My Article Network is a well-organized and easy to use system for generating traffic and backlinks.
You get a lot of links and free content with Brad Callen’s service and that’s all they say they’ll give you so it’s worth they’re asking price to join
My Article Network also has plenty of drawbacks, too and I made those areas of “lacking-ness” pretty clear on part 3 of the My Article Network review series (look below for that). I also made my points known on the Warrior forum, but there were 3 pages of threads for the MyArticleNetwork review on that forum so maybe they missed my suggestions. They seem like nice guys so I will give them the benefit of the doubt there.
Is My Article Network recommended? YES, BUT…
It’s not the most powerful article marketing and article submission programs I’ve ever tested.
Unique Article Wizard, which costs $10.00/more a month, is by far the best article syndication program I’ve ever used.
However, you may not need the power of Unique Article Wizard, so I recommend that you get My Article Network only if you realize that you’re getting a light-weight version of Unique Article wizard here (and saving $10.00/month, too).
Go here to sign up for My Article Network. (come back to this site http://linkvanareviews.com if you need help with anything)
You have 30 or 60 days to try it out and if you don’t like it, you can have your low rankings back, 
To read the whole review series from the begininng start here (opens in new windows):
- My Article Network – Review of the My Article Network Link Building service
- My Article Network – Results after 1 week
- My Article Network vs. 1 WayLinks
- My Article Network – The GOOD – Part 2 of the My Article Network Review
- My Article Network – The BAD – Part 3 of the My Article Network Review
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Thanks for the case study and review of MAN. Since I already am a member at UAW, I think I will skip MAN.
On another note… Trackback Spider has opened their doors again for 27 new members. Any thoughts on this service?
Thanks!
Matt
Hey Matt, welcome back.
Yeah, MAN is a lightweight version of UAW, although with a cleaner and easier to use interface. I’m a bit wary of trackback spiders because it goes over the line towards blackhat land, but cans till be effective at generating links.
It all depends on your risk tolerance I guess. I don’t use that type of service,
How is UAW working for you?
Go here to get some newsletter emails and tips for using UAW in powerhouse ways (optin is a bottom of that post)
Thanks,
Dan
Thanks Dan! I have only been a member of UAW for a couple of months so it is hard to say if it is working well. One of my new sites cracked the first page in Google for a couple of the keywords I am targeting, but UAW isn’t the only method I am using to build links to this particular site. Although the majority of the links are from UAW.
As for Trackback Spider, I have been doing a little research since I left the comment above, and in my opinion it is definitely a spam machine. For now I am going to shy away from that kind of link building.
I want to add another service to my arsenal, so I am looking at Backlink Solutions now. I can’t believe I missed the chance to get in on the full membership! Is it still worth it to join the Associates Membership level? At 27 bucks a month it seems it would be worth it to check it out.
Matt, my Skype ID is aikidoroll. Add me to it and contact me and I’ll hook you up with something, ok?
And yeah, you did miss out on the BLS disocunt, it’s quite a deal, or WAS quite a deal, and will be closed for a long time.
Contact me tonight, and yeah the trackback thing is sketchy at best, and I see people using it on my niche sites, then I go to their sites to see how they linked to me (that’s why I got a pingback I was supposing…) only to find no link to my sites from theirs, and they were using trackback-spider-like software to search and ping other sites without actually linking to them, but getting linked back via displayed pingbacks as comments etc…
The problem there is that I mark these false pingback comments as SPAM and I’m sure that if enough people do it, it will end up getting that site blacklisted.
Try installing the Related Sites plugin to see if it works, you’ll need to get a key from the Blog Traffic Exchange guy for it to work though
Yep, the BLS full membership discount is gone. GONE!
Also, while browsing the net I manage to find the UAW discount link, but it expired… EXPIRED!
It was $29 for a month. I don’t about you, but that’s a good discount…
I probably should of join UAW at that time when I first heard about the discount offer but I didn’t because there were problems with UAW at that time. Lots of complaints and issues with their system. AUGHH!
I know how you feel Matt… seriously. A great special deal just passed by you.
WHOOSH!
*Dark Vadar’s voice* NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!
Hey maybe if I get enough people in the door to UAW they’ll give a temp discount, (working on it)… UAW’s a bargain at any price under 97/month though.
