So far I’m not overly impressed with AB. I just don’t seem to end up with too many links. I’ll be curious to see your opinion.

DOH!

I just used iSnare/AR/UAW/TBS (the best spinner has its own directory)/MAS…

Ran out of time but tonight will be Magic Submitter and ArticleBot.

I BOMBED my Squid with 291 or so submissions from MAS…which is my new-found LOVE (I’m sure I’ll no less love AB)…but get this: the first time I submitted to MAS, I had checked the “Skip Directories That Do Not Have These Categories” button…

And my submission was TWELVE.

I just about cried.

12?!! WHAT?!

I re-submitted, probably lost the original 12 in doing so for spamming them, not sure, but wound up with 291 (I think, it might have been like 273 all told).

Article Bot has 3 scripts/programming lingo it submits to, whereas MAS only uses the ArticleDashboard script…so I’m not sure how much better AB will prove to be, but will see.

I’m pumped. I think next month I’ll have some better numbers (my sites only made $605 in commission last month and I haven’t marketed them for 90 days).

This is fun!

So I have picked up some extra, unintentional links for that site – maybe that is helping also.

My articles on those sites are just informational articles with backlinks to my site randomly placed in the body (IB, Squid) or in the res box (EZA). It wasn’t like I was pre-selling and trying to steer traffic to my sites – I was just shooting for good anchor text.

So, if you want to rank for “Best Blue Widget” that would be your display URL, but you might notice that “Buy a Widget” is a low-compete term (that you’re not trying to rank for)…the latter would be your overall context.

You lost me here. By “context” do you mean the anchor text?

I am REALLY excited with your results, though – so is Site #2 just getting link juice from web 2.0′s that have been backlinked?

The new juice is from the Web 2.0s which just have some social bookmarks of their own. I haven’t even juiced them yet with article submissions.

There were older BLs in place but it was primarily blog comments (and 2 EZAs). Maybe I tipped the scale in BL numbers, maybe I added some BL diversity, or maybe it’s just a temporary boost from the new links. I have a feeling the site will drop back again until I juice with the article submissions.

Thx for the tips.

Re: how to make it easier to get your articles spun and keeping a KW spot available in a messy, spun article…I’d recommend before you spin, use a token like %%=>KW<=%% or something like that.

You can even use NotePad++ or just MAR to change that out to your keyword string:

"Find and replace all" or "replace tokens" (in MAR)

replace with: {keyword1|kw2|you get the idea}

The trick is to be sure your KW's are all the same part of speech, or you can use modifiers to make it grammatically correct (it doesn't matter if you modify your long tail KW to fit the context/syntax, you'll still rank for the KW).

A much cheaper solution for you might be to take your EZA and submit it to Human Rewriter – they've jumped up in quality in my experience.

I'm pretty sure their prices are still bottom dollar.

I have a question for you:

Can you explain what you meant by distinguishing your Web 2.0's (EZA/IB/Squid) from being a "traffic funnel"? What did you mean by suggesting they were not set up that way?

Lastly:

Your web 2.0's should have different in-text kw's than what you're trying to rank for, and it sounds like you've just aired out that idea, but distinguish between your display URLs and the context of your articles themselves.

So, if you want to rank for "Best Blue Widget" that would be your display URL, but you might notice that "Buy a Widget" is a low-compete term (that you're not trying to rank for)…the latter would be your overall context.

I *know you know* that. I just have a quota for how long I make these comments. Gotta keep it real, Carrie. =)

I am REALLY excited with your results, though – so is Site #2 just getting link juice from web 2.0's that have been backlinked?

NICE.