Here’s a review I promised for the article marketing service at ArticleSearchEngineMarketing.com.
It’s an article marketing/submissions service run by Daniel Drew.
Dan’s got a crew of decent writers on his staff and they can pump out some articles pretty quickly, and the articles are decent too.
What they like to do is submit articles to EzineArticles.com, then if you want, spin them after EZA accepts them and submit to AMR for you.
They have several pricing options, all depend son what you want done, but here’s the deal with how this service is done and sort of different from what you might be used to.
Why EZA first?
To make sure the articles are good enough to be accepted by the human reviewers there, then once accepted there, you can get spun versions to submit elsewhere, either on your own and have them do it.
What else do they do?
If you need site content written for you, then you could ask for that as well, and if it’s not to your liking then the writer gets flak for that, the feedback is welcomed but I caution Dan to not be slapped around by picky clients who want constant revisions either.
Does Dan know SEO and marketing?
Yes, he does and that’s important when dealing with a service provider, because you want them (him) to know what you’re trying to accomplish SEO-wise, rankings-wise, and also, much more importantly, marketing-wise. He’s flipped sites for good money, he’s ranking sites for tough terms, he uses several of the service I recommended with good effects (pardon my ego here), and he’s done well by me with the orders I’ve placed.
He’s also provided some higher-priced top-notch writer to do special rush project for some people I have on my Skype looking for help and they’ve been happy with him.
What exactly have I used with article marketing service for?
- On-site content
- EZA submissions
- AMR spin submits
Has everything worked out well for me using his service?
For the most part, yes, but in one case I ordered a bunch of articles to flesh out a site I didn’t really care about and the articles were not good, but I never asked for rewrites of the content, which I would have received, I just didn’t care really.
As far a link building is concerned, I’ve seen positive results with his service and backlinks acquired from using it….
How service could be better?
Gotta focus more on the CTR of the articles in EZA because EZA is one site, one IP address and repeated backlinks obtained from a single source don’t pass a huge amount of value, which is why you want the CTR of the articles to be high, like around 30% or so. It all well and good to have a bunch of articles and backlinks from EZA, but if the single source backlinks theory holds true, then it’s good deal to have ArticleSearchEngineMarketing provide you with spun versions of the EZA article submissions so you can get more diverse backlinks.
Like any article submissions service, it’s run by people who like to write and thus the options on what to order tends to be somewhat wordy, or over-worded and not clear. It needs to be simpler to the customer or client on what we get when ordering, what to expect, like time frames, number of article submissions being done, and where to, and do we get the list of urls, etc…
What do I want to know when using a service for article marketing?
Do I get the original article? Yes
Can I get original article spun for me and sent to me by email? Yes
Can I get these spins submitted for me? Yes
Will I get a list of where my articles are submitted? Yes
When will I get these lists? Depends on what you order
Do I (Dan) recommend ArticleSearchengineMarketing? Yes
Yes, if you want to outsource your article marketing and build some quality links via EZA and other top article directories (AMR directories aren’t top-level directories).
I still use this service and will continue to do so, but I’m sort of known as a reviewer of things so I still use other services for testing stuff out.
Dan’s done well by me and I promised him an on site review, despite the fact that it will probably cost me some affiliate sales for certain things I recommend and he uses or could use for you (like doing AMR submissions which can be quite a bear sometimes). Dan also reviewed SEO Link Robot for me and is giving me feedback on Magic Submitter products, and I appreciate his help with that so it’s only fair that I help draw attention to his service and to let you know about it, especially since I see people asking me who to outsource AMR submissions too.
Dan tries hard to please his clients and fulfills all orders and tells you when to expect them done by so there’s no false promises here. ArticleSearchEngineMarketing is NOT an SEO service so don’t expect that from them don’t expect on-page SEO advice or help with keyword selection or link building advice or anything like that. It’s a service that can free up some of your time, so use it/them wisely (if at all)…
There are some powerful ways you could leverage this service even further, but the main important, unique aspect to this is their articles are guaranteed to be accepted by EZA, therefore somewhat decent quality, therefore the spins will be decent enough to submit elsewhere to further your link building efforts.
