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SEO Link VINE Or SEOLinkVine By Brad Callen – A Meta Review

Arun Pal Singh — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:37:04 +0000

SEOLINKVINE By Brad Callen

SEO Link Vine was introduced to web about two months back and it has passed enough test of time for a meta review. Though the name does not indicate it, it is a product related to article submission, distribution and back link generation. The concept is something similar to Unique Article Wizard, My Article Network and Article Marketing Automation.

We would conduct a meta review for each of them and then reach at a conclusion.

For today it is SEOLinkVine.

Product Type

Web based Software

Creator

Brad Callen. The creator is known for other famous products like Keyword Elite, SEO Elite and Affiliate Elite.

Target Audience

All internet marketers especially those who are involved in content marketing.

Website

http://www.seolinkvine.com

Price

$67 per month

Guarantee

56 days money back guarantee

A Brief Summary Of SEO LinkVine

In nutshell, SEO Vine is a blog network which you can choose to become part of by submitting the fee and then receive free content and backlinks.

So there are two things

You can get continuous stream of content submitted by other members of the network.
You can submit your own content for publication on other blogs on the network.

Say that a person M submits their blog into the system. He wants free content for his website.

Another person N signs up to get backlinks to their website(s). He submits articles for publication on the blog network. After his article is approved by the system, the article is distributed to all the websites including M’s website. M can choose to accept or reject that article.

The article with its links is live on M’s website will show up on Person A’s website. M receives content and as a result of that traffic. N would receive traffic from her links and in addition SEO benefits from her backlinks.

Its a win win situation for both.

M & N can exchange roles when M writes the article and N publishes it.

Thus by joining you can work out to get more content , traffic, backlinks and authority in your niche.

The idea is not new. There are others like Free Traffic System (which is what I use) and Article Marketing Automation, Unique Article Wizard and My Article Network

SEO Link Vine supports almost all blog types that have XML-RPC capability.

EOLinkVine comes with a built in spinner so that you can rewrite your articles. Therefore you are able to produce unique content with lesser hardwork.

Web Views

Its a relatively new product albeit not a new idea. The web views that I came across are highly supportive of this product. Even the user comments are quite encouraging.

Guru Crusher says [1]

SEOLinkVine is a great tool to add to your blogging arsenal

Magic Article Rewriter says [2]

If you are looking for a fast and easy way to build lots of backlinks to your site, make sure to give SEOLinkVine a look

Article Submisions Review [3] opines that the structure is similar to My Article Network and Article Marketing Automation, but SEO Link Vine has slightly better interface and article spinning feature that gives an extra edge to it. The users at this site gave overall a very satisfactory feedback.

Affiliate Funnel Secrets [4] has posted a very small review but user discussion is quite revealing and has an overall positive tone.

Online Business Journey reports [5] says

SEOLinkVine is a very good product for building backlinks and getting free traffic from Google. The system automates 80% of the work; what you need to do is just write and submit your articles and the system will build thousands of quality backlinks to your sites automatically.

My Analysis

Its not a unique invention but inspired from similar ideas. $67 per month can be quite a price for many a marketers. One of the limiting factors in these kinds of paid network is high rate of attrition and dropouts. Not much information is available about the current database of blogs and the authority of the sites in the network. A personal concern of mine is short life of the blogs especially ones which are in the early phase. If they vanish they take your articles and links down with you.

The same concern is quality and subject of the content you receive for publication on your blog. The amount of content you would receive for publication on your blog is dependent upon the other bloggers in the relevant niche and the amount of activity they are submitting for publication.

The concept is good and it might be effective too. But I would hesitate to pay $67 per month to get into a system where I have so many limiting factors. After all it is article marketing with a twist. I would rather prefer submitting articles to article directories by using article submission service.

However, if you have budget, you can definitely go ahead and try it out.

Where To Get The Product

Go to SEO Link Vine Website

If you wish to submit a product for getting it reviewed, you may use the contact form and I would get back to you. The products reviewed may contain affiliate links.

References

Facebook Ads Guide By Jonathon Volk – A Meta Review

Arun Pal Singh — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:42:12 +0000

What a straightforward and crisp name. It draws attention moment you hear it.

Well! The number one secret of success in affiliate marketing and internet business is TRAFFIC. When you are a small site, you need to pull the traffic either from search engines or get paid traffic from the sites with the traffic.

It makes sense to invest in Facebook for traffic because of the sheer size. It is almost as big as Google now.

If you have been using Facebook you must be aware of the Facebook ads that appear on right hand side. Those sponsored ads can get you a lot of traffic.

Jonathon Volk has come up with a guide about these ads and the title of the guide is “Facebook Ads Guide”.

Very crispy name.

I have been frequent visitor to Jonathon’s blog in the past and naturally when I saw his product in Clickbank Marketplace, I decided to do a meta review.

