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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

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