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
Posted by: admin in seo, link building on
Jul 1, 2010
Don't let people make SEO a big messy maze. It's not. It's simple, if you keep it simple. At Simplosys, we like simple. So much so that we named the company after that :)
Now, this doesn't mean it's EASY. There's a difference. The concept is simple. Which is what you need to understand. VERY well. Then the implementation will depend on how well you execute the simple concept. But if your understanding of the basic concept is flawed, you'll never get results, really, never.
So, here you go:
Article Marketing is perhaps the easiest and most common form of link building. Everyone does it. Either themselves or through their SEO or a link building service. There is nothing wrong with it when it's done right and in moderation.
One problem with article marketing is that it's difficult to measure results right away. Directories take days or even weeks to approve an article and this can make it hard to know whether your submission was right, was approved, Etc., especially if you are submitting tens or even hundreds of articles, for yourself or multiple clients.
Here's some tips that I've used that have helped me increase the acceptance rate and stay on the good books with article directories that I submit to.
It's amazing how little info there is out there about CRE Loaded features/hacks. The book that costs $40 hardly covers anything in depth.
Here's a conversation about setting up gift certificates or vouchers on your site. If you have a CRE Loaded site, you should set this up. It's free, and just one more way that you can market your site by giving away free gift certificates to bloggers and popular social media account owners in exchange for a review or promotion on their site. This is a great way to build links and get some viral buzz going about your site.
Mahesh: Hello, how can I help you?
Srini Venkataramani: Hey Mahesh, a customer wants to buy a gift certificate from the site. How do I turn that feature on?
Mahesh: Hello Srini
Mahesh: You need to create a product for that and set model name as GIFT_25, GIFT_50 depending on the certificate price you want
Srini Venkataramani: Model number?? what is that?
Mahesh: Thats your product model number field , you will get that whe you create products through admin
Srini Venkataramani: Ok, trying now
Srini Venkataramani: I created a product with model GIFT_25. What should I set as price? How does it work, meaning, how will customer receive a code that is worth $25?
Mahesh: You can sell these product with any price and your customer can send this to there freind as a gift voucher
Srini Venkataramani: So when customer buys this gift cert, how will they send this to their friend? And how does the friend redeem the certificate?
Srini Venkataramani: Mahesh, are you there?
Mahesh: Hold on please
Srini Venkataramani: Sure
Mahesh: when customer buy it, its still pending then when admin gets payment they go to Gift voucher queue and select the voucher and redeem it so its released to the persons account
Mahesh: e they update the status to delivered first then gift voucher queue
Mahesh: then redeem it, after that the balance will be on the customer account to use or send to friend
Srini Venkataramani: Hmm..I guess it would be nice to have some kind of tutorial or screenshots of this process. Makes sense to me but a but confusing. I guess I can test this with a product priced at $0, right?
Mahesh: No I will suggest you to test with $0.01.
Srini Venkataramani: Ok, will do. Thanks for your help!!
Posted by: srini28 in seo, link building on
Mar 31, 2010
Over the last couple of years, frustrated webmasters that have tried all other SEO measures unsuccessfully (or with partial but not significant success) have turned to link networks to build links very fast very quickly.
I am talking about sites like articlemarketingautomation.com , seolinkvine.com (which launched today - Brad Callen's latest venture), Etc. There are many more. The idea is thatyou are part of a network where your articles/blog posts with links to your sites are picked up by others in the network (who benefit from the free content) and post it to their blogs, giving you quality contextual links. The idea sounds great, IN THEORY.
In reality, what happens is something totally different. People looking for free content usually DO NOT have great quality blogs. Which means you write awesome quality articles but they get published on crappy blogs. This approach can work for some websites though because of the sheer quantity of links you can build this way. seolinkvine.com gives one example where they built 29000 links for a site and got it ranked at #3 on Google for a competitive phrase. That's great, but now you stand the risk of Google changing their algorithm to weed out the effect of these mass-acquired low-quality links at some point (and it will happen at some point if you know Google). So may be a good idea for a short-term website. For example, if you launch a blog that you are going to write only for a year (like the Julie and Julia blog) or something like that - then may be I'd go for this (hesitantly.
Five-six years ago, people hadn't still figured out the Google formula as clearly. Good ol' dark ages when SEO was a term not many even knew about. Times when you could rank high with just a few links from random sites via link exchanges. Times that have changed for the better now.
Now, link exchanges are almost a thing of the past. They still work and are beneficial to get direct traffic but getting links from links pages with tons of other links are not really that helpful anymore. From highly relevant pages, OK, may be..
But why am I telling you stuff you already know? Let's get to the point. I know you want to know what works today. Here you go. This is it.
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