Overview

Effective, affordable and automated SEO is really the ‘Holy Grail’ for online marketers and online businesses. The fact is that we know this very intimately because just a couple of years ago we were just getting starting on all of this ourselves. That is exactly what led us to create AutomatedLinksOnTap.com in the first quarter of last year.

While we know that it is a bit odd to be “reviewing” our own product, we feel that it is important that we give you a thorough review of the Automated Links On Tap product just as we do any other product. Will there be some degree of bias? Sure, that’s inevitable, but we read on because I believe you’ll see very objective analysis of the product and as its creators we can surely provide you with insight into what it does and why better than any other.

The Automated Links On Tap product is fundamentally different than any other linkbuilding system or tool reviewed on this site. It is crucial that you understand this subtle but very important distinction. AutomatedLinksOnTap.com provides a full service SEO campaign for your site and is designed to be a complete package. Most tools and services provide only a single type of links – they specialize in one. The AutomatedLinksOnTap.com service, however, combines various types of links and content in order to provide a full spectrum campaign that is meant to be free standing without the need for other tools, subscriptions or services.

So, for example, while a linkbuilding network like Build My Rank (an excellent network, by the way) provides high PR blog posts, that’s all it does. As good as it is, if you only use it and nothing more, after a while it will leave a footprint on your site because the only type of link you will be acquiring is high PR blog post links.

Likewise, a great article submission network like Traffic Kaboom is also very effective at its core competency of getting you lots of low quality contextual backlinks from lots of different domains. It does that very well. But once again, if that is all you use, after about three months you’ll likely see your site rankings take a dive. This is NOT a fault of Traffic Kaboom – it is one of the best article submission networks out there right now and comes with our highest recommendation (we use it every day). But the problem is that it only provides one type of link and if it’s the only tool you’re using, well, it’s going to leave a footprint on your site.

Mixing It Up – Keeping it Natural

We talk a lot about the need to “mix up” your linkbuilding and SEO for your site. The fact is that you need to have a wide variety of link types in order to keep your site looking natural in its linkbuilding profile. If you think about this for a minute, it makes perfect sense. You don’t need to overcomplicate this – it’s really just common sense.

It’s simply not natural for a site to only have high PR blog post links or only have social media links and nothing else. You see a site that has no SEO being performed on it will naturally acquire a wide variety of different links – from blogs, from directories, from high PR sites, a ton of low PR and low quality site links, some press release links, some social media links and many other types.

This is the problem that *any* single link type SEO tool shares. It doesn’t matter how good the tool is, the fact is most all of them out there are designed to be a “part” of your SEO campaign and not your “entire” SEO campaign. That is where AutomatedLinksOnTap.com separates itself from all of the other services that we have reviewed on this site because it is designed to be a standalone SEO solution for your site.

Features of AutomatedLinksOnTap.com

Creating AutomatedLinksOnTap.com was a real challenge because from the beginning we picked a $297 price point and worked backwards from that. We had very specific goals and fitting all of them into this price point was quite challenging.

• It had to be effective – This is, obviously, the most important of all. If the service didn’t provide results, well, as Metallica sings “Nothing Else Matters”.
• We were fixing the price point at $297 – This is very, very limiting. There’s just only so much you can do in this price range and it becomes a major challenge to be effective.
• It had to be diversified – This is partly the same as the first point because you can’t be effective if you don’t have diversification of link types (as we’ve mentioned above). So we knew that we were going to have to include a mix of services and a mix of link types in these packages. That makes pricing even more difficult because we have to integrate and source various solutions.
• It had to be 100% automated for our clients – Now I want to be very clear on this, it’s automated for the clients – not for us! It’s actually a very complex system that we have behind the scenes, but for those that purchase it is a simple five minute one time setup and nothing more. This is something that any programmer or product developer will tell you, the easier a given product is for the consumer, the harder it is for the supplier or developer. Case in point is the iPhone. It’s a super elegant and simple design, yet it was extremely complex and took years to create.
• It had to be Panda friendly – Now this was also no small feat. We first released this product in March of 2011, right after Google’s onslaught into the Panda furry of 2011 which continues to wreak havoc for many site owners even today. To provide effective results it needed to provide not only a good mix of link types, but also a good mix of unique content. Most tools out there rely heavily on spun content or they require you to provide your own content at your own cost which significantly changes the monthly cost of their service.
• Lastly, it had to do the things most people will not – What do we mean by that? Well most fail at SEO because they are not consistent, they don’t mix up their links and anchor text and they don’t do the hard or costly SEO tasks that are highly effective, like monthly press releases, for example. So we knew we had to address all of those items.

When you throw all of those requirements into the mix and try to come up with a solution that addresses all of them, well, you’ll see it’s almost an impossible task. And indeed for most people it truly is an impossible feat. We’ll talk more about that in a bit when we talk about the pricing below.

How It Works

The features of AutomatedLinksOnTap.com are really outlined in the goals of the product above. As we’ve stated, this is not a link network where you need an interface to manage your linkbuilding efforts, etc… So the process is pretty basic, here’s how it goes.

• Step #1 – After your purchase you are directed to a page that provides you instructions to contact us at the Helpdesk and provide us your domain, keywords and URLS.
• Step #2 – Next we get it all setup and send you a baseline report of your keyword rankings as they exist now. This way, when you receive the weekly automated reports via email you’ll have a baseline to compare them against.
• Step #3 – Receive your reports at the end of the month. We can’t report on every last link created but we do report on the vast majority of them. All reports are delivered to you via the helpdesk. Furthermore, we deliver you the content that we created in the SEO process as well. After all, you paid for it, right? This way you can use it for other purposes if you so desire.
• Step #4 (optional) – Each month you can adjust your keywords if you wish. We limit this to a single change per month because after the month’s SEO begins, we can’t make changes. So the best procedure is to contact us about a week before your monthly renewal and inform us of the keyword changes at that time. Some people use these packages to “maintain” existing rankings so we rely on you to determine when it is time to change up the keywords. We do, however, recommend you give them 90 days before making a change.

Other Features

There really aren’t any other features per say, but we do include some different bonuses with the product that are geared towards helping your understanding of SEO as well as additional tools and marketing resources (our Article Marketing Lies eBook).

The Results Using AutomatedLinksOnTap.com

This is the part that we’re most proud of – the results. Because results always speak for themselves. As we’ve said above, all of the great pricing, marketing tools and fancy interfaces in the world mean nothing if you don’t get results.

Mike and I pride ourselves on our candor and NO BS approach to Internet Marketing and SEO – that is something that you can continue to rely on. Every one of the charts on the sales page comes directly from client results – no games are being played, no fancy Photoshop work, etc… what you see is what you get.

We launched the service in March of 2011 and today we have many of those first clients that debuted with our then brand new product still subscribed today – trust me, they wouldn’t be paying that $297 a month if they were not getting results.

That being said, let’s be blatantly honest here – these packages are not going to be enough for everyone. We have clients paying $5000 a month for SEO and clearly they’re doing a lot more than we could do in these $297 packages. So, are they perfect for everyone? No, of course not – nothing is and we wouldn’t tell you otherwise.

These packages are, however, ideal for the average Joe website targeting long tail keywords that are low to medium competition. If you’re trying to rank for “car insurance” or “make money online”, well, forget it, no $297 package in the world will get you those rankings. However, for most small businesses, niche websites and especially local businesses these packages are very effective and certainly affordable.

These packages have also been extremely well received by resellers in the “local Internet Marketing” space. Most local businesses pay around $500 a month for local SEO services. With our reseller program (please contact us via the Helpdesk for details about the AutomatedLinksOnTap.com Reseller program) those that simply want to rebrand and resell these packages to their own clients can do so and complete outsource the work to us freeing them up to focus on client acquisition and letting us handle the dirty work. Because we are selling multiple quantities to a single reseller and our support load is much lower since we only have to deal with one contact for 5 or more sales, we are able to offer reducing pricing for those resellers.

AutomatedLinksOnTap.com Support

All support is handled through our Helpdesk at http://ctcsupport.com just like any of our other products or services. Nothing is outsourced – we staff our own helpdesk support team members and don’t be surprised if Mike or I “chime in” every now and then as well – we remain very involved in the oversight and management of our business. After all, the name is “Mike & Troy’s” – right? <grin>.

When you first purchase your account is normally setup within 48 hours, unless you purchase on the weekend – we don’t staff the helpdesk over the weekend. The same turnaround time is also our normal for other requests. Many times we are able to turn them around in the same day, but we have staff in four different countries on various timezones so often times they will be answered the next day just due to timing issues.

Can’t I Just Do This All Myself?

Yes, you certainly can. SEO is simple but it’s not easy or cheap. Now, what the heck does that mean? Well it means that the actual tasks involved in SEO are not complex – it’s pretty basic and simple stuff. But most people fail because they do not do it and do not do it consistently. That is why for 95% of you reading this review you would be far better off purchasing the AutomatedLinksOnTap.com service for your site than trying to do it yourself. But, we haven’t even talked about the financial reasons yet.

You can do everything we do in these packages, well, sort of…

See the first thing to consider is that we have the economy of scale on our side. We are doing SEO on hundreds of domains and we can leverage accounts and tools in a way that your average consumer cannot. Some of the tools and networks that we use in this service cost thousands of dollars per month – the average person doing SEO on a single site simply cannot afford to invest that much. Because we’re spreading that cost across all of our clients and our own domains as well it is cost justified for us and our per domain cost is dramatically reduced from what you could obtain.

If you pick and choose from the services we review and recommend here on ArticleSubmissionReview.com and try to assemble a package that does everything we provide in these AutomatedLinksOnTap.com packages you will spend a minimum of $550 or more a month to achieve similar results. We say similar because you won’t be using the exact same tools and networks that we are. You will also have the added costs of your time and the real cost is the cost of failure.

