OK, so I had a reader send me a link to Article Ranks and wanted my opinion of it. It was the first I had heard of it, but on the surface it checked out pretty good. I went ahead and dove in to give it a $10.00 try.
What is it? Article Ranks is an up-scaled version of Free Traffic System, I have used and promoted in the past on this blog. While FTS is still mildly effective to use even in the free version, you probably noticed that some of the quality of blogs are not up to snuff. I still stand by the motto though that there is no such thing as a bad backlink. Some of course are better than others and carry more weight though. Back to Article Ranks! They do a great job of screening out the blogs and sites that they allow to publish the articles. This makes for a much better network to distribute your articles to.
Article Ranks interface is top notch, but a little rough to understand at first. I do suggest watching the videos and reading everything first a few times. Also clunky is the spin format. I do not like the time involved and the method they have to rewrite and spin the sentences, but if you understand the format, you can use the free Crewriter or The Best Spinner and adapt the output VERY easily. It took me a few minutes to figure out, but I was able to take an article I did in the Best Spinner and export it out using the export function into the EXACT format that Article Ranks uses. That format looks like below:
The {cat~dog~mouse} {ate~devoured~downed} my {leftover~extra} {spaghetti~tacos~pizza}.
Get the drift. If you never have spun articles or used The Best Spinner, you have no idea what I am talking about and should stop reading now. You do not have to spin mind you, but several site owners will reject and not publish your articles if you do not have SOME level of uniqueness and clarity to them. You can use up to three links in the articles, but I always just use 2 links and rotate around the anchor text used. One link goes to an interior page, while another points to the home page.
Article marketing has never gone away through all of these years and while it should not be your ONLY method of building backlinks, it is still very much one of the must effective ways to do so. If you are going to use this service, I ask you do so responsibly. If you spin, spin as if the article was going to go on one of your own sites. If you choose to offer up a site to the network as well, offer up a decent one, not just and old junked de-indexed site. I doubt it would be accepted any how.
All in all the cost to submit an article is 2 credits. One credit cost $1.00 and the minimum credits you can buy to get started is 10 or $10.00. If you want to try it for free go here and sign up and use the coupon code: 6140549c6d6ad47e914f02f16ef41aea That should get you one article submission. Snoop around and make sure you understand how everything works before using that one free one as well, that way you can better judge the results for yourself, but I really think it will be a great article distribution resource for you. You can also sign up for an unlimited monthly fee of $39.00 as well.
If you have any questions or need help with the spin syntax, just hit me up and i will lend a hand.
1 comments:
Looks great, I signed up and will give this a try.
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