I’ve had several comments and emails from people who are hearing that Unique Article Wizard is no longer effective and that UAW’s custom proprietary content-spinning, (and content-spinning in general) have been “outed” by the search engines.
The common thread of the feedback/concerns:
- “Every site I used UAW to get direct links to has dropped considerably in the SERPs.”
- “My articles don’t have any real effect any more.”
- “UAW articles have a footprint.”
Let’s address these points one by one:
“Every site I used UAW to get direct links to has dropped considerably in the SERPs.”
I used to use UAW to direct link to my money sites, but looking back on my usage I see that there was only one site that I used to get top 3 rankings for just by using UAW to direct links towards that URL. That site dropped from page 1, top 3 SERP, to page 2 at the top very recently (about a week ago).
Therefore, there are some valid concerns here, but I only have one personal site that’s been affected. Anecdotal evidence from forums and other bloggers seems to reinforce this notion, but UAW still can be effective if you apply some of the “fixes” mentioned here on this post.
“My articles don’t have any real effect any more.”
From what I’ve seen as the co-owner of Automated Link Building, most webmasters really have no clue about doing proper keyword research and being realistic about what they’re trying to achieve rankings for, and with.
However, that doesn’t mean that it’s all their/your fault. If you get 100s of backlinks from your UAW articles, then you should definitely see improvements no matter what, so the fix here is to adjust and conform to the new reality, which is that UAW’s service needs to be used differently and in a smarter way.
I STILL get pingbacks, trackbacks and Google Alerts for articles I’ve written and submitted via UAW 4-6 months ago, so the search engines ARE seeing these articles, are indexing these articles, and the articles are still providing a smattering of new backlinks after all this time.
I believe this is due to the inherent, (albeit minimal) viral nature of UAW’s service which provides a repository/article directory where other webmasters can pick up a free copy of an article and post it on their sites, leaving links intact.
NOTE: There’s 2 ways you can go here with article syndication:
1- Write topics on very general topics so more places accept them, in order to generate more total sum backlinks when your articles are published on more websites.
2- Write less general articles and submit to less places, and slow down your submission rates to 10-20/day. This will place less articles out there, put them on more targeted sites, and the slow drip feed submission will seem more natural when these seemingly unique articles start getting hosted-and-posted/syndicated.
“UAW articles have a footprint.”
Apparently, ALL spun articles have a footprint now and the reality of article spin-dication has always been that not all your articles will get indexed, therefore not all of your articles will result in accredited backlinks.
The footprints of spun articles that make them easily identifiable by the search engines:
- Character length
- Word length
- Same# of paragraphs
- Static hyperlinks
SENuke, The Best Spinner, and even Link Dozer’s article spinning ALL have spin footprints.
Since UAW seems to have one of the more widely used and advanced spinning capabilities let’s look at their footprints…
Characters and # of words used length- If the articles are all560-570 words each post-spining, then that’s a giveaway/footprint of sorts, which by itself isn’t something that will set off a dupe content alert trigger, if one even exists.
But it’s one of the criteria which, when added in with other criteria that may define a spun article.
Set # of paragraphs per article- even though with UAW the article’s paragraphs are being rotated (or something like that) to avoid search engine duplicate content detection, the fact of the matter is…this is another potential identifiable footprint, which when added in with other tell-tale signs of spun-dupe-content, could lead to an assignment that’s less than desirable for you and your articles.
Static hyperlinks - this is one of the dead giveaways for spun content because it’s the only NON-changing “thing” in most articles. Most syndicated articles could have varying length, spin-tax, synonyms replacement etc… but even if all those things are not taken into consideration and ignored, you still have articles out there that are all linking to a specific/static URL in same section of article using same anchor text.
What’s the fix here for avoiding de-valuation of spun articles due to spin-dication spin-detection?
- Vary your article lengths, and wording too…obviously.
- Don’t replace words, spin entire sentences when spinning
- Vary paragraphs length
- Vary your anchor text
- Vary/rotate your resource boxes
With UAW, you can rotate up to 17 different resources boxes and it is recommended that you do so but make every resource box 100 unique and change your anchor text.
With UAW, you can re-send articles out to their network so what I recommend is placing different anchor text in the body of each of the 3 seed articles you create with Unique Article Wizard, then publish to only the most theme-specific categories at first to have your first set of submissions going out to less places and at a low submission rate of 10-20/day.