What do I mean by that? Well it’s simple. When comparing costs you won’t be taking into account the most critical factor that will affect your results – YOU. In other words, do you have the time and discipline (not just the money) to do SEO on a DAILY basis for your site or sites? For most people the answer is no, even if a very reluctant “no”. But that is the single biggest reason people fail with SEO – it really is not just about the cost, you have to factor in this cost of failure as well.

What We Don’t Like About AutomatedLinksOnTap.com

Okay, so this is awkward, huh? I mean let’s be honest here, do you really expect us to criticize our own product? Well, you should. That’s right, you should. We’re candid with you on everything and we’ll be candid about the shortcomings on our own products as well – as best we can.

Like any system, product or tool there are limitations and AutomatedLinksOnTap.com is no different. The biggest limitation that we have is that a package can only be used for a single domain. They are designed that way from the ground up and all of our pricing and cost structures are built around one package per domain, so sorry, there are no exceptions to that.

If you look at the packages and what they include you’ll see that it also doesn’t make sense to break them up. For example, how could you do a single press release a month and divide it across multiple domains? The real issue, however, is that in order to provide these very robust packages at such a low price point we simply must be rigid in their implementation – we can’t customize them. But, then again, if you purchase from Build My Rank it’s not like you can ask them to include 7 domains instead of 5 in their package either, right? So this is nothing new.

Those who request that we break a package up across multiple domains really don’t understand SEO and are trying to accomplish more than is feasible for a price that is also not realistic. If we broke them up, the diversification of links and the quantity of links would not be a good balance and the results would not be good either.

We also don’t like that the service currently forces you to go through the Helpdesk. That is less than ideal for both us and you as the customer. We are, however, continually improving this service and already have a programmer actively working on a solution which will allow you to submit the details of your order directly after purchase and without having to go through the helpdesk to do so. We will also be integrating AutomatedLinksOnTap.com with our soon to debut Customer Portal which will allow you to log in and retrieve your reports and content directly from your account. That data will also be archived for you as well.

Lastly from a consumer perspective we wish that there was a way to provide a trial period or money back guarantee on the product, but the fact is this is a service and not just a tool. Because of the service aspect we incur significant costs when setting up a new client. In fact, one of the only reasons we can offer this product for such a low cost is that it is very effective and we know that people will stay subscribed – we actually lose money on it the first month.

Thus, like any other service or contract, we cannot provide refunds of any kind for this service or offer any trial period. You can cancel at any time and though we caution you to give it at least 90 days because any realistic SEO campaign can take a little time to build momentum, you are not locked into anything other than the current month. You can cancel at any time and prevent future recurring charges, but it won’t stop the current month of service or entitle you to a refund, partial or otherwise.

AutomatedLinksOnTap.com Pricing

The pricing is fairly simple. Currently there are two packages – a $197 and a $297 package. The main difference between the two is that the larger package generates more links and also includes a monthly press release and distribution. We want to be very clear on this next point.

The $197 package is going to be discontinued very soon, so if you’re interested in that, you need to get signed up today. Sooner than later it will be gone. The reason is simple. We’ve found that in our testing more than 70% of our subscribers have purchased the $297 package and it simply doesn’t make sense to keep them both.

As we ramp up the distribution channels for these packages and branch out into focusing more on the reseller and affiliate channels the $197 price point just doesn’t work well. It will not be offered in either the affiliate or reseller programs. The $197 package also has not performed as well as the $297 package primarily because of the lack of the added links and the diversification introduced with the highly syndicated monthly press release.

While many will argue that $297 is expensive, I challenge you to try and price it out yourself. You’ll need serveral services to get this type of diversification of links and those range from $59 to $149 a month EACH and they do not include the content. When you add up all that you get in these packages you’ll see that they are extremely affordable.

In the past few days Google released another significant algorithm change. Now, it’s not nearly as big as the Panda algorithm change that affected as many as 12% of searches. In contrast this latest algo change only affects about 1% of the searches, but it is still significant. So, what’s it all about?

Above the Fold

Google is getting more creative and more sophisticated in its abilities to parse content and identify the real content on the page and the fluff (sidebar text, widgets, etc…). This will continue to evolve over time so that Google can give more preferential treatment to the higher quality content on the page.

This algorithm change – introduced on 1/19/2012 – is all about analyzing the amount of content that is presented to the user above the fold. So what does above the fold mean? It’s an old term that goes back to the days of newspapers (hey, remember those you Kindle luving, iPad huggers – LOL). In terms of a newspaper, above the fold meant that your story appeared above the fold mark of the paper (half way down). It was always desirable to have your story placed above the fold to get maximum exposure.

In the Internet space, above the fold means the content that shows on your page before you click on the vertical scroll bar or page down. So when you first open up your website in a maximized window, the content that shows up is considered to be “above the fold”.

Now it’s not quite that simple in the virtual world because there really is no “standard” screen resolution. Some have old screens and are using 800 x 600 resolution and others like me have dual 27” monitors in high resolution. So the “fold line” is a bit tough to really nail down, but for general purposes you should consider an area of 900 pixels wide by about 500 pixels high to be the “above the fold” region of your site. According to Google, that area covers about 90% of the users online.

Why is this important?

Well it’s really pretty simple. You see, despite all of the BS out there about how Google keeps changing its algorithms and turning the Internet upside down, the reality is, they’ve been remarkably consistent and it’s not too hard to see what’s coming. In fact, if you listen, they tell you.

So why do most people think that Google algorithms and SEO are so mysterious? The reason is that is because most people are trying to game the system and rather than focus on solid long term SEO strategies, they choose to employ short term tactics that are here today and gone tomorrow – building the foundation of their site on quicksand and hoping to outwit Google (hint: they have a lot of PhD’s working for them, you’re not likely to win this battle).

Here’s an example of what I mean – tactics versus strategy. A long term strategy is to target appropriate keywords, build links for them in a conservative manner and write high quality and engaging content. But let me tell you about this one tactic a guy was using and trying to “sell” as the latest tactic d’ jour. He was getting all of his traffic from blog commenting – all of it. He had all kinds of Google Alert’s setup on his keywords and looking at specific high traffic sites and the moment a new post would hit he would scurry over to the site like a rat after cheese and quickly throw up a blog comment with a prominent link back to his site.

Now, he was pretty good at it and pretty good at stirring up controversy and leaving interesting comments that got clicks. In fact, he was driving some pretty serious traffic to his site from these comments. But, then it happened – he got sick and wasn’t able to work at such a frantic pace. His traffic fell off over 90% in just a couple of weeks.

He hadn’t focused on the strategy of listbuilding and providing quality content on his site or building rapport with his readers – he was just chasing the quick buck. So when his short sighted traffic strategy fell apart, we was left holding the bag.

This algorithm update is something Google has been talking about for a very long time – providing a good user experience by displaying textual content above the fold. Now Google has been warning us about this for at least a couple of years and now they are finally starting to apply tweaks to their algorithm to actually penalize your rankings if you don’t listen.

The Logic Behind the Problem

Google wants to provide the best possible result to its users (your customers that are searching). To do that, they want to make sure that when a user clicks on a site in the search result pages that they are immediately taken to relevant content about the subject they searched on and not forced to scroll down through three or four pages of ads, banners, adsense blocks, fancy flash animations and image sliders in order to get to the real content that they were searching for.

That only makes sense and if you stop and try to just think like Google a bit, you’ll realize that much of the algorithm changes are nothing out of line nor are they generally very surprising. More often than not they are simply iterations toward the same goals that have been publicly disclosed for years. Have you heard them talking about social media the past few months? Well, it shouldn’t surprise you when future shifts rely more and more on having a solid social media presence for your site (consider yourself warned).

So, what do you do about it?

Well, take a look at your site and ask yourself the obvious question – do I have enough textual content as the primary, above the fold focus of my design? If you don’t then you need to start taking some steps to make improvements. Mike and I have needed to do this on our sites for a long time. This site for example needs a header that is about half as tall and less dead white space above the top five rankings.

To get a great look at your site as it is seen in different resolutions, take a lot at this terrific free tool by, none other, than Google itself.

This tool will allow you to navigate to your site and it will super impose a chart over the top of your site in a semi-transparent method so you can see what parts of your site are appearing. For example, here is how it appears on my large widescreen monitor.

Here’s a quick checklist of items you should consider evaluating on your site design.

• Site Header – Is it too thick and wasting too much vertical space? The taller your site header image is the further it pushes content down below the fold.
• Navigation Bar – Are you using a double tiered navigation bar? You know, the kind that has two rows of links? That just adds to a thick header and you should consider redesigning it and putting some of those links into the footer instead.
• Too many ads – If you have too many ads above the fold that just screams at Google – trust me, not in a good way. You need to reexamine your layout and see if you can shift some around to get more content above the fold.
• Big Image Sliders – These have become all the rage, but you need to really consider how you use them. If you’re not careful your above the fold view will have nothing but a header, sidebar ads and an image slider – seriously, that’s what a lot of sites look like, especially in lower resolution.

So, is that an exhaustive list? No, I’m sure there are a couple of other things you could do as well, but that will help you get the most of them fixed. Lastly, one thing you may wish to consider – another way to “skin the cat” so to speak – is to perhaps increase the width of your site. If the width is larger then you can fit more content in above the fold. Look at your design in Google’s Browsersize Tool and play with it a bit until you get the right result you’re looking for.

Summary

There are really two separate points that I’ve tried to make in this post. One is about the new algorithm and what you need to do about it, but the reality is that there is a larger more important topic that I’m trying to bring to attention here and that is that you need to really get into Google’s head a bit and focus your site’s objectives on long term strategies that work. Hopefully the message has come through…

Effective & Affordable Post-Panda SEO

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Overview

So we have been chomping at the bit to get our Super Fast Link Building review out the door and into your hands. However we wanted to make sure we ran it through some test’s first to verify the results of what we were seeing in the first few weeks of usage. And to be honest, we have been extremely impressed with the results and the management, so much so that we are giving it our Mike and Troy’s approved stamp of approval. It seems like everyone is coming out with a new private network link building service nowadays, and the reason for that is simple, they flat out work. We were a little hesitant at first because there are so many networks out there, but Super Fast Link Building is on par with the best networks we have reviewed to date – it works and it works well.

