trishworks4u

I can't get online or check my email without buying something anymore... grrrr. Big Mike emailed a sweet tax day deal this morning that snagged me.

Anyway, Matt Callen's new MyArticleNetwork launched 90 minutes ago and I was on some "early bird" list so got a great squeeze email prompting me to "sign up fast". I jumped on Warrior forums, as I have now been trained, and couldn't find any reviews on it but nothing really bad to say about Matt.

http://www.myarticlenetwork.com (NOT an affiliate link btw)

Early sign up cost is $47/month and idea is that your content will go out to a network of over 10,000 blogs and get 1-way backlinks. Being a newbie who is getting tired of wasting dough on PPC and trying to focus more on SEO, I caved after about 15 minutes and signed up.

Anyone else? any thoughts - good or bad?

tonystai

I bought.

Interesting thing is that it is the exact same script/software that PLRPro Article Marketing Automation is using. Now I have to open tickets up to make sure that they aren't both selling me the same network.

Sometimes I hate software that is generic and rebranded.

Tony

Brad Callen

Hi, I can tell you that it is the same network. However, the reason Matt partnered with Marc was to bring in a much larger network of sites for members. It was already very large, but this takes the network to an entirely new level that was much more difficult, if not impossible to get to otherwise... simply because they each bring in users from different areas of internet marketing.

More sites = better search engine rankings for members.

And with Matt and the PLRPro gang partnering, this network is, by far, the largest of its kind.

I use the network to help rank many of my sites and it works VERY well. I also promoted the launch today and included my SEO Mindset eBook ($97) as a bonus because I strongly believe in the program... because I've seen results personally.

If you were already a member of the PLR pro one, you know it works, and I can tell you that you can expect even better results now because there are ALOT more sites in the network after this launch.

The only negative to this is, as Tony noted, if you're a member of both, you'll need to cancel one of them. Doesn't matter which one because they're the same.

Obviously, with any rebranding there might be some rare instances of overlap, but both offer money back guarantees. The only thing I might suggest to Matt and Marc is that they mention within their member's area that they are the same network as xyz, so users don't mistakenly pay for the same membership twice. But that's up to them.

That's about all I know. Hope that helps.

Brad

jmidas

Hi Brad, can you answer a couple of questions that I could not find in the sales letter?

1) Is there a list of niches anywhere? When we want to submit an article, do we select the niche (and what if it is not available) or does it broadcast to all the sites? I know it says 10K sites, but what if my niche is "turtle farming" (just an example)?
2) is there a limit to the number of submits I can do or a limit to the number of my sites that I can promote in any way? If I have 5-10 or even a hundred different sites/niches, am I limited? Either in # of submits or by being allowed to only have 1 or a certain limit of authors or author resource boxes?
3) how would this do (SEO wise) for promoting a local business - say a dry cleaner in Dallas or whatever?

Thanks a ton. I think this is a very promising idea.
PS - I'll be going through your link - nice bonus offer.

tonystai

Thanks Brad,

That was the info I was looking for. Same price for both so I'll have to cancel Matt's since I've been in Marc's side for a few months already.

I think that would be a good tip for them to add to the members area. It seems it might be likely that some of us looking for this type of functionality would like it as many times as possible.

Tony

trishworks4u

The site crashed this afternoon (i'm sure due to the launch) but is up now and I just went through all of the material. From what I gather, you dont' get to see a list of websites that your content goes out to and there's no list of niches. The only "proof" is in your seo results, which i'm not knocking at all....seems to be working.

I am going to start submitting some articles on there tomorrow.

Brad...if you log in again. I have a bunch of your products (am going through the SEO Elite course right now) but didn't get your email about your bonus until 3:30 today, otherwise would have bought through your link.

bluesguy

What is the difference between this and unique article wizard or iSnare? I'm subscribed to BOTH. How much MORE will this membership help me?

tonyscott

What happens to my links if I cancel membership?

cheers

Tony

trishworks4u

that was in the faq - nothing - they stay put.

Brad Callen

Hey, cool. The SEO Elite course should definitely get you started in the right direction. You can direct message me if you have any questions and i'll be happy to help.

About the server crashing, yeah, it was when I'd mailed out to tell everyone about it. It's back up now. About the 3:30 time when you received it, it was because aweber is VERY VERY slow these days. I actually queued the email at 11:50 and it took over 3 hours for it to be sent. I definitely wouldn't recommend aweber these days.