Then go back to your saved/archived articles, and modify them to alter the paragraphs length, make each article have different number of paragraphs, and place your anchor text in different locations of the articles than the previous set did. You also want to vary what the anchor text URLs are so the next batch of submissions links to different URLs entirely.
And when you re-send, re-submit these articles, choose different categories in the hopes that these “new” articles will get placed on different sites in the network.
What do the search engines see now with these newly syndicated UAW articles?
- Different length,
- different anchor text placement,
- linking to different URLs,
- and links coming from different sites
The idea here is to not be a one-hit, one-write, one-submission wonder, which is how most people use Unique Article Wizard…but to work this still valuable and effective service in a smarter way.
Which brings me to my next point: Varying the anchor text and the URLs being linked to
Some web entities don’t need a lot of link love to rank well, and some of these entities are:
- Unique articles submitted to top-quality directories like EzineArticles.com
- Keyword-rich HubPages hub,
- Keyword-rich Squidoo Lenses
- Keyword-rich Wetpaint sites
- Keyword-rich domain names
- and more….
As was aforementioned here in this post, varying anchor text and anchor text hyperlinks placement is a key to having your spun articles remaining somewhat detection-free, therefore it stands to reason that if you build a few of the web entities mentioned above that don’t require a lot of link love to rank well, then you could achieve good results with Unique Article Wizard just by linking to these entities from a rotating resource box.
Again, UAW allows you to rotate 17 resource boxes per article, so if one article submission resulted in…say….68 publications then you could in effect get 4 links to each of your 17 web entities that don’t require a lot of link love to rank well.
If/when you implement my recommendations for your UAW submissions process and the article modifications prior to re-sending them out in re-spun-again format, you’ll have the ability to pick and choose what other URLs need more links in order to rank well, then submit articles tailor-made to “prop up” the sites that aren’t doing well yet by sending more links their way from body of the articles are your rotating resource boxes.
Further note on the”web entities”…
Your goal may not be to get your Web 2.0 sites and articles to rank well but merely to get enough traffic and backlinks to generate a decent PageRank entity that provides a DoFollow backlink. I now consider it essential (and wise) to build at least one hub page for every new site I build to develop a hub and/or lens that will eventually develop into a PageRank-ed DoFollow entity that’s pulling my money site’s feed and providing a high quality backlink.
UAW articles DO get sent to a lot of sites and DO provide direct traffic and HubPages likes to see that since it ranks your hubs partially according to how much traffic the hub you made is getting. However, it should be noted that you really don’t need to write a mini-site’s worth of content for these web 2.0 entities in order for them to rank well, all you need is to send some direct traffic their way at first via article marketing direct traffic, which in turn will generate backlinks, which in turn will result in some decent rankings for your Web 2.0 sites.
And once those sites are ranking well on their own, you need to make an assessment on whether or not you want to keep linking to them in future UAW submissions to get them highly ranked, and competing with your money sites for SERPs, or just focus your attention on your money sites with UAW re-submissions as outlined above.
Summary: how I use Unique Article Wizard now
- I build my hubs and lenses first,
- Then get an EZA article written and published.
- I wait a few days or a week for the EZA to be published
- I create a new site or blog post for same terms the articles, hub and lens are optimized for.
- If this is something I want to spend time on, I will write blog posts targeting longer-tail terms on any of my other blogs related to this topic. This long-tail targeting offers easy rankings opportunities but also provides me with additional keywords and urls to get backlinks to
- A few days after the EZA gets published, I look to see where the posts, money site, hub, lens and article are ranking in the SERPs.
- Then I write and submit an article via Unique Article Wizard and see what happens. If results after a week or two aren’t stellar, I rewrite and re-send the UAW article as outlined above.
*** I also use Google Alerts to notify me of the articles that did get found and I pop them into a Delicious feed to get Delicious links that get added to an RSS feed on Delicious, which then gets syndicated to my index driver sites.
That last part may sound complicated and it’s not really necessary but it helps
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How competitive can the long tail terms be to rank in the top 10 from just UAW backlinks?
Thanks
Hi Sara, not sure what your question is here….
When you say “from just UAW backlinks” it sounds like you think that potential hundred or so UAW backlinks is not worth much. But they are worth something if your destination urls are positioned well enough to benefit from any amount of types of backlinks, just as long as those backlinks, stick.
Excellent post, Daniel.
In particular, your idea about re-posting of articles is stellar. I have been re-posting articles in UAW, and have made some minor changes to them before doing so, but now I see, from reading your great explanation, how important it is to make the much more extensive changes that you refer to.
