me confidence that it is something I will use long term as they keep developing it.

Anyhoo that was my two cents worth.

I also use fiverr most of the time, but... The biggest problem is a lack of reporting on where your articles are being published. Best practices is to backlink those articles a bit to increase the overall juice flow. It looks like they do a very good job tracking all of this.

I was able to get in as one of the first 500 and I absolutely LOVE Article Samurai.

It has delivered what I expected and I've sydicated well over 40 articles and have seen some great results accross several websites.

Each article I would say average about 150 trackbacks and each article has 3 links so about 450 links per article.

Now it is by no means the ONLY backlink technique I use but I think when it comes to article syndication for backlinks I couldnt be happier.


I now set up a complete weeks article syndication campaign in a day and it runs virtually hands free. I love being able to set the day syndication begins.

For some of the questions above. I did approve trackback at first but no longer do it. I also bought a plugin this past week that takes the trackbacks and pings them to over 75 different places to get them indexed as quickly as possible. It's a WSO posted by Oscar something..just search for Pingback indexer.

But again I LOVE the software and I plan to pick up Senuke X here very soon and completely automate all my backlinking and I think thats when things will get extremely fun and exciting.

Hello everyone,

Im thinking of getting Article Samurai which will be re open this Friday. 9/12/2011.

As a SEO beginner, do you think this tool can help me?

Please warriors help me, I need an honest review because I'm tight on budget.

You can do much better and more with Magic Submitter for $53/mo as opposed to $97 for a tool that does one thing only. I've use a lot of software and own Market Samurai since 2008. But when I tried this, my honest opinion is that you can get more for your money elsewhere.

Thank you cypherslock,

How's the product compare to SEnukeX? Does anyone know?

MS is leaps above SEN due to the fact that it is more inuitive and it doesn't lock you into a specific way of working. You can add your own sites and services too. And the developer is always around to help and implements feedback within a week or two.

For those of you wondering about the new Article Samurai Re-Launch happening we all would think the makers of Market Samurai would come out with a quality product... Just based on the sheer merit of their other products.

As far as Article Samurai goes.... Just to combine two mediocre blog networks together and then add a "poor" quality auto-spinner into the mix is a recipe for no results. I personally use UAW still but AMA by itself wasnt cutting it.

The facts are this... they use Unique Article Wizard and Article Marketing Automation together... they both cost $67 a month. Plus that "Content Boss" that honestly I opted for Spinnerchief and the Best Spinner very soon after seeing that the "auto-spins" still required a pain of fixing a lot of jumbled words.

I don't ever auto spin anyway because I like my content to stick around and get approved so that the links count a year from now. I like to do something once and get paid for it... not over and over again just to get the same result (Thats known as insanity)

The reality is that there are far more powerful blog networks out there than these two overused networks. Don't get me wrong... I use them but they are supplemental to my main methods (SenukeX,Magic Submitter,other exclusive blog networks,my own proprietary blog network) AMA, UAW and AMR (which has really gone downhill - 3000 sites-- 100-300 live links per campaign - 3-10% success rates overall for AMR) I use these other tools as 2nd and 3rd tier backlinks and drip campaigns to maintain rankings for higher competition niches.

So here is what it comes down to... $67+$67=$134 Monthly cost for both (Throw out that useless Content Boss at 30 bucks) and you save $37 a month with their monthly price of $97.... If the savings per month is worth it to you then sure.. look at it from a savings standpoint.

Honestly I get 300-500 backlinks just per UAW submission... and although AS boasts 50K sites in their network... well... that must be a lot of very targeted long tail specific niche sites that I'm not getting when I send my articles... What I am hearing from early adopters for AS is 300-500 livelinks.... same as UAW alone. (WTF?)

Don't get me wrong I absolutely love MARKET Samurai... nothing compares. So naturally when the folks at Noble Samurai came out with a submission tool I assumed it would be second to none.

Well, IMO they dropped the ball on this one. The influence and the loyal list that Noble Samurai has could have been used to create a very powerful proprietary network by simply building an interface and having all members install a plugin to their blog and effectively build the most powerful blog network known to man since just about every IM'er is on their list.

Unbelievably simple... and yet unless I am missing something all they did was slap together two medium level blog networks and throw in a "wrangler" and call it a day....

Very disheartening.....

Please tell me there is more than just those two networks and a spinner... plus a cool feature that handles the different spin formats... (honestly to be expected with Noble... they were due to get something right)

In this case I hope I am wrong...... But at this point it seems like a noob tool to sell to someone who doesnt know any better that will help someone rank for low comp longtails and you probably would still need an exact match domain. (I know thats kind of harsh... but hey when in Rome)

Thoughts anyone? Open to the truth if someone has more info than me.

I was hesitating to get it, but after seeing the screenshot on the sales page, with the guy stating that he has #2 spot for "insurance" in google, decided not to. Lost all credibility.

FYI - My take on the spinner is much different than others. I've found that the AS spinner is light years ahead of TBS. it doesn't spin as much of the content automatically, but what it does is create a MUCH more readable article automatically. (I still manually go through most of the spins and have to change a few things.) Perhaps there are more synonyms in TBS, but the automation is nowhere near that on Content Boss IMO. (And yes, I own both tools.)

Overall, I find the tool very useful (especially since I'm on a mac.) Just my 2 cents.

-Rossome

I really like the software and I'm getting tons of pingbacks to my blog. As far as the spinner is concerned, I've got TBS and I spin each sentence manually 3 times so that no matter how it reads it will always be smooth and flowing. Now the drawback here is that it takes me a while to spin one article and so I can't pump them out like most people do, but when you write for syndication that's not a problem. Right now I'm ranking in the top 100 for some of my keywords and I can't wait to see what happens as time goes on.

kbs

any update guys? I can get Article Samurai but I want to know what are the actual users saying about it and get a new update..

Thanks