To answer the other questions you guys have, I'm afraid I don't really know alot of details. I have Jason who works with me submit our sites and then I just track the results. I do know there are a ton of different categories and I'm pretty sure you can submit as much as you want. I'd be confident in saying there will be a good amount of sites related to your niche. If not, you can always cancel and refund if you're not happy.

I know you can select the types of sites your articles will appear on. If that wasn't the case, I wouldn't use it.

If you're trying to rank locally, it's VERY easy because of such low competition. People are only starting to understand how easy it is to rank for local terms. Right now, it's very easy.

Alrighty, I think that answers everything. Any other questions, you might ask them. I'm just a user, who pays an employee to use it, so probably not the best person to ask about any other detailed specifics. I just know it works :-)

Wife's calling. Dinner time.

Brad

CBrooks

I also have both; the way I understand it, Unique article wizard submits to directories; MyAricleNetwork does not.

Matt Callen

Yep, you're correct.

MyArticleNetwork is different from most all of the other "article submitters", in that it submits your articles to real blogs submitted by real people within our large network, of which most sites are on different I.P addresses (better SEO).

So you can submit your articles to whatever niche categories you choose. There's no "about the author" section of the articles. You can just put your backlink DIRECTLY into the body of the article several times. What I personally really like (when I submit my own articles) is that you can use anchor text for the keyword that you're trying to target and rank for, right in the body of the content...and you can actually "spin" the anchor text to increase the keyword targeting too. So you aren't limited to the little "about the author" section that most all traditional article directories allow.

Here's the FAQ we give our members for submitting articles: Article Submission FAQ MyArticleNetwork.com

What a lot of people forget about is that there is also a 2nd side of the network where you can add your own blog/site and have content auto-posted to it.

If you've got some more questions, feel free to post here.

Matt

ScottR

If it's the same network and interface as Article Marketing Automation, then it's definitely a worthwhile product. The spinner is the easiest and most flexible I have used, yet it still allows you to produce readable spun articles. The network of blogs seems pretty diverse too. There are definitely already blogs in the network with good PR (including a couple of my own), so the links are pretty powerful. I love that you can place the anchor text in context too, without having to place it in an "author box" at the bottom.

If you dread writing articles as much as I do, this is a great way to get bang for your buck, as just one can get you several hundred quality links over a few months time. The spinning unique content does seem to help too, as I've seen backlinks build and stick quite a bit better than with the other mass article submission site I use.

I do currently still use Article Marketer as well to achieve the widest distribution possible, however I really wish A.M.would stop requiring you to stick with one author name, as that is rather limiting and leaves a big footprint.

ModernDomains

I was thinking of signing up for a service such as this in order to get a lot of easy backlinks. I have seen several similar services, but this one seems to offer the biggest network of blogs.

Also the package of features provided by PLRpro.com looks great. Not sure if all of the modules work as described but certainly gives a lot to consider.

Thanks for the info.

ModernDomains

Sorry if this is off-topic, but does anyone know how to get signed up for free in order to publish articles from their contributing bloggers? I am not sure if I will sign up for their premium service, but I would still like to use some of their articles on my blogs.

David Snape

Brad, How do I get your bonus for joining? Do you have a link?

GLD

Forgive a newbie, but is this similar to Portal Feeder system? Better or worse? Does PF have other advantages? There is a big price difference.

Thanks.

footpod

I registered and then had to submit a support ticket

text below

Hi, I registered.

It told me there was a problem with my paypal (but I got a receipt) and I was asked to set up sites to publish articles on.

But I don't want to publish, I want to sumbit

When I clicked on submit articles, it asked me to upgrade for $47 more...

Is this right? I don't want to publish articles, I want to submit them

So I logged out and can't get back in at all despite password reminder working OK

Please advise

Alle-Cat

I'm having the same problem. I'm sure it's just a system glitch. I've submitted a ticket as well so I'm hoping it will be sorted soon.

Brad Callen

Hey Dave, I don't think the mods will allow me to post the affiliate link here. You can PM me and I'll give it to you if you'd like.

Brad

Matt Callen

@footpod and @alle-cat

There were a couple users who weren't automatically upgraded to "Premium" status during the launch period due to ridiculous traffic coming in. We're aware of it and are upgrading them as soon as we can. Can you send me a Private Message with your MyArticleNetwork username (and your full name/receipt).

