One month ago today I signed up to participate in the My Article Network (MAN) traffic building and website promotional plan. Here is my report as to what I have found, what my experience has been, to date.
First off here are my stats as of this morning:
Jorge’s Statistics
Site Statistics
Overall, you have 20 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 461 articles for consideration.
You’ve approved 298 and rejected 163, which means you’ve rejected 35%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.
In total, the system has successfully published 288 articles on your sites.
[Note that this is 288 unique articles, on topic, related to topic or having some interest to viewers interested in my site's topic. Excellent unique content to raise sites status and rankings!]
Article Statistics
You have 20 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 315 times for consideration by site owners.
The articles have been approved 273 times and rejected 2 times, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 1%. A total of 40 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.
In total, the system has successfully published 272 copies of your articles.
[This means 272 articles published times 3 links per publication equals 816 anchor text backlinks to my sites! Plus another 40 x 3 =120, waiting to be approved. At 816 backlinks my $47 monthly membership cost comes down to $0.0576 per backlink! When the current 40 in queue are approved that cost will go to $47/(816+120) =$0.0502 per backlink!
That's 916 anchor text backlinks, with my KW's as the anchor text, for about a nickle a link!!]
The Bottom Line?
5 cents per anchor link keyword text backlinks? From on-theme related sites? Where else can you find a deal like that? In the past year, through other promotional plans, I have SOLD $400-500 in such links at $0.40-$0.50 each! I could sell them because THAT was CHEAP!
And this is just in the 1st month. Some of my 20 articles were written last week. They have not really had a chance to get started in distribution yet. If I stopped writing articles for MAN right now, I would still have more articles published in the coming month than have been published so far!
There’s a “snowball effect” here. A new article can stay active in the system for a year or more! And every month you get the links for the articles you just wrote PLUS the links for all the articles you wrote in previous months!
This is WELL worth the membership fee! So far My Articles Network is living up to its advertised claim of being the, “Single most effective traffic generation tool online!”
Other observations:
1. The system seems to work on a basis of keeping your number of articles published to be roughly equal to the number of other members’ articles published on your sites.
2. Since I set my max articles to be accepted to 1-2 per day, I am holding this back. Could be higher if I added more sites into the system or speeded up the posting rate.
3. Minimum article size is 300 words. This helps, but I don’t know how long I can keep up a 20 article/month rate. To do so I would have to A. Cut back on my articles to EZA, Go and Article Dashboard and/or B. Find more niches, products/services to sell!
4. Almost all articles at MAN are spun, so you get different unique versions of the same basic article to publish each time. That is why all the articles posted are unique content. The spinning process takes some time and is a bit tedious.
Using The Best Spinner really speeds up my article submission for MAN. TBS is now in late beta, and still free! It’s pretty good and getting better. Been through half-a-dozen new versions in the last few days, and just keeps on improving. If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend it…
Questions? Observations? Post a comment and I’ll respond…
Regards to all,
Jorge Chavez
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