First and foremost, what is Super Fast Link Building? Well, we like to think of Super Fast Link Building as a Linxboss alternative, no, actually a Linxboss on steroids. We are still seeing good results with Linxboss and have a few 100 slots on Linxboss for ourselves and many clients. The complaint behind Linxboss has always been the same for the ones that didn’t receive results, that most of the websites are not that good, and that many of the posts do not get indexed. So while you are getting 200 links per month from Linxboss, you really are getting a small subset of those indexed – but they are enough to still make an impact for most people.

Sidebar: Indexing and Link Types

Honestly, this is not really a fair criticism. Those that make this complaint generally don’t understand that any linkbuilding campaign you launch is likely to get only about a 50% indexing rate – that is just the cold truth. Some networks do a much better job of getting their content indexed, such as Build My Rank, but this is largely due to the “type of network”. Let me explain.

Linxboss is similar to a Unique Article Wizard or My Article Network in the sense that most of it’s sites will be low authority and low PageRank article marketing type sites. Those types of networks are inherently going to have a lower index rate than a network like Build My Rank or Super Fast Linkbuilding which are generally higher authority and higher PageRank sites. If your site has authority and decent page rank, many times it will have a 90% index rate all by itself. However, article marketing style networks are probably around the 30% range.

Super Fast Link Building is really a hybrid of these two types of networks and so we would expect its indexing rate to fall in the middle. You’re not going to get near 100% indexing rates like you would with Build My Rank, but if you compare the costs between the two for 1000 links you will be absolutely blown away by how much more affordable Super Fast Linkbuilding is. Besides, with Build My Rank, you are also limited to 10 links per day per domain – about 300 in a month.

These indexing issues are exactly why we strongly recommend you compliment all of your linkbuilding efforts with Backlink Booster in order to get the most bang for your buck. If you’re not familiar with Backlinks Booster, definitely go check out the review. It works in the background and 100% on autopilot to build links to your links to both (a) get them indexed and (b) keep them indexed. So any linkbuilding network or tool that you use that gives you a list of URLS, you can just dump those into Backlink Booster and let it help you get many more indexed links than you would have gotten without it. This just makes everything you do have a higher ROI.

But Super Fast Link Building is different, their posts get indexed, and daily. We have Google Alerts set to receive alerts when specific keywords are found on Google, and we get a daily stream of Google Alerts all from posts we are receiving from Super Fast Link Building. So what that means, is our posts are getting indexed, fast and daily – which is awesome and a testament to the strength of their network.

But the best part of this is not just the indexing, when we go and check, the majority of these sites are PR2, PR3 with mixes of a few PR0, PR1 and PR4 and even a few PR5′s sites as well. All of this on a daily basis, and while they claim to have PR6 and PR7 sites, we haven’t seen one yet, but I have no doubt they exist as well. But like most networks, the higher PR sites are few and far between. That is not only to be expected, but a good thing because you want to have a lot of variation and just getting links from high PR only sites would be an obvious “tell” to Google. So you are posting to good sites with Page Rank and age that are being spidered and indexed on a daily basis – this is a good thing for those that don’t know.

How Super Fast Link Building Works

Super Fast Link Building works on the premise that you join via one of their packages and you supply them your keywords and URLs and they will write a highly spun and unique piece of content for you. This highly spun and unique piece of content will be drip fed out to their network of sites over a period of 30 days, so it is a constant stream of incoming links as long as you stay subscribed.

The amount of posts you get per day depends upon how you use your package, which I will explain better a little later in this review. The beauty behind this is, while their price of entry may same a bit higher than a network such as Build My Rank or comparable to a Linkvana subscription, keep in mind that you do not have any more added content costs (or the work to create that content yourself). With services such as BMR and Linkvana, you have to constantly keep purchasing or writing content to feed the networks, and while this works really well, and we use them in a very big way ourselves, it can get expensive. We literally spend $1000′s on BMR and Linkvana content on a monthly basis for our personal sites, and we own a content business, so it is only that much more expensive for others that have to buy the content.

What makes Super Fast Link Building impressive and actually very cheap, is that you sign up, you provide your keywords and URLs, and they will handle the rest for you. No more work on your part, that’s it. No more content to buy, and no more content to post. Now please, don’t take this as us saying NOT to use those other networks, because we use them heavily. But for those that are either looking for an additional solution for backlinks or that simply can’t afford multiple services at the time, Super Fast is the answer and is actually a perfect compliment to go along with our very own AutomatedLinksOnTap.com service.

Additionally, this isn’t some small mom and pop, Johnny come lately network that just popped up on the scene. The owner Bryan, has been using this network for his private clients and himself for quite some time, and their network is on target to reach 10,000 sites in size. So don’t think they don’t know what they are doing. They do. Trust us, we have our own private internal high pagerank network of sites, though we focus on just PR3 and higher sites, and we know what it takes to run a network. Managing a network of nearly 10,000 sites is very impressive (not to mention very costly).

So, back to how it works. Upon signing up for Super Fast Link Building, you will be asked to wait for an email with your membership information. They manually create a membership for you and then send you your information to get you started. This can be frustrating for some because after you sign up you are excited to get started, but good things come to those that wait.

Also this will give you some time to watch their short instructional videos on how to get things setup. You will receive a login to their basecamp account and you will post and get responses from basecamp so everything is tracked and kept in a central location.

Once they set you up, they will ask you to provide them your information, such as keywords, urls, videos, images and whatever else you have. These are not all mandatory, but preferred to make your posts index well and look more natural. The entire setup should take less than a week to get your content written and for you to begin receiving links. And once they begin, you should be happy with your results.

We have personally recommended this service to some of our clients that we thought could use the network or were looking for something new at the moment. And thus far, everyone that has signed up has been extremely impressed and happy with their results.

Super Fast Link Building Price?

Super Fast Link Building offers 4 price points. For $147 you receive 500 posts on their network with 2 links in each post for a total of 1000 links. For $297 you receive 1000 posts, or 2000 links, For $497 you receive 2000 posts or 4000 links, and for $997 you get 5000 posts per month or 10,000 links per month. That seems pretty cut and dry, but you can break that up in any way you want.

For instance, If you have 5 sites to promote and purchase the $297 plan, you can send 200 posts per domain, which is 400 links per domain. Now there is a small catch to this, which is not well explained on their website. When you want to break up the links into additional projects, there is an additional $30 charge per project (domain). That is because each project (or domain) requires a unique piece of content to be written for it, and that makes sense because it is hard to spin an article with keywords on dog grooming and rocket ships and blue widgets as an example.

So if you want to do multiple domains, with different keywords, just be aware of the additional charge per project. But if you are looking to buy the $147 package for say two domains, for two completely different sets of keywords, that means you will pay the $147 plus an additional $30 for the second project content. Does that make sense? And if you want all 1000 links pointed at one domain with a smaller subset of keywords then it’s just the base price for you. While this piece of information can become slightly confusing, it is still relatively cheap compared to the amount of content you would need to post to a network such as Build My Rank or Linkvana, and compared to Linxboss, well Linxboss caps you at 200 posts per domain. You can actually get 500, 1000, 2000 posts to just one domain per month if you so chose, plus this network is much stronger than the Linxboss network. The old adage of you get what you pay for applies here.

Super Fast Link Building Results.

We have been extremely impressed by the results we have received from Super Fast Link Building, as well as we have receive kudos from many people that we have personally refereed to them as well. So we can strongly say that we highly recommend Super Fast Link Building.

Here are some examples of results we have seen for a few of our keywords we have been using Super Fast Link Building for. And these keywords where only receiving links from SFLB – nothing else.

These are pretty impressive results for just a few weeks time. We fully expect them to continue. The fact that their network size is so large is a real selling point. Many of the linkbuilding networks out there are much, much smaller – some with just a few hundred sites. With a small network you will spin through the entire inventory of sites in just a couple or three months (for related reading see our post: Article Submission – The Three Month Phenomenon). A large network size means that you’ll be receiving fresh links for many months to come and will likely never outgrow their network since they are constantly expanding it as well.

Furthermore, we had one of our clients start up with Super Fast Link Building about 3 weeks ago. They were chasing a number one spot for a few months, three weeks after signing up for Super Fast they are strong and steady at #1 for their primary keyword and their traffic has doubled since. And we have heard similar stories repeated from other people we have referred to this service.

Super Fast Link Building Support

The owner Bryan has been very responsive to us and we have actually become quiet friendly with him over the course of this period. Also our clients have told us that Bryan has been personally assisting them as well and getting them all setup and going and generally being extremely helpful. So the personal assistance and support are definitely there.

What We Don’t Like About Super Fast Link Building

No network is perfect – they are all a compromise solution. As a private pilot I’m always reminded of compromise because every plane design has to make enormous compromises. More people = more weight – that means a bigger motor and less economy. Faster = lightweight – that means less passengers but still no economy. High economy = low weight and small motor – but that just means no passengers and slow flight. The fact is, all of the goals are in direct contradiction with each other. Linkbuilding networks are the same. (Disclaimer: Troy added this paragraph. I am not a pilot, I prefer to keep my feet on the ground!)

To be price effective and 100% hands off, Super Fast Link Building uses spun content. We like that because it provides a hands off solution. We know, however, that it will also result in lower indexing rates than a network that is 100% unique content. However, with 100% unique content, comes the cost of that content and the extra maintenance that it creates. We have seen good results and that is ultimately our barometer for a successful product. If it’s producing solid results for a good price, then honestly, we couldn’t careless what the indexing rate is. Super Fast Linkbuilding doesn’t report its indexing rate, but since it is spun content we suspect it’s likely around 70% or so. Because it has a lot of mid and high PageRank sites that is likely to offset this problem quite a bit because their authority will help out a lot in the indexing.