I'll make sure it's fixed for you asap.
Thanks!
Matt

Chazzer

Whew!! At least I'm not the only one with the "already paid" problem. I've put in 2 support tickets on two different issues so far and no response in now over 24 hours.

I'll send you a PM Matt.

Alle-Cat

Well I went to out for a couple of hours came back and my logon problem's been fixed.

Thanks.

Looks good so far. I'm a total Noob at this kind of thing so it will probably take me a while to understand WTF I'm doing.

I'm impressed so far though.

Matt Callen

It looks like everyone who has paid is now upgraded to the level that they should be at. You can login and double-check. If for some odd reason you're not upgraded, but should, just shoot me a PM here and I'll get it fixed for you asap.

Matt

bestIMtools

Hey Matt and Brad, you guys are great, is there a list of the niches/topics of the blogs in the system?

Raydal

I jumped in with Brad's link as well. I love Brad's stuff.

The only downside of the program is that you don't
know where your articles are published and the only
proof is a search engine search. Also publication is
NOT automatic since your articles have to be manually
approved by the owner of the blog.

Anyway the test of the pudding is in the eating. This
is worth a try and a month is long enough to find out
if it works.

-Ray Edwards

Matt Callen

That's partially true. There are actually 2 options for site/blog owners. They have the options to set it up so that the articles are auto-approved on their blogs... OR ... they can choose to moderate the articles that come in.

This is good for a couple reasons...
- It's bad SEO technique to post all of your articles onto blogs at the exact same time. So by having this "moderating" system in place, it ensures that your articles are distributed and posted at random times. So it doesn't raise any red flags to Google. (this is also in addition to the random distribution of all articles throughout the network). The more it looks like humans posting the articles, the better. And from experience with this, it has worked VERY well for our members (and us).

- the site owners ensure that quality articles are being posted to their blogs (this usually isn't a problem, but at least the option is there).

Matt

tonystai

Just wanted to let people know that I've received my refund (already signed up via Article Marketing Automation) within a couple of hours of requesting via helpdesk.

I always love getting good service. Keep up the good work Matt and company!

For as much as we complain about service from this person or that person, I thought it worth while to post something positive for a change.

Tony

scdayton

Hi Matt,

A few questions for you.

1. How long do you anticipate the $47 / month offer being available?

2. Can you give at least a "general" time frame a person could expect to see a top ranking? Just an idea of what you've seen with your own sites and those of your members. I mean if I were targeting a term with say 2.5 million site competitors (broad match not phrase) and submitted one article to the members on the first of the month what would b my odds of a #1 ranking (main stream health not obscure niche) with just one article submission and what time frame?

3. If we wanted to add a blog site to the network does it have to have PR first before it can be added or can it be brand spanking new?

4. Is there a way to see the PR of the blogs in the network? I don't mean give out the URL's, but rather is there an ongoing tally of blogs in the network and then a PR number next to them such as....

10,000 total blogs
PR7 - 500
PR6 - 1,000
PR5 - 1,000
PR4 - 600

and so on.

Thanks,

Stephen

SpeakingBadger

OK... I've got a question.

How different is MyArticleNetwork from a service such as Syndicate Kahuna? Which you can find here: links.speakingbadger.com/kahuna. Or the multitude of other networks that are a part of that system?

The only differences I see on the surface is that one is free to use the content, while they both cost to post it. It seems that MyArticleNetwork costs $20 less per month for the privilege of posting your articles, while Syndicate Kahuna doesn't require any money just to use the articles as extra postings on your blog...

Are there other differences I don't know about??

Thanks,

Andrew Wilson

As your posts will be appearing on their own pages the PR of the index page is pretty much an irrelevance. If you 'promote your promotions' by building links to the articles that you can find through a search then your individual articles will be building PR.
On my article sites, where folks are doing this, I sometimes see higher PR on the internal pages than on the index page.
Within the AMA network there is a huge variance in types of blogs. Some are loved and cared for and others are backlink machines. You do not choose which sites get your articles but with many, many thousands of sites you will get a mixture that reflects the overall distribution of sites in the system.

This is a cool network.

scdayton

Thanks Andrew, that's a good point on the PR of the individual pages the articles end up on. That actually occurred to me last night as I was lying in bed.

Now if I could get Matt to answer my other questions when he gets a chance.

-Stephen

honestbizpro

thanks for all the comments above....always worth checking out this review section to make us feel comforatable about our investment or save us some money!

