ArticleBuilder Review
So here we go again – looks like Jonathan Leger has created yet another smashing success named ArticleBuilder. For those that don’t know, Jonathan Leger an Internet Marketer and software developer that is most known for his creation of The Best Spinner. But the fact is, Jonathan has created dozens of great utilities in the past few years and they all have a common theme – content building and link generation.
As a marketer himself, Jonathan knows the challenges that Internet Marketers face with continually creating endless supplies of unique, quality content. In the recent year Google’s Panda update has made that even more important than ever. The big Panda just loves to consume loads of unique and fresh content.
To address these needs Jonathan has come out with a new product specifically designed to ease the content creation needs. Unlike The Best Spinner utility which is a program used to spin content into multiple unique versions, this product is more like a library of pre-written spun content that you can simply access and use directly. Think of it as your own vault of pre-spun content – your own private arsenal.
How it Works…
First we need to talk about the full spectrum of content creation options so that you know exactly where ArticleBuilder.net fits in. On one end of the spectrum is unique content – content like what we provide at ArticlesOnTap.com. All of it is written from scratch each and every time for each client’s specific needs.
On the other end of the spectrum is PLR or Private Label Rights content. PLR content is content that someone has created and offered for sale. Now there are numerous types and sub-categories of PLR. Some PLR vendors restrict the sale of the content to a very limited number of people, but others will sell the same article thousands of times.
The advantage of PLR is that it often times gives you a good starting point and many people will purchase it and then run it through an article spinning program such as Jon’s The Best Spinner to generate unique content without having to write it all from scratch. This can be an effective technique if you do a great job on the article spinning side of the equation, but it also is somewhat limited by the PLR exposure itself. If the content you’re spinning has been sold hundreds or even thousands of times, then it is unlikely that even your quality spins will produce much unique content. The fact is, dozens of others before you have already done the same thing with the same tools and thus the results are somewhat predictably less than great.
ArticleBuilder, however, is neither unique content nor PLR content. It is an entirely different breed of content dubbed Super Spun content. So just what is Super Spun content? Well, the name pretty much says it all. There really is no exact definition here, but the concept is that you take content and massively re-write and spin it so that you can generate hundreds of thousands of unique versions or even millions.
Features of ArticleBuilder.net
ArticleBuilder really has a couple of primary uses. One of them is to create entirely independent standalone articles and the other is to add or inject fresh content into existing posts. We found this second option interesting though we would have to do some serious testing with it to know how viable it would be. The “idea” that was interesting, however, was this.
Since Google’s Panda updates the past year, there are many sites that have a ton of content that was duplicate or scraped content. Now, it’s never advisable to just wipe out a bunch of pages from your site. Doing so, especially all at once, can send all kinds of signals to Google – none of them good. But the biggest issue is that it simply reduces the size of your site in Google’s index and that, in effect, will reduce the overall authority of your site in Google’s mind. So the issue is, how do you solve the duplicate content on your site (if you face this problem) without deleting it? The answer, of course, is to recreate and republish the content on the offending page.
Now this type of a solution is not bad if you only have a few articles or a few dozen articles. But what if you have hundreds of them? So the idea that is interesting about this ability of ArticleBuilder.net to ‘inject’ content into your articles is that you could use it as a tool to ‘enhance’ your duplicate content to make it more unique without having the expense of completely re-authoring all of it. Again, this theory would require some pretty intensive testing and we would only want to pursue it on what we would classify as a ‘second tier site’ – meaning, not your primary money makers.
NOTE: We have not tested this theory because we don’t have any sites which use some of the old tactics of auto-blogging or duplicate content publishing via plugins, etc… We learned a long time ago that this was a short-lived tactic and wouldn’t work long term, so we’ve done nothing but unique content on our sites for a couple of years now.
The primary use, however, of ArticleBuilder is to generate fresh new articles and there are a couple of different ways that you can do it. Jon has a huge database of thousands and thousands of article snippets that are used to create the articles as well as a huge database of Super Spun articles. Each approach is a bit different, so you should test both of them out when creating your articles. But it’s as simple as checking a checkbox in the interface to use the Super Spun articles or use the snippet database which grows by thousands of snippets each and every week.