Thanks!
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Hey Brigitte, welcome to the blog, your first comment got flagged as Spam but future ones shouldn’t have any problems getting through. Glad to see that this post is helping some people out, with was the goal of the UAW Tips newsletter.
Thanks for stopping by,
Dan
Hey Daniel, Thanks for the informative post again. Is UAW still #2 on your recommended list with the latest insight? BTW, I joined Backlink Solutions through your back door link a few days ago. How can I get the video and instructions that you were giving away earlier? So far it seems pretty easy to use. How many links do you set the drip setting per site? Can you only post to one category using their article snipped tool?
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Hi Robert, I just sent you an email, reply back with receipt and I’ll send you the video and best practices guide.
Yes, UAW is still #2. I get great results with it, especially when linking to hubs. I sent the link to this post to my UAW Tips newsletter people and some of them were surprised that I would even hint at the fact that it wasn’t working well for people. This tells me that they’re using it effectively and perhaps my newsletter was a part of that, I hope so…
I also don’t see an up-tick in people canceling their UAW memberships, which is yet another tell-tale sign of people still happy with the service. However, the real reason I wrote this post was not to provide a valuable how-to-use-uaw-effectively post (shame on me, right!?) , but to allay people’s fears. Obviously the post will do just that and perhaps even encourage the doubters to get UAW or just stick with it and use it more effectively.
And I still get people emailing me and Skype-ing me thanking me for the BLS recommendations because they’re seeing real positive results with it, even the SEOs who doubted the service but believed enough in me to at least give it a shot.
Thanks for the question,
Dan
So after we sign up for backlink solutions…how do we get the video and instructions? Do we just send the receipt to that email you have on that BLS review page?
Let me know cause I am thinking about buying.
At the moment, what would you recommend more, BLS or Linkdozer? I’m leaning towards BLS myself causes its still your number 1 recommended link building service.
Im a real cheapy when it comes to software and a $100+ a month is no small fee for me — but with what you’ve said about it and the reviews Ive seen, it seems like sound investment, especially for someone with numerous sites.
On a side note, is having both UAW AND Banklink solutions a good idea? Or will one or the other be good enough for backlinks?
Thanks as Usual,
-Sean
Yes, you can send me an email and I will forward you the video and best practices guide I came up with.
I use UAW, Link Dozer, The Link Juicer and several other services all at once. It’s what I do, test and use and review services.
It’d help if you had some sites that would make more money just by being ranked higher prior to starting out with any link building service.
“I also use Google Alerts to notify me of the articles that did get found and I pop them into a Delicious feed to get Delicious links that get added to an RSS feed on Delicious, which then gets syndicated to my index driver sites.”
Can you expand on this process? What are index driver sites? Perhaps the topic of a new post? I am trying to set something like this up and I am not sure on the best method. I believe there is a wso backlink booster that does something similar. If improving your backlinks becomes labor intensive then I think that effort is better spent on creating quality backlinks. Thanks.
Hi Armando, here’s some articles I wrote on the subject
Delicious Links,
How To Get Backlinks With Index Driver Sites (guest author post)
and you might want to read up on Twitter Link Wheels, too
Hi Daniel,
If UAW is having trouble with footprints like some people suggested then would other similar services like AMA or even BLS suffer the same fate? It scary which service to use and how to use them effectively, isn’t it?
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Exactly my point, UAW isn’t in trouble and only the people who didn’t use UAW to fullest, best extent in the first place are saying it doesn’t work. They just need to step up their UAW game, is all
Great idea about not making UAW a one hit wonder here. Personally, I’ve always used it strickly for link building, with one link going to my money site, and another going to one like you mentioned above (EZA, hubpages, youtube, etc.).
Now, with that in mind, you can link to other sites (perhaps part of your link wheel) and build up links to them automatically with a second, rewritten submission.
Kurt, that’s correct and thanks for stopping by. Something else I am playing with is continually adding resource boxes to articles and letting them rotate, so every article will randomly get more backlinks to all the urls I already linked to. The trick for getting direct traffic from UAW article sis to place your links near the end of the articles.
Also, on the re-sends, you gotta make sure to change as much as possible about the articles, what anchor text is, what url being linked to is, the article itself, area of body of article where hyperlink is placed etc…
Hi Dan,
Ive been using UAW for two months now and ive been happy with them until this past few weeks.