Facebook Ads Guide is a step by step guide that covers the key stages in effective Facebook ad campaigns. Let us see how it turns out to be.

Creator

Jonathan Volk

Target Audience

Affiliate Marketers with an intent to buy Facebook Ads

Website

http://www.fbadsguide.com

Price

$79, Website mentions it may be increased to $97

Guarantee

Quite strange! The sales letter does not say anything about guarantee [I am not talking about video part]. The guarantee is visible only when you click Add To Cart button. The number of days are not mentioned in the guarantee but because it is a Clickbank product, I assume it to be about 60 days.

Bonuses

Like guarantee, they are also visible on page that loads after clicking the order button. These are the bonuses that you would get with the purchase

Facebook Affiliate Offers Guide by Ryan Eagle.
Facebook Ads Guide Newsletter
Top Fan Page List / Guide
Keyword Targeting List

A Brief Summary of Facebook Ads Guide

It is a 40 page ebook and the book is divided into six sections[1,2,3]

Find A Company to Promote

This teaches you basics of affiliate marketing, CPA networks, and how to find an offers to promote. Good for those who have just started.

Who Will See Your Ads (Demographic Targeting)

Facebook is good for demographic targeting. In this section, Jonathan goes into what demographic targeting is, the targeting options available on Facebook and how to find the demographics of your chosen offer.

High CTR ads

In this section you will learn the Facebook Ad structure, the best types of images to use, and effective ad headlines.

Bidding Strategy

In this section you will learn the difference between CPC and CPM bidding, how to set your daily budgets, and some cool shortcuts to write effective ads.

Making Your First Campaign

Here you will learn how to setup your Facebook advertising account, creating your ad, and getting it approved.

Maximizing your Campaign

This section is all about how to make profits from your campaigns. Tracking, split testing ads and some other tips.

Web Views

When I looked for reviews around it was nice not to get choked with salesy and promotional reviews. There were but those were very few. Moreover I did not see any negative opinion. All those who read the ebook have found it very useful.

Here is what the web says abut this guide.

Maulana Malik at Sinfonicapr says [1]

It is primarily aimed at affiliate marketers who are just starting to get their feet wet with Facebook ads.

Josh Kot Says [2]

If you want a solid foundation to Facebook ads, then yes, I think the guide is worth buying.

Pauly Math highly recommends it

If you’re an affiliate marketer looking to expand past Google and Yahoo as traffic sources, I recommend checking this eBook out for sure.

Les Trawler at Purrl.net says [4]

…you should therefore consider adding this product to your short-list

Dan at Dans Blog is upbeat about the guide [5]

I think one section where Jonathan really shines and where I learnt the most is properly targeting your demographic and increasing CTR quickly and easily. Combine this with his excellent part on bid strategy and it’s gold.

Internet Business Daily leaves no room for doubt [6]

I suggest if you are new or even decently familiar with Facebook ads that you purchase this ebook

My Analysis

This ebook is about Facebook Ads. So if you are not using nor you intend to use it, you are not a target audience and the book would not benefit you.

If you are or intend to use Facebook Ads, you might want to take a peek. I did not find any other dedicated product on Facebook Ads apart from official Facebook Ads Guide and that is more of technical stuff. There are some posts on few blogs but again they have limitations of space.

The product looks good and seeing the reaction all over the web, I see that users are quite satisfied.

Facebook would really catch in the near future and could become as good as Google Adword or even bigger. Early adaptation is a good move and product would shorten your learning curve.

Where To Get The Product

Go To Facebook Ads Guide Website

If you wish to submit a product for getting it reviewed, you may use the contact form and I would get back to you. The products reviewed may contain affiliate links.

References

Banner Ad Blueprint Meta Review

Arun Pal Singh — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:45:47 +0000

If you think that banners were passe, here is a course that wants to believe you otherwise. Banners Ad Blueprint is a information product by Saj P. and Philip Mansour. This product has rose in Clickbank charts very quickly, has got stunning graphics, video, testimonials and a very impressive sales letter. It promises you to make tons of money with banners.

Let us see!

Creators

Saj P. and Philip Mansour

Website

http://www.banneradblueprint.com

Price

$77, one time payment

Guarantee

8 weeks unconditional money back guarantee.

A Brief Summary of Banner Ad Blueprint

Banner Ad blueprint is a course on banner advertising in a way similar to the courses on PPC marketing, video marketing etc. It consists of following modules. [1]

1. Getting Started with Affiliate Marketing

An overview of the Banner Ad Blueprint System and shows you which affiliate networks to sign.

2. Market Research Part 1

How to carry out effective market research and select the best offers for you to promote.

3. Direct Linking vs. Landing Pages

Differences between Direct linking and landing pages and when to utilize one over other.

