Buy scrapebox and spend the time to learn to use it. Best IM product ever IMO.

Keyword research can be done very effectively manually if you know what you're doing. The last thing I would buy is a keyword research tool.

Using scrapebox to comment is the absolute worth and most ineffective use of the tool. If you take the time to learn use it, the possibilities are endless. It's an incredible tool. And for $57 it's the best investment you can make.

But there is certainly a learning curve, no doubt.

In the end, what you use is really up to you. I find very little value in blog comment spamming these days, so if your plan was to use Scrapebox for that purpose then I personally would look at something else.

However, Scrapebox can still be used to find sites to build links on, you can scrape for high pr pages, or article sites or web 2.0 sites, anything you want really. But those links will have to be created manually, which is time consuming. But, it is great for that kind of stuff and that is an excellent way to find and build links.

Just keep in mind that you are going to have to have some private proxies, or buy a program like proxy goblin, if you plan on doing a lot of scraping. Which is additional money that has to be spent. I personally have had a very poor success rate with the inbuilt proxy scraper proxies in the program and most everyone will tell you to go with private proxies, although proxy goblin works well.

Have you looked into a program like Sick Submitter, I think it is $20/month and can do all kinds of backlinks, its a decent program but again has a learning curve. There is also Article Marketing Robot which works great, I am loving the latest update.

Again, its up to you. Scrapebox is a great program overall, so I am not trying to turn you off to it, just offering realistic things to think about here.

Yeah, with AMR the only additional fees associated outside of purchasing the program are captcha fees, which are really pretty cheap. The latest version now works with private proxies I believe, but I have never used proxies with this program and it has never been an issue.

You can also schedule your distributions, so you could que up articles under multiple different accounts with links to however many sites you want and just drip them out at a rate of a hundred a day or whatever you want.

Also, in the latest version, it has a cool new feature that allows you to search google for footprints of article directories, copy the google result source code and then the program extracts all of the links and runs them through the filter check, adding any good ones to your list of directories. It really is pretty neat.

The owner has a youtube channel that has videos of how to use it and some of the functions of the program, I will see if I can find that again and post the link here.

* here is that link to the youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/ArticleRobot and that is the owner of AMR making the videos.

Tough to say really as it greatly depends on the competition, but if they are in fact low competition than yes, you can pretty easily rank them with a combination of links like that. Assuming your on page seo is up to par, etc.

The guy who owns Long Tail Pro, Spencer, is a really nice guy and runs a network of adsense sites that makes something like $12k to $15k per month. He runs a blog that basically goes over all of his journey with micro niche sites and offers some good information over there. Since you are getting into the same boat, you might want to check it out NichePursuits.com.

Also, do a "site" search for article marketing robot, like in google and there is a link or two that has like a $10 discount for AMR. I think that is what I used when I bought it.

My adsense account has been making me money since 2008. I build "quality" sites for the most part. Good content, which I write myself mostly and I always try to add some sort of value for the site visitors.

Even if you have a site about blenders or something, you can still add value. You can review blenders, you could contact one of the blender companies and interview them about their products, you could provide amazon products so that people can read up on the top blenders and then buy them on the same page. There is always a way to add value.

"Most" of the cases where I have seen someone complaining about their adsense account being closed, further investigation showed that they were not complying with the Adsense TOS is one way or another. Everyone likes to pretend to be innocent but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are. It's kind of like prison, everyone in there is innocent if you ask them lol.

Now there are probably a few cases where someone truly was innocent and should not have had their adsense account closed, but in those cases, I have found that a simple email to google can resolve the issue.

But, overall, good looking sites with quality information that provides value to your site visitors will be safe. Those are the rules that I play by and they have worked thus far for me, who knows what may happen tomorrow.

I haven't seen any negative effects of using .info's over other tld's. They rank just the same and people click on them in the search results as long as your title and descriptions are compelling enough to get them to click.

The only real issue that people run into with .info domains is branding because they are not as memorable, but with the type of sites you are looking to build branding isn't really important anyway. I have also used .biz with good success, in fact, one of my .biz domains started bringing in money and ranking for its term in a week or two after buying it.

I find it great - but only when it works!

I've lost count of the number of times I've uninstalled/installed LTP (Platinum version), I just gave up in the end. Either the KC wouldn't pull the data (despite changing the API credentials), or it couldn't get data from Google itself.

Unfortunately the support, although it was timely, didn't have much to say on the matter.

Shame really, as the standalone SW works as advertised. Don't think I'll subscribe to the Platinum version anytime soon.