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A few people have asked how to create a resource box to use when submitting articles to article directories. If you are just submitting articles to the major directories then you are pretty much limited to promoting just two keywords but if you are using a cool article spinning tool like Magic Article Spinner and Submitter then you can even randomise the whole resource box: the text, the target URL AND the keywords! Anyway, for a standard resource box which you can add to all of your articles and posts on all sorts of blogging applications, just cut and paste this line of code into your article, replacing the NAME, YOUR-URL and the KEYWORD phrase with your own:

Article submitted by NAME. To find out more about <a href=”YOUR-URL“>KEYWORD</a> or  <a href=”YOUR-URL“>KEYWORD2</a>just visit!

For example, if I wanted to build links for the keywords “Article Marketing” and “Article Spinning Software” and I wanted these links to go to my blog www.topseotools.info then my resource box code would look like this:

Article submitted by Bryan P. To find out more about <a href=http://www.topseotools.info>article marketing</a> or  <a href=http://www.topseotools.info>article spinning software</a>just visit!

When the resource box appears online in the directory, it will look like this:

Article submitted by Bryan P. To find out more about article marketing or article spinning software just visit!

Naturally, Google Yahoo Bing and all of the other search engines will give more link ‘juice’ to my site for the search terms (keywords) chosen. Submit this resource box with a couple of  hundred articles and you can pretty much bank on ranking at (or close to) the top for your keywords. ($$ Kerching $$!)

Now, let’s say you are using MAGIC ARTICLE SUBMITTER like I do. You know that your article is going to get published at several hundred sites and that you are only usually allowed to put two links in your resource box, even if they are two links to the same site. What if you are trying to rank for THREE or more keywords?… easy… Magic Article Spinner allows you to even spin the resource box! … so you could have each article submission randomly choose between keywords. For example:

Article submitted by Bryan owner of a <a href=”http://www.topseotools.info/”>best seo tools</a> review blog with top tips on the<a href=”http://www.topseotools.info/”>best article spinner|best article submitter</a> just visit!

Notice how the second keyword submitted on all of your articles will be 50:50 between two keywords. Clever eh? So for example if the magic article submitter sends your articles to 600 directories that accept it, you will get 300 links for the first keyword and 150 links for each of the other two. There is nothing to stop you spinning in as many keywords as you want and then using the same resource box for all of your articles with the same URL (website addresss) that you are trying to promote. I’ve found that spending just two whole days on promoting a site this way will allow me to ‘borrow’ spin and submit about 30-40 articles  and a few weeks later I start to see seriously good Google rankings for my target sites for multiple keywords, followed by a HUGE increase in traffic. That’s how I do it, anyway! Now, you owe me $200 for the advice and $200 for my time… just kidding!

Enjoy your day,

Bryan p.s. read my review of Magic Article Rewriter here: Magic Article Rewriter Review

Article Marketing is still a very useful tool in any SEO / website promoters’  arsenal in obtaining backlinks and traffic. Once a website has been keyword ‘optimised’ and metatags set up, there really isn’t anything else to do but build links to your site, in order to increase its ranking in the search engines. It is pretty much true that the more one way links to a website, the higher that site will rank and the more organic (search) traffic the site will get. More traffic means more money, simple as that.

Of course, the quality of links pointing to your site are also a major factor; there’s nothing like a large number of high page rank (PR) links pointing to your site but these are difficult and often expensive to obtain and besides quantity has a quality all of its own.

Obtaining several thousand PR0 (page rank zero) links will almost certainly propel your site to the top of the search engine results for many keywords and is certainly worth the effort if you can leverage certain tools to make your article marketing efforts count.

This is where article spinning and submission comes in. Let us consider the traditional method: You write a good quality article, submit it to some good, high PR article directories like ezinearticles and before long, you will get some good links and traffic, right? At least that was worked in the early part of the new millenium.

The problem is that article marketing has been used for several years now and in truth, the article directories are swamped already with good articles that generate ‘some’ traffic but there are simply so many articles on these popular, famous directories,  that the link ‘juice’ isn’t what it used to be.

The way article marketers have tried to get around this is simply to submit more articles, submit their articles to more directories, or both.

Now this brings a whole other set of issues; writing acceptable quality articles of around 400-500 words is very time consuming and then submitting the articles to article directories takes a lot of time also. With each directory, you have to create an account (if you don’t have one already), log in, load up your article, load up your resource box (containing the links back to your site) and finally make sure that you submit the article to the right category before moving on to  the next article directory and repeating the entire process.

