Article Ranks

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$39/month

is it a good value? if not what would you recommend . I know BMR is good but thats out of my budget range at the present time
#search engine optimization #article #ranks
  • I only use it to backlink my backlinks for now. It takes me about 45 minutes to write an article, then rewrite every sentence. Very boring. But it does slowly drip the article out to a lot of sites, on average about 40 a month so far. And I've been able to locate them in google's index.

    They are all pr0 links, as they fall off the main page of the blog they are posted on. And the blogs the articles are posted on are not owned by article ranks, so there is no telling how long the backlinks will be around.

    I used a few articles to backlink to hubpages, and after a month or so I did see an increase in traffic to those hubs.
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    • 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.
  • Articleranks is good but Build My Rank is leagues ahead of the others. I would pay the extra $20 for at least 1 month of BMR. If you don't make your money back within the first month you are doing something wrong.
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  • You can use articleranks for free by adding a site with pr into the system

    Or if you are looking for a Buildmyrank type network you can use our new network for free by also adding a pr site into the system which is linkauthority.com
  • If your after article ranks i can get you discount, just pm me.
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    • 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.
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  • I can understand the extra $20 being out of your range now but while BMR is down, I'd suggest you put aside some money so when they're back up, you can join. It's worth it as far as ease of use. I absolutely hate writing but 150 words isn't hard at all plus you get the initial homepage links too.
  • Not worth the money. Low quality blogs which produce little to no serp movement. Condescending support and untrustworthy price guarantees. Cumbersome interface with poor spintax support. Low submision rates and poor indexing of posts.

    Do yourself a favour and stay away.

    A great alternative is Authority Link Network or the new kid on the block - Free Blog Links (my favourite by far).
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    • 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%
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  • I don't use BMR anymore, a lot of negative reviews about them made me stop "wasting" my time there
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    • 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
  • I plugged a site into the system just to test... and even though i've tried to match the categories well, there are alot of spammy articles that tend not to fall into category..
    I opted for SEO and Internet Marketing articles -- and i got articles about Law firms, Car tax, Medicine. etc.

    I'd suggest to use it to power your backlinks instead
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  • I'm glad you asked. For me the problems started long before the pricing structure change. I can't remember the timeframe, but around 6 months before the price change Article Ranks implemented other changes that favoured the blog owners who wanted free content.

    First came the anti-spam filters and then came the categories clamp down. You justified these changes by saying you wanted people to add quality blogs into the network, so the network would grow and benefit everyone.

    Subsequently these changes slashed submission rates from 100-150 per article (when the good reviews were rife), to around 15-20 per article, effectively sticking 2 fingers up to all Article Ranks paying customers in favour of your freebie seeking blog owners.

    The focus of the Article Ranks network shifted from a good SEO tool to a quality free content resource for blog owners, and this is why you have so many PR0 sites in your network.

    Now, there are 2 flaws to this strategy:

    As a paying customer of the Article Ranks network my main objective is not to give a blog owner quality content, it is to build backlinks for myself.
    Quality blog owners do not usually rely on spun content from a blog network.

    Around the same time other networks surfaced that focused on the need of the link builder and not the freebie content seeker. Buy a domain with pr, add it to the system and submit your content. Don't worry about spam filters, categorisation or condescending emails saying you're a naughty boy for submitting crap content. Instead give us PR and in return we'll give you backlinks, simple.

    But what about the Panda? Won't the blog get penalised for having spun content on it? Who gives a stuff. You put your pr2+ blog in the network as an exchange for backlinks, you don't 'need' your pr2+ blog to rank. Who cares if it gets pandalised, it still passes link juice until it gets deindexed or loses pr.

    So what's more attractive and what works better? Create high quality content on crap pr0 blogs, or create average quality content on quality pr2+ blogs?

    For me, the latter works better every time and I don't even have to pay for it!

    And then you go and change your pricing structure and ridicule your price freeze policy, further sticking 2 fingers up to the Article Ranks paying customers.

    That's me done. I just realised yesterday that I was still subscribed to your network at 40 bucks a month and I can't remember the last time I posted an article! So have a beer on me.
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      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.
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  • People who test with real numbers suggest article ranks is good even above others. I would go with that information over random folks on warrior forum.

    Had to comment so others can make a better decision.
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    • 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
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  • BMR is the best no ifs ands or buts about it
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  • So is it bad to send the anchor text straight to the "money site"? If I were to send it to my squidoo, hubpages, tumblr, then wouldn't I have to pay extra for each domain?
  • Its not bad to send links direct to money sites. You just have to make sure you dont do like 500 a day. Do a couple a day and leak them out over a period of time. Long and slow is better than dumping them all out in one time. This is obviously as its just not a natural way for a website to get links in the "real world".

    Article ranks is cheap too so I think you should go for it if you can afford it. Lots of work though so be prepared
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  • I've been investigating which blog network to use and I think I'll be going for AR. From all the arguements so far, i see that AR is working hard to improve their service and some people find it inconviniencing (more work). In my opinion AR is good for the price and i am not a fan of low quality, spun contents .
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    • 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!
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  • Everyone using these paid high PR backlink networks is in a bad mood today
    Lucky I dont use them, (couldnt justify the price)
  • I've used AR on and off for over a year now and IMHO, I'd rate it as Good, not great, not excellent. I've used it consistently at times and saw results. However that Good rating at this stage in the game can easily creep to Excellent pretty easily with top rated blog networks being systematically wiped out.

    I look at it this way, all the major blog networks have recently took a bigger than usual hit, Repeat ALL, regardless of what the owners are feeding to you. Now the last man or men standing will w/o question be stronger than just a month ago. Right, so far that is TK, AR, ALN and the likes. I believe that the AR owner can ultimately make more money with the changes made with the plans and url limitations implemented some time ago, however if that means a better network that was already good, then I'm willing to live with it. One thing that I really like about AR (and I think they should do more of) is that they post (for some time now) to web 2.0 & social sites as well. In light of recent events it would behove them and other blog networks as well to step up their efforts in this regard. Just my 2 pennies.
  • AR is certainly usable. I use it for free.

    Create a couple of blogs, get them to PR 1 or 2. Donate them to AR for automatic posting. Gets me about 30 bucks a month to post with. You get 0.10 credits for each post they make.

    Win win as I see it.
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    $39/month is it a good value? if not what would you recommend . I know BMR is good but thats out of my budget range at the present time