Elbert, I just activated the Related Websites plugin from Blog Traffic Exchange. It’s good for IM sites mostly since that’s what the majority of the sites in their network are related to but is supposedly good for increasing traffic.
Also, if you have a copy of the MSN/Search Engine Loophole ebook, then that plugin will automate your page 1 rankings supposedly (for the MSN search engine)
Well it looks like I am finally going to have to download Skype!
Right, Skype’s such a useful tool, can save your text chats for review later on, and best way to reach me wherever I am…
Dave’s MSN Search Engine Loophole? Haven’t tried it yet. Not sure I’m going to for a while. It sounds good, but currently, I’m not going to try the Loophole at the moment.
I remember there was a topic somewhere in the warrior forum doing a “negative” review about the loophole but it got deleted. Then again those people were just throwing insults to Dave and Chris Rempel. Hahaha, I like the way Dave just totally destroy them all. It just turned into a flame fest.
Yeah half those members flame something they never tried a lot of times, and yet Dave is an 8-9 year SEO pro, so who are they to argue, eh?
The Loophole takes advantage of how MSN ranks pages and site (when MSN sees different outbound links on sites they assume site is ever-changing, so they “like” sites like that) because MSN, unlike Google… thinks a site’s content has changed when outbound links have changed.
So, change your outbound links automatically and you rank #1 with one-page sites, IF, IF you also have a network of web 2.0 properties linking to those one-page sites.
The book also says that demographically, MSN is supposedly a better converting search engine visitor.
Who knows?
I joined UAW through your link. I was just wondering if I can get to page one on google for a single keyword if I just submitted one article through UAW?
Can you tell me when I can expect to see some movement in my search engine rankings?
Can I take the article that I submitted to UAW and submit the very same article to MyArticleNetwork.com without rewriting the article any further?
Hi John, thanks for joining via the link.
Regarding getting ranked for a single word phrase, it all depends on how competitive the phrase is.
Let’s say this one-word phrase is a medical term or malady, like conjunctivitis… If you registered the domain name conjunctivitis.com or something similar, then you’d be page 1 in no time at all, IF you had a decent amount of content on the site discussing related terms, and IF you get a few backlinks from your UAW submissions.
About using UAWs and repurposing them as MANs…yes, that will work sort of, and it actually works better if you take your “UAWs” and put them into MAN than if you try to put your “MANs” into UAW for submissions because Unique Article Wizard has a certain format they need their articles to be in (as you probably know).
Because of UAW’s specific formatting for articles, it’s better to repurpose your articles via UAW> MAN than vice versa.
It helps a LOT if your on-page optimization is done well, since that means less links are needed to rank well, too.
Read up on silo site structures and on-page optimization and practice it, and you’ll only need to use 1 linkbuilding service, or two, if they allow you a variance of types of backlinks.
Here’s a link to a good article on building silo structured sites
Thanks,
Dan
P.S. Hope this answers your question
Hey Daniel, comparing Amautomation to My article nework, which one do you think is better? As I heard many people said they are sort of the same.
Hi James, they’re the same thing as each other AMA and MAN.
Same quality networks, too, just faster link syndication with the new MAN interface
Thanks for the reply Daniel, I found your blog contains a lot of great information, in fact I just spent a few hours reading your posts.:) I’m planning to use MAN or TheLinkJuicer or both, but there are several things I’m not quite sure, do you mind answering a few questions regarding it?
1)Does the quality of articles that matter when using MAN?
The reason I’m asking this is because MAN requires spun articles to work with, but it cost quite a lot of money to hire someone to rewrite articles in a spun format.
And if the quality of such articles doesn’t matter, then I could just use the content boss spun content or some junk content created by bot and piece several articles together to increase the uniqueness of them.
2)How do you spin an article? What is the precentage of uniqueness you would aim at?
Do you just rewrite the whole artcle once, then distribute it? I know a savvy marketer who normally rewrites every sentence of an article 4 times to gain a high uniqueness before submit it. I’m wondering if it’s necessary to rewrite it in such way. I want to lower the cost of rewriting articles, and a 4x rewrite is not cheap:(
3)Does the uniqueness of an article(blog text) matter when using TheLinkJucier?