The only other thing that we are not super fond of is the complexity in their pricing model. Now, as a network owner ourselves, we understand the model and the reasoning for it. But we have had a couple of people that were a bit confused by it and express that confusion to us. Our advice is to just take a little extra time and make sure you completely understand it. The bottom line here is that the value is excellent, and that’s what counts most, but you just need to see how it fits to your unique situation depending upon whether you’re doing linkbuilding for one site or a handful of sites.

Super Fast Link Building Bonus

We have been so very happy with the results we have been receiving with Super Fast Link Building, and while we typically do offer free content and articles as bonuses for other items we review, there is no need for that with Super Fast Link Building do to their automation. So what we will give you as a bonus for using our affiliate link is something you are definitely looking for if you are buying Super Fast Link Building – backlinks. If you purchase Super Fast Link Building through our link we will provide you with 10 of our High Powered Backlinks from a private network. We will create 5 blog posts and post them to our private PR3 or higher blogs, and each post will have 2 backlinks to your given site of choice. You will also receive a 10% off coupon code for any future orders of articles from ArticlesOnTap.com in case you have a need for any further content or SEO. To redeem your bonus simply follow these Super Fast Link Building Bonus instructions. Once we confirm your purchase was made through our link, you will receive your bonuses.

Effective & Affordable Post-Panda SEO

Forget writing content, finding link partners, evaluating and testing the best networks - just let us do it for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. Get a mix of link types, unique content, high PR links, a monthly Press Release - plus reports and rank tracking.

One of our favorite tools for 2012 is Synnd. The fact is that Social Proof or Social Signals as they are sometimes called are becoming more and more important in today’s full SEO picture. This trend is not going away – in fact, it’s going to become much more important in 2012 than it was in 2011. The Internet is becoming much more social and people feed of that social interaction.

Think about this scenario for a minute. When you go to buy a book or some electronics product on Amazon.com what is the first thing you do? (Okay, the 2nd the thing… I know #1 is that you look at the price – LOL). But seriously, if you’re anything like me you scroll down to the reviews section and look at the user feedback – both the good and the bad. The fact is that other user’s experiences influence us greatly, that is why testimonials work so well in the sales process.

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Synnd is currently the best solution out there for getting social attention thrown to your sites. Now, don’t confuse Social Proof with Social Marketing – those are two very different topics. Social Marketing is actually engaging your followers in the social sites like Facebook and “connecting” with them in a way that stimulates strong user engagement and eventually sales. Social Proof, on the other hand, is just about getting some “likes” and “tweets” to your site so that others “see” it as being popular. This is where Synnd factors in. This also, by the way, works with Google SEO.

We’ve taken some keywords that are ranking on page #2 and brought them onto the middle of the page #1 with nothing more than social signals (Synnd). We’re not saying this should be your only SEO approach or anything so don’t read that out of context. If you’ve followed us for any length of time at all you’ll know that we practice and teach a very diversified approach to SEO. But the test was done to validate that Google is indeed paying attention to social signals and that tools such as Synnd are very valuable.

We sold tons of copies of Synnd to our subscribers and so at this point we have a pretty good feel for their feedback and experiences with the product.

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The Complaints Some Have Had

The Pro version requires you to put software on your computer and run a program called the Remote Automator. A lot of people just don’t like the hassle and the fact is it has to be running for you to earn credits in order to use their network. Honestly, we don’t like this version of Synnd either and while it is more affordable, to us, it’s just not worth the hassle. So, yeah, we agree with you guys here. Plus you still have to write your own content and that is time consuming and costly.

The Enterprise version of Synnd is a much better option. Until recently, however, it was very expensive and started at $497 a month. Now, however, they have introduced lower cost plans all the way down to $147 a month. The big advantage of the Enterprise version is that it does not require content – they handle it for you. So it becomes a super easy way to work. You just log in at the beginning of the month and setup your campaigns and you’re done – it does the rest.

So, what’s the problem with Synnd Enterprise? Honestly, not a lot, but many have told us that they just can’t justify a $147 a month payment for Synnd and that they don’t need that many Synnd promotions for their single site. Those same people don’t want to deal with the $97 Pro version because of the other issues mentioned above.

Our Solution

So we decided to step in and create a product around Synnd for you that would solve these issues. We have a huge Enterprise account and tens of thousands of promotions, so we have created packages that are based on the Enterprise model but at just $79 are much more affordable. They still give you the same benefits of Synnd Enterprise – you don’t have to write the content and it’s complete autopilot social linkbuilding for you – but at a reduced volume and price point.

Now, you won’t have full access to Synnd yourself. With hundreds of domains in our Enterprise account, we can’t expose that information to you and provide you login access to our account (obviously). But what we do is give you screen prints showing you that it is configured per your instructions and then we give you monthly reports of the promotions that were executed on your behalf via an Excel report. This way you have confidence that all of the work was performed.

We hope that this will make Synnd affordable to many more of you that have written us on the subject and we hope this will stimulate many of you to take that step and get active in the Social Proof aspects of SEO for 2012!

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Other Information About Synnd

If you’re looking for more information about Synnd, check out some of our other content on the site. We’ve reviewed both the Pro and the Lite versions and there have been some recent updates that are outlined below as well.

• Synnd Update – Lots of New Networks Supported
• Synnd Lite Review
• Full Synnd Review (5000+ words)

So here we go again – looks like Jonathan Leger has created yet another smashing success named ArticleBuilder. For those that don’t know, Jonathan Leger an Internet Marketer and software developer that is most known for his creation of The Best Spinner. But the fact is, Jonathan has created dozens of great utilities in the past few years and they all have a common theme – content building and link generation.

As a marketer himself, Jonathan knows the challenges that Internet Marketers face with continually creating endless supplies of unique, quality content. In the recent year Google’s Panda update has made that even more important than ever. The big Panda just loves to consume loads of unique and fresh content.

To address these needs Jonathan has come out with a new product specifically designed to ease the content creation needs. Unlike The Best Spinner utility which is a program used to spin content into multiple unique versions, this product is more like a library of pre-written spun content that you can simply access and use directly. Think of it as your own vault of pre-spun content – your own private arsenal.

How it Works…

First we need to talk about the full spectrum of content creation options so that you know exactly where ArticleBuilder.net fits in. On one end of the spectrum is unique content – content like what we provide at ArticlesOnTap.com. All of it is written from scratch each and every time for each client’s specific needs.

On the other end of the spectrum is PLR or Private Label Rights content. PLR content is content that someone has created and offered for sale. Now there are numerous types and sub-categories of PLR. Some PLR vendors restrict the sale of the content to a very limited number of people, but others will sell the same article thousands of times.

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The advantage of PLR is that it often times gives you a good starting point and many people will purchase it and then run it through an article spinning program such as Jon’s The Best Spinner to generate unique content without having to write it all from scratch. This can be an effective technique if you do a great job on the article spinning side of the equation, but it also is somewhat limited by the PLR exposure itself. If the content you’re spinning has been sold hundreds or even thousands of times, then it is unlikely that even your quality spins will produce much unique content. The fact is, dozens of others before you have already done the same thing with the same tools and thus the results are somewhat predictably less than great.

ArticleBuilder, however, is neither unique content nor PLR content. It is an entirely different breed of content dubbed Super Spun content. So just what is Super Spun content? Well, the name pretty much says it all. There really is no exact definition here, but the concept is that you take content and massively re-write and spin it so that you can generate hundreds of thousands of unique versions or even millions.

Features of ArticleBuilder.net

ArticleBuilder really has a couple of primary uses. One of them is to create entirely independent standalone articles and the other is to add or inject fresh content into existing posts. We found this second option interesting though we would have to do some serious testing with it to know how viable it would be. The “idea” that was interesting, however, was this.

Since Google’s Panda updates the past year, there are many sites that have a ton of content that was duplicate or scraped content. Now, it’s never advisable to just wipe out a bunch of pages from your site. Doing so, especially all at once, can send all kinds of signals to Google – none of them good. But the biggest issue is that it simply reduces the size of your site in Google’s index and that, in effect, will reduce the overall authority of your site in Google’s mind. So the issue is, how do you solve the duplicate content on your site (if you face this problem) without deleting it? The answer, of course, is to recreate and republish the content on the offending page.

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Now this type of a solution is not bad if you only have a few articles or a few dozen articles. But what if you have hundreds of them? So the idea that is interesting about this ability of ArticleBuilder.net to ‘inject’ content into your articles is that you could use it as a tool to ‘enhance’ your duplicate content to make it more unique without having the expense of completely re-authoring all of it. Again, this theory would require some pretty intensive testing and we would only want to pursue it on what we would classify as a ‘second tier site’ – meaning, not your primary money makers.

NOTE: We have not tested this theory because we don’t have any sites which use some of the old tactics of auto-blogging or duplicate content publishing via plugins, etc… We learned a long time ago that this was a short-lived tactic and wouldn’t work long term, so we’ve done nothing but unique content on our sites for a couple of years now.

The primary use, however, of ArticleBuilder is to generate fresh new articles and there are a couple of different ways that you can do it. Jon has a huge database of thousands and thousands of article snippets that are used to create the articles as well as a huge database of Super Spun articles. Each approach is a bit different, so you should test both of them out when creating your articles. But it’s as simple as checking a checkbox in the interface to use the Super Spun articles or use the snippet database which grows by thousands of snippets each and every week.

The ArticleBuilder network continues to grow and this is not the first time it has been released. Jonathan Leger released it a couple of months ago, but at the time it did not have nearly as many features and so we held off on reviewing it. For example, it initially did not have the Super Spun articles that it now does. But the important thing to take note of here is that it is growing and that Jonathan is continuing to expand the feature set of this product. This is something that he is famous for.