The ArticleBuilder network continues to grow and this is not the first time it has been released. Jonathan Leger released it a couple of months ago, but at the time it did not have nearly as many features and so we held off on reviewing it. For example, it initially did not have the Super Spun articles that it now does. But the important thing to take note of here is that it is growing and that Jonathan is continuing to expand the feature set of this product. This is something that he is famous for.
In fact, if you don’t see the topic that you want content for listed in the choices of available topics, you can request it and it will be added to the list for future inclusion. Each and every week they add more and more topics, so the width as well as the depth of the network coverage is continually growing.
We have used The Best Spinner for a couple of years now and it has been upgraded literally dozens and dozens of times. In fact, we need to go back and redo our review of it at this point because so much has changed and been enhanced in the past year that it is a much better and more robust tool today than it was then – and it was great then! This is something that we admire a great deal about Jon’s products. Not only does he support them well and stand behind them, but he continually enhances and improves them and so we look for this same type of approach with ArticleBuilder as well and, in fact, he has already improved it several times in just the couple of months that it has been released.
Now when it comes to ‘injecting’ content into your existing articles there are a few different approaches that you can use. You can have the content inserted directly into your article (the most common) or you can choose a few other approaches as well. For example, you can have the content added as a sidebar tip instead. You can also use content callouts. Or even a combination of methods. This gives you the freedom to use this ‘injected’ content in the manner which is best for your particular needs.
Other Features
Now every tool has a core set of features that form the backbone of the application, but the really great ones have other “nice to have” features that really seal the deal and make the difference between a good program and a truly great application that makes your life easier. We love easy and we love automation, so we always like to focus on these little gems of nice to have features that often get overlooked.
ArticleBuilder has tons of these nice to have features that we would be remiss to not point out. For example, you can add your own blogs to the utility and it will publish content directly to your sites for you at the push of a button. Not only that, but you can even schedule it so that you can do several in a day, for example, and queue them up to release over the next week. This is great for working in batch mode where you work on an entire week or month at a time.
Another great feature that ArticleBuilder incorporates is a developer’s API. For those of you that don’t know what this is, an API stands for an Application Programming Interface and it’s really just a way for programmers to interact with the program directly. So, for example, you could hire a programmer to write a little script that would automate certain aspects of your use of the application. This, for example, could allow you to integrate content automatically with your own network of sites. Again, this may be beyond the scope of many, but as a former programmer and someone who loves automation I am impressed that Jonathan almost always creates an API for his applications so that us developers can take advantage of it.
Copyscape encoding is also offered in order to ensure that your article passes copyscape. I’m not sure where exactly this would be used effectively, but it is an option. Essentially what it does is substitute text with code equivalents that translate back to text. By doing this, it prevents the content from being flagged by copyscape as duplicate. Again, not sure exactly where you would have this “need” but the feature is there if you do.
The Results Using Article Builder
We have generated a bunch of articles with ArticleBuilder and have been pretty impressed with it. The content it produces is great for SEO and linkbuilding purposes. We personally would not recommend you use the content for your own tier one money sites, but for tier two sites or for offsite SEO content it is very, very good. What we mean by tier one versus tier two is this: tier one are your main money sites that you depend on for your primary online income. Tier two sites are lower priority and less important sites that make you money but are less critical to your overall online stability and success – that’s our definition.
We had better results with the Super Spun articles than we did with the article snippets, but it will all depend on the niche you select and the keywords you use as well. Those that are more common and saturated, will, of course, have more use and duplication. A lot of the stuff that we do is obviously in the Internet Marketing and SEO niches and those are pretty popular. That being said, the results were still good – especially when using the Super Spun articles.
Another tactic that you can take is that when you generate the output article you can click off a checkbox and have it created in The Best Spinner spin format. This is great for offsite SEO and linkbuilding efforts where you need to submit spun article content to the networks.
So, just how good is the content? Well the first thing that you have to understand is that all of the content is human created and edited and then spun to a guaranteed 75% uniqueness. So this is not just some machine generated crap – it is good quality content. In fact, according to the sales website Jonathan states “the odds than any two articles generated by one of these documents will be less than 80% unique is one in ten million” – that’s pretty impressive.
