ArticleRanks Review - Awesome 1-Way Linking System!

It's definitely worth a try. Thanks for submitting the new thread!

Yugo,

 

Please give me one good example. Tell me exactly how?

I have been using it for a couple months now with no issues.

 

I started using ArticleRanks a few days ago. I plugged it into a blog that I have which wasn't doing anything...then I read a post here about the owner saying sites with PR0 can't collect credits (that really pissed me off...I posted like 50 articles on that blog before I found that out...would have been nice if there was a warning about that somewhere in the system).

So I've tried plugging it into a PR2 site I have and it's getting credits...seems to be about 0.3 credits/article.

I posted 2 articles yesterday to see how it would work, neither have been published yet which I'm not too impressed about. It's probably because of the category I selected so I'm going to try a few other categories to see if they get results.

Overall it seems decent, but I have a few problems with the system:

1) It's NOT user-friendly at all. The 'Tutorials' section just shows you how to post an article. It doesn't walk you through setting up your blogs to syndicate the content at all.

2) If you change any of the basic settings for your blog sites (i.e. auto-approve, how many articles/day, etc), you have to remap all of your categories...that really really annoys me. I spent 30 mins mapping all the categories to my blog, made a quick edit to the basic settings, and then had to remap them all again. It was very frustrating.

3) SPEED...the site is damn slow. It takes me 2-3 mins to load any given page on it right now.

I'm gonna play around with it some more, but overall I think it's a neat idea but it's really buggy and is giving me alot of headache. The lack of tutorials/instructions on how to use the system is a real bitch.

 

Hey Christian

Thanks for your comments, in all honesty we are still in Beta and have experienced exceptional growth over the past few months, which has had some teething problems. Things such as map categories. Feedback from users has been great

But regarding speed the site works at great speeds from our end what speed connection are you using? The video tutorial does explain how to add blogs to the system

 

well, I would claim the complete opposite.
the site is fast enough and to my mind it gave me clear instructions on what and how to do the things.
my articles were also posted 10 times so far (submitted 3 days ago) and I think I get 0.5 credits/article.
overall, I think this system is great.

btw, how much do we have to pay in order to submit one article without using a blog?

 

ArticleRanks is dominating this SERPS test I started about a month ago.

It's EZA lander is now top 10 in all three search engines - ahead of FTS & AMA in all three. I'm very impressed by ArticleRanks at the moment. Good stuff!

 

Great experiment. I have just visited your blog to read about it in further detail and it sounds like Article Ranks is doing a great job.

How does the actual number of links differ between the 3 systems you used? (FTA, AMA, AR)

Anthony

 

I've done other tests that focus on the amount of links built - this particular test is just on SERPS (which is the ultimate goal of link building anyway, of course) ... I'd give you the inlink stats too if I could but I can't - the reason for that is I'm using EZA as my landers for this test and for some reason I can't get accurate inlink stats for EZA landers.

 

how often were your articles posted on each of those article submitters?

 

I'm connecting from DSL at home, as well as on a T3 connection from my office. It seems to be a problem with the login time, it takes a really long time to get logged in. Once logged in it still very slow to get some pages (the statistics page loads really fast, but everything else seems to load really slow for me). Maybe it's Firefox having issues with your page code, I'll try IE sometime and see if that speeds it up.

 

I've seen similar numbers, BUT....

Do a google exact search for your title and check the PR of the home page of the sites your article has been published on. I checked 40 results and not a one of these sites is above PR1.

Is this all bad? Well yes and no. It's not great for now, but what happens if any of these PR1 sites grows up?

 

been a user of ama for a while now and just started using AR, hope to see some good results from this aswell

 

the pr of these sites wont grow up unless the backlinks to those sites wont increase.

 

After about 10 days of using this software, I have the following feedback/results:

I've accepted somewhere around 70 articles on my PR2 blog, which has gotten me somewhere around 15 credits in total. I seem to get about 0.3 credits/article.

I posted 2 articles into the system for a one of my sites to see how it would far just over a week ago. My articles have been posted 11 times according to their stats, and two of them have already appeared in Google Webmaster Tools as passing link juice onto me. I've been watching the stats, and the articles seem to get a added to another site every 2 days or so.



Something I'm not really sure about is the auto-rejected stats for my articles. What does it mean when an article is auto-rejected? Does that just mean the article was rejected because it's spin quality wasn't that high? (I expected a lot of rejections for this reason, the two articles in question are not really unique).


I have 12 credits banked, which is enough to throw up 6 more articles, which I'll be doing later today and will see how they fare. I suspect part of the reason behind having not a lot of sites post the articles was that I selected a very small niche category. I'm going to try a broader one on the next batch to see how it does. I'm also planning to write the articles from scratch this time, instead of spinning old content, which I hope will improve the acceptance rate.

If the 31 auto-rejections was caused because of the spin quality, I'm hoping the next batch will be greatly improved as it will be unique content.

 

I guess it has to do with the spinning or rewriting rate. if you achieve a rewrite rate of 100%
all of your articles will be accepted, thats what my experience with the system was so far with
more than 50 distributed and accepted articles.

 

Disagree with the comments that it is hard to understand, found it v user friendly and will def be using

 

I've had a similar experience. I have 100% acceptance rate for most of my articles (some have rates of 98% or 99%) and I have a rewrite % of 100%+ on my articles.

 

I've just posted an experimental article to see how well it does. It's almost 600 words long and completely unique. Here's the stats that ArticleRanks has provided:

The title of the article is 371% rewritten, and the body is 166% rewritten.

Additionally, I posted it in a much broader category than my previous attempts at using this system. I'll post the stats of this new article in a few days/week if anybody is interested in seeing how big of a difference it makes to completely spin an article that you submit.

 

Hi - what do you mean penalties please? thanks

 

It's the fear that if the people over at Google got a list of the sites in their network they would apply a penalty to the rankings/pagerank of those sites as this platform is designed to artificially boost your backlinks.

It's the same reason why text link brokers (such as text-link-ads.com) don't show you the specific URL in their offerings, they don't want a Google employee to come in and find all their sites that are selling text links out of fear of those sites getting banned. (though with text link brokers there's also the fear that advertisers will directly approach the website owners and cut out the broker).