I can't remember if I posted this question before but I'm wondering if anyone has read this article that talks about this website? http://www.slideshare.net/PotPieGirl/how-to-make-profitable-niche-sites-in-4-simple-steps This site seems a bit too good to be true, and it claims to help with getting your site ranked well on Google. What have been people's experiences with it?
Hahaha, lol. On a more serious note, yes, All you need is your brain. The one thing article builders always sucked at and probably always will is to make an article... readable for a human. This is the #1 thing you need to do to create a good and attractive website, have good content on it that is written by a human(preferably with some linguistic skills), that people would want to link to.
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I am actually heavily using Article Builder, I even brought extra credit just so I can use more article. But of course I use AB mainly for building backlinks and not so much about content on blogs. The articles are surprisingly readable and should be able to pass some Manuel review. I have run copyscape on the articles that is created by Article builder. Compared to when it is first launch, there is definitely more duplicated result showing up in copyscape. That being said, the results that show up in copyscape only state that one or maybe two sentence are being repeated. The uniqueness is quite good considering that it is a push button system. Nothing beats original content, however if you need to use tools to build backlinks to your T1 sites, then I highly recommend that you should take up Article builder. One way that you can get original content for super cheap is to get one article from article builder and then get it over to iwriter or ineedarticle for a rewrite. That way you can get original article for really really cheap. Like $1.5 dollars per article cheap!! So you can actually get the best of both world for highly spun content and original content.
I have also used article builder and i don't think it's good in terms of Seo prospective as near about 60 to 70% article that is generated with it comes out to be copied from many sites. Most important thing it doesn't include the keywords that we need to be inserted in the article body. I think it's complete waste of time.
It doesn't take very long to write a high quality article, especially if it's more opinion based, such as your take on the latest niche or SEO news. However submitting to various article sites takes time. Since Penguin 2.0, I wonder if these article sits are really even relevant anymore or could just get your site penalized for spammy backlinks. If you choose to use, just be sure to only submit to the top article sites, not just spin off article directories and then only original articles every time. And, don't forget to vary up your anchor text backlinks.