In fact, if you don’t see the topic that you want content for listed in the choices of available topics, you can request it and it will be added to the list for future inclusion. Each and every week they add more and more topics, so the width as well as the depth of the network coverage is continually growing.

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We have used The Best Spinner for a couple of years now and it has been upgraded literally dozens and dozens of times. In fact, we need to go back and redo our review of it at this point because so much has changed and been enhanced in the past year that it is a much better and more robust tool today than it was then – and it was great then! This is something that we admire a great deal about Jon’s products. Not only does he support them well and stand behind them, but he continually enhances and improves them and so we look for this same type of approach with ArticleBuilder as well and, in fact, he has already improved it several times in just the couple of months that it has been released.

Now when it comes to ‘injecting’ content into your existing articles there are a few different approaches that you can use. You can have the content inserted directly into your article (the most common) or you can choose a few other approaches as well. For example, you can have the content added as a sidebar tip instead. You can also use content callouts. Or even a combination of methods. This gives you the freedom to use this ‘injected’ content in the manner which is best for your particular needs.

Other Features

Now every tool has a core set of features that form the backbone of the application, but the really great ones have other “nice to have” features that really seal the deal and make the difference between a good program and a truly great application that makes your life easier. We love easy and we love automation, so we always like to focus on these little gems of nice to have features that often get overlooked.

ArticleBuilder has tons of these nice to have features that we would be remiss to not point out. For example, you can add your own blogs to the utility and it will publish content directly to your sites for you at the push of a button. Not only that, but you can even schedule it so that you can do several in a day, for example, and queue them up to release over the next week. This is great for working in batch mode where you work on an entire week or month at a time.

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Another great feature that ArticleBuilder incorporates is a developer’s API. For those of you that don’t know what this is, an API stands for an Application Programming Interface and it’s really just a way for programmers to interact with the program directly. So, for example, you could hire a programmer to write a little script that would automate certain aspects of your use of the application. This, for example, could allow you to integrate content automatically with your own network of sites. Again, this may be beyond the scope of many, but as a former programmer and someone who loves automation I am impressed that Jonathan almost always creates an API for his applications so that us developers can take advantage of it.

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Copyscape encoding is also offered in order to ensure that your article passes copyscape. I’m not sure where exactly this would be used effectively, but it is an option. Essentially what it does is substitute text with code equivalents that translate back to text. By doing this, it prevents the content from being flagged by copyscape as duplicate. Again, not sure exactly where you would have this “need” but the feature is there if you do.

The Results Using Article Builder

We have generated a bunch of articles with ArticleBuilder and have been pretty impressed with it. The content it produces is great for SEO and linkbuilding purposes. We personally would not recommend you use the content for your own tier one money sites, but for tier two sites or for offsite SEO content it is very, very good. What we mean by tier one versus tier two is this: tier one are your main money sites that you depend on for your primary online income. Tier two sites are lower priority and less important sites that make you money but are less critical to your overall online stability and success – that’s our definition.

We had better results with the Super Spun articles than we did with the article snippets, but it will all depend on the niche you select and the keywords you use as well. Those that are more common and saturated, will, of course, have more use and duplication. A lot of the stuff that we do is obviously in the Internet Marketing and SEO niches and those are pretty popular. That being said, the results were still good – especially when using the Super Spun articles.

Another tactic that you can take is that when you generate the output article you can click off a checkbox and have it created in The Best Spinner spin format. This is great for offsite SEO and linkbuilding efforts where you need to submit spun article content to the networks.

So, just how good is the content? Well the first thing that you have to understand is that all of the content is human created and edited and then spun to a guaranteed 75% uniqueness. So this is not just some machine generated crap – it is good quality content. In fact, according to the sales website Jonathan states “the odds than any two articles generated by one of these documents will be less than 80% unique is one in ten million” – that’s pretty impressive.

We have generated tons of articles already and have not noticed any of them that are obviously awkward or poorly written, etc… they all have been of average to good quality.

The Best Use of ArticleBuilder

It is our feeling that onsite content for your tier one money making sites should always be high quality and unique content. So in that regard, we would not recommend using ArticleBuilder articles for publication directly on your main site.

While they will be unique content, it doesn’t mean that they won’t have some duplicated content within them and that, in general, they will be of average and uninspiring quality. By that I mean, they are not something you want to put on your primary blog and tout it as your own great content.

But there is nothing wrong with that. The fact is that for every tool there is a best and proper use of it and for ArticleBuilder the best use is for offsite linkbuilding and SEO grade content. There are tons of great linkbuilding networks out there and they all have one thing in common – a healthy appetite for fresh and unique content. That is where we see ArticleBuilder saving you a ton of money and tons of time. Instead of writing all of that content yourself or contracting others to write it you can instead use ArticleBuilder to generate that content for you.

Will it work for every network? Probably not. Some are more picky than others. Build My Rank, for example, is very picky about duplicate content and so if it picks up even a single sentence of duplicate content in your post it may get flagged and kicked out. Many other networks, however, are much less scrutinizing and for them this content will likely be perfect. We have submitted to many of them and have had good results with most of them out there. Sorry, but we’re not going to publish which ones because it is a bit unclear if this is technically allowed or not and we don’t want to cause ourselves any grief here.

ArticleBuilder Support

The fact is that Jonathan Leger is legendary as both an Internet Marketer and as a product developer (primarily for Internet Marketers) so support is exceptional. The tool itself is so easy to use that I highly doubt you’ll ever have to contact support. However, if you do, you’ll be using the same support system that serves all of Jon’s tools including The Best Spinner. We have contacted their support numerous times over the past couple years and it has always been very solid and timely (usually within 48 hours).

ArticleBuilder Pricing

When you factor in pricing on a tool like this it is always a bit difficult. The reason is that part of the justification of the pricing is the money it will save you, not just how much it costs. That, of course, depends upon how much you use it. However, in our opinion, the pricing is extremely affordable for this tool.

Rather than choosing a monthly subscription model, Jonathan has instead introduced an annual subscription for the tool. At $297 a year that is just $24.75 a month. If you purchased just 2 spun articles a month this subscription would more than pay for itself. But the real beauty is that you are afforded very high usage rights for ArticleBuilder – up to 250 articles per day can be generated.

That’s not a typo. That is up to 250 per day (not per month). Now, if you need more than that then you are doing some serious article marketing and honestly unless it’s for dozens and dozens of sites you’re probably not doing it right. In other words, there is more value here than even the high end marketer will likely need or use.

ArticleBuilder.net Bonus

We want to make sure you have great success with ArticleBuilder so we’re going to help you along with a great offer of our own – some high PR backlinks to go with all of those other great links you’ll be generating from your ArticleBuilder content. So, as a thank you for purchasing from our link, you’ll receive twenty (20) FREE 150 word posts each with 2 backlinks on our private high pagerank network. The content will be provided by ArticlesOnTap.com so you know it will be 100% unique and top quality. And, while there is no ArticleBuilder coupon code available we’ve got the next best thing for you, a 10% off coupon code for any future orders of content from ArticlesOnTap.com. So don’t fall for all of those free ebook ArticleBuilder Bonus offers you’ll find out there – our bonus is not fluff but actual high quality links that will help your SEO efforts! To redeem your free links simply follow these ArticleBuilder Bonus instructions. Once we confirm that your purchase was made through our linke, you will receive your bonus content.

We are pleased to be reviewing The Private Network. We constantly get asked what works and what doesn’t work in this day and age, and one thing that has always worked and still works are backlinks from high quality sites with age, authority and Pagerank. That is the premise behind private networks like BuildMyRank, Linkvana, BacklinK Solutions, BlogBlueprint, and even our own private network amongst others. The link networks exist, because they work, and in reality, when you think about it, at its core, you are simply distributing content to blogs and websites. So to that end, let’s get on with our The Private Network review.

The Structure

First of all, what is The Private Network. As mentioned above, it is yet another entrant into the world of private blog networks. It is a collection of aged blogs with PageRank and authority, such as all the other networks mentioned above. It is more along the lines of a Linkvana because their PageRank distribution is to PR 1 to P4 websites, whereas BuildMyRank does PR1 through PR6 and even had a PR7 at one point, but I believe that was lost to one of the recent pagerank updates. That being said, when you look closely at your BuildMyRank distributions you will notice that about 90% of your distributions are going to PR4 and lower, and there is nothing wrong with that, that is the nature of the game.

Maintaining a high PageRank network is hard, hard work. Believe me we know first hand. But the point is, that the PageRank distribution being offered by The Private Network is on par with what their competition is doing, which is a good thing. But The Private network is not just like those others, they are a high bred network, because while they allow posting to their sites like the others, they are also a HomePage backlinks network as well. Meaning you will get posts placed on their blogs homepage that will be marked sticky and will stay on the high PR homepage as long as you stay subscribed.

The Private Network claims that all of their sites are on unique Class C and even A and B IP Addresses, that each site has its own unique theme, and each site has WhoIs privacy or a unique WhoIs profile. They claim no foot prints and that each site would pass a manual Google review, now all link networks have foot prints, the question is how large is their’s, but they are taking the necessary steps to avoid as much as they can.

This is really nothing new, pretty much all networks offer this at this point, and if they don’t, then they are setting themselves up for failure. So in reality while these are all nice feature for us as clients, they are must haves for them as the owners, because if they don’t protect the integrity of their network, they are the ones that will lose big as huge swaths of their network get discovered and wiped out as we have seen happen countless of times with other networks. So from the start this is all good stuff to have and to know that they are doing.

Sidebar – Just how important is this?

Well, without naming names, we’ve seen one private network lose over 400 sites. Not once, but twice in an 18 month period. That particular network was not even 500 strong, so basically it was almost completely wiped out – TWICE! So yes, this is a *real* concern not only of network owners but for you as well. Because if their network gets wiped out, so do your links.

