Have you achieved your desired results? Do you recommend using AMA for an active, regularly updated blog, but one that is only 15 days old?

Please respond as this will help me go ahead and buy it.

Thanks

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Backlinks don’t directly necessarily give you traffic – but the link will make the search engines consider your site more important and eventually you will climb the rankings for the keywords that you have anchored on. Traffic is the be all and end all – you want targetted, buying traffic and that comes from people who are searching in google – not someone checking your your site from another blog.

I use a tool for automatic bookmarking too – but bookmarking sites are generally considered to be a “low grade” link – partly because they are poorly focused and also because of the number of people using software to spam them LOL

No tool can guarantee that a backlink will be beneficial NOW – anyone who tells you that they know when google will count a backlink is a liar – unless they happen to be a google engineer – and they are then about to loose their job! This is a game for the long-haul.

I have just checked some of the key sites which I have been promoting with AMA – and most seem to be up and staying their for longer and longer periods. To date most of the AMA blogs are not showing up as backlinks in google – but they are showing in Yahoo – so they will come – sometime. These days the minimum time to expect a backlink to be picked up by google seems to be 6 months – unless its a very competitve term and then it will be longer.

Does this help clarify?

One thing that has given me paused is when you wrote “Its not about traffic its all about backlinks.” up above in the second comment.

I got to say this has me confused…. like emphatically writing 2 + 2 = 5 and not 4.

If the ultimate purpose of your online marketing is to make a profitable venture then you “NEED TRAFFIC”. Backlinks are one of numerous means towards the end of obtaining traffic that can be monetized. Backlinks can obtain traffic by direct click throughs or or higher SERPS. Do you agree?

In my opinion, the only ultimate true measure of any article distribution software is to continually generate traffic either by increased SERPs through increased backlinks.

He wrote:

“”"I think most of the sites that articles are being published are very new, most people didn’t commit their existing sites to this new service. Now those sites are at most maybe 2 months old a lot of them will start to be getting sandboxed. I expect they will pop out sometime; so all I can see is an upside as my backlinks start to be counted by Google.”"”

I know from real life experience that getting backlinks from the WRONG source is almost worst than no link building at all.

Case in point. I use a WordPress plugin that automatically bookmarks to bookmarking sites like delicious.com. I used the that plugin for over 1/2 a year and created 100 hundreds of bookmarked backlinks. however all those links are worthless since they are either nofollow or private bookmarks that are not spiderable.

This brings me to my concern about AMA. For the price, my expectations are that my content is distributed to blogs that will give me beneficial backlinks “NOW”. If your theory about the newness of the AMA blogs is correct then they may or may ever come out of the sand box and provide some link juice.

It has been almost 4 months since you wrote this post. Has AMA increase your backlinks for you money sites? Do you receive direct traffic from the AMA submitted blogs?

Lol – I submit to Ezine articles in theory as well… and Go articles, and hubpages….

To me an anchored link in the context of a post – rather than in the bio at the bottom has got to be worth more. And being posted on a niche blog rather than a broad directory has also got to be worth something.

I still submit to ezinearticles by hand (in theory when I get around to it!)

Although $47 isn’t cheap you are only committed for the month (in fact I think its a 30 day money back anyway) – so you could theoretically – hit it really, really hard in the start of first month and then cancel before the renewal – there is not limit to how many articles you can submit: and those that are submitted and accepted on the network aren’t deleted if you stop paying: you just can’t keep on submitting them to new blogs

How does AMA compare to other article marketers you’ve used?