Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:27 am Post subject: Article Underground?
Hey all,
Can anyone share their experience with articleunderground? [URL format deleted - Moderator]
As you probably know, they sell 400 articles for $100.
As best I can tell, the articles you get each month are on all kinds of topics. Is that right? So you'd need all kinds of sites to make use of all the articles? Or do I misunderstand?
I'm guessing some of you here have tried this service. If you care to share your evaluation it will be read with grateful interest here.
Ok, here's a followup review of
Article Underground, in case anyone is interested.
The good news is that the price is even better than I thought. You get 800 articles the first month, for $100. 12 cents an article, pretty darn cheap.
The bad news, at least from my perspective, is that the articles appear to be on every conceivable subject. Anything and everything, all lumped together.
So it appears you'd really need quite a few sites going to make use of the 800 articles.
I've reluctantly concluded I don't have time to launch 139 sites right now, but perhaps the offer will be suitable for someone else.
I've left the URL off so this won't read like an ad. Sorry Wally, didn't mean to promote the service, just trying to learn about it.
Article Underground is an outstanding article membership to be a part of. It's $97 per month and they do offer 400 articles per month. Yes...the articles are just kind of all grouped together every month, but to me this is an advantage. I don't want 20 articles per niche all neatly wrapped up and gift wrapped for us. The way it is now, it forces people to work at organizing the articles. And you know what happens when people have to work. So I would say a small percentage are religiously using the articles regularly. And out of those, not many will use the same article you have. That's the beauty of it. There are 400 to choose from, so again, very few will be using the same articles. Even if they are, Mike shows you via video how to change 'em up and make 'em unique to you.
The way you can use these articles are numerous. Two ways that I use them is to create a very small number of authority sites that are wide ranging. A good example is to create a sports site and have basketball, baseball, football, etc. articles included on the site. Of course another way to do it is to create more focused sites. With all the articles you receive, you're bound to walk away with 10, 15, 20 articles about one particular topic. Then when next month's batch of 400 arrive, you can add additional content to your sites.
I've been a member now since AU first opened, and along the way I've joined and dropped 3 other plr sites that simply didn't stack up to AU.
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If your time permits, could you perhaps expand upon your experience with purchasing articles in bulk from any source?
I'm trying to calculate not just the cost of the articles themselves (which in the case of AU seems reasonable) but ALL the costs involved in making use of the articles, primarily my time.
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A good example is to create a sports site and have basketball, baseball, football, etc. articles included on the site.
OK, yes, a good example.
Let's say I do the bare minimum. Create a site like that, and drop new articles in every month. Link to this new site from my other sites, so the search engines can find the new site.
In your experience, should I expect any kind of traffic from this?
Or is such a site pretty much worthless without a determined link building campaign?
Being realistic, I probably don't have the time or patience to put a lot of work in to getting links to sites built of bulk quality articles.
Buying the articles and building the sites is not an obstacle really.
Thanks again for your report, and for any additional advice or perspective you may care to share.
It's hard to attach an exact time frame when it comes to building a site with these articles because people will build these sites a number of different ways.
For example, some folks will build just basic sites making the article the primary focus of a webpage with not much else. Although the article is certainly important to the page, I tend to surround it with other content. So on the site I just finished for instance, in addition to the article, I have 3 boxed article snippets with "read more" links where they can read the full articles, I have a signup box offering a Free "Niche" Guide, I link to 2 authority sites, and I have 2 rss feeds on the site. Then there is an author resource box and of course footer links that are keyword focused.
It'll generally take about a week or so to put that together, but once it's together, everytime another batch of 400 articles are released, there will usually be some related to my niche, so it'll take just minutes to add another article to the site.
I'm not sure if this is answering your question, but there is no exact answer. Believe me when I tell you that AU is worth it. Keep in mind, AU is also more than just articles. There are currently 22 announcement blogs where you can "announce" your articles when it's uploaded to your site. Many of these blogs are a PR 5 or PR 6. So it's a traffic system in addition to an article source.
I don't link to my sites from other sites I own. Each site stands on its own feet and gets promoted independently.
As far as your statement about not having the patience to put a lot of work into getting links, keep in mind that the bulk of seo these days is all about links. Anybody can launch sites. That's the easy part. What separates the whiners from the people making money on the 'net is how hard the site is promoted. Ex...niche focused forums, submitting articles, press releases, directory submissions, etc. So there is a fair amount of work in promoting any site (through link building), not just an AU site. I do have tools that assist with that though like Directory Submitter and RSS Submit, so that does save some time.
Good luck with it.
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So I would say a small percentage are religiously using the articles regularly. And out of those, not many will use the same article you have. That's the beauty of it. There are 400 to choose from, so again, very few will be using the same articles. Even if they are, Mike shows you via video how to change 'em up and make 'em unique to you.
