Article Ranks

If that is out of your budget, then I would look at networks that allow you to submit a site in exchange for posting privileges. They usually allow a PR2 or higher. Then you have no monthly cost.

You can pick up PR2's for $20-30.

Yea I'd second this. I use BMR and they are definitely superior.

I never heard of Article Ranks until one day I received an email from Paypal that my account was charged $39.99 by Article Ranks for a subscription without my knowledge. I found out a former business partner got into my paypal account and paid for a subscription to Article Ranks. After learning of what he did, I contacted Paypal to inform them of the fraud, and filed a refund request to Article Ranks. Yet, Article Ranks declined my request and said we have a "No Refund Policy" I contacted my former business partner and learned he never even used the service, and cancelled the subscription the same day.

It amazes me Article Ranks is insisting on keeping the $39 despite the fraud charge, and the fact the service was not even used. I suggest anyone considering doing business with these guys STAY AWAY! They have no morals.

FBL who only have 1.5k sites in the system... umm ok..

Low submission rates when the two you say only publish 10-15 per post

Little to no serp movement.. ok thats not what every test online that people have done has showed

Cumbersome interface.. Are you crapping me!? We have the best interface out of any network (in my opinion).. FBL is your favourite when its a complete template with no design whatsoever

Seems like you have been following us around since we introduced a new plan slating us ever since..

Worth what money? People can use it for free by adding sites..

Any good marketer would use every system at there disposal! We use every single network not just our own for our clients

This is why we rank so well as we literally use AR, AMA, SEOLV, ALN, FBL, TrafficKaboom, BS and they are only the spinning networks

On a side note spinning networks are working really well as tier 2 links these days - e.g. A few nice guest posts or non spun blogs and then linking the spun articles into them.. Working very well

P.S. On another note I checked your articles and none are spun over 300% which is where you tap into more sites as a huge % of sites have set requirements to 300%

I think BMR are still a decent network - Grown a bit too fast user wise compared to network growth lately but I guess thats why they shut it down to new members so they can add some more sites into the system

You have some very strong points here indeed. I was thinking about joining ArticleRanks till I read this nonsense that the spun had to be excellent and that each new member would get a manual review for the first couple of weeks. Then I thought, why the hell would I submit perfectly spun content to a crappy network like AR while I can submit that perfect content just as well to LinkAuthority, BMR or LinkVana. When I spin on sentence level your manual reviewers won't even notice a difference between a true unique and a spun version, neither will Copyscrape detect anything. Another thing that turned me off is this strange spintax with the [|], I can't just autoreplace the spintax cause then the inner {|} gets lost as well.

When you setup a low level article network and ask money for it monthly you should honor the people who submit the content as that is what we use it for, Backlinks, and not to satisfy the people who submit their blogs.

Neil the only thing that is bad about your comments is you just make things up on why/how/the reasons we made changes - So let me explain each one you mentioned

Regarding we support site owners more that was simply not the case at all - At the time there was people abusing the system and action had to be taken on top of this Google were making big changed - Yes we are a higher quality spun network compared to ALN etc you add your site to each one and see which one will give you better content.

This was NOT for site owners this was for Panda - We took action as we wanted to stay on top of Google's changes. Without changes to a network it starts to fail (AKA ALN I have seen it go from really effective to not so much) Now the owner is acting after the network is being hit we always try to forecast things and thats why we are one of the top 10 ranking SEO companies and rank for terms such as Search engine marketing, SEO, Internet marketing etc etc - We do know what we are doing

Now regarding the old 120 being distributed and now between 20-40 - The reason for this is we did change the algothirm so 1) Fresh submissions have better priority 2) We used to publish to over 30% of sites per category - We reduced this number so people can instead of getting 120 publishes from one spun article which would leave a footprint they can instead get the same from submitting 4-5 spun articles which leaves a much smaller footprint.

Regarding PR0 I still do not have a clue about where you have got that from we are a high PR network like always why would that have changed, users only can earn credits with PR sites it has always been like that. Forget all the user submissions we have a private network plugged into AR which we contribute to monthly and always add PR sites.

On top of this the majority of sites in AR are aged 2+ years forget PR for a moment you cant beat good old age.

Regarding the price plan we introduced a new plan didnt change anything on the old plan except a domain promotion limit

You probably won't agree because I know you are pee'd about our price change we did almost a year ago - But the network works much better then it did last year if you are regularly submitting.

If you are happy using a network that just gives you a PR link then a few months down the line loses PR and has tons of deindexing then I can't argue with that - But for us caring about the sites is more important long term.

And no I would not rather have a link on a PR2 site that gets 100+ submissions a day and is not readable and that will get de-indexed and lose its PR - Would I feel happy if I landed on a site like that.. NO

P.S I don't drink beer

Thanks yes I suggest everyone does there own research - We are still getting great reviews even from recent tests done by people

99% of our users are happy, you can never satisfy everyone but we always like to put our argument across and most of the info flying around of forums is inaccurate on how people think things work and function, and on forums you mainly always here the negatives and these people like to make their voice heard

You must live under a rock....private blog networks just got attacked by Google and are all going out of business. BMR just shut down for good and all the others will follow.

back to the drawing board!