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john2698
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:35 am
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I think that this articlebot is a load of rub*ish!
If everyone used this then the Internet will get very annoying as you will be reading the same things over and over again just that they are wrote slightly differently.
All I can say is what's the point in that.
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CharlesWaters
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:03 pm
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I can't imagine how it could create QUALITY content? In my day job, we have developed software which we call NLPR or Natural Language Patient Record which can read through a medical report and normalize it to terms contained within a database of medical terminology while still allowing it to be human readable. It has taken us years and millions of dollars to create it. I can't imagine software that can take freeform text and rewrite it so that it is meaningful. I think I've stumbled onto some of the pages that use it and they are meaningless gibberish. Of course, this is just an assumption.
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:41 pm
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Well, it doesn't create quality content because it isn't designed for quality content. It just creates pages that are all the same with different words. The idea is to go for the sheer amount and get the clicks... simple as that.
Not my kind of game... but it seems at this moment a very lucrative game 
Please don't get into a moral thread  everybody takes the business risks as he or she seems fit. Today a star, gone tomorrow... gone, but rich though
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:23 pm
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I just posted by review of Articlebot on my site.
Personally, this is very powerful software, but it's not like much of the other software-in-box stuff like TE. It requires a bit of knowledge of HTML.
Articlebot Review
It can create pages without footprints, which is important, because Google will be going after those spammy pages that cost them money.
In fact, with Articlebot, even if people use the same keywords, they won't end up with the same pages -- this includes unique scraped content based on identical keywords.
Pretty cool, huh?
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:22 pm
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hey guys
just wanted to give me feedback on articlebot, and that is: it's working for me.
there have been a few comments about using the tool to repackage and rewrite others' content. well - sure - you can do that if you don't have the time or ability to crank your own content, i can attest that articlebot has come in handy in helping me expand the reach of my OWN content.
i have around 50 original articles on my site, and i've been using articlebot to make me around 50 copies of each one.
this means i go through each document and mark it up with synonyms, and the articlebot randomizes them all and within a couple hours, i have 50 articles that contain all the same ideas, and read fine, but because the synonyms are all randomized, they aren't classed as duplicate content by the search engines.
before we get into a philosophical debate over whether 50 copies of an article is bad or degrades the quality of the web/my site/your browsing experience, let me say a few things:
a) 50 copies of any given article is a neither a good thing nor a bad thing inherently. if they're unique enough and not classed as duplicate content, it simply casts the keyword net wider in the search engines which means the same article can catch 50 times as many similar searches, which is a good thing.
b) no matter which of our 50 articles is brought up in results, our visitor only sees that version of the article, and only has the option to travel up to the root of the site. they have no idea that there are 50 versions of the same article and obviously it would be better if they didn't know that.
c) what are new articles anyway, but similar ideas with the words in a different order?
and now - what results am i seeing?
well - google, yahoo and msn lapped up all of my article copies very quickly each one is seeing a couple of hits a day. some up to 10. if you do the math on that and you'll see that 50 copies of 50 source articles, generating an average of 2 hits a day is bringing me 5000 extra visits a day, simply because i have more indexed article content.
wouldn't have been able to do it without articlebot. so as you can see, you can use it for good instead of evil. 
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BigBlackMagic
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:28 pm
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Ha. Ha. Ha.
Man. If you people only knew.
There is a clear seperation between those who master a skill and those who think they'll plunk down a few bucks and make easy money.
I bought Article Bot when it first came out. And fortunately I paid $495 for a license and I really couldn't back out.
It took me 6 months to get a grip on the potential of this program (would have happened sooner if I'd sat down and focused - and let go of my own preconceived notions sooner). If you see Article Bot as only a way to scrape content - like TE - or as a way to "steal" content and rewrite a bunch of crappy versions, then you're just stuck in a box. The box is your's - not something rented to you by Article Bot.
I'm creating some really cool sites - which I'd be happy to share but there's always one bitter schmuck in every crowd and I'm not going to risk exposing my hard work in that way.
Right now, I'm using the Pro version of AB to create very large affiliate sites using data feeds. Because I know what I'm doing - because I've taken achieve some limited degree of mastery with the program I can create some very cool sites that don't look and read like crap.
So you don't get the wrong impression, I AM not a programmer - or otherwise 'technically brilliant person' - but I am smart enough to figure things out.
Truth is, I really don't want to see many people using AB because if you think small with it then it will have the same bad name attached to it as TE and those knock-off programs. In essence, AB is no different than having a very powerful database tool that can populate pages with relevent details about anything.
[This was confrontational and belittled members of this Message Board - totally unacceptable - I should have deleted the whole message and not just part - I'll leave others to comment - Moderator]
[Yo Mod - So it's acceptable for people who don't know what they're talking about to slam a product? Were you slamming the product? Go ahead - delete my post. It offers value to those who are going to listen. In fact - you read my message. Then I'll delete it myself.]