Features

With so many link networks vying for your attention, each one throws in their own features that set them apart. The Private Network, while allowing you to post to their network such as you do with the other networks, also offers you homepage links on their network sites as I mentioned earlier. This alone is worth the monthly price to be honest with you. In fact, they state the price of admission is for the homepage backlinks and you are allowed to post to the network as long as you are a member, which is kind of a play on words I suppose, but none the less they offer great value at their price points.

In reality the posting by clients provides their blogs with fresh content so they don’t sit stale with just homepage links. So to be clear, what you get from The Private Network is a 100 word post, written by them, for your chosen keywords and urls that they then post to their website and mark it sticky and keep it on their websites homepage for as long as you stay subscribed. Once your subscription ends the posts will not be removed, but they will not stay on the homepage either; they will just roll off the page like any other non-sticky blog post. The amount of homepage links depends upon which package you purchase, but 100 homepage links is the smallest package. These homepage links are called Premium Links on their website. And creating them was a breeze. As you can see from the pictures below:

Once we signed up we were walked through a few sign up pages where we added our premium links information such as domain, url keywords and we were off to the races, the whole process took about 5 minutes.

Now that you have your homepage links all set up what’s left is a private blog network to which you can add posts just like all the other networks. With The Private network you able to add 1 link per 150 words, just like BMR offers. So conveniently, since our writers are already used to writing tens of thousands of posts for BMR a month, we can just use some of those for The Private network as well. The difference with these guys is that they will only allow 5 posts per day per domain which is less than you can do with other networks, but it is still 150 links per month per domain which is not bad.

The only concern we have with this is that with so many homepage links, our regular links probably wont see much time on the homepage. While the premise with other networks is that you post, it gets indexed on the high PR homepage and then rolls off the homepage. TPN will may wind up getting indexed on its inner page alone, which is ok, because you still get the age and authority of the blog itself and it’s a good link, but in our opinion not as powerful as the homepage links you will receive from them or the regular links you will receive from other networks. So we would not recommend posting too heavily to this network like you do with a BMR or Linkvana, because the real power behind TPN is their homepage links.

One thing we took to is that at the moment they do not offer an import feature for posts, but they have instructed us that the import feature will soon be available and they are currently testing it. So for the moment you have to add your posts one at a time, which is a pain, but shortly you should be able to import your posts. Also they do not allow spun content, as per their support staff. Now that being said, Linkvana says they don’t allow spun content either, but you can push well spun posts through the Linkvana network. We are not personally recommending you try, nor are we going to try to buck the system, but if anyone does, let us know. If they are anything like the BMR editors you won’t be able to sneak spun content through, so just how well they check their posts or not is still up in the air. They do have their own outsourced writers available as well for post writing or you can alternatively use ArticlesOnTap.com to purchase content.

Another item worth mentioning is their interface, it is very clean and intuitive to use. We have seen a few others fail at the interface level, and really not having providing a good user experience right off the bat can sour you on a service right away. So this was good to see. Additionally their support was very helpful and quick in answering any questions we had. And one more important aspect we learned that wasn’t mentioned on their FAQ at the time, is that they maintain keyword exclusivity for the premium links, meaning once you pick a keyword for your premium links nobody else will be able to use that same keyword for their premium links, that is of course unless someone else beats you to your chosen keyword. So sign up before your competition does I suppose.

The Results

We just added keywords and links and posted some content to their network, so in all fairness we can’t speak for actual results of their network. But from our real world experience of being members of just about every link network in existence, as well as running our own private link network, we can pretty much speculate what will happen and feel fairly confident in recommending the service.

The fact is that these networks work – BMR works, Linkvana works, they all work – so there is no reason to believe this will not work. We have used homepage backlinks from other providers, and we use our own network for it as well. They work, different niches and different websites will have varying results, but in a nutshell getting homepage backlinks from sites with PageRank should and usually will help your rankings. We also post content to all the major networks out there as well as ours, and it works, so posting to their network of blogs should more than likely help your rankings as well. Again this all depends on your niche and your site age and authority. We would not recommend that The Private Network be your only method of linkbuilding for any website, but we would recommend it for people that are already using a lot of other services and are looking for more links, more diversity, and just more in general for their linkbuilding.

That being said, we will update this post in about 30 days to post about any recent results, while we selected a couple keywords we are doing other linkbuilding campaigns to, we also selected a few keywords we haven’t ever done a thing to – so we can measure the results. So please do check back if you wish, but I encourage you to sign up while the network is new and not saturated and see the results for yourself – the beginning of a private network service is always the best time to join and use it before the masses come rolling in. When BMR first got started, we had posts sitting on their website’s homepages for months before people started swarming their network.

Support

So far, I have opened two tickets, and they have both been answered within a few minutes. I suspect that is because the service is new and they don’t have a lot of tickets yet, but thus far they have been helpful and they even sent some recommendations via the support desk, which may be helpful to others with their SEO efforts.

Pricing

Their pricing in my opinion is actually very fair, their starter package is $105 a month and for that you receive 100 homepage backlinks for which you can distribute on 8 keywords, within 4 urls on 2 domains. Additionally for that $105 a month you can post up to 300 posts with 1 link in each for two domains, that is 5 posts a day per domain. Now keep in mind that does not factor in the cost of content for those 5 posts a day per domain, so you will need to either write content or purchase it.

Most homepage backlinks services alone charge you around $100 a month just for the homepage backlinks, so with this network you also get access to the network posting for that same price. This is extremely reasonable in our opinion. They also offer an Advanced package for $190 which will supply you with 200 homepage backlinks and posting for four domains, and a ultimate for $270 a month for 300 homepage backlinks and posting for 6 domains. One more thing that they offer is free 1 on 1 SEO advice and coaching with one of their SEO Experts, we didn’t test this feature out, so we can’t speak to its effectiveness but as a bonus add on – its a nice to have.

The Private network Bonus

The Private Network appears to be a nice addition to the stable of private networks, while we recommend BMR for their high quality network, this service should be a great addition, and we are thrilled to be using it. However it would be great to have some free content to post to The Private Network. If you purchase The Private Network via our link we will send you twenty (20) FREE 150 word The Private Network posts each month you stay subscribed to TPN. The articles are provided by ArticlesOnTap.com, so you can be assured they are top quality, 100% unique articles ready to post. You will also receive a 10% off coupon code for any future orders of articles from ArticlesOnTap.com. You won’t find a The Private Network coupon here, but the ArticlesOnTap coupon will come in very handy for content. To redeem your bonus simply follow these The Private Network Bonus instructions. Once we confirm your purchase was made through our link, you will receive your bonuses.

]]> http://articlesubmissionreview.com/blog-network/the-private-network-review/feed 11 http://articlesubmissionreview.com/blog-network/the-private-network-review http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArticleSubmissionReview/~3/CPwqpVuux_Y/recent-results-with-linxboss http://articlesubmissionreview.com/blog-network/recent-results-with-linxboss#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:48:11 +0000 Troy http://articlesubmissionreview.com/?p=4041 We get a lot of questions about Linxboss – many of them are the same questions over and over again. For example, we continually get asked about the fact that Linxboss does not provide you with links to it’s sites – this is a big issue for many. But our answers have never changed – the proof is in the pudding – results.

If you’re involved with SEO and are obsessed with counting links and verifying every last link I have to tell you you’re just setting yourself up to be disappointed. We operate based on results – not link counts. What really matters is are your rankings improving? That’s what matters. At the end of day we are looking to rank better and get more traffic and make more sales. That is what this is all about. That is what you need to focus on. If any tool is not working for you, then your ROI is not there and you move on to something else (provided you’ve given it enough time to truly evaluate it – that means at least 90 days). If it is working for you then it’s working for you. If it’s not working for then you try something different. Those who are successful in their SEO have a methodical approach and are good observers, trackers and investigators!

Now, we’ve never tried to steer anyone into believing that any ONE network or tool is THE ANSWER to your linkbuilding needs. In fact, we are quite candid about the fact that we recommend you mix up your SEO with various different tools and networks. Nothing has changed there either.

Our Use of Linxboss

We also get asked a lot about whether or not we use Linxboss or are just recommending it. The fact is that we have more than a hundred domains on Linxboss – so yes, we use it and we use it extensively. Now, we wouldn’t spend that kind of dough if it wasn’t still producing results.

But remember, we don’t just use Linxboss – we use it in conjunction with a well executed comprehensive linkbuilding strategy. So, that being said, we wanted to do another quick review of Linxboss and follow up with it – not only for you, but for our own usage of it as well.

Our Results In a Recent Set of Tests

We ran a test with doing Linxboss only and nothing else on a brand new domain a little while back. In a matter of about 45 days the site already began ranking for the keywords that were being targeted and had moved from a PR n/a site to a PR2 site. Now, nothing super impressive and we all know that PageRank is not really that telling of a quality site or great rankings – but it is one of the indicators of authority.

The rankings were only on page 3, so nothing super impressive there. But the site was brand new and Linxboss is a very low volume linkbuilding software at only 200 total links per month. Keep in mind that many of those will not be indexed (just the nature of the business guys, do don’t complain about it – you’ll never have a tool that gets everything indexed).

In general, I’m quite impressed with the results of moving onto page 3 and getting a quick PR2 on a brand new site using nothing else but Linxboss.

What Others Are Saying

Many other clients have sent us feedback as well regarding their usage of Linxboss and have been satisfied with the improvements in rankings in relatively short timeframes. We don’t want to publish that information here as it was sent in confidence and we don’t want to reveal their niches or keywords, but we have continued to see strong evidence that Linxboss is doing exactly what it was designed to do – improve your results.

Summary

Now, here is the “caution” part of this post. Please do not read into this post and think that I’m saying that all you need is Linxboss. Linxboss is just a single tool and it provides just a single type of backlink (article marketing links of generally low quality). To be truly successful in SEO over the long haul, you need to really mix up your linkbuilding and have several different link types and a wide varied anchor text, etc… It’s all about “keeping it natural”.

