A very quick post today and its about the SEO tool I mentioned in my previous post.
I set up a brand new site yesterday – bought a new domain from NameCheap with the added coupon I may add, which saves about a buck or something, and then added in some content to it – a couple of pages so far, with another just about to be added as I write this.
Its not going to be an authority site or anything – its going to target a product that I am currently in the process of advertising the writing for – an eBook. I’ve had some seriously good candidates apply to my ad too – its on oDesk, which I use fairly often these days, as opposed to Elance which I could never get to grips with – the interphase is very difficult on Elance – I find, anyhow. So for these kind of “one-off” jobs, I will always look to oDesk.
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I then managed to motivate myself to write an article in spin format using The Best Spinner (of course). I do actually outsource most of this work but the writer I have is getting slower and slower at meeting my demands and I get impatient. I have to get another article written today, so I’ll get to that as soon as I’ve posted up this – strike while the iron is hot!
I uploaded the article to the Article Marketing Robot (AMR) software which I discussed just recently in this post here. Sent it on its merry way to goodness knows how many article directories.
Personally, I don’t care how many it goes out to. I know many folks collect all the stats about where articles are submitted to and their Google PR and their indexing rate and all the rest of it. I’m not for that – if a piece of software works well for me, in that firstly I can use it without much trouble and it brings me decent results in the short, mid or longer term, then that’s all I need to know.
I fiddled around for a few hours on other tasks – some that need doing and others that don’t but I was a bit bored so why not 
Then I went back into that particular site – the new one, to change a few of the settings and I saw that already its been indexed.
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Well, okay, in all it took about 18 hours to index – from me purchasing the domain name. I did not set up the pinging plugin as of yet either, so its almost certain that the reason for such speedy indexing in Google is down to Article Marketing Robot. And indeed, there are quite a few ping-backs from the spun article I sent out using that software.
So now I know how to get a post (or website) indexed very fast indeed in Google, without having to go to some high end forum and make some comments and add in a link to my new post in my sig file. That’s not the only way for fast indexing, but I do really like the speed of using AMR for fast indexing a post!
But the main thing is not necessarily about the speed of indexing in Google – not for me anyhow – it is for some folks and for good reason. The main aspect to setting up a website for me is to get it ranking in Google – and the faster the better because I want a fairly speedy return on investment – where possible, as its not always possible. By speedy I mean ideally within a few weeks, just to help cover some of the initial costs, particularly where hiring out larger tasks such as eBook writing.
I could do the writing myself but I’ve actually found a qualified doctor on oDesk who is within my price range, and she seems to have a great skill set besides being a physician, with lots of super feedback too.
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Well, I ain’t gonna lie to you here – I actually made a mistake in setting up my bio box in AMR, and thus when I did look at the article submissions I made earlier, my link anchor text was messed up. Oh how dumb is that! I should have clicked on the “check article” button within the software itself to ensure it looked okay before submitting it.
Never mind, I’ll send another one out today with the link text correctly inserted in the bio box which will be targeting my main phrase which has about 27k exact global search per month in the new Google search tool – its great to see real search stats for once!
This particular keyphrase isfairly competitive anyhow. I did not get an exact match for good reason, but instead added in a single dash (-) to the domain name, where I thought it looked appropriate. So something along these lines for example… www.harley-davidsonbikes dot com.
I purchased the dot com as I have heard that dot com domain names seem to have a “natural” ability to rank a little higher in Google without any backlinks. At the end of the day, its neither here nor there – if you get backlinks and do some on-page SEO, its going to be a lot more important than the dot com or dot net or dot org bit of a domain name. And I would have been happy to have purchased the dot info.
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I’ll keep you updated on the progress of this particular keyword phrase – if I see it ranking in Google any time soon. I’ll be utilizing the AMR software on its own for this, so its a reasonable way to test the effectiveness of it, at least to some extent – given a few other variables, some of which I have no control over.
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Good to hear that you are getting fast indexing with AMR. Are you doing a complete run on a brand new site with that tool?
I am so close to getting it myself, but am holding off until after the weekend as I have had too many things planned for these two days. On top off it, my ultimate free worker (my fast desktop) needed help as its video card blew out and I had to do a bit of extra running around to get that going.
The Best Spinner is getting so good that it really doesn’t take much time to spin an article anymore. It used to take a while to fix things but now I can go over an entire article fairly quickly and I haven’t even tried the beta version yet but am hearing that it is quite good… can’t risk any errors or bugs at this moment.
Good luck with the site and I wish you fast rankings.
Hey Tom, the new version of Best Spinner – yes, real nice additions to that – I’ve written up a few articles with the new one and its a little faster to create a more unique article I’d say. Happy to hear you’re having fun with it – still takes me ages to do a 350 word article, but fact is that rarely do I see any mistakes in any of the spins so its worth my time, particularly if the topic is fairly interesting.
