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Many writers rely on article marketing for getting back links.  To this end, they submit articles to a large array of article directories.  Since Google doesn't like duplicate content, most of these articles will never get indexed, effectively negating the benefit of submitting to more than one directory, beyond the minimal traffic each article directory generates.  Additionally, when all these links suddenly pop up at once, Google begins to get a little suspicious that you may be buying links or spamming.  Hopefully this Article Marketing Automation review will show you a new and better way to do things.

Enter Article Marketing Automation

Article Marketing Automation is a subset of the PLR Pro network that's available to the public, even while PLR Pro membership is currently closed.  It consists of a network of blogs that content is posted to.  When you add a blog to the network, you can pick the categories of articles you want to receive, so no worries about your pet blog being inundated by weight loss posts.  Any blog that can receive posts via remote publishing API, like WordPress, Tumblr, or BlogSpot blogs, Drupal or Joomla! sites, or any other site that can use XML-RPC or Atom publishing APIs.  Note that XSitePro, FrontPage, DreamWeaver, or other vanilla HTML sites can not be used with AMA.  If you want, all you have to do is sit back and watch your blog fill up with content.

The article submission is the main benefit of joining Article Marketing Automation, though.  It enables you to submit an article and have unique versions of this article distributed across the network, all to be indexed and point their targeted links wherever you want.

When you submit your article, you select your categories, distribution start date, the article itself, and tags.  You can limit the distribution so only a certain number of variations of the article will be published, and whether or not it will be sent to any of your own sites.  This first stage is where much of your article spin can be established.  You can type in the WYSIWYG editor, though I prefer to do the main work offline first, and then paste it in and mark it up.  You can spin the title, any text in the body, links, and anchor text.  It's very flexible.

What do I mean by spin?  At a basic level, it's word or phrase substitution.  For example, let's take this sentence and see what we can do with it:  "The big dog ran down the street."  Using multi-level delimiters in the general format of {word1~word2} we can mix up the sentence.

The {big~little} dog {ran~walked} down the street.

This would yield us possible sentences with either a big or little dog, who ran or walked down the street.  But you can change it all up so much more!

The {big~large~small~tiny~brown~black} {dog~cat} {ran~walked~ambled} {down~along~to the end of} the {street~road~boulevard}.

You begin to see the power of such a thing, I take it?  I won't belabor the point, though I may do a second article just on the spinning options.  After you entered the article in, it will prompt you for sentence re-writes, where you are presented with a random sentence from the article and are able to re-write it with up to 10 different variations.  I don't typically have too much presented here as I make extensive use of spinning terms and phrases.  The time you spend creating as much variation as possible is well worth it in my opinion.  You end up with completely different articles spread across different domains and blog types with no duplicate content and tons of new, keyword focused links.  Article Marketing Automation is a winner, folks.

Once submitted, the articles are drip-fed into the content network so links show up in a more natural fashion instead of all at once.  The Article Marketing Automation crew have really thought this out well and done a great job.

Free vs. Paid

This is quite simple to explain:  the free version of Article Marketing Automation only allows you to add blogs that will receive content.  This can be quite useful to build out blogs that maybe you no longer maintain and want to write for -- Google much prefers blogs that are active.  You can create blogs that you don't have to write content for.  It's not exactly crippled, but only a small subset of the real power of the system.  Since you can do anything to the articles you receive except copy them for use elsewhere or change the given links, this means you can still monetize them with AdSense, add your own affiliate links, etc.  For this reason alone, it's a no-brainer to join.  Doesn't cost, may add profit, sign me up!

The paid version of Article Marketing Automation allows you to submit your own articles with up to 3 links to whatever you choose.  The free version will net you content, but the paid version nets you links and can be used to promotion purposes.  That, to me, is where the major benefit lies.  It is $47 a month, so you definitely want to make sure you are writing and spinning articles, otherwise that money isn't working for you the way it should.

Things I'd Like To See Improved

• When you approve an article, it's published immediately, and you get batches of articles (up to a number you can set) once a day. I'd like to see them published randomly throughout the day instead of say, 5 at once, immediately. This would appear more natural.
• It would be nice to be able to edit the content prior to publishing, either by allowing a contributor status a la WordPress' roles, or by allowing basic editing via AMA's interface.
• It kinda bugs me that your blog password sits in the clear instead of *** obfuscation. For WP blogs at least, you can create a new account with only authoring rights, to minimize possible issues. Otherwise, use random passwords or keep your more treasured sites separate.
• I could really come up with some uses for the Article Spinner for other purposes. It would be nice to have it standalone, but I could just be greedy there. J
• At $47 a month, the price will be a turn off for some, and to be honest I was a bit leery at first. But considering the power of the system, I think it's a darn good investment if you will put the time and effort in. Otherwise, the free membership is still a good "investment" too, but more limited.

Go on over to Article Marketing Automation and get signed up.  Even if it's just the free membership, you're getting a great deal of benefit from this service.  I hope this Article Marketing Automation review has opened some eyes and been of service.

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