Any Review on Linkamotion?

Oh okay I know my first set of answers now. And so far it is easily the most weird user interface that I am facing. The owner, Vince, is responsive but seems to be stuck to his angles of views.

To summarize:
1. Projects have status active/inactive.
2. Projects can have multiple articles across multiple niches.
3. Individual articles have only 2 status - pending and active.
4. You can put up unspun articles only. By that, I mean you can put up articles in which there is no spintax, although if you desire you can spin it yourself outside the system and submit the spun version rather than the spin-ready one. I think there is a mass upload option that I am yet to try.

So what was going wrong in my case is that due to non-obvious documentation (in my perception) and video sound quality not being up to the mark as of today (hope it improves), I was uploading spin-ready {|} articles, assuming that it would spin and distribute. That's not the case, which is perfectly fine but was not obvious from the user documentation.

The bigger issues were the following.

A project that I created was "active" for the first 5 days, but Vince's intention was to reject the articles because of the spin syntax. The point was that I had no clue that the articles were rejected because there was no status (and the project status was showing "active").

The articles could only be "pending" and something like accepted (don't know what, I am yet to get anything accepted), with nothing to tell you that it's rejected. That's a shame. How difficult is it to mark "rejected" and let the user know easily, rather than making them wait forever? I understood this over a few email exchanges with the owner Vince, wasting 5 days worth of time and money.

But what was more unfortunate was that I seem to be the only one (as Vince says) who finds it not obvious that an article has been rejected by seeing its status pending/accepted (note: articles are reviewed, so I thought pending meant to be reviewed).

By the way, what he also says is that a project can be active/inactive. So if your project has gone inactive at least one of your articles within that project has not been accepted. Which one has not been accepted? No answer - there is no "rejected" state - Vince believes Pending and Accepted are clear enough, and users should be responsible for their content he says.

Plus, what about niches and mixing?

After understanding that I need to submit non-spin-syntax format, I went ahead and created a new project with the name of yesterday's date (project name 10-Jul-2011). And I submitted two articles. One was in the electronic cigarettes niche, and another was in the bacterial vaginosis niche.

In a system like Linkamotion, I thought it would not be a bad idea for me to keep track of my daily activities in that way rather than making the project niche-specific.

Unfortunately, I now see an "inactive" status around my new project also. Both articles are pending. Now what do I infer? Both are rejected? One is rejected so the project is inactive so the other cannot be accepted (and if so then which one is rejected)?

There is a massive gap in the status management.

Also, seems there are other issues. For example, Vince communicated that bacterial vaginosis is an adult niche and hence not acceptable. I explained it to him, citing CDC.gov and Wikipedia references, that it is not an adult niche, it is a health niche (a bacterial infection that is misunderstood to be a STD but it is not). If this is an adult niche then cervical cancer and prostrate etc are also adult. Now, I suspect he was not convinced about it and did reject the article (which is unfortunate, because I really do expect people who don't understand something because obviously they are not experts in this niche but want to help, to go and read up suggested references rather than imposing their beliefs of "adult" - but that's just my personal opinion and need not be accepted by others), but again, in absence of status I have no clue to whether this indeed was the real issue or was he actually okay with it after being cited the references but rejected the other article and hence this is showing pending etc...

By the way, I am a paid member of a very high number of the well-known networks out there. I have never faced an issue with the bacterial vaginosis niche in any of them. And yes, almost none of them entertain adult content. So why were these other networks not concerned? Because, this is not an adult one, this is purely a health niche. Can I name some of the networks that were okay with this as a health keyword? Sure! BMR, ALN, Article Ranks, UAW, SEOLV, and at least 7-8 more networks that I prefer not disclosing here. I have let Vince know that.

And even more interestingly, the categories have "dating", "sexuality", "pregnancy", "adult" (inside "education") as on today - 11th July 2011 10:00 AM India. So a health keyword is adult but sexuality is not? I simply don't get the thought process involved.

In short, the system has apparently a great feedback over the net (assuming the reviews I read on the net was genuine and not always biased by affiliate commission motivations), but at least I am having a tough time with it.

Hope to get past it and use the system to its fullest potential. Also, if Vince is on Warrior Forum, then it would be nice to hear his angle on what makes the pending/accepted status with project level active/inactive sufficient - I see a very clear gap as I explained above.

Hi Fred,

Thanks for your comment. That has made my day - really glad you liked those vids.

Did you definitely untick the box that says "Publish post immediately?" This will cause an error because Linkamotion do not allow posts to be published immediately.

If so then I think you got that because they have been working on moving the linkamotion server today. They sent an email asking people to hold off on posting. I tried to access the network (because I forgot) and it just said "access denied" so I imagine that caused the problem

Good point - I will have to update my video to explain the issue with syntax. I can see why that would be confusing.

Really glad to help out Fred. As far as I know the system is back up and running so you should be good to go.

Jimmy