AMR – generally I’m just firing off a whole bunch of stuff and I’ll take the consequences come what may. I’m fed up pussyfooting with Google cos they are not playing ball even when I do – so no longer. Although, with sites that I merely want to nudge a few of their pages – I still gotta pussyfoot and go easy with that. I know this will have lots of folks up in arms thinking “ah you’ll sandbox and you’re an idiot”. I kinda wonder… we’ll see
Good luck with the video card!
I am really wondering how your battle with Google will play out. Never really tried to get in the sandbox myself and with all of the internet myths around I guess it just takes people like us to tackle them one at a time… lol. There are other ways of indexing sites fast that are not quite this hardcore but in my opinion it is definitely worth a shot. Let us know how it goes as I will be taking up AMR up myself this week… but using a different tactic.
Best of luck ranking those sites.
Here is (another) case Tom where I’m kinda making up my own rules as to what Googie want to see when trying to achieve good rankings in their SERP. With all the changes in the algo these days, and the fact that its a brand new site – well, I’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain by it.
That site that I am still toying about selling (a different one to the one mentioned in this post) – I did pretty much the same with that – it was a brand new domain only about 8 weeks ago and its now ranking top 15 for my main kwd of choice – which I am just in the process of smacking hard with AMR right now (spinning out the article as we speak) to try and get it at least top 10 (currently 14th with a little dancing around), and my other 2 kwds (one of which made a nice sale this morning) are both ranking top 5 – not too tough comp, but no push-over either.
And these rankings have been hanging on in there for the past few weeks, and improving gently over that time – so this is no flash in the pan high ranking job, only to see the site disappear to sandbox. If it were going there, then it would have been there well before now, one has to feel – certainly going with my past experience anyhow.
What caught my interest the most in this post Jo is the fact that you’re using oDesk to find someone to write an article for you that you’re going to market. Interesting concept. This may be common practice to other affiliate marketers but I am still so new to this, I had never thought of it. (Still getting my feet wet in affiliate marketing though.) Thanks for the great tip!
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Hi Sherryl, I’m very happy to see that you managed to resolve the issue with the person who snatched your article with no permission and no intended links back to your own site – real good news and a very good lesson to what I believe will be the vast majority of us who have the same issues as you just went through.
As a matter of fact, I just found one of my article submissions on a directory – the link was intact within the article title (which is how I knew it had been published, but the person who owns the directory had apparently swiped off the bio box with my anchor text.
If this is a mistake then fine, but I’ll sure be watching for it in future – I’ll be making more submissions to this directory so I’ll be very sure to check!
I’m actually using the writer on oDesk to write up an eBook for me Sherryl. Its health-niche based and because she is a medical doctor (how fortunate am I!!) she should be able to provide a somewhat more technical side to the subject matter. Let’s hope not overly technical however as its supposed to appeal to the general public rather than to the health institute
So I have to try to get my new site ranking fairly swiftly in an effort to make some early sales of the eBook, which will go to cover the costs. I’ve been investing fairly heavily so far this month in this business, so its perhaps a bit too soon for comfort to be also investing in an eBook to be written. But hey, there’s never a dull moment with me
Best wishes to you Sherryl!
Regards
Joseph
Good to know about the AMR. How about the recent tool? it’s working fine or else? How much it’s generating you the results? I have thoroughly read the blog post and it’s something newer concept to me. I am really so grateful that i have come up to know the fact at-last.
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Hi SEO services (I’ll call you Mr SEO, if I may)… By the recent tool, do you mean the Build My Rank? I’ve not got up to date with those rankings as of yet, but will do soon. As I mentioned, I’ve only got one writer on that now, and she’s only doing about 7 or 8 posts per day on average, so results will not be spectacular. I’ll check them out though and try to put together a post on those within the next couple of days.
How is your own SEO business coming along? Do you get much business and do you find it tricky to meet client’s needs? I know for sure I’d find it hard because too many folks want too much for too little in return because they have no real concept of what is involved and all the work that needs to be done to achieve the rankings.
Cheers Mr SEO! Hope to hear back from you…
Joseph
Joseph,
Your writer is getting 7-8 posts done per day? I am lucky for mine to get 3-5 done… lol.. I think I will have to get my whip out and make some changes.
As far as buildmyrank though for those that can’t sign up… they site will reopen for new members within a few weeks as they just changed servers and since the site was unstable they did not want to take on any more people.
Haha Tom! My witer has often churned out about 15 in a day – and I told her to stop there and don’t do more than that! You just have to have what they call in the UK “the gift of the gab” – I’m firm but I’m sweet so my employees keep on coming back for more and more (and more)
Yes, I saw that about change in servers. All seems back to normal now, but I saw a new price range some-place along the way – $129 a month, unless you pay for the whole year, which I think I saw was priced at $1110 or something. WOW – that’s a real big price hike and if they pass that onto current members then I’m not gonna bite cos the service – although $69 a month right now, its really expensive over-all if you go down the route of employing writers too. And at that price its simply not gonna be good return on investment for me.