Matt Callen

Hi Stephen,
Thanks for the questions...
1. I can't give a specific time frame because we don't have one set in stone. I'd recommend getting in now while the price is at the lowest that it will probably ever be, and start using it sooner than later. You can't get anything out of it if you're not using it.

2. This is a hard one to answer because there are so many variables (i.e. how many articles you submit, how well your rewrites are with the spin-versions, how often you submit articles, what anchor text you use, what keywords you're trying to rank for, how old/new your website is that you're trying to rank high for, how many backlinks your site already has, etc etc...). We put up a few testimonials from users to give a general idea of what you could expect if you use the system. These results are after just a few weeks of using it. They're mentioned on the salespage. It really comes down to "The more you use it, the faster and better your results will be. " I know that's a vague answer, and maybe not exactly what you were looking for. But the system works great... that's a fact. So it comes down to how much and at what quality you're using it.

3. You can add any blog site that you've got, as long as it meets our remote-posting requirements. It doesn't matter how new or old it is.

4. Andrew answered your PR question well.

Thanks!
Matt

csm

I just wanted to comment that I joined MyArticleNetwork yesterday and so far I'm impressed with the interface, the ease of submission and the initial results of my articles getting published (obviously, it's too early to see results of better rankings).

First, I really like the interface for rewriting articles. I had watched the video a week or two ago and knew that the "sentence rewrite" feature would be ideal for me. For some reason, I've never enjoyed messing with having to insert brackets and keeping all the code straight. But having the individual sentences pop up for rewrite really suits me. (For those who like inserting the brackets, this is also an option.)

I like that I don't need to create author resource boxes. My articles are just sent out as anonymous blog posts for publishers to accept on their blogs. And I can have up to three hyperlinks with anchor text in each article.

Yesterday, I added three original articles that I'd already had accepted on EZA. I spent maybe 30 minutes with each one (if that), rewriting enough of the sentences so that when I previewed my spun articles, they were at least 80% rewritten. Then I submitted them for publication.

As of right now, less than 24 hours later, two of the articles have been published 3 times each, and the third article published one time (a less popular niche).

I really like it and think I'll be using it quite a bit.

Susan

kenwarrior

Just some feedback, I'm in the network since the 17th, posted about 10 articles, got about 80 articles posted, in principal thats great, 80x3 =240 backlinks... however I've started to do some checking, found two of my articles on 2 blogs, one just posted a snipet, no links, the other has REMOVED my links and substituted their own links.

I realize this is early days and may not be a true reflection of the quality of the blog network and of course this not a complaint about the owners, I know there are always those who will cheat and spam everyone... I'll give it 30 days and see if I get any real backlinks!

artlan

Hmmm interesting. I wonder how this can be tackled before I sign up.

Matt any ideas?

Matt Callen

Hi,
This is something that is monitored. These people get reported to us, we immediately tell them to fix it, and if they commit the offense repeatedly they are banned from the system. It doesn’t happen very often, most people are honest… but as you mentioned, with everything there are always going to be a few bad apples.

One thing to remember is that since your article goes out to MANY websites, one here or there may happen, but as they are reported we remove the offending owner out of the system.

If this has happened to you, please send me a PM here or send a support ticket to Support Desk and we'll take care of it for you asap.

Thanks,
Matt

askloz

I dunno mate, you aint seen my article blog poster yet. Mines way way larger

Maybe we should partner up once all my testing is done.

footpod

Personally, I would probably reject the article at first rather than tinkering with the links afterwards.

I took delivering of a few articles over the weekend and rejected a couple that just pointed to a adsense farm site.

steveniam

I was thinking for the last one week whether MyArticleNetwork is a good replacement for Linkvana which cost $147 a month.

After reading through I finally decide Linkvana is a better option for SEO purposes.

Anyone has any different opinion?

kenwarrior

I'll give an opinion in 30 days, should be enough time to see if this system will produce any real back links, if most of the sites turnout to be adsense blog farms I will be quitting, but for now I'll wait and see

Alle-Cat

I've been using it a couple of days and I love the rewriting interface. My only minor complaint is that my sentences run off the end of the form.

I haven't submitted many articles yet but I'm quite happy with the way things are going so far.

All in all a nice package.