One limitation that many people have had with Linxboss is that it is only available at a 5 domain price point which can make it expensive for some or mean that it’s not a wise choice for others who just have a single site they are doing SEO for. For that very reason we introduced a way where you can purchase a Linxboss slot in our massive package form them and use it for just a single site for just $37 a month. If you have multiple domains then you would be better off going with the full Linxboss package, but if you’re looking to just test it out yourself or if you’ve only got a single site, then definitely check out this single slot option. Make sure, however, that you give it a fair chance to succeed and that means that you give it at least 90 days to do its job – nothing happens overnight in the world of SEO.

If you’re truly looking for a single program that can get you diversified links from various sources of link types (social, high pr, low pr, aged domains, etc…) then you need to take a look at our AutomatedLinksOnTap.com product. It was launched nearly a year ago – shortly after the first Google Panda update hit hard and furious – and has been getting superb results for our clients. We have a high percentage of people that signed up with us in February for these packages that are still using them today – they’re that good!

Oh, one last point we should make… At the time this post is being written the Linxboss product is our #1 ranked software on the site. Those rankings come from the user feedback and comments, so it’s really YOUR pick as well!

Happy Holidays and happy link hunting!

FYI, you can read more about Linxboss here:

• Linxboss Review
• Purchase a Single Linxboss Slot for just $37 a month
• Linxboss Best Practices Free Ebook Download

BMR Adds Auto-Image Inclusion for Your Content
Build My Rank has announced that they will now be taking about 30% of the content that does not have an image or video inserted into it and auto-inserting relevant images/videos into it. Now, for those that are worried about the image or video not being as relevant as what you desire, etc… – don’t.

The fact is that BMR is a linkbuilding network – that’s the plain and simple truth. So don’t get overly worried about the videos/images that are included. Human traffic on these sites is almost non-existent and is of no consequence anyway. You should use BMR thinking that you will get any traffic whatsoever from people clicking through from your content links to your site – that is NOT the point of BMR. Build My Rank is all about getting quality links from good PR sites for purchasing of improving your overall site authority and the rankings of targeted keywords. In time that will bring you more traffic as your rankings improve, but it is NOT the goal of Build My Rank (or any other linkbuilding network for that matter).

Why this Matters…
Many of you probably couldn’t care less about this feature. You’ll say, correctly, that you could add videos and images yourself all along, so what’s the big deal? Well the big deal is really about two important points:

• Automation – First and foremost the obvious benefit is that you don’t have to do the work yourself anymore. You can simply let BMR select an image for your posts automatically. But this is really a minor point, the big reason is…
• It Protects The Network – This is the most important reason for this feature. By including more images, the entire BMR network as a whole is more valuable and stronger because it is less likely to be detected as a link network and looks more natural. Many of the networks out there do not include enough images or mix up the size of the content enough – this is a very good step forward for Build My Rank and will, in the end, provide you more value as well.

Now, the beauty of all of this is that you really don’t have to do anything any different than you are already doing. Build My Rank will simply add the images and videos into a random group of posts for you 100% on autopilot (yeah, we love that part). And honestly, that is exactly what we recommend you do! We don’t recommend you treat this content like it’s some great masterpiece and manually select images or videos to include – it’s simply not worth the time. However, letting them do it for you automatically makes a lot of sense…

Some other Build My Rank Resources…

• Build My Rank Review
• Build My Rank Tips & FAQ
• SEO Link Building Tools – Best Practices, Tips and Free Downloads
• SEO Link Building Tools – Best Practices, Tips and Free Downloads
• Build My Rank – Six Months Later
• Comparing Build My Rank versus Linkvana

Overview

I know many of you may be thinking, whoa, wait a minute Pay Per Click (PPC)? Mike and Troy, you guys are all about SEO, linkbuilding and article marketing for organic traffic. And you would be correct in that assumption…. to some extent. However what we are really into, and what everyone should really be into, is traffic and conversions. Without traffic, there are no conversions, without conversions there are no sales, without sales, well you get the gist.

So that leads to the topic of this post, Pay Per Click (PPC) or paid traffic traffic. Now a while ago we wrote a blog post about how we use Adwords to test a market for keyword research for SEO Campaigns – I highly suggest that you read that post.

In a nutshell it is not uncommon for us to throw up a quick Adwords campaign with few dozen to a few 100 or more keywords and just turn on the campaign for a few days or longer as we refine it. With these campaigns, we are usually verifying what our keyword tools are telling us. Because many times what you think may be a high traffic/high conversion keyword really isn’t, once you start getting real sustained traffic from it. And rather than spend 1-3 months launching an SEO Campaign to chase a keyword that doesn’t do much for you, we test it first and see if that keyword is as good as we think it may be – we learned this the hard way many years ago.

Now during this process, we started noticing that some campaigns were actually profitable once we started tweaking – now I say some – because many were not, and while they were not profitable with paid traffic, we did learn that certain keywords were profitable when the traffic was free from organic traffic, and that has greatly aided us in our SEO campaigns over the years. So what we learned was that some paid campaigns were actually profitable and we kept them going along with doing SEO to the same keywords. You will find that most times, organic traffic converts better than paid traffic, but paid traffic is fast and instant and if you can get both, well, that’s even better.

While we did have some profitable campaigns going, we realized we needed to start really investigating paid traffic avenues a lot further, because nothing beats saying I want to enter this market and boom I am in. As opposed to, I want to enter this market, let me buy an aged domain, and further age my link building profile for another 3-6 months and then take it by storm – SEO is a slow process, and we are comfortable with that, but if you can do both at the same time you are really ahead of the game because you are driving traffic for all angles.

This leads me to Gauher and his Pay Per Click Formula 3 course. We purchased his Pay Per Click Formula course a couple years or so ago and it really opened our minds to a whole world of paid traffic that we just weren’t really in tune to. Actually, our first course from Gauher was PPV Formula which I dont believe is available any more, and we took that course and used it for an affiliate launch for one of the guru launches two years ago, this was our first time promoting a guru launch with nothing but paid traffic. There was a lead generation contest for this launch at the time, and we ranked 7th on that launch and made a cool $7300 against some very big names like John Reese, Filsaime, Jeff Johnson, and more, all from what we learned on that one course all from that one paid traffic source – it was our first true test to the power of paid traffic. And that ultimately lead us to further delve into paid traffic.

With all the constant algorithm changes, and constant tweaks, it can be a bit nerve racking to constantly rely on Google for all of your traffic. And if you are a responsible business owner and you are solely relying on Google organic for traffic, then your business is built on sand. Google can take your business away over night, and many people saw just that during the Panda update in February.

Now, we firmly believe that SEO is still the long term route to go, but there is a saying that we learned from Rich Schefren that we really relate to. He says that you really don’t own a business until you can buy customers. By that he’s referring to paying for traffic that you send directly into a well converting sales funnel. If you can do that, then you can continually expand and drive your own sales. So the trick here is that you need to, in time, diversify your sources of traffic and customers and once you have a solid sales funnel in place and know your visitor value, you can get into paid traffic.

We have actually been increasing our advertising budget month over month towards paid traffic, not that we are going away from SEO – we will never go away from SEO, the conversion rates are much higher, and the traffic is much higher quality, but we are shifting more into paid traffic because we want more traffic to our websites and we are now in a position to do so. While we are growing our paid traffic campaigns, we are also expanding our keyword knowledge for the niches we are in for our SEO campaigns as well – so it’s a double benefit.

Anyway, about Pay Per Click Formula 3 – as a Pay Per Click Formula 2 member, I was upgraded to 3.0 a couple months ago as the modules were being released and have gone through them. if you want to go straight to PPCF 3 Click Here.

Here is a break down of what you get:

Welcome To Pay Per Click Formula 3.0 – this is pretty self explanatory – its an introduction to the course by Gauher.

Module 1: Introduction To Pay Per Click Marketing – There are 4 videos in this module. This is an introduction into the various lingo used in PPC, this is good for the person who is newer to paid traffic. However someone with more experience can probably skip this module. He also gets into various means of earning revenue from paid traffic, CPA, CPC, etc. Now Gauher has made millions over the years in CPA and is very well regarded as one of the pioneers of CPA marketing, his course has always been a little more focused towards that end of the business – but all in all it is still great stuff no matter what you are promoting.

Module 2: Market Research and Offer Selection -There are 5 videos in this module, and they are gold. This is your basic market research, how to find out what market you want to market to. He covers items such as Google Trends, Ebay Pulse, Amazon Marketplace and this is gold for the affiliate marketer.

Module 3: Keyword Research – There are 13 videos in this module!! If you don’t know how to do proper keyword research after going through this module – then its probably a lost cause for you – and he covers a lot of tools and techniques here as well.

Module 4: Silo Site Building, Landing Pages and Great Ad Copy – There are 5 videos in this section. They cover various techniques for creating landing pages that the search engines will love, have a high acceptance rate and high converting landing pages, along with techniques for ad creation.

Module 5: Google Adwords – There are 6 videos in this module and the name of the module is self explanatory. Gauher covers everything about creating your ads in Google Adwords – from Quality Score, to content network, to placement ads, to how to get your account back when it gets banned. If you are doing Adwords – this is a requirement.

Module 6: MSN Adcenter – There are four videos in this module. Here he covers all aspects of setting up your ads in the MSN Adcenter – which has now has merged with Yahoo Search marketing and accounts for 30% of the search market.

Module 7: Facebook Ads – There is one video in this module and it covers everything you need to get a profitable Facebook ad campaign going. With over 600 million users and growing, Facebook is not something to ignore. However we are one of those people guilty of ignoring Facebook, and we plan on turning that around.

Module 8: Other PPC Search Engines – There are 8 videos in this module, and to me this was actually one of these most important modules of all. We have been using a few of these other ad networks with more successes than failures. Please note I said more success than failure. That is key, you have to be aware that paid traffic takes a lot of testing, monitoring and tweaking – you will not come out of the gate with a winning campaign unless you are really good or really lucky or both and that is why it is imperative to learn as much as you can before just diving in.

