Creative Online Marketing, Link Building and Ecommerce

There are several posts all over the web about both of these services. But not many report on actual performance or results from them.

 A quick background first.

AMA - ArticleMarketingAutomation.com

SEOLinkVine (SLV) - SEOLinkVine.com

Both are services that help advertisers syndicate articles to multiple blogs. For bloggers, it often represents free guest posts, although, there are some (or rather many) bloggers on these networks that create entire blogs based entirely on other people's content. Nothing wrong with that, but just that these blogs are much more likely to vanish in a few months, and that's something you should know.

AMA has been around for a while - I've been on it 2+ years. SEOLinkVine.com is brand new - started May 2010 I believe. As a result of the age exposure AMA has a lot more bloggers on it. SEOLinkVine has Brad Callen's backing, and he has a really big list and long list of products such as SEO Elite, Keyword Elite, SearchMarketingElite.com, Article Submitter Gold, Etc. that are well known. His backing alone is sufficient to attract a few thousand internet marketers to the service. He claims to have thousands of bloggers on it already. And as always, the sharp internet marketer that he is, makes  a good selling point for it, with some success stories and perky graphs. And there you go, I shell out $67 per month for this service hoping to get my clients more value.

After 1 month and about 20 articles on SLV, and granted, that's not really enough time to judge, I am a bit disappointed. Because of mainly one reason. And that's an important one.

 My arcticles got published only 2-3 times on average. Some did 10+. But most were at 1 or 2. That's a SHARP contrast from AMA, where I'd get 10 published posts within no time.

Now I am not sure what the 10 were, and I always set up a limit of 10 to increase the effectivity of these links, but overall, it's fair to assume that the quality of blogs on both networks are comparable. If anything, AMA is probably better since it probably has more REAL bloggers compared to Internet Marketers putting up blogs just for adsense and making money out of selling links and ads on them.

Overall, my verdict is clear. AMA is FAR superior than SLV owing to the publish rate. Now, if you wanted to publish your articles only once or twice, then SLV might be just fine. Also, who knows, these may get published more so in the future, it may just be a slow process. But it was faster on AMA that's for sure.

And if you got the moolah, go with both! most likely the blogs on both networks have some overlap, but you'll find many unique ones too, which means more links and more exposure.

As I've said earlier, these services are not that great to get REAL quality links, but not bad to get some deep links going for faster indexing of some new pages.