Found two more tools that I really like. Magic Article Rewriter and Magic Article Submitter. I bought them both. If you have any need to re-write articles to splash around to satellite properties and article directories then this is the tool that can make it happen easily. I tried out Leger’s tool, The Best Spinner. It’s not. Magic Article Rewriter most certainly is. And it is cheaper. And it integrates nicely with Magic Article Submitter which has a database of around 1,200 article directories to submit to. Honestly, I’ve never seen an easier submission tool than this.

So check it: I threw a PLR article into MAR. I bought the token database as well so it became a simple push button exercise to “rewrite” the thing. It instantly became 45% spun. It read perfectly fine. I made a few extra adjustments so it would be at least half to 60% unique. The token system is easy and typical.

Here is the cool as shit thing about the tool. It has an export button to your favorite article services like UAW and AMA. It adjusted the article for the AMA format. I opened up AMA dropped the article in and went through and added additional sentences where possible (For those in AMA you know what I’m doing). That article in, let’s say 10 minutes, became 100% unique to splash across the blog network.

Then I turned my attention to MAS. I created a profile. Probably 75-80% of the directories accepted my registration. And registration and validation and all that crap is super quick. I set up a “real” email on a hosted domain and had it forward to a Gmail account. I continued the profile wizard after waiting about 15 minutes to make sure I would scoop up all the validation emails that would trickle into Gmail.

Once I had registered the majority of the emails, I ran the keyword search to make sure I submitted to the right categories. Yea, it only submits to those directories that have the right category to submit to. Slick. I added the article, summary, resource box and tags into MAS. All fields spinnable. Clicked the big green button. Within 15 minutes or so I had 400 articles in the directories. 200 or so were pretty much instantly approved. All dubious quality of course but backlinks nonetheless. It has a nice submission check feature to see if your article was approved. You can schedule submissions too. It never felt like a burden.

Bought a lot of shit recently. Micro Niche Finder. Market Samurai. Magic Article Rewriter. Magic Article Submitter. Cost me $300. Shit, my dad was self employed and would spend thousands on tools for his shop if he thought it would speed the process up or make things easier on him and the guys. Some worked. Some didn’t. But the bottom line was better processes and more money. I understand that nobody approves of buying tools. That everything should be done manually and for free. That all content must pass the rigors of Google quality. Well, nobody is playing by the rules. They haven’t since the day I started slinging websites. If backlinks are what Daddy G wants then backlinks is what I will give him. I don’t want to sling utter shit though. MAR will rewrite a good article into many versions so I can distribute it without worry across my tiers and into AMA. MAS slings an article into hungry directories. Tie it up with a nice BMD run.

I wish it hasn’t come to this but it’s all about backlinks. Maybe Google figures out another way to rank our webpages tomorrow. Maybe backlinks mean nothing by summertime. But right now the one with the most/best backlinks win. Sorry it’s just the way it is. You may get lucky with some groovy long tail keywords and satisfying SEO but it’s only a matter of time before the competition takes you down if you don’t have copious amounts of backlinks. Maybe domain age will save you for a while. But there are some pretty big forces out there smashing the web with backlinks 24/7. The tools and networks are mind-blowing. The competition fierce. Autoblogging is what directory generators were in ‘04. Auto review sites are eating the web up. And that shit has gotten way more sophisticated.

No, I don’t want to sling shit. The article I drop into MAR is one that would be good enough to post into Ezine Articles or onto a money site. MAR makes very readable copies of it that you control. The article directories are very happy to receive your article. Believe it. They have Adsense and affiliate offers they want folks to click. And if someone scrapes your article from the directory, then that’s good for you, the directory and the dude that wants your content on his site. Lots of wins all around. Isn’t link sharing and content distribution what Google says it wants anyway? Sure you are manufacturing interest in your site with all these copies of your article that you hope Google’s algos interpret as unique content. It’s the game. Think Daddy G is playing fair?

I figure I either have to keep up or cut grass this summer for extra cash. I will keep trying to build sites people give a shit about but so far I haven’t created the next Mashable. But what I am creating is many little sites that are collecting buckets of change. Collect enough change and pretty soon you are talking real money. But all these sites need backlinks and content. I don’t have time to write college dissertations for every webpage. MAR and MAS is my edge.

Does anyone beside me find it odd, that the way to succeed in this business, not only do you have to work hard on a single website, but you have to replicate that effort 10-20 times over? It’s like getting paid to cut someones yard but only if you cut 10 other yards. If you have a “money site” you have to build links to it. In order to do that you have to build 5 Squidoo lenses, 5 Hubpages and a few Blogger blogs. Write articles for directories. Make sure you leave your comment droppings on other blogs. Add your link to one of the 7,124 blog directories. Bookmark your pages. Build mini-networks. Socialize. Tweet. Videos. Podcasts.

