This review was last updated in January 2012.
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My Article Network is an article submission service and link building service created by internet marketer Matt Callen. With MyArticleNetwork (also called MAN) you will be able to publish your articles on a huge network of blogs, and blogs only (neither on article directories nor on other types of websites).
If you know me a little you know that I am using blog networks a lot (not only though) and having great results, and I am a big fan of these services. Using a blog network is a way to syndicate your articles on many different blogs, building many quality backlinks to your site from many different I.P. addresses, contrary to article directories (which by the way are also well worth your efforts for other reasons).
What makes My Article Network a really powerful blog network is its size (more than 10,000 blogs) and the fact that it’s been around for a while now (do not trust MyArticleNetwork reviews made back in 2009, they are completely outdated) and the blogs there have gained age, and even authority for some of them. Matt Callen has partnered with Daniel Turner and Marc Lindsay, the owners of Article Marketing Automation, to grow the network and make it even more powerful.
Note: if you sign up for My Article Network, do NOT sign up for Article Marketing Automation as well, as they share the same network of blogs. Sign up for one service only.
How Does MyArticleNetwork Work?
Once you sign up you can immediately submit an article to the network and it will get published within minutes (usually less than an hour). Here is what the article submission form looks like:
You first choose the category for your article. Make sure you always select the best possible category for better acceptance by the site owners (if you post an article about SEO article writing, but you are promoting some spyware remover in your article, put it in the SEO category and not the computer category). Choosing the right categories will also help you get your articles published on relevant sites, which is very important for the search engines.
You can then copy paste a spun article in text or html version. There is a built-in article rewriter if you prefer to do it that way or you don’t have article spinning software. Articles must be at least 300 words long and you are allowed up to 3 hyperlinks in the body.
The great thing about MyArticleNetwork is that it supports nested spinning, so if you do 2 level spinning you will get even more benefits from your efforts in terms of uniqueness of your articles. However, you should know that MyArticleNetwork uses a very special spinning syntax.
It is important to know this before you start spinning your articles. Basically, for the first level of spinning, you should use the {text ~ text} syntax, and for the second level of spinning you should use the [text | text] syntax. It is really weird, and not as handy as SEO Link Vine (the blog network of Brad Callen, Matt’s brother), which enables 2 level spinning using the traditional { | } syntax.
My tip for spinning with MAN: do not complicate things here. I suggest you spin your article body with one level only, and your anchor texts with a second level. Provided you do it right (spin each sentence and/or paragraph well, and then put 3 or 4 variations of your anchor text), you can have great results (at least I do).
You can then add video URLs with anchor text, which is a plus because it enables you to build quality relevant backlinks to your videos.
Then you put some good tags and set your publishing settings (start date and total number of blogs you want your article to appear on), and save the article. You can preview your article and fix any typo or links that do not work. Once you hit Publish your article will be queued and publication starts within a few minutes (usually less than an hour).
You can check your rankings (not my favourite feature because it gets updated every 2 or 3 weeks only) and you have the possibility to check your article stats: how many articles have been accepted, the acceptance rate, and the number of articles published.
Note: you also have the possibility to add your own blogs to the network if you wish to receive content. If you decide to do this, make sure you do not accept articles that are not at least 50% unique, because then you will be publishing duplicate content on your site. If you added one or more sites you will also be able to check your site stats.
This is the general stats screenshots:
And below is the detailed stats screenshots, where you can see exactly for each article its status, the limit of the number of blogs you’ve set, how many times it has been published, and the acceptance rate.
What I Like About MAN
My Article Network is a great blog network. Your articles get accepted and published super fast, and they do get published on a large number of blogs (ok, this will depend if your niche is broad or super specialized, of course), which gives you a ton of low quality backlinks and really helps rankings.
You can also submit an unlimited number of articles with links to an unlimited number of domains, which is great to promote several websites as well as to build backlinks to your backlinks (BuildMyRank posts, articles from EZA, web 2.0 properties). And if you do it right, you can have great results.
I typically use MAN to push a site or a keyword to page 1 or 2 within just a few weeks or months, or to maintain link volume over time. If you are already at the bottom of page 1, it may not be of any help. MAN is great to give a webpage a lot of low quality backlinks (PR n/a and PR0) and to rank on page 2 or bottom of page 1 for a low to mid-competitive keyword. It’s a low cost solution that is much better than profile links because the links are contextual, and hence have more weight. You should also know that you’ll need to submit a lot of articles to get your keywords to page 1 and 2.
Now, don’t expect miracles. If you are in a very competitive niche, you’ll need other tools. If you think that you can push a keyword from #8 to #1 using MAN, think again. MAN is great for link volume. It is not designed to rank HIGH for any keyword that has a slight amount of competition. It can help you rank high for very long tail keywords or uncompetitive ones, though.
What I Think Could Be Improved With MyArticleNetwork.
I think one feature which could be improved is the spinning syntax. Having to spin articles with different syntaxes, as explained above, for 1st level and 2nd level spinning is a real pain, so we end up using only one level spinning, which reduces uniqueness. Having just one syntax like for example with SEO Link Vine would be a lot simpler and would enable to increase the uniqueness of the content published across the network. However, it is true that very few networks enable users to easily use second level syntax.
The other thing that could be improved is the ability to create and manage projects. All articles submitted to MAN are not organized and it’s not possible to see how many articles have been submitted for each website, it’s all mixed up, and you need to check each article individually if you want to do stats per website. This is not a big deal if you are just promoting one site, though.
My Recommendation for My Article Network
MyArticleNetwork is a very big and powerful blog network for low quality, high volume of links, especially when used in conjunction with The Leading Articles or Article Builder. I am having real results with it, as mentioned above, and I warmly recommend My Article Network to any serious marketer who is after search engine rankings and a lot of low quality backlinks (again, MAN is great for link volume).
And I especially recommend this blog network to intermediate and advanced marketers. I recommend it to beginners only if they really know what they are doing with their SEO, otherwise I always prefer to recommend a service like SubmitYourArticle, which is not a blog network but is somewhat easier when you are just starting (the first months).
My Article Network Bonus Offer
Like any other blog network, the true power of MyArticleNetwork depends on how you use it. This is why I am going to give you a bonus package to help you get the best possible results with MAN.
- Bonus #1: The Ultimate Guide To Public Blog Networks
I have written this guide to help you make the best possible use of your My Article Network subscription. You will learn more about how to produce highly unique articles and why this is important for blog networks, and how to check for uniqueness. You’ll get details on how many articles you should submit, and how to go about promoting your pages.
- Bonus #2: Three (3) spinnable articles per month (with an active subscription).
The articles will have 500 words each once spun. Niches: Business (9 sub-niches), Finance (7 sub-niches), Health Fitness Beauty (25 sub-niches), Home & Family (9 sub-niches), Recreation (3 sub-niches), Society (2 sub-niches), Technology (2 sub-niches). Each sentence is rewritten 10 times. Each article is written by top quality writers and is guaranteed to be at least 75% unique. You only need to insert your links and you can submit them on MyArticleNetwork.
To claim your bonuses, simply follow these steps: How To Claim Your MyArticleNetwork Bonus.
