I have been following SEOLinkVine a product that was launched on April 27, 2010 by Brad Callen  for quite some time. There was a prelaunch phase of several weeks during which time the concept and the functionalities were tested. During that period I had ample time to get an opionion about this product.

If you want to have a look at the SeoLinkVine product page right away, click here.

What does SEOLinkVine do?

SEOLinkVine is the turning wheel in a clever system where

  • there are people writing articles
  • there is a network of websites – primarily blogs – that are interested in feeding their blogs with content

So SEOLinkVine takes the articles, spins them (rewrites them so that there is a certain uniqueness about the articles (so that Google accepts the content as unique), and distributes them to the blogs. Of course, the content is tagged and the articles are distributed to matching content sites and blogs.

The business model works such that the blogs receive their content for free and the article writers become a member that will allow them to write as many articles and submit them as they wish. Membership currently costs $47 per month.

After an initial set-up which takes about 20 minutes the WordPress blog (and perhaps others) can be set to automatically receive the articles. For that purpose the admin of the blog needs to create a user whose credentials are passed on to SEOLinkVine. As a consequence SEOLinkVine can autopost to your blog (if that is desired).

Purpose

By distributing spun aricles into  a network of several thousand websites and blogs internationally,  Google friendly backlinks start to build very quickly. Since Google takes backlinks as an important factor when ranking pages, these articles help to draw traffic to the promoted website and increase its rank, which in turn will generate more traffic and eventually money.

SEOLinkVine really stands on both sides of the spectrum and offers a complete concept from writing articles to distribution.

Functionality for the writer of articles

This is pretty well thought out. The writer submits an article and the software has an automated spinner included that does a pretty decent job at keeping the text not only unique but actually quite legible for humans. I found this to be one of the most important factors when deciding on giving SEOLinkVine the “Worth It!” Label. The articles get tagged, i.e. categorized, which in turn is used to allocate the articles to relevant websites.

I have not found out yet, how well articles get distributed in which niches (categories), but imagine that there is potential for further growth in the future.

To publish an article you copy and paste your text into a WordPress like editor box, where you can style and format it to your liking. Interesting is the fact that you can incorporate rich media files like videos right into your article. That is a feature I have not seen anywhere else.

After finishing your text you define categories  that your article belongs to. These categories serve to select the relevant blogs. You can also define the number of blogs your article should be submitted to each day and the maximum number of publications.

Artcle Spinning works quite neatly. Words that can be spun are selected by the software. You check boxes in front of the matching synonyms that are offered to you. Select a block of text and exchange that block, and spin words inside the block, as well for even more combinations.

It is rather refreshing that the software actually works and does not constantly interrupt your work with buggy errors.

Functionality for the website owner

As described above you need to authorize SEOLinkvine to write into your blog. Of course you can decide to publish the posts after reviewing them first. During my test period I found that the quality of the articles was not always equally good. Some articles read more like sales’ pitches and needed to be erased. If you want to look at the type of articles that I have been receiving on this Cash-In.US blog check out the entries by the user SEOLinkvine. You will find them to be quite informative and they read reasonably well. Of course, the worst ones you will not find :) as I have delted them.

Pricing

There is a introduction price right now (End of April 2010) of $47. This amout is due every month as you use the service on a continuing basis. I have listened around a bit and understand that most “gurus” find this price incredibly good value. For my self, I have yet to be convinced that the additional links will beam me to the front page for some of those more difficult to get key words. I will keep you posted as I progress to the front page…

Recommendation

Yup, SEOLinkvine gets our “Worth-It!” qualit label. We recommend it for its functionality and ease of use.

Click here to look at the product page of SEOLinkVine.

