It’s now 8 weeks and 4 days in (just about 2 months since I started) with my My Article Network test project! Here is how the stats stand now:
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Jorge’s Statistics
Site Statistics
Overall, you have 25 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 1,311 articles for consideration.
You’ve approved 929 and rejected 382, which means you’ve rejected 29%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.
In total, the system has successfully published 929 articles on your sites.
Article Statistics
You have 30 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 789 times for consideration by site owners.
The articles have been approved 658 times and rejected 4 times, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 1%. A total of 127 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.
In total, the system has successfully published 683 copies of your articles. This number may differ from the number of approvals received for your article. When owners remove sites from the network, the article approval count is affected, but this published count is not affected.”
So to summarize the first two months, I have:
Spent 2 x $47 = $94
Written 30 articles
Gotten 683 well-spun copies of my articles published. Each article has 3 keyword phrases embedded in the text, which means 683 x 3 = 2,049 backlinks to my websites!
That comes to a cost of $94/2049 = $0.046 per backlink or 4.6 cents each!
In addition, 25 of my websites have gotten a total of 929 articles of “free” themed content. My webhosting sites have webhosting and related articles, my health and fitness sites have health and fitness articles, and so forth.
I say “free” because I am allocating all of the costs to the backlinks, none to the article content. If I allocated 10 cents of my total cost to each article placed on my sites for content, then that would burn up $92.90 of my $94 cost, and the backlinks would be essentially “free”.
Not too shabby, eh? 
I am still not happy at the article approval backlog, with 127 copies of my articles still waiting for site owners to approve them.
Nor am I exactly thrilled that while I have provided publishing space for 929 articles, MAN has only managed to find space to publish 683 copies of my articles on other members’ sites, a 246 articles published difference.
The two are not unrelated. If that 127 copies waiting for approval backlog were taken care of it would reduce that difference to 119.
Still, is the glass half full or half empty? 4.6 cents per (permanent) backlink makes the cost look like money well-spent.
Jorge Chavez
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