4. Banner Masterization

How to create money making banners and high CTR (click through rate) banners Also discusses banner sizes and how to get great banners created if you do not want to create them yourself.

5. Ad Networks

Ad networks that will display your banners.

6. Market Research Part 2

How to conduct a extremely detailed level of research to ensure that your banner ads are displayed to right audience.

7. Setting up Insertion Orders

Specifics of your banner insertion order such as start/end dates, positions and pricing rates of your banner ad campaigns.

8. Tracking Progress using 3rd party Adservers

How to track and monitor your banner ad campaigns like the professional do by using 3rd party ad servers.

The course has 30 videos 0f 10 hours duration, ebooks and mindmaps.

Web Views

As usual promotional, salesy and cut paste reviews [I do not like callinng them reviews, they do not even contribute a single critical input].

That did not leave much choice. Only few reviews were left.

Online Business Journey says[2]

Banner Ad Blueprint is a quality video course that shows you step by step how to create consistent flow of targeted traffic to your sites by using banner ads.

The only other good review is by Rich Quick Review [3] {In fact it was the best I came across} and it sums up the course very well

It is too basic. Far too basic, in fact.

My Analysis

While I agree that there were hardly any courses on media buying or banner advertising before this, I strongly doubt the money making claims. A banner advertising is another form of traffic generation and the course could teach how to do that better and thus resulting in more revenue.

But hyping a product like it is next best thing or an undiscovered phenomenon does irk me.

While going through the module, it seems that the course does cover the banner advertising methods well and could be a source of good lessons for a naive mind.

Thus the target audience becomes newbie and if one wants he can utilize this course. But banner advertising is paid advertising and might not serve many of newbies who are averse to risk of paid advertising.

But if you are an advanced marketer or looking for an answer to quick money then the course is not for you.

I would not recommend the course. I would instead leave the decision entirely up to you. If you are the one who needs lessons in banner advertising you might want to try this resource.

Otherwise spend your money at something better.

Where To Buy

Go To Banner Ad blueprint Website

If you wish to submit a product for getting it reviewed, you may use the contact form and I would get back to you. The products reviewed may contain affiliate links.

References

The review was originally published by Home For Profits, our sister site.

Miracle Traffic Bot Meta Review

Arun Pal Singh — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:41:58 +0000

Miracle Traffic Bot is claimed to be a one click SEO and traffic automation software and has been created by Paul Ponna and his team. Paul Ponna had brought out “Copy-Paste System” a while back, which had been a success.

Research for reviews for Meta Review was quite disappointing for this product. I found that most of the so called reviews were either excerpts from main website or were promotional reviews.

Miracle Traffic Bot is an automation software. We would see if it is capable of doing miracles.

Creators

Paul Ponna et al

Website

http://www.miracletrafficbot.com/

Price

$77, One time payment.

This is said to be an introductory offer and the website says price would be raised to $197 after launch offer ceases.

Guarantee

60 days money back guarantee.

A Brief Summary of Miracle Traffic Bot

Miracle Traffic Bot is a software. Its main objective is automation of your business. It is a desktop based software that you need to download and install on your computer. Miracle traffic bot will submit automatically your content to.

Article Directories
Social Bookmarking sites
Video Sites

I would have liked to include the list of sites that it would actually submit but I did not get any anywhere.

Yes that is all it do and it is a lot of work on autopilot.

You need to create accounts manually once.

Web Views

From the features it appears to be a very useful software. It has got good reviews over the web.

Traffic Maverick says [1]

Miracle Traffic Bot is really a powerful software program suite and what’s far better is that it’s the only application of its kind that sells for a low one-time fee which makes it a should for each on-line marketer to have it in their marketing efforts.

Chris says[2]

It is essentially a 3 in 1 software tool that allows automatic article submission, video submission, and social bookmarking with the push of a button!

Doolder opines[3]

Miracle Traffic Bot is definitely living up to expectations and is a great software for those of you who already have a website and don’t really know how to move it up the ranks in Google for several keywords.

Internet Income Talk says [4]

This tool will cut down your time greatly. Submission to 30 sites normally takes you a few hours. With Miracle Traffic Bot, the time to perform submission to 30 sites is about 15-30 minutes.

My Analysis

Miracle Traffic Bot is an automation software. It can make your job easier but it would not go and fetch people for you. You can accomplish a lot more in lesser time and that means your job becomes faster and easier.

It covers three high traffic areas and within its limits it appears to be a good bargain at $77.

One thing!

While the name appears quite catchy and attention grabbing, we must understand that there is nothing like miracle in fields of traffic generation. It is your work and input that would determine the results depending upon a lot of other factors, competition being the foremost.

You would still need to write articles and make videos.

One last thing! There is also a complimentary access to premium version that would normally cost $47/month valid for one month.