I stumbled over this little black pearl called TheTweetTank.com just a few minutes ago, watched the 3 videos and felt my heart pump vigorously, because I thought this might finally be the product that automates Twitter, in one piece of software made in a way that I can understand without spending a week-end reading the manuals …

For those that don’t have the patience to read the review: This is the product page of The TweetTank

The Promise

  • Add up to 20’000 Twitter followers in under 30 days!
  • 99% fully automated
  • 1 1/2 hours to completely set up
  • 2 minutes of work per day
  • 60 day money back guarantee
  • With our secret code we do not use API so you’re not limited by twitter limitations

The Price

Currently 59.99 supposed to go up to $77.-

The Performance

Ordering / Delivery: Easy ordering as always with a Clickbank Product. But delivery confused me for a moment, as there was no download-link on the confirmation page after paying… There was a download link to the bonus package (some 89 MB that downloaded very slowly), but none for the product itself. The e-mail reached me some 5 minutes later and cleared everything up as it contained the download link and the serial number. Again the download of the software was on the slow side.

Installation: Files come as 64- and 32 bit versions. Easy and done in 2 minutes and allows you to set up theTweetTank to start when you start Windows.

Setup of the TweetTank Software

Creation of an account: you can use the built in functionality to create an account at Twitter. My first attempt failed as that functionality crashed inside of TweetTank, although the account had been created. I found that it was easier to create the account on Twitter and then very simply import them into TweetTank.

Setup of the Account

You basically work your way through 4 categories (Follow, Unfollow, Messages, Settings) and through sub-tabs where you define each aspect of your Twitter account.

Follow

Twitter Search lets you define one search pattern (keywords, how many results, interval, location, etc.). TweetTank will then automatically follow one user every x minutes up to the indicated number of users. The general function works well.  But the keywords seem to be linked by “and” instead of “or” which led to not finding any users when I indicated too many keywords.

Another sub-tab lets you search “User-Based” (to add a specific user’s followers or followings). “Auto Follow” follows people back that follow you and sends them a direct message.

The range of functions seems to be quite complete and lets you define all aspects of your following. I let the function run over a short night. When I returned the other morning, I was following some 200 people and had about 100 of them already following me back! It would be nice if I could define more than one search pattern and save them.

Unfollow

Unfollow has a manual tab where I can unfollow specific users individually and I can define a task (how many users to unfollow with what interval) that will get started when I click “Unfollow”.

The “Auto-Unfollow” is supposed to unfollow people that did not follow me back after a certain number of days. But all I can do here is set the delay in days which in turn sets the date of the next auto unfollow time. So if I were to set this at 30 days, it would only be triggered in 30 days from now. I would prefer to see a function I can trigger now and that then instantly unfollows all users that have not folowed me back for the last x days.

Messages

This category lets you tweet, auto-tweet, auto-reply, tweet RSS contents and send direct messages to users that mentioned your name.So here you can take care of pre-filling your tweets and defining in what intervals they should be sent to your followership. “Auto-Reply” comes in handy when you wish to not only follow a person back when they follow you but also send him a direct message. “Super Tweet” lets you select Followers by keyword and send them direct messages. A very cool function that will get quite a bit of impact with your followers.

Again, this is a very complete set of functions and TweetTank offers all I will ever need to do my auto-tweeting. But the scheduled tasks seem to be unreliable (as per print dat of April 2010). Somehow the auto-tweeting did not work when I left it in charge over night. A brief stopping and restarting the task put the auto-tweeting back on.

There seems to be a general problem with timing and scheduling in TweetTank. For instance, RSS Tweets set to fire ever 30 minutes and predefined auto-tweets set to be sent every 10 to 30 minutes generated 3 times as many RSS tweets as auto-tweets (while the ratio should have been reverse)

Settings

This is where I found TweetTank to be inconsistent. Settings lets you “start the program with Windows” and “automatically follow users on start-up”. You define the keywords that are used to find new followers. But why should I have to do that when I have already defined my daily autofollow task in the “Follow” category?

And why is there a  “auto unfollow users on start-up” when I have set the auto-unfollow to trigger after 3 days of not following be back? This setting would unfollow people before the 3 days have passed.

Under settings I can also back up and restore “all” my settings. I found however, that I lost many of my definitions under “Follow” and “Unfollow” and had to enter them again.

Other Issues

There is also a problem when switching from one user account to another. Here, too, not all settings and definitions are maintained. So it becomes a real pain to constantly redefine these settings.

The program is laid out so that you can start more than one instance of TweetTank. That should allow you to run tasks for different accounts at the same time. Here, too the relevant account information seemed to be mixed up with other accounts.