“the gift of the gab” or pay them per article instead of as full time workers. I believe if my employees would start getting paid commission they would form a more efficient assembly line then a Chinese diaper factory. This in turn would force buildmyrank.com to purchase an even larger server to handle the incoming load.
Just not sure if I want to spend that much cash on blog posts… lol
I did not know that the price is going to $100+ for the service. If I get hit with that as a current subscriber I am definitely going to look into SENuke as the price is the same at that point. Not only that but the new version coming out looks awesome, does not need much of my time other than the technical skills to set it up.
It is really up to the owners how they want to play this game as I will always find an alternative to anything out there.
A bit of “the gift of the gab” and most definitely pay them after they achieve and not before!
I’m not sure if that price hike is going to be passed onto folks that already utilize BMR, Tom – I think we may be locked in with the $69 a month pricing. But when I was trying to get into the system when they were changing over servers, there was a page (mistakenly) showing about the new pricing options. Yup – $129 a month is what I saw.
Re SENuke. Any idea what the new monthly price will be? I presume its the same thing as BMR in that if you lock into the current hefty price of $129 you are buffered against price rises – I think you mentioned that before… And is it a case of simply adding in a nicely spun article with a bio box and then hitting some buttons to submit it to the appropriate avenues? I know there is more to it with the video thing, but what about the other aspects of SENuke?
Cheers!
Joseph
Well, either way BMR is still one of my favorite tools at the moment since I haven’t yet gotten to use AMR.
UAW on the other hand is giving me a head ache, they refuse articles left and right… even the ones they approved previously that I am trying to resubmit. I think that will be going out the window before next payment is due. Also having to write three versions of the same article is just a pain.
SENuke… well the new version is promising that yes, you will only have to set it up by placing an article and resource box and click a button. Some of the other options that I have seen were RSS submitting, and the most powerful one from what I hear which is profile building. It does require a hefty computer to run it but it can easily setup a few hundred profiles in a couple hours for you with your sites’s anchor on them on all PR5-9 sites.
This is something I was thinking about exploring but there is also the sick submitter which does this one thing for much cheaper. I think it is sometimes like being in a candy store with internet marketing except that much of the candy is unwrapped and laying on a dirty floor with a sign “you touch, you buy… $10 and up.”
How are your sites doing with AMR?
AMR is fast at indexing stuff but not fast to rank it. I’m still waiting to see any movement from anything I have AMR linking to. But I know its a matter of being patient as this has to work. And I do like the set up of it – its really easy to use, and you can also ping the links via the AMR interphase, which is pretty neat!
I never had that problem with UAW Tom, but I’ve not been using it for a while now, so sounds like they are clamping down.
SENuke sounds good, particularly when it comes to the point of being able to load up an article and press a few buttons. But as for hefty processing power – well that ain’t my problem, but the broadband connection sure is! Fortunately I’m moving out of my appartment at month end so I’ll ditch the rotten broadband service I’m using now and grab something far superior. I’ve just come back from finalizing the deal on the new place, so all is looking good.
I know Michelle over at PassiveIncomeBlog is having fun times with Sick Submitter, and she is seeing real good results. Its cheap enough so no harm in trying it Tom.
What’s the progress on the AMR?
Hi Tom, zilch, nada, not a thing! I think I’ve given it long enough now to see some movement in SERP, so its disappointing that nothing has come of it. Not sure why this is either – normally article marketing is a mainstay of solid SEO.
Jo
That’s not a good sign. I wonder why such a good response to the program all over the web. It might have something to do that all of those people are trying to sell it through its affiliate program…. lol.
On a similar topic…. do you use the blog blueprint to hit your money sites or the web 2.0 properties? Do you drip or just let them all go? I’m starting to lean towards that program at this point.
Thanks
Tom
Hi Tom, well I’ve only been using it now for about 5 weeks. Some folks would argue that is not long enough to truly test any SEO tool. And that’s a fair point to make. However, I thought I’d be seeing at least a bit of movement here or there – for the stuff I’ve been using it on, but no – nothing. I’ll have a closer look once again at the sites I’ve been using it on and try to make further assessment that way, but my gut instinct is now telling me that this tool is not so hot which is odd because it should be in principle.
Jo
This seems like the tool I need for my article marketing.
Yup J.D., this is a very useful bit of SEO kit, at a very attractive price (one off fee)! Actual article publication rates are still no where near what it could be. But if you are gaining 2,000 articles published (sometimes quite a bit more, apparently) from one single written (spun) article, then there is not too much room for criticism, really. A big thumbs up from me for AMR!
Regards
Joseph