It’s utterly insane.

You can’t simply build a website anymore and expect anything to come of it without building massive amounts of backlinks. Actually that is wholly untrue but I don’t know if I can wait 12-18 months to be discovered naturally.

Think about how absurd it is that in order to succeed you have to basically manufacture interest in your own sites. Sorry, I am not going to bookmark your PLR content rubber kayak site. It’s crap. You know it and I know it. But the amazing thing is you will build 100 backlinks to it every day and that dinky little site will rank #1 in Google and provide you with a tidy $3 a day in Adsense. All the while nobody on this planet will backlink naturally to that site. Nobody. You will have Squidoo and Hubpages pointing to it. You’ll have outsourced slave labor building links to it. You’ll have non-native English writers crapping outsource content to splash across the article directories. It’s a sham. Astroturf linking.

I hate that I have to compete on every site with the stupid as shit game of who can build the most backlinks.

I can’t imagine how much time I have spent (wasted) building satellite sites to support my main sites. And the shit doesn’t stop there. Oh no. Build a Squidoo page and you have to get backlinks to that as well. Build up that authority through your network, man. Tier 1 linking to Tier 2 linking to Tier 3. Make sure Tier 3 doesn’t link to Tier 1. Is Blogger part of my Tier 1 or will it be Tier 2? And hey is that a Do-Follow or No-Follow site? You mean they want you to add your links to their service but only they get to benefit from it? Huh. You can’t even have a normal fucking browser anymore because you have to have SEO and traffic toolbars 5 levels deep hanging off the top of the damn thing.

I haven’t cracked the code of owning 3-5 authority blogs that make $10K per month. So I am reduced to this shit. I  slung (slinged? slanged?) over 1000 links with BMD, I built a lens, a Blogger blog. I wrote an article for inclusion in  AMA. This is how I spent a couple of hours after work. Insane.

How many fucking accounts do you have for all your Squidoo lenses, Hubpages, Blogger blogs and various crap? I have to use Google Docs to keep up with all my accounts and websites. It’s ridiculous. You aren’t supposed to build more  than 5 blogs per Blogger account because they may delete the whole account on a whim. Or at least that is what “they” tell us. I’ve had blogs suspended but never accounts. Anyway, the number of  Yahoo and Gmail accounts I have is  stupid. All for diffent profiles on Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogger and bookmarking sites. I’m not even sure who the hell I am online anymore.

It cracks me up, in that cuckoo nest kind of way, that this is our normal. Nobody thinks twice about it. Got a website idea? Great. You’ll also need 5 lenses, 5 hubpages, 10 Blogger blogs, 100 comments, 25 articles spun into 3,000  additional articles, 20 profiles to use on 97 bookmarking sites, $100-200 for sustained outsourcing of links to web directories. You’ll need to figure out how to get your Hubpages and lenses indexed as well. They’ll need juice so they can provide juice. Yea, and let’s not forget what you built last week chump.

What am I doing to combat this misery?

1. Autoblogging with WP Robot for product blogs. I refuse to blog niche sites. There are some good niches that sell well that I have no interest in blogging. Saves time.

2. Information niches are built using XSP for Adsense clicks.

3. I love Squidoo. For making money. Testing. Backlinks.

4. I use BMD for indexing.

5. I use Article Marketing Automation for backlinks.

6. There are a few RSS directories I submit to.

7. Do the best I can to find really good keywords to rally around.

Just trying to keep things as simple as possible. Nothing I do has changed that much except using some different tools to help my time management. Adjustments on how I approach long term viability of sites. Traffic considerations. I still do keyword research, build sites and promote them. The basics. I’m just trying to figure out how to best utilize my time and energy without having to duplicate an effort 10 times over past the initial site. Backlinks are the bitch.

If something turns out to be a hit I’ll make a bigger effort to get more traffic. I’m kind of done building a site then immediately creating a network around it. Maybe after it proves viable after a few months or longer I’ll build a network backlink of sorts. But for now I’ll do some rudimentary work to see what the interest looks like. Of course you risk being a chump; if you could have done more it would have been successful. But then again if you spent precious time and energy building up something that was not to be you still end up a chump. I don’t see how these dudes handle building a network across numerous dedicated servers and shit. It would blow my mind. I get that they are raking in huge sums of dough, but the effort is crazy.

I don’t have any great answers. Just have to shrug it off and deal with it. But it makes me feel better to point out the utter stupidity of this shit.