Also, when you log into an account, the tasks that you had defined don’t seem to be automatically triggered and started. So, again, switching from one account to the other interrupts the work of the bot and requires your manual interaction. With this, the level of manual attention increases far beyond the 1% that are advertised.

I found that Tweets are recognized as coming through a client and are marked as API in Twitter. This seems not to work as advertised.

For TweetTank to be perfect, I would like to see the management and running of all the tasks from all the accounts in one instance of the software. I would like the tasks to be scheduled and started with Windows and I woul like to have an overview of what tasks are scheduled and executing in which account.

I posted my concerns to support and will keep you posted on their reactions.

Update as of April 17, 2010

Regarding Support

I received an e-mail back from Support, basically telling me that the software had been tested for several months and with several hundred people and that it worked. My problem was probably to do with permissions…

Well, as there are probably a hundred programs on my machine that do not have permission problems, I dared to write back offering support to look at the machine and the situation 1 on 1.  So far, I have not heard back…

Conclusion

The product is good now, with the range of functionality it offers. It could be great, if account switching and scheduling worked together better. At the current level, we cannot yet award TweetTank our “Worth It” label, but sincerely hope that improvements will be made, because we feel that this product has a lot of potential to work very well and make you lots of money.

If you want to get a copy now, you can do so here: Get TweetTank

Our software works with windows operating systems Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Designed to run as if you were at twitter itself. With our secret code we do not use API so your not limited by twitter limitations

CieAura is an fascinating MLM business to review and one which I’ve loved putting together. This is unbiased and I hope informative, so let me know if it’s the kind of overview you need to see of the CieAura MLM business by leaving a comment and your ideas at the end. Right here goes;

At the helm of CieAura you will discover Ken Rasner, an Web Marketer with a solid rep in the industry and an extended track record. With a captain of the industry within the pilot seat , you already know that despite the fact that CieAura is one of the newer ships on the MLM seas there’s not much probability of its hull getting rammed.

CieAura takes a stand in a distinct segment where customers want outcomes in a matter of minutes. They focus their efforts in the areas of pain , insomnia and fatigue relief. The delivery system they use is in the type of a patch; subsequently, you don’t have the stigmata of a pill pusher attached to the product. Combine that with prompt aid and you have a product which should take a great chunk of the market.

Between Ken Rasner and Randy Mitchell, another effectively skilled marketer who has been round the block, you’d expect to see a solid compensation plan and so they ship nicely. Initial start -up value is low at $39 however in fact you want some product to push so you’ll have to invest in considered one of their inventory packs as well. There are three versions to choose from. What it boils all the way down to is the extra you spend, the extra fee proportion you’ll receive.

The sliding scale commission gives you anywhere between $15-$ 100 for your personally offered merchandise and $5-20 for any of your upline sales. Upon your admission as a CieAura Affiliate , you might be additionally entered into the World Bonus Pool. You start off with a three % fee from the whole sale count within the company and once you hit $5,000 the proportion will get bumped. Another efficiency is given on your workforce sales. This spreads across 7 ranges and are anywhere from 10 to 30% in line with the rank of you and your group members. For those who ‘re in a position to make it closer to the highest of the meals chain, you are granted expense accounts for autos and insurance as another bonus.

If you want to know more about MLM take a look at this <a href=”http://hubpages.com/hub/Agel-Scam-Eric-Worre-Randy-Gage-Business-Review”>Agel Review</a>

The mix of a effectively rounded MLM structure , good bonus system and a product in a niche that claims a $200 billion market which hasn’t been completely saturated makes CieAura a worthwhile endeavor for anyone willing to give it a shot.

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To say it right away: Chris is one of the good guys in this business.

My recommendation: Sign up for Chris Farrell Membership at the bargain price of $4.95.

The following lines are a Chris Farrell Membership Review that should enable you to decide whether you want to invest the $4.95.

Who is Chris Farrell

He is an English guy, around 40 years old, lives in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, USA and has started his online marketing carreer in 2008 with litterally no previous technical or online marketing knowledge. Already after 6 months’ hard work he started to make a regular income that has developed into a hefty 6 figure income since.

His approach is English modest, as in sympathetic and he comes across as a likable, giving, positive individual who truly believes in win-win and value first.