I noticed the link counts drop (mine dropped 60%).
On one of my websites, I used to have 305 links in there about 3-4 weeks ago and now, it just has 113 links according to yahoo explorer.
On my other website, I used to have 265 links about the same time I checked the first one. And now, guess what I only have 102 links according to Y! explorer.
I submitted a ticket to them but they replied I have to contact yahoo for the drastic decrease of my links. I was put really off with this reply. I just dropped 60% of my links and they wouldnt even bother.
I am pretty sure with this results as I only use UAW for backlinks of these two sites.
Do you have any experiences regarding this issues? I think this month is my last with them if I dont have a real answer to this one. At 67/month, this is not the cheapest service.
Please let me know what you think.
All the best,
-Yan Kirby
Hi Yan, I had only one site that got predominantly UAW backlinks and it dropped form page 1, position 3, to page 2, ranked #11-12 overall. However, I did straight-blasting for this site, ie. direct links from UAW articles to the destination url, but my other websites where I had achieved a more well-rounded-out inbound link profile hadn’t suffered at all, which is really why I wrote this post.
Like anything SEO and/or link building related, you don’t want to be too dependent on any one method or source for backlinks and a few links will work a lot better if you spread them out a bit using link wheels that are built properly for maximum effect.
About UAW’s response: I think sometimes they know just how big and popular they are and forget how they got that way, …by taking good care of their customers and displaying concern for their client’s/member’s successes.
Truth be told, if the on-page SEO is there and the competition isn’t totally ridiculous you only need a few quality backlinks to get your desired SERPs.
Hope this helps, and is perhaps a better answer than the non-answer you received from UAW.
Thanks,
Dan
Hi Dan,
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Yes, your answer is far more valuable than what I received from UAW.
I do agree with you when you said that on page seo and some competition check will pretty much do the trick.
If you dont mind me asking, what other programs have been very effective for you? Perhaps im just missing a service that I need to have to grow my business.
All the best,
-Yan Kirby
PS I bought UAW from a blog talking about the same things you are tackling here. If I landed here first, I wouldnt have mind using your affiliate link.
In days where autoblogs grew to a drastic scale, your blog is gem.
Yan, thanks again for the feedback, and glad my answer helped.
Backlink Solutions is the service I get the most thanks for and is a service I still use. For same price as BLS, you can get Link Dozer which has like a 1-2 week learning curve but is quite powerful. However, if you want to shorten your learning curve you can wait until I give the go-ahead for when LD comes out with something that comes pretty close to eliminating the learning curve.
Sick Profile Maker does ok for low to medium competition terms
Alright Dan,
Im pretty sure it will be worth the wait.
There are more and more people who prefer Link Dozer than SENuke nowadays and I would like to get the real score before diving head first as I value my time very highly.
I’ll be sure to check back often.
All the best,
-Yan Kirby
Hey Yan, I am going to be interviewing Kristina for Link Dozer soon and will publish the interview on this blog
So, if I’m reading this correctly, you don’t really link back to your money site from UAW articles anymore at all? Or do you mix your money site in there, too?
I do both actually, but direct links to money site sis more of an extreme slow-drip method and the fast and furious direct linking from UAW articles comes from uaw article body to web 2.0 sites and other satellite entities.
I use Backlink Solutions for most of the direct linking to money sites though
Hey Dan. Long time reading, first time posting!
Just so you know, I am using the XFactor micro niche approach — minisites, 5 pages or so, Adsense and so on. The thing I like the most about this method is its simplicity.
If I can reasonably automate or semi-automate the linkbuilding and, yet, keep things simple, I’d be glad to follow one of your affiliate links.
I tried UAW but I thought the links it gave me looked too spammy. I ended up canceling the service.
I also tried Link Dozer but, wow, the learning curve is beyond steep — it’s almost vertical! So much setting up before actually linking, I just don’t have the time to do all that.
How does Backlink Solutions compare to both?
Thanks,
Max
Hey Max,
Yeah what you want is Backlink Solutions for your sites. Using The Link Juicer in combination with BLS is even better. This varies the types of links your site receives. I would also throw up a linkwheel with SENuke if you have it. If you don’t have The Link Juicer at least do deep bookmarking with Bookmarking Demon or whatever bookmarking software you use.
Thanks David!
Daniel, thank you for the insights and guidance. My model is similar to Max White’s. I have been using John Leger’s 3 -Way links for a few months now and building 5-10 links per day.