It seems TheLinkJuicer also requires spun content to work with, but I’m not sure if it matter that much, again, what is the precentage of uniqueness you would aim at?
4)Comparing TheLinkJuicer and MAN, which one would be more effective?
Forgive me for the long comment:)
Thanks!
James, thanks for the feedback and the questions.
It means a lot to me that you’d spend a long time reading this blog since it’s meant to educate the readers and not just review link building services.
Re. Quality of articles, it does matter with MAN because you have a good % of people not auto-approving new articles so you need to spend a bit of time here with the spinning. MAN allows you to spin every sentence until your article has reached a certain % of uniqueness. However, their uniqueness indicator is way off as indicated by webmaster who receive free MAN articles then test them against copyscape.
None of that really matters though, read the dupe content penalty post. Also know that “savvy” marketers and SEO people realize that no matter how much you spin an article and add titles, you can only hope that about 30 of those articles will have a steady holding spot in the SERPS.
Which is why article marketing with MAN and UAW is really good for backlinks, but for actually getting rankings and traffic with your articles you need to use EzineArticles’ articles.
Spinning: It does take time the spinner has a real nice step by step interface (better than UAW’s actually) so their really cool to use and understand interface, the number of blogs in their network, and their outsourcing feature is what makes me a big fan of their service.
I forget how MAN looks on the inside now, but last I checked they had an outsourcer login feature, which allowed you to give access to a staffer/elancer to write and/or spin your articles. I asked the guys at 99centarticles about this and they weren’t aware of it, but they said they’d be willing to work with people who wanted articles done and spun, and provided the outsourcer logins.
99centarticles.com did a job for me whereby they wrote 25 articles of 500 words each and submitted them to EzineArticles, Isnare and some other places for under 200 dollars, but point is… I provided them login details to my EZA account and they submitted articles there for me, so I’m sure they’ll oblige for using your MAN Outsourcer login if you ask them.
Unique Article Wizard has joined forces with some other service I haven’t used yet and this service will directly import the articles you asked them to write for you directly into your UAW account, but at something like $12.00/article. It takes me an hour to write a good content article, spin it 2 times more and send it out via the UAW network.
Anyways the content does matter, and your results with MAN are dependent on your niche and the quality of the niche sites in the MAN network that republish your articles.
LinkJuicer:
You don’t get a lot a lot of powerful links here, or ANY powerful links for that matter, but the service does work and there are some features that I really love with this service. TheLinkJuicer, TLJ is something that is going to be in my top 4-5 list as soon as they have an affiliate program going. Once they have an affiliate program going I’ll make a best practices video for using it much like I do for people who get BLS.
You know, in my case study and tests for MAN, I was trying to rank well for the term “blog writing tips”… And I was stuck on page 2 for last 4 months or so, then I popped this url into TLJ and now it’s on page 1 one solidly and creeps up every so often. MAN got the blog post to page 2 is my guess and TLB put it over the top with a resurgence of backlinks on a daily steady basis, which might be more conducive to having links that “stick” instead of a whole barrage of them coming all at once with article syndication.
Forgive me for the long reply, haha!
Dan
Thanks a lot for your patient to answer my questions Daniel, much appreciated!
So the uniqueness of the content is important to get approved from those blog owners when using MAN, then how about GOOGLE? For instance, if I have one spun article that is 70% uniqueness, and another spun version is 30%, would google give more ranking or link power to the one that have a higher precentage of uniqueness? As long as they all got indexed.
James, you have to look at it this way…
Google’s only going to rank 10 pages on its Page 1 of results, anything other than that is not worth going after.
Sites in the MAN network aren’t going to rank well for articles you syndicate since those sites are most accepting free content and nothing else, therefore their quality is low, therefore they’ll never see page 1 with your articles.
You’re supposed to use MAN, UAW, LinkVana etc…. to get backlinks that get your site to page 1. Uniqueness of content does matter to Google and how Google is ranking content. If a site is 100% “free unique content” it generally doesn’t hold a lot of SEO value, but links from those sites have value, ALL links have varying degrees of value.