I hope this review seems fair and yet leaning towards the positive side for you but I’m writing my exact thoughts here on this, and again please let me reiterate that
EZA links aren’t the end-all, be-all for backlinks but the quality backlinks, albeit on just one site, it’s the potential for article syndication that’s true power here, and here’s an article marketing tip for you as seen on the AMR forum: submit a 100% unique version of an article to the best article directory (directories) first then submit the spins elsewhere, and that’s basically what they can do for you.
I chatted with Dan about my concerns on the EZA articles’ CTR and that’s gonna get worked on, only takes a few simple copywriting tips to improve your CTRs there, and there’s a potential for a big waste of potential direct traffic by not improving the click through on the EZA resource boxes.
I don’t have stats on my CTR from EZAs they submitted for me but I know my personally-written EZA articles hover around 25-30% and I think an article marketing service should focus on this a bit more if they’re to be deemed a “true” article marketing service, not just an article submissions service (bit of a difference there).
NOTE: I just ordered 50 more EZAs from them after discussing my concerns for getting better CTR (direct traffic form the articles and I WILL track those moving forward to let you know how those are doing)
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As you mention AMR, I run the program 10 times per day with backlink to my money site and my web 2.0 sites. My question after i generate the live link report and it’s usually 100 live submission. should i just ping it with LinkLicious or put the 100 URL in Backlink Genie, do i want use Backlink Genie xrumer blast or blog commenting to help those link to be indexed. Thanks.
Good question, the way I see it, if you’re spending all that time doing submissions then at some point you’re going to get the same root domains linking to you, so it might be best to see which of the articles sent to AMR directories have best PR on root domain, then send some more AMR submissions to a select few articles out there. This will help with indexation and link juice, and you’re building more powerful backlinks this way, send article links to articles SHOULD get the linked-to articles indexed. I’m not sure if AMR allows for rotating urls and anchor text the way that UAW does (great feature) but it should… sometimes you gotta mix it up a bit and instead of creating 100s of weak links on sub-par article directories like in the AMR list, you might want to focus on creating higher quality links on these lesser quality entities, just some thoughts….
But if I were solely focused on what you asked, then I would hedge my bets here, and would use multiple methods to index the livelinks urls, like using Backlink energizer clusters, BLG commenting links, LinkLicious, Backlinkbooster.com (which will scan your livelinks urls, strip out invalid links, and check for indexation of those livelink surls and reindex them if necessary)
If I were you, I’d do a mix of article marketing too boost the better article directory links, then use one service and one tool to do the rest.
Backlink energizer + Backlinkbooster.com, LinkLicious or BLG profile blasts or commenting links, or whatever other services are out there that do indexing for you on a decent scale (100s o flinks/month). Backlink Energizer is a one-time fee tool, kind of difficult to understand how it works exactly, requires some additional set up steps, but is an automated system and process for indexing things.
A lot of talk goes into link indexation lately, and this means there’s lots of people creating weak links and/or spun content isn’t getting indexed like it used to, so if safest bet to practice overkill with your backlinks indexation because it will only get harder, but to also employ methods like the article marketing interlinking to ensure some better quality links are created…
Did you have success with Backlinkbooster.com ? I have backlink energizer but i don’t want to use it with AMR because i already use it with web 2.0.
sorry to write again, i forgot to mention that backlinkbooster.com Pro Edition said they Boost links for up to 50 different websites. So how can I add that 100 livelink from AMR? As they are from different sites. I al heard that it work only for your websites not to backlink the backlinks.
Our average CTR is 23-28%
Just remember that we do thousands of articles a month, and many topics aren’t researched so that effects our numbers. We are going try and get some software together to help us report those numbers to our clients, that is gonna be costly and time consuming but that is our goal.
My writers do love to write, and you get high quality articles. We use EzineArticles.com and Articlesbase.com to show you the customer the quality of the original article, get you a good quality link, and provide you a copy of those articles in spin-text so you can use them in AMR, BLG, and any other system that uses normal spin-text (rumors round and about out there suggest that a big time blog content network, one that Dan has liked, is going to accept articles in the type of spin-text we provide). So in reality, you will be able to get decent links to your site from our service, plus use the spin-text to get even more quality back links.
Thanks so much for the review Dan.