So I’ve been using this tool for a couple of weeks or so – am I impressed? Depressed? Stressed? Am I a poet and didn’t know it?

(I didn’t.)

The results I’ve seen – she’s a keeper. Honestly, a kick-you-in-the-SERPs keeper. I’ll start with the “bad news” first.

Article Marketing Robot Is No Longer A Monthly Subscription

Tricky, I know – that is really not bad news at all! Rather than $77 up front and $37 a month – which I think was not the best business model (Article Drip Robot, which I have never mentioned here, is a $24.95 a month service and I just don’t get it – I’d only pay a monthly for something like Magic Submitter or access to a private blog network for syndication, like Unique Article Wizard).

The price is back to what you would expect to pay, given the competition – $79 one-time fee! That’s as far as an Article Marketing Robot Discount as I could get.

And I’m happy because, from a business perspective, I just couldn’t see anyone else really enjoying this thing otherwise (not given the competition, which is Magic Article Submitter and other types of desktop submitters).

The spinning feature is still being developed – how do I know? I ask tons of pesky questions to developers to get you the scoop.

How does it fare in terms of article spinning?

Article Marketing Robot is not the stellar spinner (yet) that it is going to be, simply because it will not spin anything unless you have worked with a synonym group previously (version 1.0.4.0). Out of the box, that means there’s a lot more writing and clicking going on than I’d like.

It will not take “15 minutes” as indicated in the videos – more like 45, depending on your percentage of uniqueness at first.

Just like MAR, if you train the software, then yes: you can reach the 15-minute spin mark.

Over time if you persist in using the software, the spinner is one of the better types of spinners (nothing like it that I’ve seen: giving you the choice of definition groups versus just a mass of quasi-synonyms), but requires training. No doubt it will improve in time, there are certain perks that people have asked for and the developer’s working on them (specifically: having a pre-loaded set of synonym groups to “Mass Replace” as the software terms it.)

Article Marketing Robot Discount

Article Marketing Robot Discount is A Free Trial

How was my first experience with AMR?

My first run made me want to get a refund, honestly…It was not impressive the first time I used it, thought I’d get it all fired up and douse these directories with backlinks to my sites…

No dice on the first run!

My first attempt to sign up to directories was 17 out of 50. This was for a client, I wanted to submit to the higher PR directories, figured even 25 would be good. 17 out of 50? That was unacceptable.

I emailed the developer, checked the forum…it was just me. Great.

Then I tried another time to do all the directories, for another client…oh yes. This is where I wanted to call my mother and ask why I was ever born.

That was not a good day for me – imagine telling a high paying client, “Um, yeah – so AMR works…but…I only got it to sign up to 8 directories out of 1300 or so.”

Don’t be confused here – it did have 1304 or so directories when I first bought it, now it’s up to over 1500. So out of 1304 I was able to sign up 8. You can still find my semi-rant at the forum.

I emailed, and got no resolution until the recent update. That seemed to fix it, it’s happy times again – I have signed up to 1154 out of 1500+ directories. That’s a really good ratio.

Sign up was fairly quick – not as quick as MAR but it’s due to the 115 CAPTCHAS that I was too cheap to farm out – I’ve had a bad run with CAPTCHA services for some reason, and don’t use them.

I think all in all it took about 10-12 minutes. That will depend on PC – my laptop is only months old and has a lot of open memory left, and we use DSL cable connections.

The verdict is that it’s great on signup – expect around 60%-70% of the 1500 or so – I’d still call it a winner.

How does it fare in terms of article submission?

As far as Article Marketing Robot’s submit feature goes – my first run was slow.

That’s nothing to brag about, if you have MAR (which only uses one type of directory to be fair, AMR uses about 6 or so templates of directories) – the speed is less than impressive. That was when I contacted the developer again.

Yeah – I’m a horrible customer when things go badly. BUT the developer responded in the forum, told me what setting to change, and it’s cookin’!

If you don’t mind – get some CAPTCHA service going (I forget which service is recommended, like I said, I don’t use them, but that may change).

What I did to a handful of websites was dropped a truckload of articles – submitted successfully to 845 or so – all at once, on about 5 websites of a client. The result was fairly decent, you could say: from the abyss to page 7 in a very competitive niche that was not ranked, and other sites went from page 3 to high on page 1, still others from the abyss (beyond #200) to #100, #72, #32…depending on the term and niche.

