Article Marketer Review

As any Internet marketer, or Article Marketing Jedi, you have too understand that semi automatic tools or even automatic submission tools are like humans, they are full of qualities and defects. Life in the offline world, with tools and software, you need to do a balance and understand where the balance ends when you compare, the qualities, defects and the quality/value of applications you use. I have use many applications and sometimes, us, Internet marketers, futures Marketing Jedi, fall in love like teenagers for new services out there. Some time our love is based on the optimistic idea that the services described will really work, and that the power of the application will take our back link goals to a new level.

But like teenagers, we quickly realize that life is complicate and that teenager love usually never ends in long term love.

So today I want to talk about Article Marketer, and my “rolly coaster romantic” relation with this service/site. Article Marketer is one of that sites that offer 2 types of services, free and premium. The free is simply horrendous service, where users suffer and struggle to get their articles review and publish in the Article Marketer network.

So how Article Marketer works? Well, in theory is is a pretty standard and easy to use service. You add your article in a 1 page form and your article gets review and then publish in a generous list of directories, blogs, sites.

Article marketer allows you to add anchor links in your resource box (well, that is why we use this type of services). and once your article gets schedule to be publish, you can be sure, you will see your article being published fast enough in more than 100 affiliate sites, working with Article Marketer.

So, so far so good… until then my love relation with Article Marketer was perfect.

In the beginning, like with a new girlfriend, I decided to commit to pay a “premium” membership for 3 months. Total cost : $97 dollars. Not bad if you consider the true potential of the service described.

So does Article marketer works?

In the true sense of the word: Yes it does…

but to make it work, you need be ready to suffer, loose some kilos and get ready to scream and share some tears.

The first step that stops your happiness when you send your article to Article Marketer submission form is what they call the instant Edit system. The instant edit will detect any problems you may have with your article, like stranger characters or code (usually a common problem when you just copy and paste your article from Ms Word). The instant-review-edit system is pretty OK, it is an automatic system that stops your article to be really submitted to the editors.

So so far, so good.

Once your article has passed the automatic system, the painful process of being review by one of Article Marketer editors starts, and when I mean painful, just think of putting hot needles in your eye balls…

The review and approval of Article Marketer staff is one of the main reasons why this service has lost so many customers. In some stages you feel, they really don’t care that you are paying for the service and their support level and flexibility to resolve individual cases is pretty small. The group of editors usually will stop your articles if they decided that your article is

a) boring

b) it talks to much about one brand

c) it doesn’t have an interesting title.

So this is when things get difficult, because then you are playing a different ball game. What exactly means boring for these guys? Is this a Article Submission service or a Editorial - Publishing Service.
Because when I use an article submission service, I usually want one thing: to get my articles submitted, and not to have a “ping-pong-email-chat” about how to improve my articles so my readers will love me more than ever.

The funny thing of the whole review-editorial process is that sometimes the reasons why refusing an article are simply absurd.

I sent an article over 6 months ago about : The history of LEGO company

The article was refused because “It talk too much about just one brand” - Please included information about other products and companies in the same sector.

What????

This will be the same as “Your chicken Kiev recipe talks too much about chicken, please also include some fish and meat recipes”.

The problem that this brings to the Article Marketer solution is that every time they refuse or stop your service, then you have to wait, 2 to 3 working days for the next review, revision, notification, making the submission of some articles to take over 2 weeks in some cases.  Ping-pong-ping-pong and at every single stage you feel like there is no real human being reading and reviewing your article. The process is so painful that more quickly than normal you start hating each time you get another “Editorial” notification from Article Marketer.

In my case I purchased the 3 month membership and I continue with Article Marketer for over 6 months.

Did I get results? Yes (at least I think so)

Did I used Article Marketer in it’s full advantage? I don’t think so. Mainly because the submission and approval process was just ridiculous . If you are serious about Article Marketing, you understand that time is money, the more time you have the more use of your energy you can put in new submissions, in new link building process. For me Article Marketer became more like that childhood friend, that you still hangout with, but deep inside you don’t like…

• A day in an Article Marketer JEDI