The next problem is that whilst submitting an article to several article directories will shortly give a high number of backlinks to your site, eventually the link ‘juice’ from these article submissions will be reduced drastically due to the duplicate content rules set by the search engines like Google.

“In an ideal world article marketing would be like this…”

• No need to spend too much time researching and writing good quality articles, we want to be able to find a good quality article on the web and ‘borrow it’.
• Then, using something called an article ‘spinner’ we could change certain text within existing articles so that the article still makes sense to a reader but looks completely different to search engines.
• Next we would want to be able to produce several hundred unique ‘versions’ of our original article and then submit one unique ‘version’ to each of several hundred different article directories at the click of a button.

Like I said, this would be in an ideal world! Now let me share with you how this is in fact a reality and how in just half an hour using article marketing software, I daily build around 400-500 links to my chosen site using my target keywords as ‘anchor text’ (i.e. the link description. For example ‘click here to find out more’ is nowhere near as good as say ‘plymouth plumbing services’ as the text on a website link if you are trying to rank for that phrase).

So, here is what I DO. Not theory, reality!

(1) Find a really good article on the web relating to the keywords that I am trying to rank for (10 mins)
(2) Load that article into my magic article spinner (1 minute)
(3) Spin the article so that it is more than 30% ‘unique’ (10-15 minutes)
(4) Load my resource box containing my links (1 minute)
(5) Load the new article versions into my magic article submitter at the push of a button (1 minute)
(6) choose the directory categories most relevant to my article (1 minute)
(7) press the submit button and put the kettle on for a cup of tea.  By the time my cuppa has been consumed the software will have submitted a unique version of my article to around 800 or so different article directories. This translates into 400-600 ‘accepted’ links that will be indexed by the search engines in about a week or so.
(8) repeat. I normally do this just once, sometimes twice a day and every single time the site that I am promoting rapidly climbs the search results and gets more traffic.

A good article spinner will cost you around $40-$60. A good article submitter about the same. Buying both together you should save money and after trying out a good dozen or so spinners and another dozen or so article submitters over several years, I can say without doubt that I now own the best spinner/submitter package on the market! I just wish someone had shown me which one was the best one years ago and saved me several hundred dollars and several hundred hours in wasted effort. It’s the Magic Article Spinner and Magic Article Submitter, hands down. This remarkable article marketing software package is still the top seller and comes with regular free updates to both the spinning database and directory database, so you’ll never have to buy another article marketing tool, ever.

Find out more about the magic article spinner and submitter here…

Article Marketing Software Mass Article Control – Complete Review with none of the BS!

This top selling seo tool is still one of the most popular products for Article Marketing - It is because they have one of the best sales pages ever? Does it live up to the hype? Well, I tested it extensively for several months….

1. It is easy to use? No question about this, the accompanying video training is short and to the point, you will up and running in minutes.

2. The Claim: Mass Article Control claims to be able to vastly improve the number of links you can get via article marketing by being able to submit hundreds of times as many articles to article directories. It’s got one of the best sales pages (landing pages) that I’ve ever seen and does a good job of convincing you to buy it.

3. How it works: is that you receive two pieces of software, the mass article creator and the mass article submitter.

The article creator is basically a synonym-based article spinner that churns out hundreds of ‘unique’ versions of an article, the idea being that you then submit a different version at regular intervals via the article submitter. Some people, myself included, may find this a little distasteful, as it is blatantly ‘cheating’ the article directories as really you are just submitting the same articles again and again, albeit that the articles read differently.

Still, the results cannot be denied, it’s a good way of building a lot of long term, high page rank backlinks to your websites and to put it mildly, it works and it works well.

The mass article creator software is easy to use and comes with an excellent short video tutorial. Like all article spinning software you will find yourself having to do a lot more work than you might have expected when you first start using it but the more you use it, the easier it gets to produce multiple articles as it is continually storing the synonyms (alternative words and phrases) that you are thinking of. Once you are finished with an article, you press one button and hey presto, hundreds of unique versions are created and saved.

The mass article submitter is nothing new either. You enter ONE ARTICLE VERSION via cut and paste from the wordpad documents created by the article creation software. It would have been nicer if they were auto-loaded but never mind. You press the submit button and this version of your article is submitted to the article directories listed. These are all top ranked directories so so far, so good.

It’s one of the fastest articles submitters I’ve used and for an extra premium you can ‘upgrade’ so that the submitter uses 20 top article directories rather than 10, although THREE of these never seem to accept articles via the article submitter AND the ArticleCat directory virtually always comes back with “error, illegal character detected, please use ASCII text only”. So really, my article ‘versions’ only gets sent to 16 directories, not 20.