David Snape

Review after a few days in the network

Ok, I've been in the network for several days now and have posted several articles. I emailed the help desk and they suggested posting the same article if it is has a high percentage rewrite to multiple categories. - If the article has a high rewrite percentage it is ok to do that.

That part is great. I've watched the backlinks add up quicker that way.

But here is the part that concerns me now:

I have received some ping backs from sites that published the articles. 3 out of 4 of the blogs WERE NOT RANKED BY GOOGLE - The fourth had a PR of 0.

I emailed the help desk and asked what percentage of their sites were not indexed.


Here is the note I sent to the help desk:

I'm getting ping backs from blogs with No page rank - which means they not indexed by the big G.

So, how many or what percentage of your sites actually have page rank. Sites that aren't indexed are of little value.

I need to know the answer to this in order to understand if I should be using other services or not.

How many sites do you have if you don't count the non-indexed ones?

Thanks,


They emailed back with a very unhelpful message:


" I am sorry we do not have that information.


Warm Regards,
[staff members name removed]

Help Desk Staff


Ok, so my problem as I explained to them was I need to know this information because I left a higher priced but very good network for this one. That other network would NEVER allow no page rank blogs into their network.



I want to ask Brad or Matt - Can you get an answer to this question, please?



If your network is made up of no page rank blogs, I'm not sure that I want to be a part of that.


I'm not trying to rain on your parade but this is a very valid concern as one other gentleman mentioned above. If the help desk had a better response, I wouldn't have posted this here.


I want to know how many or what percentage of the 10K blogs are non-indexed sites.



--- please respond and let us know.

Raydal

I signed up from Brad's email and he said that there were high quality
links as part of the network.

I am also on a try-and-see basis as well and instead of asking about
the blogs I Google my article titles to find the blogs. So far the
blogs I have found are pagerank = 0 blogs, but this is still early.

If you were thinking about doing this for 1 month and then unsubscribe
because your links will be on 10,000 blogs, think again. So far the
highest number of posted articles for me is 10 after the first week.

Now I know the answer: If we post your articles too fast then google
will ........., so we have to make things look as natural as possible.

All I'm saying is that the 10,000 blogs links is a dream because only
a small percentage of those blogs will post your articles.

Will this be worth the $47 per month? Still to early to tell.

-Ray Edwards

David Snape

I agree with the philosophy of spreading out the posts or 'dripping' as it is often referred to. I have no problem with that. But if all posts are going to blogs that are not indexed - then I'm a bit worried - that's all.

BTW: I hate that I posted my previous post but useless answers from the help desk are even more annoying to me ( as a paying customer).

artlan

@ DaveS,

There are plenty of indexed sites in Google that are PR0. PR ranking and indexation have very little to do with each other. New sites for example, that are indexed by Google will always be PR0.

However, I do 100% agree that if there are sites that are not indexed by Google for whatever reason, at the end of the day your backlinks have 0 value in Google. Moreover, the fact that a site is not listed in Google might attest to the fact that Google deems it as a spam site/bad neighborhood and simply de-indexed it.

Also, you mentioned:

Do you mind PMing the other network you mentioned? Feel free to include your affiliate ID.

Thanks.

David Snape

Artlan, unfortunately, I haven't made enough posts to qualify for PM capabilities, but if you would like to email david @ tobeinformed.com I'll be glad to write back to you.

I agree that zero page rank is not a problem - it is the 3 out of 4 NO page rank blogs that bother me.

But I'm really feeling bad about posting this. I would like to trust that it doesn't matter, but those blogs may remain unindexed indefinitely or forever.

Even in a quality network there are blogs that suddenly lose their value and should be removed.

Don't know what to say at this point maybe Brad (as an expert on SEO) could clear up the issue for us?

Maybe there is some rationale about this whole thing that I'm not aware of.

artlan

Thank you Dave, I sent you an email. While PR is not as important to me, the basic nessecity is that the blogs HAVE to be indexed by Google. I outsource and pay for every post, hence it is a waste for me to post a blog that is not indexed by Google and does not provide any backlink value what-so-ever.

kenwarrior

For me this is day 4, 140+ articles posted, can only find about 2 of them, I have unique words/phrases etc so they are easy to find, when I post to my own pr0 blogs they get indexed within 24 hours, not looking good is all I can say for now, but I'll give it 30 days as I said before.

I guess you get what you pay for, linkvana $147 myarticlenetwork $47

Opinions don't matter on this one, only test results count, and this can all be tested!