I went on BLS’s website and they say the program is closed. Did I miss something?
Thanks again
Marc
Hi Mark, you missed the aff link/back door access to it, go to link building services and you’ll see how to get in.
Thanks,
Dan
P.S. I will send you some tips for getting started quickly, and it’s sort of a best practices guide, too
Thanks!
Sure thing, make sure you email me for the bonus guide, too
First of all thank you for the time and effort you have put into these reviews. Your information has helped bring a lot of things into focus for me.
The problem I have with UAW is that they do not allow URLs in the resource boxes that do no relate to the content of the article. Many people are using UAW under the false impression that this is ok, but eventually their articles will start being rejected when UAW discovers the varying links.
This policy destroys the effectiveness of UAW for anyone promoting lots of Adsense sites with articles unrelated to the micro site content, like in the XFactor method. Dan, do you know of any article submitters that will allow multiple resource boxes like UAW but not have the restrictions on URLs having to be related to the article content?
Hi Bruce thanks for the feedback and for stopping by. While I’ve yet to experience this issue, I respect that you’ve experienced it so the solution for you is to do what this post suggests: promote the web 2.0 spokes of your link wheels and inner pages of your xfactor sites with rotating resource box urls. The rotating resource box urls will be the gradual and effective link building mechanism for ALL portions of your link wheels and the urls in article body will be the “heavy-hitter” backlinks, so I recommend you develop a link wheel to avoid the issue you’re having.
On the other hand, I know Link Dozer has no such restrictions and neither does My Article Network (not recommended btw) but with any networks that are somewhat human-dependent (needing people to accept and publish your content) there’s the inherent risk of link deletions or article rejections. I think you’ll be fine if you just use UAW to drive backlinks to your link wheel entities using rotating resource box urls, you’ll get DoFollow decent PR backlinks from hubpages and these have some staying power to them and are quality links, same idea applies to an EZA article that gets PR and direct traffic, too.
Hope this helps, if not please ask away
Thanks again,
Dan
Dan -
Thanks for the super quick reply. I will check out the methods you have recommended and may take a stab at the Link Dozer learning curve. I also thought I would pass along the text of the rejection notice that UAW sent me:
“Links in Resource Box do not seem to relate to article content, which may confuse the reader. Please ensure that the links in your resource boxes take the reader to a link where they can find more information on what they just read. Once you have corrected these issues, please feel free to resubmit your article for approval.”
Thanks again for your help!
Bruce
Hey Bruce, you ‘re welcome you caught me at a good time during one of my site sweeps. UAW might have done you a favor by telling you that, because they’re almost forcing you to develop more relevant entities to link to from the articles, which can only be a good thing especially with UAW’s links
Dan -
I never got a response from my reply to the rejection message from UAW so decided to open a trouble ticket about it. Just got a reply today and they approved my article! Here is the text of the reply;
“There must have been some misunderstanding. One of our new reviewers who are still in training declined your article. This is just fine. At one point we did not allow different links in the article resource boxes but that was changed quite some time back. ”
This really helps because now I can spend time creating very unique and high quality articles on mainstream topics and then use the postings to provide backlinks to several low competition micro sites at one time.
Thanks for your timely replies and great advice.
Bruce
Bruce, good news man, good job hanging in there, too. Now you’re (back) off to the races!
Dan
Hello Daniel,
I bought BLS and sent you an email with the details. Can’t wait to put it to work!!
Marc
Hi Marc, I emailed you the best practices guide
Thanks and enjoy!
Dan
Hi Daniel
Besides the now required advanced spinning (variations of lengths for all sentence/paragraph elements) what are the approximate sydication parameters for atlest satisfactory results. In other words you mentioned limiting sumition rates to 10 a day.
Other questions could be (1) how many seed articles are recommended. The standard from outsouring writers is 3 articles. Should this now be more for added “uniqueness” or should each of those 3 be spun to death.
Also what is (2) the total limit for submiting spun articles to get max effectiveness. Sure UAW has no system limit and one can submit the same content many times. But in total how many submitions are reasonable, so I submit no more than 10 today, no more than 10 again some other day. how many of these are enough.
Jose, are you currently a member/user of UAW?
Hi Dan.
Not at the moment. I have never been a member. I was put of by the very argument that you since cleared in this post. i.e comments from users that UAW is no longer effective.
This was about 4 months ago and I thought the service had completely lost its effectiveness.