The issue with MAN is that you can’t leapfrog over sites already published to…. to get newer articles republished by other site sin the network, not just the first 50 or so sites that accept your article. If MAN has 50 sites in your niche set to auto-accept your articles, then you’re going to get re-published on the same 50 sites all the time, and will experience the law of diminishing returns there. I mentioned this to them and they haven’t replied nor fixed this gaping lack in their system, which is why they’re #4 and why I don’t use them anymore
Thanks Daniel, I’m getting clear about this thing. The most thing I care about is not whether those spun articles can rank well themselves, but how much link power they can pass to my site. What I want to figure out is, given two spun articles that link to my site, one with 30% uniqueness, another with 70%, are they gonna pass the same link power?
Also, if I grab an article from my site, then post it to many other sites without changing the content, if luckily these duplicate articles got indexed, would they pass any link power or link juice to the original one on my sites?
Hi James, great questions…
Here’s what I’ve seen…
PressRelease and Article Directories handle duplicate content articles well, as does Youtube and other video sharing sites?
Why?
Because they’re all authority sites…
You won’t see any authority sites in the MAN network, that’s for sure, but you will see some higher quality sites in the UAW network. Yes, you could take a blogpost from your site and try to syndicat eit verbatim, unchanged, but if you do that and another site like an article directory hosts it and posts it, then you run the risk of the search engines deciding which of these 2 urls to rank fo rthe given term.
Now, even though the dupe content penalty really only applies to having dupe content on several of your own sites on same server, subnet IP class, I still see that the same article posted verbatim hardly ever takes up more than a few spots on page 1 for COMPETITIVE terms. If the term is long-tail, then there’s no tmuch competition and the SEs realy don’t hav emuch to choose from fo rranking and relevancy options fo rthose terms, so long-tails are good for verbatim article syndication.
Now, with all that being said, you should definitely spin and modify your content whenever possible, the few extra minutes that takes won’t hurt.
Blog networks are good for backlinks mainly, with a modicum of direct traffic to be expected if the sites hosting your articles are of decent quality and not totally filled with free “unique” articles that lessen their quality. Therefore the power of your articles syndicated for backlinks generation is dependent upon the uniqueness of the articles to lessen the dupe-ness of the site hosting your articles, and the quality of the sites linking to you from your syndicated articles.
Quality and uniqueness of articles and quality of sites linking to you are most important.
UAW has article directories, better quality sites/network, and a more advanced spinner capability than MAN.
Please read Recommended Link building Service FAQs if you haven’t already, some important stuff there
Thanks a lot Daniel, you really explained this in a clear and easy to understand manner, I definitely gonna spin my articles heavily by following your advices. Once again, thank you.
Well, I think I will go back to using MAN/AMA for my new sites.
By the way, my old articles that went live around February have pretty much stop being published. Only 144 times… is my highest while my lowest is 56 times, with all of them have an accept rate of 89% or higher. All in the software category.
Dan, do you know a service that writes spun articles, or ready syntaxed articles?
Writing these articles are too painful for me…
Hey Elbert, yeah after a certain point you’ll reach the end of the road with your articles syndication, it’s unavoidable…
HumanSpinner is supposed to be ok for human spinning and creating articles.
I heard Mass Article Control is a piece of junk btw…
When I write my UAWs I hit the submission rate pretty hard, 150/day so I can see the effects quicker and then get more articles out there.
Yes, it’s a shame… whatever happened to that 10,000+ network?
I’ve heard alot about HumanSpinner, some mixed reviews, I might take a look at it again.
Now that you mentioned Mass Article Control, I’ve been reading lots about it lately. The product was actually trying to be sold at Flippa.com for $100,000 or maybe higher… but then it couldn’t be sold there.
http://flippa.com/auctions/77526/This-No1-Clickbank-Site-Made-973974-80-In-3-Months–1300-plusDay-
I think it was sold elsewhere though. There was actually some plagiarism issues with their PLR articles aswell. It’s fairly recent.
http://rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net/2009/11/08/mass-article-control-ripoff-plrarticleshop/
Also… after he sold MAM, he’s now working on Mass PPV Traffic. It has a really nice sale letter though
Interesting stuff there.
MAN probably does have a 10k network, but your articles only should be getting accepted at niche targeted websites, therefore you’re not tapping into 10k websites, just a certain % of the 10k sites that accept your articles based on relevancy to the content hoster’s site theme.