What does Chris Farrell Membership have to offer and who is it for?

Chris addresses foremost the beginning aspiring online marketer who has no or little prior knowledge about Internet Marketing or Internet technical skills. He takes the absolute beginners by the hand and guides them truly step by step through subjects like creating a first website, hosting a domain, building  a list and using an auto-responder.

But having mastered these essential skills, he continues just as diligently and builds an actual web business, researches keywords, picks a niche, builds squeeze pages and a website around it and generates traffic - all again step by step.

The tutoring is done with a multitude of videos showing exactly how everything is done and fits together. His way is gentle and friendly and he never pushes a product onto you.

The Chris Farrell Membership purchases the right to access all his material, his videos and his tutorials. On top of it he provides free unlimited domains hosting (which would cost approx. $10 at Host Gator). Don’t be fooled by this offer, however, if you take hosting from Chris, you will be much less likely to cancel his membership ($27 per month).

There is access to quite a busy forum with lots of friendly people helping each-other and Chris adds more materials and videos covering all kinds of aspects and methods every week.

Pricing

You get access to all his material for a mere $4.95. That covers the first 14 days. Afterwards Chris Farrell Membership currently costs $27 per month.

My Recommendation

The initial $4.95 for access to Chris Farrell’s entire material is a bargain. Of course he hopes that you will stay a member after the first to weeks but that is entirely up to you. Chris even provides a video on how to cancel the membership! (which is an easy no questions asked process). This is an absolut “Get it”.

How to Get It

  1. Click here to get the free 125 pages “Create Your First Website by 3:45 This Afternoon” e-book
  2. Then Click here to Sign up for Chris Farrell Membership at the bargain price of $4.95

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I looked at Traffic Bailout only briefly to write a review, because it only took me a few moments to realize that Traffic Bailout is just another face for Traffic Python which I had reviewed and reported on extensively. Click here for the review on Traffic Python.

Traffic Bailout clearly stems from the same programming kitchen as Traffic Python:

  • same general system and concept.
    Generate traffic in two ways:

    • by promoting your links through Traffic Bailout. You essentially replace your links and channel them through Traffic Bailout. In the admin interface you define the target URL and receive a specific link at trafficbailout.com from where your target URL is called and served together with the ad at the bottom.
    • by promoting your own affiliate link which will give you sign ups and potentially viral exposure through your downline.
  • same timed pop up ads at the bottom of the screen
  • same admin interface
  • etc.

Rinse and wash and then publish with a new name for all of us who are simple enough to not notice?

Or did they realize that they had screwed up the first brand and are just trying again?

Honestly, I did not have the time or energy to investigate any further. When a “new” product comes out that is very much the same as an old one but I am not told openly what the deal is… I tend to think that one is not honest with me…

Dear reader feel free to comment and shed some light on this “new” Traffic Bailout” version.

General Concept

Traffic Python sells itself as a viral traffic generator. Like Google it tries to create both advertisers and publishers, whereby the user will likely be both.

As publisher you create links that get channelled through Traffic Python. Such links will display ads in a rather neat way at the bottom of a page. When a visitor clicks that ad, he will get sent to the website the advertiser has indicated. That website opens up in a new browser window. For each click you the provider of the link will get 10 credits that translate to a one time display of your ad. Note: you exchange displays for clicks while you get the short end of the stick.

On the advertiser side, you define your own ad that will be presented in that same animated bottom display of someone else’s link. In the free version you only get to type in text. The clearly more attractive graphical version where you can upload pictures (like banners) is only available if you upgrade.

The viral aspect:
You also function as an affiliate to Traffi Python and receive commissions on the sign ups of other users. Depending on the level of your sign up you will get 2 to 5 levels of downline users to help you generate traffic credits that in turn will translate into “free” traffic for you. The idea is to create a large downline that will then create lots of traffic for yourself plus a residual income on the downline member fees. The percentage of your commission varies with the level of your sign-up (so far I have seen between 25 – 50% commission).