- Brad Fallon uses the software to re-write articles he uses to build page rank through exchanges with other sites - both benefit by having 'unique content'. Now that Ken Gidden's has passed, there isn't any Internet marketing guru whose advice is more trustworthy than Brad - he's the real deal.
- Neil Shearing is teaching a sound, credible system for using AB that will produce sites that last - and produce ongoing value to site visitors.
- 'The Rich Jerk' recommends AB as an important tool in his arsenal.
- I'm using AB in a number of ways that are working great and I get better every week.
Don't expect to get a good tool for cheap.
Don't expect there isn't a learning curve to anything of value.
Don't expect that if you're a beginner you can use this tool to your benefit.
And don't run around ranting about your 'hard work' is being ripped off. John Henry died trying to beat 'the machine' and so will you. Get smart and learn to do what you already do well - better.
I hope all the machine generating rip-off spam artists fade away quick. And some people are going to use AB like that. But that's seeing 10% of the potential of the tool. It's short-sited and the mark of an amatuer - nothing more and nothing less.
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AllanGardyne
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 10:11 pm
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Hi BigBlackMagic, Welcome to the forum.
| BigBlackMagic wrote: | | Right now, I'm using the Pro version of AB to create very large affiliate sites using data feeds. Because I know what I'm doing - because I've taken achieve some limited degree of mastery with the program I can create some very cool sites that don't look and read like crap. |
I'd love to know more about this, if you're willing to share any details.
I assume you must be doing things to make your pages different from everyone else's? What sort of things? Even a just a few clues would be handy.
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BigBlackMagic
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:56 am
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Hi Allan - Sure.
The new "Pro" version of Article Bot allows for a relational database - so anything that you can put into (or obtain) in CSV format, you can "spin" in AB.
So, I can input something like this:
$$DBshoebrand | $$DBshoetype | $$DBshoeprice | $$DBshoeretail
Clark's | dress shoes | $89 | $119
Sperry | boat shoes | $69 | $89
And produce something that reads like this (I'll cap the variable - actually EVERYTHING is variable)
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No wardrobe is complete without a good pair of DRESS SHOES. When I was twenty-two I put on my first pair of CLARK'S and I have had a pair in my closet since.
Right now, you can get a pair of CLARK'S finest at shoes.com for just $89 - that's a big savings off the retail price of $119.
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Using AB, you could take the same seed text, combined with data feed, and come up with the next product promotion reading . . .
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A complete wardrobe includes a classic pair of BOAT SHOES. One of the most trusted names in the business is SPERRY and I know a lot of guys who love them.
Last I checked, this pair of SPERRY BOAT SHOES at shoes.com are priced for just $69 - a nice discount off the retail price of $89.
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You can create some very nice, customized pages that don't look - or read - like all of the other data feed sites out there.
The trick with good sounding Article Bot copy is to stay pretty generic - but you can see that this text is clearly very different than scraping or even what you get with a data feed, as supplied by the merchant.
I highly recommend this approach.
AND - I apologize to you, the moderator and the forum members for my initial post if it rubbed anyone wrong. I take personal offense to people giving opinions and commentary that I feel lead others in the wrong directions, especially when those opinions are not based upon proven experience. Article Bot isn't for everybody - that's fine. But it IS a great product, used creatively (and my passion for the program is probably why I'm it's top affiliate . |
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AllanGardyne
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:32 am
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| BigBlackMagic wrote: | | I take personal offense to people giving opinions and commentary that I feel lead others in the wrong directions, especially when those opinions are not based upon proven experience. |
Good point. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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LeeD
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:21 am
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I thought I might chime in on articlebot as it is an extremely powerful program and does not necessarily need to be used for evil purposes (although I'm sure many will).
Like Professorhojo and BigBlackMagic have shown, it has many vaild uses. You can also use the pro version to write informative content pages.
Just like the example about the shoes, you can use the PRO version to write pages about anything that would have similar traits. Such as flowers, dog breeds cat breeds etc... You could come up with a page on every dog breed simply by filling in the various specifics (height, acceptable colors, temperment etcc). It would take you a while but be much quicker than doing each page by hand and you'd have some nice informative pages for your site.
You can also use it to spin up introductory paragrpahs that you can put on the pages before articles that you use from article directories to try to help alleviate duplicate content filters.
Anyway, I just feel like this tool gets a bad knee-jerk reaction from people (myself included at first) when in fact it can be used to help you build informative and useful sites.
There is actually another program coming out that has the same functionality but with better support and users manuals so if you tried articlebot and got frustrated with the lack of such, then you might be interested in it. |
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Monty Loree
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I bought, and then returned ArticleBot because I couldn't get it installed on my windows XP machine. After corresponding back and forth with their customer service I gave up.
My concern with articlebot is duplicate content violations. After seeing Matt Cutts demonstrate how google determines what is duplicate content, I was turned off that product completely. As well, copyscape.com would be able to pick out the duplicate content.
I was attracted to the concept though.
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