ArticleRanks Review - Awesome 1-Way Linking System!

I've been using Article Ranks as a source of content for my blogs, so I can speak about it from the perspective of a publisher, which is different from most of the users, who are primarily interested in publishing their articles.

First, let me say that it makes sense for most AR users to be article writers and many fewer of them to be providing the sites. That's the kind of balance one would need, although you don't want to end up with too few sites for the number of article writers.

From my experience, I strongly encourage article contributors to spin their articles and spin them heavily. By that I mean the articles need to be significantly unique or they are of little use to publishers such as myself. I am dedicated to creating quality blogs so I read every article before I accept or reject it and I will never consider an article that is not quite unique.

@ AR admin: I would like to understand more about how you rank the uniqueness of the articles you present. What exactly does the % uniqueness mean?

Also, it's absolutely necessary that you don't spin an article carelessly, and end up with something that makes no sense. This is easy to do with machine spinning if you don't take the time to carefully consider the effect of the changes you make. I will reject any article that is unclear or reads like it was written by a four year old. Unfortunately, I have rejected many articles for just this reason.

@ AR admin: I would like to see your system do a better job of targeting content. The criteria at present are way too broad, and I end up rejecting 70% to 80% of the articles presented simply because they don't fit my niche. For instance, I have a blog about jewelry, and most of the articles I've received are about handbags, celebrity fashion, hair styles, etc. These are vaguely related to my niche, but are not part of it. One of your main competitors, ArticleMarketingAutomation.com has laser-sharp targeting. I never reject an article from them based on subject mis-matching. Take note.

Finally, a note to those with limited English language ability. You really need to get someone to proof-read and/or edit your content. I have (occasionally) re-written an entire article if it is good content but very poorly written, but for the most part, I reject them. Proper English is required for an acceptable article.

 

Hello digiboyz
how doesspinning article work with your site. FTS works with magic artcle rewriter. Is there any such toll you work with or your site has built-in spinner

 

I use Magic Article Rewriter with ArticleRanks - I just export it in Article Marketing Automation style, that seems to work fine.

 

hey thanks for your comments

regarding content targetting i believe we have a much better system in place then any other site. Are you taking advantage of the tag system?

If you use the tag system you will only receive content that meet your category and tag specifications which is laser targetted.

No other system does content matching like this... But obviously if you have only selected a category you will receive broad content.

So as an example in the tags you can enter silver jewlerry, necklace etc and you will only receive these articles.

Let me know if this helps

 

No, it says that using tags costs extra, which I think is silly, and I didn't see anywhere that it stated you would not be able to accurately target content without paying extra for tags.

Easy enough to just reject the poorly targeted content.

 

I really like this service, posted an article 2 days ago, already has been published 5 times, will be posting more articles soon.

I have a quick question to all the guys posting articles, do you get any useful traffic from the published articles, or do you publish just so you can get more backlinks and rank your site higher in search engines?

 

For my niche it's definitely the latter.

 

Another suggestion for article writers:

As a publisher, I'm much more interested in articles that provide my readers with useful information, not just advertising for products. For my Forex blog I seem to receive mostly articles that are pumping one trading robot or another and really have no other value to my readers. I will occasionally publish a thoughtful review of an interesting product, but not often, and certainly not just ad copy with affiliate links.

If you want to promote Joe Blow's Cool Forex System, write an intelligent article that helps interested readers to understand something useful about the Forex market, trading, technical indicators, etc. Then put in a plug at or near the bottom for product you're promoting, with your affiliate link. And try to do so in a way that fits in with the article's subject.

Publishers of quality blogs and sites want content that has some thought and effort put into it. You can get spammy ads published on lots of low-traffic spammy blogs, but I doubt you'll get much benefit. If you want to be included on quality blogs, provide quality content.

 

How many articles are you finding you have to put out to start seeing an effect on your rankings? Most of these posts, even of high quality, seem to go out to low PR blog pages. If that is the case you would need lots of links for it to effect your rankings.

 

I think that's the nature of the beast. Blogs that are well established and have high PR are not likely to be signing up to free content services. Most likely the majority of sites that will use services such as these are either just looking for something to fill them so they can be used for backlinks or they're sites that are planning on becoming high quality but are just starting out.

The latter is the case with my sites. I am working with them carefully to ensure that they become well-trafficked and high PR eventually, but they are quite new, so there's no way they could be a strong source of traffic or PR right away.

We all need to think of this type of service as an investment in the future. As the number and quality of article writers increases more quality sites will become interested; as the number of quality sites increases (and new sites build their reputations) the more article writers will join. I doubt anyone will get a giant, immediate boost in either traffic or PR, but if we keep it going we'll all be quite pleased with the results down the road.

 

Makes lots of sense. In a way getting into a high PR blog is no different than making a connection with a sought after individual in real life. You can build a relationship first and then be a guest writer or the like. If you have something relevant to say it shouldn't be a problem

 

I've been using articleranks for a week now. I have 3 sites, and submit about 1 article per day for each site, so at the moment there are more than 20 articles live. The ones that I wrote first, have been published almost 20x. However, I also noticed that so far the articles can be found on low-level blogs and I even found that some blogs published articles related to my other sites, that aren't even closely related regarding their niches.

Can I expect some articles on better standing blogs/sites than at the moment, or can I only hope that the PR of these blogs will get higher with time? I'm not saying the system doesn't work, it's only been a week anyway, but I am a bit concerned.

Thanks in advance for any info...

 

Sorry about the small size of this picture, I shrunk it to fit in my blog post on Article Ranks. It should still be readable (I can read it, anyway.)

 

Stumbleupon traffic is mostly useless - and what does this have to do with ArticleRanks?

 

I noticed since Traffic Geyser a flooooood of these automatic sites have been popping up. Eventually the big G will spank them. Don't rely on it.

 

Why does Google need to spank these sites? It's not like they are ranking well for anything competitive or they have high Pagerank.

IMO article marketing using any system is not going to produce high quality links. It is the volume of the links that make it worthwhile, together with the fact that you can choose your own anchor text.

 

In all honesty there is no way for Google to find any of the sites in the network nor links.

And its an ethical way, your giving webmasters content and in return they are giving you links, if they do not like your content they will not publish your article.

So in the end it comes down to the good old saying of Content is King the higher the quality of the content the more webmasters will publish it.

 

When I will start to get credited for publishing article on my site? I have 7 published and I didn`t get any credits.

 

Does your site have any PR? If not then you will not earn credits even if you published 10,000 because the site is below the low quality score.

 

No PR means no backlinks. 0-2 means a few months. It seems only time and lots of GOOD quality high PR links will get your own PR up there! Wait 9-10 months to get any decent PR.

In the mean time, make sure you have good content that changes constantly, add pages every couple of weeks. Re-word articles every one in a while. Use good trusted techniques to get PR. Use any thing you can to get traffic. It's the rule of numbers, the more you get the more you make.

I stuff my meta with keywords on my pages. My PR is low now, but I still get search traffic because I use dozens of keywords that are actually on my pages.