There’s been a big stretch of time between my last post and this one. This is due to a situation at home that caused me not to be online very much.

But now I’m back.

In my last post, I said I was skipping right to PPC instead of following the exact order of ABP. But I’ve changed my mind. So what I did was sign up for Article Marketing Automation and submit one of my articles. AMA is a tool that lets you submit articles which are then carried on related blogs. This way you get back links.

You may be wondering if so many blogs are carrying your article, won’t Google see them as duplicate content?

Not if you ’spin’ them. AMA allows you to create multiple versions of every sentence. Then they randomly pick and choose these sentences to create unique versions of your article, which they submit to blogs.

So I signed up for an account ($47.00 but it comes with a 30-day guarantee) and tried it.

I used their tagging system to come up with different sentences. Then I submitted the article for publication.

Up until now, I have not been indexed by Google for anything but my privacy policy (I could have sworn I also saw my homepage there a month ago, but it isn’t now).

A day later, I had 2 blog sites publishing my article. That’s 2 back links to my site.

One other thing I’m going to do is a little trick I learned. Since I’m using posts instead of pages, I’m going to subscribe to the RSS of my blog via Google’s custom home page.

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I discovered a webpage that will generate permutations:
http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Maths/permutations.html

So in other words, if you type in:
red,blue,green (Note: make sure you type commas between your words or else it will try to use all the individual letters in its permutations)

it will generate:

red,blue,green
red,green,blue
blue,red,green
blue,green,red
green,red,blue
green,blue,red

So now, you’re asking, ‘Why in the world would anyone want to do that?’

I’m going to use it in conjunction with AMAutomation when I spin my articles.

So for example, suppose I have this original sentence:
There are three builds for a Paladin: Holy, Protection, Retribution.

It would make sense to spin it so that those three items are listed in all possible ways. So I use the handy-dandy permutation generator and I type in:
Holy,Protection,Retribution

It gives me back all the combinations:

Holy,Protection,Retribution
Holy,Retribution,Protection
Protection,Holy,Retribution
Protection,Retribution,Holy
Retribution,Holy,Protection
Retribution,Protection,Holy

I still have little tweaking to do since this tool ignores spaces.

• Replace all the commas with comma space
• Surround it with curly brackets
• Replace the paragraph with tilde paragraph
• If I really wanted to be grammatically correct, I would add ‘and’ before the last item, but I can’t figure out how to easily do this in a word macro

The I just use this in my AMAutomation tag:

There are three builds for a Paladin: {Holy, Protection, Retribution ~Holy, Retribution, Protection ~Protection, Holy, Retribution ~Protection, Retribution, Holy ~Retribution, Holy, Protection ~Retribution, Protection, Holy}.

Cool, huh?

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Product: Article Marketing Automation (AMAutomation)
Website: AMAutomation.com

In the training videos of AffioBlueprint, Mark Ling recommends joining AMAutomation. It’s a paid service (can try for free) that has two parts:

1. A network of blogs where they’ll post your article. (You can add your blog to this so that you can get content, but it isn’t required to take advantage of the second feature).
   
   
2. A function to ’spin’ your article into different versions, thereby getting around Google’s duplicate content rules.

The first function, posting to a blog, is interesting. The main purpose for doing this is not to get traffic but to get backlinks. Each time someone carries your article on their blog, you get a backlink (assuming that you’ve put links into your article text).

It is similar to when you submit articles to an article directory, but your article is totally anonymous. You don’t put a bio box at all. When someone else decides to carry it on their blog, it looks like they wrote it.

But I’m more interested in the second function of this service, spinning an article.

Here’s what I mean. Suppose you’ve written an article that starts like this:
What you do in AMAutomation is imbed spin tags in your text and add alternate wording. One type of tag lets you specify an alternative sentence, like this:

Recognize the potential here? With the example above, we already have multiple versions of the first two sentences of the article:



If my math is correct, just those few spin tags will generate 12 versions of my sentences.

Then when you submit this, a different variation becomes available to the network. Blog owners can choose to display it or not and there’s no problem with duplicate content if more than one blog carries it.

Unfortunately there is no way to tell which blogs are displaying your article, but you do get a count of how many sites. You also get a count of how many rejected it, so this will tell you if you need to write a better article.

So, all this is well and good, but does it work?

Well, I just signed up for a trial account and forked over $47.00. The site I set up using the AffiloBlueprint methods does not have any traffic from search engines so far. I’m going to start spinning articles, posting them to AMAutomation, and then see if I get backlinks and traffic.

Later…I’ve posted my first article. AMA submits the article to blogs over time so that Google doesn’t see a huge increase of back links overnight.

So here are my results (Day 1 is the day I published it to the network):

Article 1
Day 1: Total blogs who are publishing it: 0. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 2: Total blogs who are publishing it: 2. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 3: Total blogs who are publishing it: 6. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 4: Total blogs who are publishing it: 6. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 5: Total blogs who are publishing it: 10. Ranking on Google: n/a.
**Fixed a mistake that caused my pages to not be indexed.
Was also offline for a few days
Day 9: Total blogs who are publishing it: 14. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 24: Total blogs who are publishing it: 18. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 29: Total blogs who are publishing it: 19. Ranking on Google: n/a.

Article 2
Day 1: Total blogs who are publishing it: 0. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 2: Total blogs who are publishing it: 3. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 3: Total blogs who are publishing it: 6. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 4: Total blogs who are publishing it: 10. Ranking on Google: n/a.
**Fixed a mistake that caused my pages to not be indexed.
Was also offline for a few days
Day 8: Total blogs who are publishing it: 15. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 23: Total blogs who are publishing it: 17. Ranking on Google: n/a.
Day 28: Total blogs who are publishing it: 17. Ranking on Google: n/a.

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