Patricia's Planet

This review was written in 2010 and what may have been great for business then isn’t necessarily good now. After the recent Google Penguin update I would advise anybody who uses or wants to use this product to do so with caution and I certainly wouldn’t even think of spinning the articles. Personally I don’t think that I will be using it anymore.

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For a long time I have manually submitted my articles to a handful of article directories and then used a service to syndicate them. It worked out well enough for me but the service became unreliable and eventually to a standstill despite taking peoples money for submissions.

I had a look at several article submission services and as usual when I am considering a service or product checked the internet for real reviews – usually to be found on forums or blogs, but definitely not those affiliate review sites productnamereview.com or reviews gushing with praise and lots of affiliate links. Those type of reviews are pure BS designed to earn money, real reviews tell it how it is.

Anyway I had almost decided upon a service when Article Marketing Robot came to my attention. They say:

‘The Ultimate Article Marketing, Spinning, and Submission Tool – EVER’

How To Quickly & Easily Generate Huge Amounts of Backlinks With Simple Push-Button Software That Will Force Your Websites To Reach Page 1 On Google, Yahoo and MSN, On Complete Autopilot!

Lofty claims but are they true or is it just hype?

Only one way to find out for yourself and that’s get the 5 day free trial.

Except I bought the whole package without the try before you buy and now that I’ve been using it for nearly 3 months I’m going to review the article submission side of the software from user experience, not the built in spinner because I don’t believe in using them and I’m not going to waste my time figuring it out just to give a balanced review – oh darn it maybe later!

AMR was easy to install and you are told that to set it up for the sign ups you need to use an email account on your website and not free email accounts like gmail and hotmail. Of course I totally ignored that advice and set it up using my gmail account. I just clicked on a sign up button and it automatically went out and signed me up to as many directories as it could. Not long afterwards the sign ups finished and then you click a button to confirm them.

The whole process only took a couple of hours and I had to deal with quite a few captchas during that process. Finally I had signed up and confirmed to 259 out of a possible 800+ directories and although it’s a good amount I still felt a little disappointed and decided to try again. A lot of article directories reject free email accounts because spammers and cheats mainly use those accounts and who can blame the directories. I deleted that account, set up an email account on one of my websites just for AMR and clicked on the sign up and then confirm buttons again. That time round I was signed up to 602 directories and that figure has now risen to 1144.

Top directories like Ezinearticles.com and articlesbase.com are amongst the available directories but as I wanted to send out articles that had already been submitted to those directories I blocked submissions to those by either deleting the emails before confirming or if I missed them going into the individual directories and changing the passwords.

Also on the directory list are niche sites like ones offering free guitar tips, real estate articles and free sex tips. Getting loads of off topic article submissions is timewasting and annoying for directory owners and it’s evident from the domain names that they should not be listed on Article Marketing Robot when it will be used to submit articles in all manner of niches.

I also found my travel article directory on the list and asked for it deleting for those reasons. It was removed straight away but the training video hilariously shows my directory Articles Abroad off as a directory that isn’t working correctly. Yes it is working correctly.  The main reason that there has been a high amount of declined articles is that only articles in the travel niche are accepted. Apart from that sign ups from free emails are blocked, so are articles of less than 400 words and spinned or badly written articles are declined. So it is working for those who use it properly.

Once I had signed up and confirmed my directory accounts I joined the recommended captcha bypass company and paid $10 for around 5,000 bypasses to save time from filling them in. I then easily added my article to the AMR form which is virtually the same as an article directory input form. The only real difference is that you have 6 choices of category which made me feel a bit better about mass submission.

A lot of directory owners reject articles that are not placed in the correct category, which I personally feel is a mean spirited because it is easy to forget to choose a category and especially when you have been on your computer for hours and your eyes are getting tired. It is also easy to move an article to the correct category and that is often quicker than declining them. So I choose to help the authors and not nitpick.

Once added I preview the article and make any corrections that need doing. The preview is really useful for showing up problems that are caused by writing articles in Word and then copying them to web pages. With Word you need to turn smart quotes off or your articles will often end up full of funny little characters that spoil them and can also block feeds.

Once I was satisfied I highlighted that particular article, chose the directories that I wished to send it to and then clicked on Submit. You are given the choice of submitting all at once or dripfeeding the articles. I choose all at once for the reasons that I explained in a previous article.

If you wish you can choose which type of directory to send to or leave out. You can call out all of the Article Dashboard, Article Friendly, Article MS, WordPress directories etc. to submit to separately or all at once. You can also get submission reports but I’ve never bothered with those. I’ve mentioned previously that it has a spin feature but I have no interest in that.

You can also add your own blogs, so if you had a string of blogs with decent PR you could potentially charge a submission fee for that exclusivity and use AMR to speed things up. You could also run a submission service, but I did have a problem with submitting for a friend. His first account worked fine but when I tried to sign him up with a different pen name for a different niche the software got mixed up and overrode his previous account and my own and wouldn’t submit, perhaps because he used the same address for both accounts.

Article Marketing Robot only takes a couple of minutes to set up with a new article and submits in the background while you are working away on whatever project or indeed your next article. I am currently getting 800 - 900 successes according to AMR and as directories check articles at different time rates the initial figure grows over the weeks. I’m not sure how many articles can be submitted in a day because I forget that it is working away in the background, but today I have easily submitted 18.

Has it ever got buggy?

Yes a handful of times I’ve tried to use it and haven’t been able to. I just leave it and go back the next day and it’s fine again. Sometimes that has been caused by the Decaptcher service, probably being overused. It isn’t a big deal for me, not when I know that if the problem continues the developer is easy enough to contact.

Does it get updated?

Yes there have been updates since I bought it, apart from bug fixes there have been several hundred new directories added and defunct directories deleted. Because you can separate directories that an article has been submitted to from the new ones you can do a new round of submissions for your articlesn and get them on even more sites.

Have my websites reached page one in Google?

Most of them have but they were already there or on the way there when I bought AMR and the SEO is good on those sites. The only way that I could test this claim properly is to build an entirely new site and blast some articles out promoting it. If enough of you are interested in watching that happen then I will do it some time in the future, just leave a comment or sign up to my email list.

Any Drawbacks?

The obvious one for me as an article directory owner is that some chumps will get hold of this software and totally cheese off directory owners by inundating them with crap. For those who are thinking of doing that I ask you not to use this or any other method to submit anything that you wouldn’t accept on your own websites from somebody else. But then I know that some of you don’t care as long as you get backlinks.

What difference have I seen since using AMR?

A consistent rise in traffic and search engine rankings for the sites that I’ve been promoting using AMR. My earnings have also increased and it wasn’t long before this product paid for itself and I haven’t been using all of it’s features.

Obviously I am really pleased with this software and recommend it wholeheartedly. You can find the 5 day free trial at http://www.articlemarketingrobot.com/ or you can get the free trial through my affiliate link at http://patriciajones.org/AMR that is up to you.

I have probably forgotten to include some aspects so if you have any questions please ask away.

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