These were for a client targeting nothing but the tough cookies, by the way – niches that I don’t play in or bother with, they’re that tough!

Does it work?

Like my parents did in retirement! Oh, yes it works! I will conduct experiments of my own on my own site in the near future, but to tell you the truth, this thing is now a staple in my marketing efforts, it is that effective.

You don’t have to submit spun articles.

This is important for you to know – the idea of article bombs the way I do things is to get links and lots of them. BUT the other utility of articles, of course, is actual traffic. The best way to do that is to submit a quality article – and if you can spin quality articles, then spot on, all the better.

AMR has not successfully submitted to GoArticles or EzineArticles for me yet. But it does submit to ArticlesBase, Article Dashboard and a host of others just great.

If you want to hit the higher PR directories with your best shot, then you might want to A) Submit unspun versions, or B) Learn to spin so that every version is worthy of reading.

Either way, it’s good that AMR allows you to make a copy of your articles so that you can submit an unspun version to multiple places. Just depends on how you roll.

Submission Success Rates

So, out of the 1154 directories that were successfully signed up to, I was able to submit to 825-855 on various runs. What I have not done is checked every one of those links to see if they’re all live.

I did check a few, the higher PR submissions seemed fine. Some of the WordPress directories were published, others were pending. The software listed these “pending” articles as “published,” so just take that under advisement – not 100% of them will be published per se.

There is a Live Links capture feature – so you can index your own articles and make the links count – to tell you the truth, I haven’t used that yet.

What’s the bottom line?

So far, the verdict is: get your hot little hands on this thing, it’s a beast! From “nowhere” to #3, #6 and #7 on some very tough niches? Yeah. It all depends on the keyword targeted (in my experiment, I didn’t spin URLs or keywords, and the sites were a mix of new to older), it depends on your on-page SEO (ahem – did I tell you about SEO PowerSuite yet?)…

And no, I don’t recommend you do the article bomb like I did – I don’t want to hear that you can’t find your website because you spiked your website with a thousand links and then stopped all of a sudden…if nobody else in your industry has that kind of link profile – you’re asking for it.

Don’t risk it, is my advice, I was following orders and the experiment went well – and since they weren’t my websites, I can’t tell you their age, etc. But I can tell you their ranking shot way up!

As to # of backlinks – I have no idea. I don’t count backlinks on my sites, I only check ranking. That’s not to be dodgy – but I could care less about how many links I get. I want to know my position in the SERPs, that’s it.

Overall:

Article Marketing Robot will put and keep me on top. High PR directories and low or no PR directories, all different C-Class IP’s – spun keywords, spun URLs – no monthly fee (YES!) -

Yeah. She’s a keeper. Let me put it this way:

If Bruce Wayne had an article submitter – it would be Article Marketing Robot.

(Um – he’s Batman.)

March 2011 Updates

3.09.11 update – that is, “March 9, 2011″ in case you’re wondering – Article Marketing Robot has undergone a number of improvements I wanted to touch on here. First off, there are two more tools included. (These weren’t done in March, I’m just now getting to this update.)

The first being the Spin Texter – allowing you to easily spin anchor text by listing your anchor text line-by-line, then hitting a “Do It” button – and your list of keywords becomes {properly|correctly|neatly|precisely} listed in spintax, like that. This is a great time saver – believe me.

The other tool is for building your URLs into a spun format, and works much the same way. This is perfect for linking to a number of properties in a link wheel of sorts – say you had a number of web 2.0 sites to link to plus your main website.

Rather than worry about a number of submissions, you can hit them all in one submission if you’d like (I’ve been doing that for a while – it works like nobody’s business). Works easily, and perfectly formats your URLs.

Massive Update To Number of Article Directories

My copy has over 5,000 article directories – I don’t know about you, but that’s major – and the results I get are equally major. Yes, even *after Google Panda/Google Farmer update* – if you don’t know what that is, it’s a recent update to Google that hit on content farms like EzineArticles, Hubpages and the like.

Not all were hit, but it’s had a number of people wondering what to do – really, nothing new for me. Other than: not building these web 2.0 sites so much as I am my own sites these days.

Linking works. This is my preferred tool to do it, and is the first thing I do to rank my sites – after submitting the originals, of course. :)

Get Article Marketing Robot – it works, and saves a ton of money on monthly subscriptions.