G-Lock Fast Blog Finder Review

Overview: $49 Program which will find blog posts related to your keyword for which search engines follow links in comments.

I started SEO just a little too late to take advantage of comment spam. A year or so earlier I could have got loads of easy links to my sites just by replying to posts on websites and mentioning my URL. Fortunately this type of spam is of little use these days since 96% (figure based on a tiny bit of research using Fast Blog Finder) of blogs’ comments are automatically nofollowed.

What about the 4% of remaining blogs? Can you still get an easy link from them? The answer is yes. The problem is finding the blogs which still allow followed comment links. That’s what G-Lock Fast Blog Finder is for.

Once you open the software you can type in a keyword, search for it and a list of hundreds of blogs will appear within a few minutes. Next to them you will see the PageRank of the post and whether it allows links to be followed or not. You also get a lot of pages returned which for some reason the program can’t determine if the links are followed or not.

In a typical search you can expect to find (very roughly) 60% “unknown” results, 30% “nofollowed”, 6% “HTTP Errors” and 4% “Followed”.

G-Lock Fast Blog Finder Conclusion

The Fast Blog Finder software is a very good way to find places to get easy links, although there aren’t many of those places left. $49 will gain you several links for each of your target keywords. The only question is, are blog comment links any use?

Article Submit Auto Review

Overview: Distribute articles quickly for $39.95 per month. Unlike other automatic article distribution methods, Article Submit Auto sends your article to important article sites like Ezinearticles and GoArticles.

If you’ve read my other reviews you’ll probably have noticed how much I hate long sales pitches on homepages. I’m pleased to say Article Submit Auto has a small sales pitch with a very dramatic video which actually shows what the product does without you having to hunt for it. On the downside, there may be an honesty issue as it offers “article marketing manual worth $67” for free if you order “Before Midnight November 12, 2009”. I have a sneaking suspicion that offer will be renewed until midnight on November 13, 2009 tomorrow.

I spent a long time looking for an article distribution tool that would submit to the sites that actually count like Ezinearticles and Article Alley. There are plenty of services which will send your article to lots of websites, but these are usually websites which are full of duplicate content because the only time people submit articles to them is when using one of these services.

With the worthwhile articles websites it is much harder to distribute your articles to them. This means the quality of the articles is higher and more of them are unique. As far as I know Auto Submit Article is the only way of quickly submitting to most of these sites at once.

Once you join you do have to spend ages providing all your log in details to various sites so you can be automatically logged in to distribute your articles. Once you have done this once however, you can distribute every article minutes after you’ve written it instead of spending an hour logging into each website and copying and pasting all the info many times over.

Finally I want to say my experience with customer service has been great. I emailed asking for more site profiles to be allowed, and it was sorted out within days.

Article Submit Auto Conclusion

If you’re into writing articles to get easy links (or getting someone to write them for you with need-an-article) and do it often enough to make the $39.95 per month seem worthwhile, this is a good place to join.

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Need-an-Article Review

Overview: Pay $9.95 per month then around $5.50 for each 500 word article written for you on any subject you choose.

Writing quality content can be a chore. Hiring a quality content writer can be expensive. The solution; support developing countries and get cheap low quality articles written at need-an-article.com*.

If the quality of the content on your website isn’t an issue for you, and you just like to have lots of words on your site, need-an-article could be the perfect solution. You pay $14.97 per month… but wait, today (or any other day I assume) you can get a special offer of $9.95. Then pay $5.52 for an article up to 550 words long (there are other options but they all provide roughly the same value). This is very cheap, and can give you a lot of content for a low price, $30 spent at need-an-article.com could fill a website.

You get to say what you want the article to be about and include any details of the task, then within a couple of days a writer will accept your article request and usually have it finished for you within a few more days. The speed this is done at is quite impressive. You also have the option of requesting any particular writer you wish who has done an article for you in the past.

The downside is that none of the writers I encountered seemed to use English as a first language. While I’m sure they speak English very well, it’s not as easy to overlook minor improper sentence structure when it’s written. If it is representing your company it can look unprofessional. I found myself proof-reading and making corrections with all the articles I received (which you might not believe given the number of typos and spelling mistakes in this blog).

Need-an-Article Conclusion

If you need cheap content and aren’t too fussy about quality, or you’re willing to spend the time correcting mistakes in the articles, Need-an-article could be the service for you. If looking professional and building a good reputation is important, then it might not be so useful.

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Info Product Killer Review

Overview: $97 for one very detailed affiliate marketing strategy which works to some degree.

Oh dear, another huge sales pitch on this product’s homepage (I had to roll my mouse’s scroll wheel 57 times to get to the bottom of the page). I have to say I have my doubts about the testimonials on the homepage. Why do none of the people who have left these testimonials (or anyone with similar results) seem to have visited the associated Network Blazer forum? Maybe it’s just a coincidence. That’s not to say the people in the forum who use the guide aren’t making money from it, just that the guide hasn’t turned their lives around quite as much as the claims made in testimonials on the homepage.

I’ll overlook it though because it’s actually a pretty good ebook. It provides you with a step by step guide on how its author Craig Kaye builds affiliate websites and makes an income selling things through Amazon.

It skips the theory or any talk about any debatable issues and just tells you how Craig puts his sites together. It doesn’t give you indecisive advice like “you should have several links to your homepage throughout your website but not too many because Google might not like it”. Advice like this can leave you asking more questions like “what anchor text should I use?” or “is linking from 50% of pages to my homepage enough or too much?”. Info Product Killer uses more of an approach along the lines of “have two links on every page to your homepage using this anchor text…”

The downside of this is that the advice could be wrong. You might be wasting time creating too many links. On the other hand, personally I would waste more time trying to work out how many links I should have, rather than just getting the job done.

What I’m not very eloquently trying to say is Info Product Killer might not be right 100% of the time but it doesn’t matter too much because of the time you save by using a step by step guide.

The emphasis is put on quickly creating lots of low quality websites which make money. This could cause issues with Google determining your site as a thin affiliate.

The guide provides great on page SEO techniques but I feel the importance of link building is left out. The author disagrees with the general consensus on the importance of off-page SEO and believes interlinking your own sites and having a good on-page SEO is enough to get you all the traffic you need.

Info Product Killer Conclusion

Easiest to follow step-by-step affiliate guide I’ve seen. Will get you an income quickly but I think to make serious money you’ll need some good quality inbound links too which isn’t covered in the guide. There is also a 60 day money back satisfaction gaurentee.

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