Yeah, regarding the article submissions we currently require our vendors to produce the articles. However, we've had a lot of requests for people to be able to use their own articles with related content, so although it's not rolled out yet, Kevin has already developed an articles tab that integrates with Article Builder (Jonathan Leger's new product) that automatically creates and spins a high-quality article from one of various niches. It's really awesome. So you'll be able to decide if you want to upload your own or auto-create them from within the dashboard.
Our goal is to never require you to manually run or do anything once you've got your campaigns set up. It's the ultimate lazy SEO tool.
TylerDurden - Regarding small packages, lol, there are different default allocations depending on what plan you're on, but you can always allocate to anything that you want. So yes, if you were on the 30,000 a month plan and you chose to allocate some of your credits towards that Gripex deal, you'd end up saving up credits for 2 months every so often. Obviously that would be stupid, so we make a different default allocation for the smaller plans than the larger ones, and we try to fit in more of the cheaper link building so you're still getting a solid rotation of links throughout the month. The larger plans get some of the more credit-intensive services tossed into the default allocation, because some of those get you a better effective price per link, so they're a better deal overall, but would be too expensive for a smaller plan since you'd only get one or two blasts in a month.
Gripex's deal isn't in any of the default allocations though, because it's too expensive. We have an internal link checking tool that finds how many links are successful with the proper anchor text etc, and then compares that with the overall cost of the blasts to determine who's been the best deal over a trailing 2-week period. Then the default allocation will change automatically in order to try to get you the best deal. If a service is considered to be too expensive compared to the others, it won't make the cut.
This has helped us in the past, because you'd be surprised at the difference in quality between one link provider and another, even when they're promising the same exact service. We can figure it out very quickly when people are underperforming and cut them out. We allow people to change their allocations if they want though obviously -- this all applies solely to the default allocation. You can always check to see what it currently is, and build a custom allocation with those service percentages in mind.
Hope that helps,
Bobby
Our goal is to never require you to manually run or do anything once you've got your campaigns set up. It's the ultimate lazy SEO tool.
TylerDurden - Regarding small packages, lol, there are different default allocations depending on what plan you're on, but you can always allocate to anything that you want. So yes, if you were on the 30,000 a month plan and you chose to allocate some of your credits towards that Gripex deal, you'd end up saving up credits for 2 months every so often. Obviously that would be stupid, so we make a different default allocation for the smaller plans than the larger ones, and we try to fit in more of the cheaper link building so you're still getting a solid rotation of links throughout the month. The larger plans get some of the more credit-intensive services tossed into the default allocation, because some of those get you a better effective price per link, so they're a better deal overall, but would be too expensive for a smaller plan since you'd only get one or two blasts in a month.
Gripex's deal isn't in any of the default allocations though, because it's too expensive. We have an internal link checking tool that finds how many links are successful with the proper anchor text etc, and then compares that with the overall cost of the blasts to determine who's been the best deal over a trailing 2-week period. Then the default allocation will change automatically in order to try to get you the best deal. If a service is considered to be too expensive compared to the others, it won't make the cut.
This has helped us in the past, because you'd be surprised at the difference in quality between one link provider and another, even when they're promising the same exact service. We can figure it out very quickly when people are underperforming and cut them out. We allow people to change their allocations if they want though obviously -- this all applies solely to the default allocation. You can always check to see what it currently is, and build a custom allocation with those service percentages in mind.
Hope that helps,
Bobby
Looking forward to see some results.