I have asked if anyone else is getting the same errors and the answer is YES, so it’s not just me.

Together the two pieces of software work OKAY. To start with I used the software to submit a total of 50 different articles and all 50 showed up on the search engines. However, only 6 of the directories gave me backlinks as for some reason, the other directories ignored my resource boxes. Upon further investigation, these directories do not have a resource box entry, you are simply supposed to put your resource box (with links to your target sites) into the main text area. I assumed that the Mass Article Submitter would do all of this automatically but no, so this perhaps needs clarification in the training videos… after submitting my 50 articles I was gutted that I now had to go to all of the directories and put in my resource boxes, which took hours. 

 Still, I did get some good, fast backlinks from 6 top directories but a far cry from the 20 directories that I paid for when I bought into MAC. It took several weeks before the backlink ‘juice’ from the directories started to take effect but to be fair, this was expected.

When I bought into the MAC idea, the sales page gave me the impression that I would be submitting a different article version to each directory, which I thought was a very clever idea indeed as obviously you are going to be building 20 links back to your site with each submission, that will not eventually be reduced to just 1 link as Google penalises you for duplicate content.

This though is not the case. In fact you submit the same article version to all 20 article directories at once then have to wait about a week and submit the next version to all twenty, so that they don’t realise what you are up to. Although you are supposed to get 20 new links to your website pretty fast, this will eventually be reduced to one link under the Google duplicate content rules. There is of course nothing to stop you submitting as many completely different articles as you wish each day, which is where the MAC system will bring you the fastest results.

I thought that it would have been better to simply use the article creator to produce just 20 highly different versions rather than hundreds of not so different versions and then submit one version to each of the top 20 directories, thereby getting around the penalty Google imposes for duplicate content, whilst at the same time building more unique links faster. Then you could just go and ‘borrow’ another good article from somewhere, respin it into twenty more versions and repeat the process.

I received an automated email from the MAC team saying that this is what the next upgrade would be so I have held off using the software since then. Months later, still no upgrade has been sent, although perhaps this is because I unsubscribed from their mailing list after I got fed up reading the deluge of emails that they sent me, trying to sell me on product after product after product. These guys pummel their buyers list to death – whilst not providing any email support or updates/fixes for products that you have already purchased. It’s a shame because this is the second product that I have purchased from these guys with the same result – the product does pretty much do as promised but automatic upgrades only happen for those still on the ‘prospect’ list.

I tend to use Mass Article Control to submit high quality articles that I have written from scratch myself OR have bought from an article writing specialist, rather than for articles that I have ‘borrowed’ from somewhere on the web and spun. The reason for this is that some of the article directories on the MAC submitter list are pretty choosy about the articles submitted, for example EzineArticles will reject some articles now and again and can limit the number of articles that you can submit over a certain period, which can be a pain.

Mainly though I cannot be bothered with the effort or expense of writing or buying many articles but when I do, MAC is a great tool for spinning and submitting. If I am just scraping articles off the ‘net for spinning, then 99% of the time I don’t use MAC, I use the Magic Article Spinner and Submitter from Alexander Krulik. Whilst being almost a secret in the article marketing arena, this is a tool I have gotten in the habit of using once every day for about a year and this has given me top 5 search results in Google for several of my websites, all in different niches. Using the MAGIC spinner and submitter, it takes about 10 minutes to find a ‘keyword rich’ article that I like on the ‘net, 10 minutes to spin it and another 10 minutes to submit it to about 400-600 directories (when I say 10 minutes to submit, this is ‘push a button and wait’ for all of the submissions to take place, rather than 10 minutes of work) . The directories with this software don’t have the same prestige as the ones used with MAC but the end results in search engine rankings for your website are the same or better and I know that a different article version is going out several hundred times per article spun, rather than only 10-16 being accepted by Article Directories when using the Mass Article Control software.

VERDICT : If you use or intend to use article marketing as part of your overall SEO strategy (you should!), which is a tried, tested and proven method of getting masses of one-way links pointing to your site, then Mass Article Control is a great idea but there are other packages on the market that are bug free and are cheaper. So… sorry, I’d love the affiliate commissions for recommending Mass Article Control but right now, if you are on a budget or just want to get the best article marketing tool you can afford, GIVE MASS ARTICLE CONTROL A MISS and get the MAGIC article spinner and submitter instead.

See the MASS ARTICLE CONTROL website / see the videos here: Mass Article Control

Visit the MAGIC ARTICLE SPINNER & SUBMITTER website here: MAGIC article marketing