AMAutomation Review

June 15th 2009 05:59 pm

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:
Teaching your dog to sit is very important. It’s also one of the easiest things to train a dog to do.

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:
{Teaching your dog to sit is very important.~It’s very important to teach your dog to sit.}
It’s also one of the {easiest~simpliest~most easy} things to {train~teach} a dog to do.


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

Teaching your dog to sit is very important. It’s also one of the easiest things to teach a dog to do.

It’s very important to teach your dog to sit. It’s also one of the most easy things to train a dog to do.

Teaching your dog to sit is very important. It’s also one of the simpliest things to teach a dog to do.
etc.


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.

Posted by susb8383 under Misc. & Recommended Products | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “AMAutomation Review”

  1. Alex responded on 26 Oct 2009 at 9:27 am #

    Well… any results from this?

  2. susb8383 responded on 26 Oct 2009 at 3:10 pm #

    I did kind of let this review slide, didn’t I?

    My results were inconclusive.

    The problem is that I tried out AMA based on the AffiloBlueprint videos I was following. But the problem is that the website I created from AffiloBlueprint promoted the same product he described in his videos. (I was planning on promoting this product before I joined his member group, so I just continued in my plan).

    Unfortunately this product has tons of competition, partly because it was already very popular, and partly because other people in AffiloBlueprint started promoting it.

    So what I found from my test of AMA was that even though blogs were publishing my articles, I was not seeing those articles up on Google. But I think that’s the fault of my choice of product because I have a feeling that a lot of those websites publishing my article were new, like mine, and weren’t being indexed by Google regularly.

    However now that it’s 5 months later, I am seeing those articles up on Google.

    Did they help my ranking? Again, inconclusive for a different reason. I following one plan from AffiloBlueprint on promoting my site, but I didn’t space it out; I did it all at once. Google didn’t like that at all. My keywords went from positions 53, 74, 60, 31, 41 to 0. And they never came back.

    So it would be unfair to blame AMA when it was related to something else I did.

    I really should give AMA another test with a different site that doesn’t have so much competition, and maybe I still will.

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