Module 9: Inline Text Ads - There are seven videos in this module. And it covers inline text ads, which are those ads that appear over text when you hover over the keywords on some websites. This is actually a form of traffic we have yet to try, but do have plans to try it out because there are a ton of cheap clicks to be had here. This is something that is definitely in our future, but full disclosure we haven’t gone here yet.

Module 10: Testing, Tracking And Optimization – There are 4 videos in this module. This is the coup de grace of paid traffic. if you are going to spend money for paid traffic, you had better be prepared to track, monitor, test and tweak. The slightest modifications to a campaign can be the difference between a profitable vs a non profitable campaign. This is even more important for the affiliate marketer who has smaller margins to work with than the small business owner with higher profit margins.

Module 11: Regeneration of Lost Traffic – There are 4 videos in this module, and this is actually one of my personal favorites. It discusses how to maximize your traffic. Because 80-90% of your traffic will never convert into revenue for you, so this discusses how to capture some of that lost traffic and convert it. We have personally benefited from these techniques back from when we learned this with PPCF 2 and we used it for organic traffic, not paid, so it works both ways. We personally have a  site that generates as much as 50,000 unique visitors a month, but was generating a paltry 100 sales a month from that traffic. With the regeneration techniques, we almost doubled the sales to close to 200 a month, which doubled the revenue that one website was generating. It was worth the price of entry for this module alone.

Module 12: Expanding Your PPC Empire – There are six videos in this section and this section actually covers exactly what we have done and continue to do with paid traffic campaigns. We use the keyword research and data for our very own SEO Camapigns. The keyword data gleaned from real world traffic cant be beat by any tool whatsoever.

Pricing

Pay Per Click Formula isn’t a cheap course at $997, so it is not for everyone. However, for anyone that is planning on venturing into paid traffic, you can easily spend $997 in one day and make no money or just break even if you are lucky. So you really need to weigh the costs vs benefits for you. If you are in a position of spending money on paid traffic, then you are probably in the position to purchase the course, only if you plan on using it of course – like most courses it wont work through osmosis. There is also a 3 month payment plan of $397 a month available to help alleviating the cost of entry and a 30 day money back guarantee. Additionally Troy and I are offering an extremely killer bonus as you will see below that can further offset those costs to you.

Summary

Pay Per Click formula is a very well thought out and detailed course that goes into paid traffic in great detail. Gauher is is known as the godfather of CPA and has made millions brokering paid traffic. If you are in the market to learn paid traffic  then this should be very beneficial to you. But really only you can make that decision. I have found that this course has paid for itself so many times over, that really it was free and I should be sending Gauher more money! Don’t tell him I said that. The reality is paid traffic is expensive, and fast and so you can spend your money very quickly with no results, so this could be the answer for you.

Pay Per Click Formula 3 Bonus

While you won’t find a Pay Per Click Formula 3 coupon code here, if you purchase Pay Per Click Formula through our affiliate link we will provide you a whopping $250 gift card to use towards our very own ArticlesOnTap.com. This can be used for any product on our website, whether it be Articles, SEO Packages, Linkbuilding you name it. You get $250 to spend however you want. You will also receive a 10% off coupon code for any future orders of articles from ArticlesOnTap.com in case you have a need for any further content or SEO. To redeem your bonus simply open a helpdesk ticket at http://ctcsupport.com and paste in a copy of your receipt. Once we have verified that our link was used and the 30 day refund period has expired we will give you your gift certificate. For payment plan purchasers, we will need to wait for the last payment to be completed before the bonus can be paid.

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Overview

We all know that video is one of the most powerful media formats available – if you don’t, you should. The fact is that video hits us on all fronts – audio, video, emotional – it’s a terrific way to create branding, loyalty, intrigue and exposure for your site.

The problem, however, is that video is a hit or miss solution for most. Meaning that if you do it right it can be a huge hit, but if you do it wrong it can be an enormous flop and waste of time. That “downside” is what, honestly, has kept us from doing more videos ourselves. We have never endorsed or even reviewed any of the video creation courses out there because, up until this point, we’ve really not found anything that we felt compelled to put our name on. But with Video Traffic Academy, that’s all changed.

Most video training courses out there are either far too technical and focus on just the techie details of how to upload videos, how to convert videos, etc… or they focus on some gimmicky trick, or they’re just a low-quality beginner level video info that really doesn’t offer much “meat”. The fact is that video is a complicated subject. There are technical aspects of it that you do need to understand and master. You need to know the details about where to upload, how to film, what resolutions to use, what format to use and many other facts. But a successful video is not just the result of following a set of “technical” steps. In fact, it’s as much art as it is technology – in fact, much more so.

What you’ll get out of this course is not just techie stuff about how to upload your videos or convert them or what the best gear to use is. Now don’t get me wrong, you will get all of that too, but the missing element in video creation is really going into the details of what does and doesn’t work and more importantly “why”.

What we like about Video Traffic Academy is that it does just that. First off, the creator is a true film buff – not just an Internet Marketer trying to make some cash off of videos. So he truly knows what works and why. I like that he also does a lot of case study demonstrations of videos and what is successful about them so you can model that success.

The best part about it is that the content is presented in just the right level of detail. You don’t have to have a bunch of fancy equipment to get great results and the author teaches you just that. Remember, it’s not the technology that makes a great video – it’s the level of engagement and emotional appeal that you create.

Even if you’ve never made the leap into video because of a fear of being in front of the camera, the author will give you some great strategies. He gives you tips and methods to help you get over this fear and if you really don’t want to do that, then he’ll provide you some strategies to design your videos where you don’t have to be in them. So read on…

About the Course

Video Traffic Academy is broken down into several modules. Each module has a few videos in it about the topic. It starts out with the basics of video in the Video 101 module. This is more than just the technical aspects of video, but rather the complete picture of the purpose of video marketing and how to design your goals effectively with keyword research as well.

Next is Module 2 which is all about Developing Your Strategy for success with video marketing. Remember that this course is more than just training for video creation, but rather, it’s about getting traffic with your videos. So in this strategy module you’ll be taught some of the pillars of success and how to create your own custom strategy for profit and success. The module consists of three videos and focuses on developing your strategy, when and where to post your videos and videos that work.

Module 3 is entitled Creating Killer Videos and is by far my favorite module because it really covers a lot of ground. The first video in this module alone is an hour long and gives several case studies and a lot of detail. The next video in the module is about answering your technical questions and covers the techie basics. In the third module your video production strategy is covered and goes into very specific details – nothing is held back.

Next there are two more videos in this module that go into filming your video and editing your video for success. Again, what’s critical to keep in mind is that all of this is done at a level that nearly anyone can have success with it. No heavy duty editing software of equipment is required. In fact, the less polished approach can produced very good results.

Module 4 is all about optimization of your video. By that we’re primarily talking about optimizing your YouTube channel for the best results. But it’s more than just techie optimization, it’s about optimizing the entire process – including outsourcing a lot of the work. He also covers how to get the same results without having to be in front of the camera.

In this fourth module there is also an entire video dedicated to the ranking factors for video. You’ll also get a lot of examples for channels that work so you can learn from others that are doing it right. This module is packed full of 8 different videos and covers many essentials like uploading, time stamping, annotations, overlays and more.

Lastly is Module 5, Advanced Video Traffic Strategies. In this module you’ll learn what to do to promote your video after it’s uploaded so that you experience better results and get more traffic. He has a 13 step process that he walks you through to really skyrocket your video views and some more advanced strategies.

Summary

Video is by far one of the single most underutilized strategies for traffic building on the Internet and a huge potential win for your business. It’s also a great way to launch a new site or product. With SEO you have to be careful at first with a new site, but video is an option where you can go heavy even from the beginning to help launch your site without causing any scrutiny from Google over too many backlinks, etc…

Effective video is also a huge plus for your site in terms of the user engagement factors that Google looks for such as time on site, return visits, pageviews per visitor and bounce rate. But again, if you do it wrong, you’ll likely get no benefit out of it at all. That is exactly why we feel that trying to do video marketing on your own is like trying to fly a plane blind. The fact is you just don’t know what you don’t know and without the specific knowledge of this powerful media you’re not likely to have a lot of success.

We’ve been very impressed with the course and are looking forward to creating some time and money in our budget to devote to more video marketing ourselves because we believe that we too are “missing the boat” on this one.

Video Traffic Academy Pricing

Honestly we were really pleasantly surprised to see the pricing on this course. There are other video training courses in the market right now selling for $997 or $497 that don’t have half as much to offer as this $97 course does. I truly feel that it is severely underpriced and that he should be selling it for $297 – it’s that good. I really don’t see how you could possibly not be extremely impressed with this course and get far more out of it that the c-note price point.

There is a tremendous amount of detailed and specific information in this course that will really help you create an effective video marketing and traffic strategy for your site. Beyond the basics or beyond just video marketing, this is about traffic generation and using video to that means. We all know that sales rely on traffic and when you have a brand new site getting traffic can be difficult. This is one strategy that works from day one and can really shorten your launch cycle.

Video Traffic Academy Bonus Offer

While you won’t find a Video Traffic Academy coupon code here, if you purchase Video Traffic Academy through our link we will provide you with 10 of our High Powered Backlinks from a private network to help get you started – you can link them to your video directly on YouTube or anywhere else you want. We will create 5 unique written blog posts on the topic of your choice and post them to our private PR3 or higher blogs, and each post will have 2 backlinks to your site of choice. You will also receive a 10% off coupon code for any future orders of articles from ArticlesOnTap.com in case you have a need for any further content or SEO. To redeem your bonus simply follow these Video Traffic Academy Bonus instructions. Once we confirm your purchase was made through our link, you will receive your bonuses.

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