BTW, where does UAW post these articles, only thier network or a selection of high PR sites. Where does it post.
OK, good, reason for asking is I didn’t really want to delve into the minutiae of answering that question if you weren’t currently a user and wouldn’t help you anyways if you’re staying away from it anyways.
UAW REMAINS effective beyond the 5-6 months period for a number of reasons.
They add new sites to their network all the time
They register you with new article directories, not the major ones though, just sites running article directory scripts.
UAW can have somewhat of a viral effect, since additional versions of your articles can get picked and and freely submitted via their uberarticles directory. I’ve seen this happen, although I NEVER expected it to happen to be frank… but I still get the pingbacks from articles submitted many months ago and the only source for this can be the viral distribution, ie/ new sites picking up my articles from their directory. The way that works is…when you syndicate an article to other’s site sin UAW network, it has a blurb/snippet at the end of SOME articles (site owner preference) that says something like
“you can pick up an unique version of this article from the uberarticles directory) and some people actually go there to get a copy of your article and publish it.
Where does UAW publish articles?
To article directories, it maintains a list of active directories, and constantly finds new directories that will accept content.
To sites/blogs- they have a plugin called Unique Article Wizard plugin where users can accept content relevant to their site categories, and then review prior to publishing and/or auto-publish content submitted by UAW users that fit into that category.
So their network grows in a pretty seamless manner, it’s been around for years and network growth isn’t dependent on guru mailings…
Side note: Highly recommended by me and UAW people themselves that you get this tool here if you’re going to use their service
Hi Daniel,
for the past 3 hours I was reading articles and posts on your site. This is a goldmine of incredible amount of good info.
I am fairly new to IM, publishing mainly to EZA, making Squidoo etc. but I am realizing that I am not going forward very effectively. I heard about UAW and thought of joining but I was so unsure of spinning articles, seeing such a poor quality of spun articles online. After reading your review of UAW I would like to join and will be joining through your affiliate link. I have a few questions.
Will I have control of spinning the article, though? Or is it just an infusion of synonyms. From your article above it sounds like we would have some control. Am I assuming right?
Also does UAW submits to EZA? I would not want them to do that for me, as I prefer to submit there myself. Would I have some control over it, ie could I remove EZA and possibly other directories from their submission list?
By the way, in case you are wondering how I found you. Perfect example of how article marketing is working for you. I was looking at EZA for Traffic-Bug articles and voila, there you were.
Thanks for your time.
Dita
Hello again Dita.
With UAW you have control over what you write, their spinning takes place on back-end and you don’t really see end result until you get some Google Alerts or pingbacks from sites that syndicated your article on their sites.
UAW doesn’t submit to EZA, no… but as you mentioned earlier you’re writing EZAs and lenses and what-not, so watch what happens to those hubs, lenses, and EZAs when you start linking to theme via UAW submissions; pretty easy rankings will ensue for those properties.
Thanks for the feedback and questions,
Dan
Hi Daniel,
thank you for your response. This is awesome. I was only concentrating to linking to my site. So basically how I understand it from your post some of the links in my resource boxes will be to my sites, some to my articles and squidoo etc.
Thank you again!
Dita
Exactly, the wider your web ring the more you get to use UAW’s rotating resource box feature which can randomize and rotate what you link to form your articles; this is instrumental in getting links to those other properties which should be linking to your main sites anyway…
Daniel,
I have been using BLS for over one month now and I really love the tool. It’s easy to use, spinning is easy and posting is a breeze. Can’t wait to measure the results over time.
I have a few french websites that need serious link building. Do you know a BLS-like link building service that accepts french posts/links?
Thanks again for your help.
Marc
Hey Marc, thanks for stopping by, and good question.
I never thought about language requirements on these networks and services, I will ask around.
Please report back with any measured results with BLS.
Thanks,
Dan
I will report on BLS. What service do you recommend to complement BLS and maximize the effectiveness of a link-building program? Or is BLS enough to succeed in moderately competitive markets?
I have around 20 websites and growing. BLS has a monthly limit of 1,000 links, so this is like 50 links/site/mth.
Hey Marc, UAW is a good complement to BLS because it fills in a lot of “blanks”, you get unlimited submissions, link volume and can link to web 2.0 properties from UAW articles…
Great! Thanks.
