Article Samurai Review – article marketing on steroids

I was lucky enough to beta test Article Samurai this month, the latest product from the Market Samurai boys and with the product launched today thought I’d give my initial feedback.

The product is designed so that internet marketers can easily spin articles automatically and distribute them to a wide number of article directories and blog networks, cutting down on the amount of time it takes to do.

First of all, if you’re familiar with Market Samurai then Article Samurai will be immediately familiar to you. However, I did find it a bit tricky to work out how to use at first, especially when it was spinning phrases I wanted it to leave alone. That said, I did work it out and no doubt it’s covered in their video instructions anyway – I didn’t look at those. Auto content spinning is provided by Content Boss (up to 50 articles/month) but I’d like to see an easy way to import pre-spun content from software such as The Best Spinner – maybe that’s still to come.

After submitting an article it goes through a manual review stage to ensure that the quality of articles being send to the network is high. While this delays the article in being published, it will help preserve the integrity of the networks over time and is a smart move – it will keep the spammers out.

I’ve also used Article Marketing Automation for about a year and while the articles get a reasonable amount of syndication, they don’t tend to rank in the top 100 and so don’t provide much in the way of linkjuice. Likewise with a similar service, Article Ranks, which is good if you have few articles to syndicate as they have a “pay as you go” option of a few dollars per article.

However, I was surprised to see articles syndicated through Article Samurai were appearing in Google. Not on the first couple of pages, sure, but they were ranking. In fact, I first thought that a competitor in one of my niches was waging an article war before realising the articles were mine! During this period the target website climbed from #4 to #2, although I’m also ranking at #1 and #5 with other websites.

So, based on that it appears that Article Samurai is going to be much more effective than similar services, and if you get some links to your articles they may even be able to rank on the first page. Obviously that depends on the niche and strength of competition, but is a nice bonus.

When I heard the retail price of $197/month I was a little surprised. However, I do believe it will be massively effective and if you are Going Pro then you should definitely be looking at Article Samurai – I have signed up for the full service (at $97/month for Beta testers).

At that price it isn’t aimed at newbie internet marketers, so if you’re just starting out you need to learn the ropes first. However, it does give you access to some major networks according to the company behind it, although they can’t divulge which networks those are to help keep them below the radar. I’ll be using it over the next three months and will report back what it can do.

Click here for the Article Samurai website

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This post was written by David