I did not get any info on that anywhere. If you happen to purchase this product please do give your feedback on it and premium version both.

Where To Buy

Miracle Traffic Bot Website

If you wish to submit a product for getting it reviewed, you may use the contact form and I would get back to you. The products reviewed may contain affiliate links.

References

The review was originally published in Home For Profits, our sister site.

Traffic Ultimatum Meta Review

Arun Pal Singh — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:35:25 +0000

There is an increasing trend in the internet marketing product reviews. Whenever a product is about to launch or launched there comes a truckload of websites that uses the same keywords as the name of the product+review to gain higher positions in search engines.

This is a disturbing trend because keywords+little SEO let them gain top position in SERPs and because you naturally tend to believe the search engines, you can be fooled easily.

Added to that, most of them are salesy. They concentrate on getting a sale rather than providing a review.

It is okay to work for gaining positions in search engine. But if you have a top spot, you should provide a top review not the promotional review.

With this note, I begin my review. When I searched for evidence, my search query returned floods of similar looking and similar sounding websites that had one purpose in common.

Promote the product.

Well! There is difference between review and promotion.

It was hell of a task the weeds out those promotional and salesy reviews to get a better evidence.

Traffic Ultimatum is a product by George Brown on subject of getting traffic. It was launched in quite a big way and had been quite successful.

Previous product by George Brown was Google Sniper and had been very very successful.

Authors

George Brown

Website

http://www.trafficultimatum.com

Price

$197, One time payment.

Guarantee

60 days money back guarantee.

A Brief Summary of Traffic Ultimatum

Traffic Ultimatum is a course on traffic generation. Traffic is lifeblood of your website business and every effort at building traffic pays handsomely.

The product contains

13 Course Modules
Free Traffic Methods Manual
Paid Traffic Methods Manual
Search Engine Optimization Manual
21 Video Tutorials containing over 9 hours of training

The course is divided into following modules

Module 1: SEO and AMR

The first module is all about SEO (search engine optimization) and AMR (advanced market research).

Module 2: Syndication Marketing

There are many ways that you can easily get masses of free and dependable traffic without spending hours writing from sources like Carnivals, tutorials, guest blogging and eBook submission etc.

Module 3: Video Marketing

Video marketing has become extremely popular and get a lot of traffic.

Module 4: Social Network Marketing

Which Web 2.0 sites you should use and which you should avoid.

Module 5: Social Media Marketing

How to use social media, including Twitter.

Module 6: Conversation Marketing

Learn how to use forums, comments and trackbacks to great effect.

Module 7: Buzz Marketing

The idea behind this method is creating excitement, or a buzz, about your website.

Module 8: Viral Marketing

DIfferent forms of viral marketing

Module 9: Integration Marketing

Also known as piggyback marketing.

Module 10: PPC & Adwords

Paid traffic from search engines

Module 11: Contextual Advertising

Contextual advertising, or media buying, can drive a huge amount of traffic.

Module 12: PPV (pay per view)

Cheap paid traffic

Module 13: The Super Advanced “Ninja” Stuff

Traffic buying from uncommon sources

Web Views

Web is full of promotional and salesy reviews of this product. It was really hard to choose the best looking reviews for this meta review. However, each of them also has good opinions about the product.

Home Business Secrets says

Overall I believe that Traffic Ultimatum is a solid course. Everyone but the most advanced internet marketers will learn something from this course. There is a certain amount of fluff and some areas are perhaps not covered in enough depth.

Traffic Ultimatum Blog says

Overall Traffic Ultimatum turned out to be a very good course and I would of course highly recommend it.

Expert Affiliate Reviews says

All in all the course is very big and everyone should be satisfied with this complete course. This maybe the biggest course on getting traffic launching this year

TraffficUltimatum.info mentions

Traffic Ultimatum quite simply tells you everything about getting traffic you’ll ever need to know.

Overall the product has received many accolades.

My Analysis

It appears to be quite a comprehensive course that covers almost all aspect of traffic generation. It is steeply priced though. $197 could pinch someone if he is still learing traffic generation.

This could be a deterrent for many. Those who think that they are going to make money with this course should note that this course is about traffic generation and not traffic monetization. You would need a business plan in place to make money.

As usual the target audience is the beginner. Advanced marketers would not be benefited as much from this course, as it seems apparent form contents of the course.

You can go ahead and buy the Traffic Ultimatum if you wish to have a comprehensive source of learning.

If you do not have the budget then do not fret. You could still learn these traffic methods from a number of free resources. It may not be that smooth read though.

Where To Buy

Go To Traffic Ultimatum Website

If you wish to submit a product for getting it reviewed, you may use the contact form and I would get back to you. The products reviewed may contain affiliate links.

References

The review was originally posted in Home For Profits, our sister site.