I’ve heard the same. I’m sure that link wheels have been talked about enough online that Google is going after them now. Once you know what to look for, writing an algorithm to detect and devalue such links is not that hard. Of course, the more complex the wheel, the harder it is to detect. So I am sure that you can implement a variation of the idea of link wheels that involves more sites and more intricate interlinking that Google wouldn’t be able to detect. But then that means maintaining and promoting even more sites… so why bother
Good morning Dan,
Found any link-building service for non-english sites?
Marc
Ah… I forgot, will try to remember to keep an eye, ear out for those qualifications when looking at new services
Hi Daniel,
As far as I can see the 4 main players in the article distribution field are: Content Crooner, Distribute Your Articles, Submit Your Articles and Unique Article Wizard. Your vote from what I’ve read on your site is firmly with UAW.
Our SBI site was mainly going to be an affiliate marketing content site and affiliate article marketing to be its main source of links to specific landing pages. Have 45 articles with Ezinearticles and 10 with others.
Shall continue doing this even though Traffic is Sloooow. Hence I have started looking down the road of article distribution services.
As it seems google is not happy with this process and our budget tight, we want to be sure the one chosen will not in the future end up penalizing the site.
The strategy outlined above is clear but is this a situation where we will end up playing dodge google all the time?
Also from various reviews etc there seems to be a strong suggestion that we should have numerous websites (10 – 20 by one person)to get the best out of UAW . There is also the suggestion to send out less articles to specific niche sites etc so as to camouflage its common source.
I have no specific question, but would appreciate your view on what have said above.
Cheers
Bill
PS. If you had a budget of $70 a month what would you spend it on to promote your new site(s)?
If I had budget of $70/00/month this is exactly what I would do, and it’s not dodging Google, it’s giving G what it wants
I think you’re saying that for a $70/mo budget, you would go with UAW, right Daniel?
That means all you backlinks are coming from resource boxes of article directories.
I understand that Google gives more weight to contextual links. That would seem to say go with a submission tool that submits contextual links to on-topic blogs.
You’re the expert and I respect your opinion…could you just please clarify the directory vs. blog question a bit?
Thanks, Joe
Hey Joseph, yes I think UAW is best bang for the buck at that budget point.
You CAN put anchors in article bodies though, not only just in resource boxes, I’m just saying that if you have a lot of urls that need anchor links, to rotate them in using random resource boxes to get a nice slow consistent anchor linking campaign going.
Links come form blogs, article directories, html sites etc…
Consistency is the key here.
ALSO, IMPORTANT NOTE:
work your long tail terms first to get value and rankings right away, then your sales will go up, your traffic will build, you’ll make more money and your budget will increase.
I recently quit using UAW. It was like a roller coaster…links would go up and then go right back down. Very unstable and frustrating…since then..using different strategies like blog networks I’ve seen a steady increase of back links in a much more consistent and stable manner. UAW do not on the sites and therefore have no control…it’s not worth the $67/month in my opinion.
You’re gonna have the same issue with link counts bouncing up and down with other blog networks, which is why the plug in referenced Here is deemed necessary for using UAW properly
Hello Daniel,
Your infomation is very informative on many services and it was the UAW review you did that caught my attention the most…
I have 39 websites that promote Clickbank products and after 10 months of building site after site it is now time to drive targeted traffic to them.
My team of writers have now finished hundreds of UAW articles and are now ready to start putting them into UAW, I will ask them to read all the info on your very helpful site to get maximum results and something I wanted to ask you is you have mentioned somewhere on your site that if we buy a UAW subscription through your link that you have an advanced video that will show step by step how to get even more backlinks through using certain techniques…do I just buy through your link and send you the reciept after this to get that video/videos?
I will be buying a subscription in the next few days.
Thanks Daniel
Sean from Ireland
Hello Dan,
I have bought a UAW subscription through your link in the hope you will send me as much help as you can…the advanced video you talk of which will show me how to get the most out of UAW?
I bought the subscription yesterday.
Sean
We are actually doing a test with UAW and several other Article Marketing programs. See the result for yourself:
http://www.moneymakerjobs.com/article-marketing-search-engine-saturation-test-unique-author-name/
UAW is kicking everybody’s you know what…
Nice test there, well thought out, several other tests that I’ve seen on forums have proven the same thing; more index articles via UAW than anywhere else. This post you commented on, I HAD to write because people were complaining about it for whatever reason (Google slapped a lot of sites a long time ago) ..Though I write reviews and opine based on how effective a service can be, not how many links get generated, either way both approaches say the same thing; UAW is the superior article marketing service for the money, still!