I imagine that every affiliate at some point of their career resort to “article marketing” as one of the methods of promoting their websites. About a year ago I have experienced some success with EzineArticles. The downside was the fact that it was somewhat painful job, only on rare occasions were my articles approved for publishing the first time. My main problem of course was poor grammar. Of course I have abandoned article marketing. But revently I was convinced by Mike Levin to give article marketing another chance via Content Spooling Network (CSN from now on). There is a trial period of 21 with CSN, of which I am trying to take full advantage.
I hope this review will give you a better understanding how CSN is working. My experience is very limited, I have joined only three days ago. But since the rial period is limited only to 21 days, 3 days is enough time to come to some conclusions.
The main reason CSN looked so attractive to me was th fact that they offer ghostwriter services, which potentially can save some one like myself tons of time and lots of trouble. This service is not included and you will have to pay extra in order to be able to use it. They do have subscription options for this purpose which potentially can save you a few dollars. However to have an original article written for you it will set you back $5.20- this article will become what CSN calls a “seed article”. You will need to further modify this “seed article” if you would like it to be submitted through their system to their network websites as well as to the external article publishing directories such as EzineArticles. To accomplish this let say with a 5 paragraph article you will simply need to paraphrase each paragraph- this also can be achieved if you decide to paraphrase each or every other sentence. Since writing an article is a struggle on its own I have decided to both outsource the writing of the article and paraphrasing it, which set me back about $12.
During this trial period I will spend only $25 which should cover just bout two “seed articles” and three “rewrites” for each. Since I have chosen to distribute only to 7 out of 15 external directories available (see the picture on the right), by the end of this trail I will submit 14 articles to different directories.
With CSN lowest subscription plan at $29.95 per month which technically allows you to submit 4(x15) articles with additional $50 for using their ghostwriter service it will cost you about $1.33 per article. (I hope my math is correct, if not maybe some one from CSN can correct me).
Now that have the math our of our way, time line is what really concerns me. There was little delay on my part because I wanted to get out of my trial period as much as I can. It took CSN’s ghostwriter one day to write the original article and another day to paraphrase it. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the final approval of the article is on its way and it will be submitted to the directories today. So I will have only 18 days left to see the results (if any). Is it enough time? I am not that certain. From my previous experience with EzineArticles it took over two months and 12+ articles to even notice any increase in traffic.
I still believe that CSN is offering a great deal, and I am planing to stick with them for at least next three to six months. However, it would be in their own interest to maybe extend the trail period to 30 or maybe 40 days. As I have mentioned I am spending at least $25 on ghostwriter service during the trail period.
If you are a good writer and feel no need for using their ghostwriter service trying their product will cost you absolutely nothing.
If you have ever considered to outsource your article marketing task CSN is probably best service I have seen so far. Even if I think that 21 days are not enough to measure your results.
Make sure to visit CSN blog as it is a good source of information about their services.
CSN could work for writers struggling with producing compelling copy, but I'd be interested in reading how that final copy reads.
Some of the rewritten stuff I have found around the internet is dull and unconvincing as the writer's lack of subject knowledge (or care to write properly) is evident.
Hopefully, you'll find CSN to work otherwise — best wishes for a successful test run.
Thanks for running a live experiment on CSN. I was just looking at this service about three days ago and I was considering joining. But it is great that you are running some quick tests to see if CSN is worth investing.
I can't wait to hear your results. I will try to frequently read your updates to see what type of results you are getting. I have been a fan of article marketing in the past..but it is just too time consuming. Hopefully, CSN will be the solution to this time issue.
CSN could work for writers struggling with producing compelling copy, but I’d be interested in reading how that final copy reads.
Some of the rewritten stuff I have found around the internet is dull and unconvincing as the writer’s lack of subject knowledge (or care to write properly) is evident.
Hopefully, you’ll find CSN to work otherwise — best wishes for a successful test run.
Thanks for running a live experiment on CSN. I was just looking at this service about three days ago and I was considering joining. But it is great that you are running some quick tests to see if CSN is worth investing.
I can’t wait to hear your results. I will try to frequently read your updates to see what type of results you are getting. I have been a fan of article marketing in the past..but it is just too time consuming. Hopefully, CSN will be the solution to this time issue.
Matt,
I am actually impressed with the end results. I am just waiting to see how the publishing to all the networks will work.
I will post here a link as soon as article goes live. Thanks for the stumble.
This kind of thing is good for promoting niche sites where you don't want to invest too much personal time. I must admit I have never been a huge fan of any kind of article rewriting, either automatically or rotating human written phrases around.
I am sure the articles are currently effective for most directories.
The biggest problem is that most article sites these days have very little juice and so many articles. There is a real need to pump out a lot of articles to have any large benefits.
I am not in favor of rewriting articles either. It is offered there in order to use their automated submission function so that exact copy of an article goes all the directories.
I really think that $5.20 for a good article is a steal. I personally only had experience with EzineArticles in the past. The problem that I had with article directories was that I could have been spending that time on either improving my existing websites or simply write articles for this blog.
I think in combination with Hittail it can actually produce some remarkable results…. Now that I am back in Google 😉
“that exact copy of an article goes all the directories”
What I wanted to say is:
that exact copy of an article does not go all the directories
Matt,
I am actually impressed with the end results. I am just waiting to see how the publishing to all the networks will work.
I will post here a link as soon as article goes live. Thanks for the stumble.
This kind of thing is good for promoting niche sites where you don’t want to invest too much personal time. I must admit I have never been a huge fan of any kind of article rewriting, either automatically or rotating human written phrases around.
I am sure the articles are currently effective for most directories.
The biggest problem is that most article sites these days have very little juice and so many articles. There is a real need to pump out a lot of articles to have any large benefits.
I am not in favor of rewriting articles either. It is offered there in order to use their automated submission function so that exact copy of an article goes all the directories.
I really think that $5.20 for a good article is a steal. I personally only had experience with EzineArticles in the past. The problem that I had with article directories was that I could have been spending that time on either improving my existing websites or simply write articles for this blog.
I think in combination with Hittail it can actually produce some remarkable results…. Now that I am back in Google 😉
“that exact copy of an article goes all the directories”
What I wanted to say is:
that exact copy of an article does not go all the directories
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Vlad,
Thank you for running this experiment. What was the result of that experiment?
Gary,
I really think you offer a great service. I was able to use Content Spooling Network for only few articles.
For me the price was the issue. I think if you offer some incentives to customers who would sign up for a yearly plan. I think $29 a month is quiet steep especially if you are charged additionally for each articles. To me $5 per article was not a problem but let say you would like to use Content Spooling Network for 4 unique articles a month that will amount to about $50 each month. Just a suggestion. It takes long time for article marketing to begin to snowball and some may wonder if the money were well spent.
Overall I am very impressed with what you have to offer. I may actually use it again in the future. For now, after changing some what the direction of this blog, I am unable to stay with Content Spooling Network.
Vlad,
Thank you for running this experiment. What was the result of that experiment?
Gary,
I really think you offer a great service. I was able to use Content Spooling Network for only few articles.
For me the price was the issue. I think if you offer some incentives to customers who would sign up for a yearly plan. I think $29 a month is quiet steep especially if you are charged additionally for each articles. To me $5 per article was not a problem but let say you would like to use Content Spooling Network for 4 unique articles a month that will amount to about $50 each month. Just a suggestion. It takes long time for article marketing to begin to snowball and some may wonder if the money were well spent.
Overall I am very impressed with what you have to offer. I may actually use it again in the future. For now, after changing some what the direction of this blog, I am unable to stay with Content Spooling Network.