Traffic:
Is targeted to the extent that the advertiser can indicate the categories under which his ads should be displayed.
The publisher, too, indicates which categories his link represents. So in theory advertisers should get only targeted ads displayed. Right?
Wrong! Here there is a flaw in the system: Since it is up to the publisher to indicate his categories there is really no control of what gets displayed where. An unethical publisher could indicate all categories to get the largests possible numbers of ads to display. (After all, the publisher does not know what happens if there is no ad to display.) Of course, he will only get credited if the ads get clicked, and that should encourage him to not waste his adspace with ads that will likely not be clicked, but there is really no control over this.

Purchase Traffic:
You can increase your stack of credits by purchasing one time credit boosts or recurring monthly credits at prices that range from $ 50.- per 1000 ad views to $3.35 per 1000 ad views. Note that these prices are for ad views and not click throughs.

Traffic Python claims that the click through rates for their non optimized simple text ads range from 15 to 19%. In other words the cost per click would be between $0.33 and $0.018. Not included in this calculation are the monthly fees for the various member levels.

Member Levels:
Gold membership is free and gives you text ads and no stats.
Platinum membership costs $15.- monthly and adds one mlm level and free ad displays (500 per month)
Diamond membership costs $35.- monthly and adds one more mlm level and 1000 free ad displays per month.
more levels?

Promotional material:
This is the chapter Traffic Python excels in. The material ranges from a promovideo, a fancy peel away ad, prewritten blog entries (reviews, which are definitely different from mine…) to give aways, graphics, you name it, it is here. The material is so well done that it is almost worth taking a look at what can be done to promote really anything.

Bonuses:
A link leads you to unannounced bonuses. The page opens in a rather unprofessional page that has nothing to do with Traffic Python. The page lists several products, one of which promises “featured downloads”. Unfortunately, you need to log in and again, your login credentials don’t work. The statement “If you experience login trouble, check your inbox for an email with your password.” does not help, because I have never received such a mail.

Process of Getting Started

The starting process is simple. Sign up, confirm and you get to play with the ads a bit. When you notice that you cannot color your text the background or upload pictures, you are disappointed for the first time. You don’t think that the ads you can create are going to be attractive enough to compete against the very attractive and animated Traffic Python ad that gets shown alongside with your ad. You understand that the Traffic Python ad will help you create your downline so you don’t mind cohosting that Traffic Python ad too much.

But you are sure that you need to upgrade to increase the quality of your own ad. The upgrade will cost $15.- per month, but you get a full money back guarantee for 30 days, so the risk is limited.

Upgrading is – again – a breeze with a PayPal payment. Before you know it, you own 5000 credits that should translate into 500 adviews.

So you start to play around with your own ads, create a graphic and upload it to your ad section. Again, that is easy. The correct measures for the graphical banner that will fill the entire ad space are 650 x 100 pixels. That indication was missing but with a little trying I found out.

The preview function works perfectly, you now see your ad in a preview at the bottom of the screen and it looks good.

Next step is the approval by Traffic Python. Each ad needs to get manually approved. As I am working from a different time zone, I waited for several hours for that ad to be approved, the second ad that I had placed, is still pending another few hours later. Hmmm.

The first ad that now has been approved for roughly 5 hours indicates that it had been displayed 5 times. Google Analytics reports at the same time 4 referrals from trafficpython. I think that for 3 out of those 4 I was responsible myself since I had clicked my own ad in the preview mode (probably costing me ad view credits). So clearly, something is going wrong with the rate ads get displayed. I have credits for 500 displays on my account but they don’t move. So what is wrong.

Contact / Support

Traffic Python can be reached by a ticket system that is run by think BIG Publications, LLC, which is probably the mother of Traffic Python. Unfortunately, you are not recognized as a user of Traffic Python when you try to log in under your user credentials, instead you have to register again and then place your ticket.

2 hours later (now) that ticket has not been attended to yet. So I am waiting to hear how the display speed of my ads could be increased. Is it possible that there is not enough traffic to go around?

Jump in time: It is now 1 day later. An e-mail response to my query indicates that I need to create more ads. More ads will generate more hits.

Now, that is really silly, because I like my ad, in fact I had someone create the graphics for it, I don’t want to have to add more ads. So I send back a mail to support asking how to get more ad displays and what would I need to to do if I wanted to purchase more credits (like 200’000 credits for 20’000 ad displays).