We have generated tons of articles already and have not noticed any of them that are obviously awkward or poorly written, etc… they all have been of average to good quality.
The Best Use of ArticleBuilder
It is our feeling that onsite content for your tier one money making sites should always be high quality and unique content. So in that regard, we would not recommend using ArticleBuilder articles for publication directly on your main site.
While they will be unique content, it doesn’t mean that they won’t have some duplicated content within them and that, in general, they will be of average and uninspiring quality. By that I mean, they are not something you want to put on your primary blog and tout it as your own great content.
But there is nothing wrong with that. The fact is that for every tool there is a best and proper use of it and for ArticleBuilder the best use is for offsite linkbuilding and SEO grade content. There are tons of great linkbuilding networks out there and they all have one thing in common – a healthy appetite for fresh and unique content. That is where we see ArticleBuilder saving you a ton of money and tons of time. Instead of writing all of that content yourself or contracting others to write it you can instead use ArticleBuilder to generate that content for you.
Will it work for every network? Probably not. Some are more picky than others. Build My Rank, for example, is very picky about duplicate content and so if it picks up even a single sentence of duplicate content in your post it may get flagged and kicked out. Many other networks, however, are much less scrutinizing and for them this content will likely be perfect. We have submitted to many of them and have had good results with most of them out there. Sorry, but we’re not going to publish which ones because it is a bit unclear if this is technically allowed or not and we don’t want to cause ourselves any grief here.
ArticleBuilder Support
The fact is that Jonathan Leger is legendary as both an Internet Marketer and as a product developer (primarily for Internet Marketers) so support is exceptional. The tool itself is so easy to use that I highly doubt you’ll ever have to contact support. However, if you do, you’ll be using the same support system that serves all of Jon’s tools including The Best Spinner. We have contacted their support numerous times over the past couple years and it has always been very solid and timely (usually within 48 hours).
ArticleBuilder Pricing
When you factor in pricing on a tool like this it is always a bit difficult. The reason is that part of the justification of the pricing is the money it will save you, not just how much it costs. That, of course, depends upon how much you use it. However, in our opinion, the pricing is extremely affordable for this tool.
Rather than choosing a monthly subscription model, Jonathan has instead introduced an annual subscription for the tool. At $297 a year that is just $24.75 a month. If you purchased just 2 spun articles a month this subscription would more than pay for itself. But the real beauty is that you are afforded very high usage rights for ArticleBuilder – up to 250 articles per day can be generated.
That’s not a typo. That is up to 250 per day (not per month). Now, if you need more than that then you are doing some serious article marketing and honestly unless it’s for dozens and dozens of sites you’re probably not doing it right. In other words, there is more value here than even the high end marketer will likely need or use.
ArticleBuilder.net Bonus
We want to make sure you have great success with ArticleBuilder so we’re going to help you along with a great offer of our own – some high PR backlinks to go with all of those other great links you’ll be generating from your ArticleBuilder content. So, as a thank you for purchasing from our link, you’ll receive twenty (20) FREE 150 word posts each with 2 backlinks on our private high pagerank network. The content will be provided by ArticlesOnTap.com so you know it will be 100% unique and top quality. And, while there is no ArticleBuilder coupon code available we’ve got the next best thing for you, a 10% off coupon code for any future orders of content from ArticlesOnTap.com. So don’t fall for all of those free ebook ArticleBuilder Bonus offers you’ll find out there – our bonus is not fluff but actual high quality links that will help your SEO efforts! To redeem your free links simply follow these ArticleBuilder Bonus instructions. Once we confirm that your purchase was made through our linke, you will receive your bonus content.
On January 3, 2012 Steve Giles wrote:
Just as an FYI.
Vince has created an Article Builder API for Article Market Robot’s next version (V1.1.0.5)to be released soon. So those who have an AB subscription will be able to run it from the AMR interface.
The new version looks really good.
Steve
On January 4, 2012 rizwandeco wrote:
This review is very informative for those users who want to know about Article Builder. So far I love this review and I love Article Builder!