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As well as being a partner in the Article Content King article site, I also use it in the same way as any other member might. I write articles and I also moderate and comment on other peoples’ articles.

I do this so that I can get a better understanding of what our members want from an article site, discover parts of the site where things need improving, and generally test the fetaures that we provide.

One of the great benefits of using the site as a member is that I earn Ad Space Credits. Each time somebody views one of my articles, I earn credits. Each time somebody views articles from people in my downline, I earn credits. And each time I moderate somebody elses’ articles, I earn credits.

Once I had reached the threshold of 1000 credits, which didn’t really take very long, I was able to enter code to display my own Google AdSense ads in 4 different positions on Article Content King pages.
As it was my own AdSense code, it meant that I would earn the money from clicks on those ads. How many other article sites give you the opportunity to earn money from advertising? Personally, I can’t think of any.

Article Content King is a busy site. It receives more visitors each day than most of my own personal sites receive in a month. Think about what that means in terms of exposure of the ads. And because AdSense is content-sensitive, the ads that it displays are relevant to the content of the pages on which they are displayed. So people who see those ads do so because they are viewing a page that interests them, which means that they are more likely to be interested in the ads, too.

And that theory is working out well. Since adding my AdSense codes to the Article Content King site, I am now receiving more AdSense clicks per day than I get in a month on my other sites.

The more articles I write, and the more of other peoples’ articles I moderate, the more Ad Space Credits I earn, and in turn the more I earn from AdSense.
And the best part is that people might view my articles long after I submit them – maybe years after.

Every member of Article Content King can do exactly the same thing. Once you’ve reached the Ad Space Credit threshold and entered your AdSense code, all you need to do is write and promote your own articles, and moderate other peoples’ articles to earn more credits.

It’s free advertising handed to you on a plate. Take advantage of it!

13 Jul 2009

Take Advantage of a Free Advertising Opportunity

Author: Phil Rogers | Filed under: Authors Interest

At Article Content King, it is our policy to be legal, decent, honest and truthful. We also believe in giving our customers value for money when it comes to paid services.

We’ve all seen those ads for online systems that claim you will be making $14,826.12 per month, and they are all accompanied by screenshots of PayPal or ClickBank accounts. Do you believe them?

Can you believe that for a product priced at $67, the free gifts that you get with it are really valued at $5,427. Nobody can afford to give away that much; it just doesn’t make business sense.   Some of the best businesses around are supermarkets.  The best deal I could find in my local supermarket recently was Buy One, Get One Free. If I buy a loaf of bread, they don’t throw in $500 worth of groceries for free.

So, when we introduce a service or product at Article Content King, we do a lot of research before we decide on a price. We want to make sure that the price that you pay is fair and worth paying.

For example, as a free member of Article Content King, you are awarded Ad Space Credits and you can display your own Google AdSense ads and keep all the revenue earned from them.

However, if you upgrade to Silver membership, you can display any advertisements you want (subject to certain conditions), and they will be displayed in prime locations alongside relevant articles in the categories of your choice. This means the value of your Ad Space credits is a lot higher.

We research the performance of advertisements that are displayed in these prime locations, which allows us to determine the true value of those advertising spaces in terms of typical revenue per ad impression.

What we have found from our research is that as the popularity of Article Content King increases, so does the potential value of that advertising space.

When we set the price of Silver membership, we ensure that the advertising space that you get as a Silver member will always be worth more than what you pay for it. However, as the value of that advertising space increases, so must the price of Silver membership, although that price will always be less than the value of the advertising space.

But don’t worry! If you upgrade to Silver membership, you’re not going to end up with sky-rocketing prices. Quite the opposite in fact. If you upgrade to Silver membership, you lock yourself in at that price. Just a few months later, new members might have to pay a lot more to upgrade, but you will still keep paying the same price that you locked yourself in at.

Imagine it. You lock yourself in at today’s price and a year later, your competitors could be paying twice as much as you for exactly the same service.
Another year later, and it could have doubled again, but you’ll still be paying the same low price.

By the way, Silver membership is not just about Ad Space. There’s more benefits, such as faster article moderation in which your articles will jump the queue of free members’ articles, and higher affiliate commissions.

Register or Log in and upgrade today. You might just regret it later if you don’t.

It wasn’t long after Article Marketing became popular that Article Spinners appeared on the scene. Article Spinners are software programs that take the text of an article and replace words and phrases in it using synonyms found in a thesaurus. Some of the more advanced Spinners will also re-order paragraphs and sentences, or choose them from a selection of alternatives provided by the user.

Why Use an Article Spinner?

There are literally thousands of Private Label Rights (PLR) articles available on the Internet. Anyone can take them and republish them under their own name if they wish. Unfortunately, that means that several hundred identical articles could appear on article sites, all with apparently different authors. As Google and the other search engines started to spot duplicate content and penalise it, the use of PLR articles started to become pointless.

Enter the Article Spinner! Now, one hundred different article publishers could feed the same article into the article spinners, and each would end up with a unique article that they could publish with no ill effects on the search engine results. Furthermore, one article marketer could use the spinner to create 50 different articles which could then be submitted to different article sites.

Why You Shouldn’t Use an Article Spinner

Although Article Spinners generally have access to a huge database of synonyms in their in-built thesaurus, they have no concept of the context of the article on which they are working. There are many words which have totally different meanings, yet the spelling remains the same. When the Article Spinner is choosing a synonym for a particular word, you can not guarantee that it will select one with the correct meaning.

Here’s an example. The word “rose” has several meanings:

  • A kind of flower
  • The spray nozzle on the end of a watering can
  • Part of a light fitting on a ceiling
  • The past tense of “to rise”
  • The design on the back of a navigational compass
  • A pink colour

Now let us assume your article contains the following text:
“He rose from his seat and presented a rose to his wife”

The article spinner could completely misinterpret this and spin it into
“He spray nozzle from his chair and gave a got up to his spouse”

This is clearly meaningless nonsense.

Used correctly, an article containing such text would be rejected. However, looking at several article sites, this is not the case. Many users of Article Spinners simply churn out hundreds of articles and submit them to article sites without bothering to check them first.

And those users who do check the generated articles probably spend more time filtering out the rubbish, or correcting it, than it would have taken to rewrite the article by hand.

Reputation

If you submit junk articles created using an Article Spinner, your reputation is going to suffer.  People will see that your articles are nonsensical and or incoherent and will not even begin to trust you.  Your chance to build a relationship with your readers will be lost, and then you have lost your market.

Conclusion
On the face of it, Article Spinners sound like fantastic time-savers for the article marketer. In reality, they produce low-quality articles or even complete rubbish.
And on a final note, low quality articles created using Article Spinners submitted to Article Content King will simply be rejected. If you’re not prepared to put in the effort to use Article Spinners correctly, it is best not to use them.

15 Feb 2009

Article Spinners – A Blessing or A Bombshell?

Author: Phil Rogers | Filed under: Authors Interest