Unfortunately no respons within the following 2 days, so I write another ticket. 1 day later, I get the stereotype answer, I need to create more ads.

This is usually the point in a relationship when I throw the towel and decide that some companies are just not worth my time or patience. For the sake of this review, I responded one more time back to support to ask how many ads I would be required to create in order to have those 200’000 credits used up in one day.

1 day later: the answer from support is unchanged. I quote “There is no specific time frame on how quick you can run through 200,000 ad credits, it depends on the number of ads you have and as I stated the more ads, the more views, the more traffic, the more results.”

Well, that’s it, there is no speeding up the ad views other than by writing a zillion ads.

Needless to say that the peeling banner for Traffic Python has come off this website…

For those of you who still want to try it: This is the link:

Click here to get Traffic Python

Final Judgement

The idea is good. The ads seem to perform well enough. Pricing is reasonable.

But the delivey of adviews is far too slow. If you are willing to write a large number of ads (free) you will be able to speed up the rate by which your ads get displayed, but there is no control of how many credits you will use up in a day or month.

For my purposes, Traffic Python is not a valid option.

Ewen Chia Promotes His Multi Million Dollar System

The claims are:

  • can pile up automatic income by promoting other people’s products
  • you can make money online as easily as you make coffee in the morning
  • set things up once and get paid over and over again
  • It’s all about passive income.
  • The Simplest, Easiest, Fastest Proven Way To Automatic Income Every Single Month
  • My “secret weapon” is a simple system that I’ve painstakingly crafted to be hyper-effective.
  • Go through the step-by-step multimedia Secret Affiliate Weapon 2.0 course and begin applying the top secret techniques I reveal to you.
  • Watch the money quickly begin STREAMING into your accounts! Yes, many of these methods can be implemented FAST (as in hours, not days or months).

The Concept of Secret Affiliate Weapon 2

Chia sells his package called “Secret Affiliate Weapon 2.0 Passive Income Secrets”, a combination of e-books and videos presented on a website. This package consists of 4 modules with the subjects:

  • Choosing your business (“how to choose the business that fits you”)
    The content is about how you find a business that fits you. It warns about the things not to do and the traps to avoid.
  • Profits without products talks about “how to make money while other people sweat”. It explains how to build up an affilate business that really works. Chia has a reputation as the worlds number 1 super affiliate. As he explains how he does it in this module, this could be the most important part of the entire package. He talks about how he changes the way he promotes ClickBank products and how he mulyplies the affiliate income by several thousand percent over the traditional method. One of the big issues in this module is the build up of a mailing list the value of which cannot be overestimated. Chia also walks through what he is doing on his own website, so the reader can copy him and duplicate his success.Obviously, if you have been in the scene for home based income streams, many of the concepts will not be entirely new to you. What makes the difference is the practical approach, that seems to make sense to me.
  • The power of a network explains “How To Profit When Other People Sell For You”. The aspect of network marketing and the power of multi levels are the subject of this module. Chia has developed his system and the many tweeks over years, in this module he gives step by step instructions on how to duplicate his results.
  • Now if Chia had not come up with module 4 as part of this package, I would have had trouble recommending the package: This module is about traffic. He realizes that most websites never get enough traffic and he demonstrates how to get as he calls it “avalanches of traffic”. His approach is practical and step by step. Things you thought you knew get thrown back at you with another twist that changes everything.

The package further contains:

  • - a series of how to videos, that – again – are practical and illustrate what you have to do.
  • - the “Secret Affiliate Weapon 1.0″. This Chia’s step-by-step system, his masterplan on how to become a super affiliate in any niche.

Chia’s modules are well written and motivate you to go through the process of planing your online business as if it was an offline business. He explains how important it is to not just build a perfect website but to actually get it out into the open and to attract an ever growing flow of targeted visitors that are willing to purchase and make your business grow, in a steady way with a view for the long term.

In my opinion, the information and the practical knowledge that can be copied step-by-step, make this package one of the tools an affiliate marketer will need. If you want to make money in this industry, you will need good and solid documentation and down to earth tools. Chia makes a difference. Click here to see his sales pitch and order.

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