Well it finally happened. I have increased the number of my web sites to the point where I can’t keep up with the article writing needed to keep fresh content on them.

As the number of sites increased I started using PLR or Private Label Rights articles but that only helped for a while, then I needed to find something else to get the content I need daily.

That’s when I decided to give automated article marketing a try and turned to My Article Network . It was that or start working more days a week and longer hours and that’s just not going to happen.

So, here is my review ofMy Article Network by Matt Callen.

First, here is The Claim by Matt Callen, creator of My Article Network:

“Get Unlimited Highly-Targeted,
One-Way Backlinks, Quickly Boost Your
Search Engine Rankings, and Dramatically
Increase Your FREE Traffic By Force-Feeding
Your Content Onto Over 10,000 Blogs Online!”
… and do all of this in a 100% legit and Google-friendly way…

That’s a mighty big claim… but… I have never seen or been part of a network that has over 10,000 blogs, so I expect great things from this network.

What Does My Article Network Do For Me?

The first thing we need to look at is what the network is suppose to do for you. If it’s not what you are looking for you should know that right here before you waste any more of your time.

1. One-Way-Link Building Through Article Marketing

I spent a lot of years doing reciprocal linking and back in 2001 it worked great. Unfortunately as time went on and the search engines starting seeing them for what they were, stopped giving so much value to them and instead started paying more attention to the one-way-links.

When I write and publish articles on the My Article Network I include up to three links back to any pages I want. These are one-way-links. I do not have to reciprocate.

2. I Can Use Articles on The Network For My Own Blogs

I do use articles from the network and publish them on my blogs but unlike a lot of people I don’t use just any articles. I have a screening process I use to eliminate content and links that aren’t really going to benefit my site.

Because of my screening process I reject more than 90% of articles. I just checked a minute ago so I could put the value here. Today it shows that I reject 91% of all articles.

Positive Aspects of My Article Network

1. I get a ton of one-way backlinks to my blogs and web sites.

2. Writing helpful content that is relevant to the category gets more articles published. Which most likely means if you write crap you will not see as many get published.

3. Creating relevant content with links that are also relevant goes a long ways to getting all those one-way backlinks.

4. My Article Network allows the use of rewriting code so that you can make you spin your articles into multiple articles quite easily. It is a bit time consuming but far less time than it would take to write all those as individual unique articles.

5. There is an option that allows you to ignore articles rewritten less than 30%. I always have this checked as it weeds out a lot of potential duplicate content.

Negative Aspect of My Article Network

There are a few things I have an issue with but they don’t stop me from using My Article Network 5 days a week.

I Reject A Lot of Articles

I mentioned above that I reject about 90% of articles, allow me to explain a little further.

I feel to get the most benefit when using articles they need to be good, well written, by that I mean good english skills, and they need to be relevant, both the content and the links. If they aren’t I reject them.

Because people will always try to push the limits I reject more than 90% of articles at My Article Network.

Support Doesn’t Do Much From What I Can See

I don’t really need support but I have requested a few answers about what people do on My Article Network and didn’t get a response back for more than a month.

When I did get a response they didn’t answer my questions. Instead they apologized for not being there. Not sure what the problem is in that respect but I think they should have answered my questions after apologizing.

Sometimes Articles Just Disappear

There are times that I choose articles and then wait for them to appear on my blogs and sometimes they just don’t appear. This really annoys me.

The fact that I am so picky with the articles I accept and the fact I have so many blogs that when I get a day that they don’t appear I get really ticked.

It would still be a pain but if I accepted all their articles it wouldn’t matter so much but there are days I only have 1 or 2 articles in a niche and when they don’t get published I go without content that day, well from there. I still put up content but it takes up even more of my time.

Note: Time Is One Thing I Can’t Buy

I’ve said some postive things and some negative things. I hope it will help you decide if you want to giveMy Article Network a try. I still publish between 20 and 30 articles a day, to my blogs and I also write and submit one or two articles a day that get published by many other members.

I am happy and satisfied with the results I get and will continue my membership until the time that changes.

Keywords rule for the operation of the Internet in general, and for article marketing, in particular. The underlying mechanism is clear to any untrained eye. What do we use when searching for something online? A keyword or key phrase that we type in the search box of the search engine. Following in this line of thought, it is obvious why keywords are the fundamentals for article marketing, why you have to write web content starting from them.

Keywords define your domain of activity in a broader or more specific way, and thus, they become the basis for any advertising or promotional campaign that relies on article marketing. There are however some issues to consider when trying to identify the right keywords.

Analyze Your Competition!

Thanks to software programs, we can now perform in depth investigations and analysis of the businesses that we compete against. Start with the websites that stand on top of a niche you want to target and  identify their strong and weak points.

The Risk of General Keywords!

When elaborating lists of keywords, even software generated the risk is to fall for those terms that are too broad. Very general keywords are used by web sites with history, credibility and reputation that often have millions of backlinks referring to them. What chances can one stand against such competitors? The choice of the keywords really makes a difference with article marketing.

Some Keywords Have Low Competition!

Write articles around very specialized keywords that are not too high in demand. With patience and proper strategies, time will come when you will have a booming business online. Longer phrases are often a good idea, as well as misspelled words. Are you aware what a rich source of traffic, misspelled keywords can be? Hundreds of web visitors type in words incorrectly, either by mistake or because they do not know the correct spelling. Why not take advantage of this tiny detail and turn it into an article marketing advantage.

The author resource box represents the material that you include at the end of every article that you write for submission to web directories. Article marketing extensively relies on this kind of information because the resource box contains details like the author’s name and the link to the website that you want to promote. In order for article marketing to work in your favor, every material that you spread on the web needs to turn into a reference point.

Some authors just write their name, others offer a short work history and several other details on their professional achievements, besides one or two links included in the box. What types of links are you using in the resource box? This question should always preoccupy you when writing this part of the material.

Anchor text links work best for article marketing purposes because besides the website address they also contain a keyword relevant for your domain. This is an additional form of search engine optimization with higher chances to attract good traffic to a certain website. Anchor text links in the author resource box only work with some web directories. It is therefore a must that you determine where to use simple URLs and where to put anchor text links for article marketing.

Always follow the {requirements|rules of the directories in order to have your articles approved}. Another aspect that proves just as important is to leave out anchor text links from the author resource box and include them in the content. These forms of article marketing contribute to an increase in rankings and traffic level.

Know your options well enough before aiming at the optimization of your author resource box. Make a test and submit articles with simple URLs in the resource box and others with anchor text links and compare results. The system depicted here is also compatible with spin versions of original materials. The author box can be the same or different; this is totally your choice.