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Really looking forward to this rewiew of the blog networks.
I don’t use any right now but would like to start.
Thanks, Michael.
OMG…. Shane has changed the colour of his t-shirt!
Thanks a lot for your analysis and information and sharing… I always find what you give us really useful and it just mostly inspires me to take more action myself!
John
Hey Shane,
great to hear you are going ahead with the outsourcing webinar, looking forward to that :-)
And the blog network roundup should be useful too, tried a couple and never been really happy with the results, hope your test brings up one you can really recommend!
Cheers, Jillian
Hello Shane,
I like Article Marketing Robot…which isn’t exactly a blog network, per se, but as you know offers access to potentially (they say) 3000 or so blogs, WordPress sites, etc. As far as I can tell the thing works as least as well as the bottom tier SEO Linkvine, and over time is a lot cheaper.
My experience is that I get to send arkles to 2000 or so sites, and of that, a quarter to half get printed. Maybe you will have a go with it. I had to say bye to BMR. It was getting too expensive.
It has been an interesting week. Affiliate sales are awful, but clickers are up on Adsense. I have just been working with my first IM Training student. This has allowed me the opportunity to really get my feet wet while I’m getting his wet. Educational all the way around.
And I have spent a lot more time with my new “seasonal” website than I had planned. I have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at it including videos. Ha. My dusty AVS suite of video/audio tools have come in pretty handy.
And for my Sunday treat, there is my dear guru, Shane, with always great info and inspiring stuff. I surely can’t complain.
Norm – 6 timezones west of you.
Hi Shane,
Great stuff. I always look forward to your sunday update since its high quality info. You are searching for the truth. That in times like these is refreshing and inspiring. Keep up the march:) Art
shane
good rant today and should be interesting to see your results
i have found so far the best article network syndication would be hands down
article samurai
its a little pricey but your also talking about network of articles and blogs 50,000 which is huge..
the interface is what you would expect from a company that makes market samurai.
i got in in the last minute and i am happy with results.
i am into adsense and what i do is create all unique articles that gets posted on the sites and i will take that same unique article and spin it to distribute for backlinks purposes.
very effective.
the other that I have found is actuallyrank.com by chris rempel. he is also a direct kind of guy and he is good.
you share a network of blogs depending on the package you have with only a few people
and although its manual commenting… for every one comment is like 1000 scrapebox comments in effectivness.
since i am building my adsense empire i only use a few of these comments to bring my sites up in the rankings pretty darn well.
i have all the tools.. but like shane mentioned senukex is the best but i am not an expert..
and the best keyword tool in the market bar none
SE COCKPIT!!!!
2nd place has to go to serpiq.com
and for desktop app would be long tail pro
i used to use traffic geyser but am not happy with the results.. it seems when the company gets as big as traffic geyser the tools tend to go south with regards to getting results.
but i am waiting for a new video tool that may be a great addition.
i have spent thousands on these things so i might as well share my results withlike minded people..
you know
karma :)
by the way i have close to 1000 sites in my network and the only monetization methods i am using is adsense.
keyword reserach is by far the most important skill needed if you had to learn just 1 skill it would have to be keyword research.
the rest you can also outsource
there are so many experts in tools such as xrumer, senuke, etc.. that it really does not make sense to learn these tools and yu can always outsource.
shane is one of the real marketers..
the gurus… well the good thing is to learn thier models of launches because they make millions
look at eben pagens new launch
thanks
eddie
When you say “outsourcing”, are you hiring services to create content for you, or are you hiring full time staff that works just for you to train on any tasks you want to offload to them?
I am in the latter camp, and very happy after a year. Just hired my 4th full time person. Now I truely have a team.
Ken
Wow, cool!
I’m just hiring people on a project-basis here and there. But one of my goals is to have a small team by the end of the year. :)
Hi Shane, great idea about the blog networks reviews. I have been using them for over a year with the great results and the clear winner for me was Unique Article Wizard (with ALN and AR also providing great results for free if you simply add PR sites).
Looking forward to see the results :)
ken
congratulations.. hiring people fulltime takes some skill.
would you care to share your actual breakdown regarding for example
people and what they do and what you pay
for example i expirameted with phillipines.. really nice people.. but keeping them busy and also knowing what i was actually paying for i did not do that well
which brings me back to that skill set of teaching them systems and controls.
do you have for example
a article writer
linkbuilder
seo person
what do you use to manage them
thanks
eddie
Good idea you have, really providing value.
Hi Shane:
Just to say I enjoy reading the comments here, especially those about Unique Article Wizard and Article Marketing Robot.
Is there anyway you could add this or start a separate thread that sort of combines blog networks with the bigger picture re article marketing, dos and don’ts and how AM works best with various backlingking strategies?
thanks,
PV
I can really relate to online marketing is dead. I have fallen for it many times and still have to be on the alert so It doesn’t cause me to procrastinate or delay taking action myself.
I’m looking forward to the blog network test. I am using a few myself and really haven’t seen the benefit that I thought I would. It will certainly be interesting to see your test results.
Tony
Hi Shane, you are one off my trusted sources of information about IM, I am not commenting much , but here I will that you”l see that actually people read and like what you do.
It is very easy now to do SEO with all the plugins for word press like easy SEO and the bichallengege for guys like me who are not native English speaker – is content creation and back link building .If you are will create the servicwhichch will help to deal with this problem and will be at the same time affordable -I will be the first who wilsignhn up for it.Thank you for your support.
I want to become the member of SE Cocpit but for less money if you are have still that promotional price that was on first webinar I will be happy to tadvantagetege of it just send me link to my email.Thank you. Ted.
Thank you for your comment, Teodor! I appreciate it very much! :)
For affordable and good content, my current recommendation would be to go to the Content Authority and look for writers on forums, who have some expertise in your niche.
Hi Shane
Just want to let you know what a pleasure it is to listen to your videos and read your material.
You are one of the very few Internet Marketing instructors out there who are not always trying to sell me something. I can relax while I listen to you. I don’t feel I need to be constantly on my guard!
Kind regards
Alex
Thank you very much, Alex!