Ok before we start let me make a few things clear, 1- the links you see are possibly affiliate links so if you buy from them I may well make some extra pennies towards paying the bills. 2-the stuff I talk about here is me trying to share some logic and thought to what is a darn annoying and confusing situation..Links

ok on with the good stuff.

I often get asked about various programs, I see posts on forums with questions and suggestions. This post is my first one about 3 programs that I actually use and pay for every month.

Postrunner – $33 and 1st month is free. This is part of the Keyword Avalanche membership

Build My Rank – $59 a month

Ezarticle Links – Free or $29 a month

They are all about building links and they all have great points and they all have bad points I will try and talk about both sides of the coin. I am talking from my own experience and my own thoughts. No one has paid me to be nice or otherwise. My honest hope is that it helps some people make the right choices and to save some money , or at least spend it wisely.

Postrunner – this is a formalized guest blogging system,only open to members of the keyword avalanche

Plus Points – it is very easy to use , offers massive link diversity, only accepts unique content so it is not full of rubbish. You are allowed 2 links per article
Minus points – to get link diversity you have to add lots of content, which is work.

Personal finding – In my totally informal observations, the sites that I have put lots of links from Postrunner in have held their rankings and are moving on up. I will use one article to build links to 2 totally separate sites. This is a great way to get 2 backlinks for the prince of one article.

Ezarticle Links – Article distribution across a network of their own article sites, if you join you have to allow them to put an article directory on the back end of one of your sites. If you add 20 sites into their system then you can have unlimited sites as post only. This means that you can promote unlimited sites without adding any more directories.

I have written about them before http://www.thenewbiehelper.com/link-questions/ and  http://www.thenewbiehelper.com/ezarticlelink-update/ The most amazing thing is that I am still using them 11 months later and I can’t see me stopping as they are still delivering the goods.

Plus points – free level makes it easy to start using, easy to use once you get used to, cheap way to spin your content

Minus points – people seem to find it difficult to understand the concept so they hold back, Spinning can take some time when they are busy

I take the articles I have put into postrunner, then put them into ezal, pay them $3 to spin the article and then use that article in UAW. Although I am about to start using it in Article Marketing Robot as well as I hear you can just copy and paste the spun versions from ezal

Build My Rank – Build My Rank is the subject of a test at the moment, in theory it should work great guns but I just want to get a real example. I am doing nothing but BMR posts for a new site. I have lined up 40+ and will see how they go. I will post any results I see , or not see.

Plus points – only needs to be 150 word posts (so easy), each site has PR, very simple to use interface, well put together posting system

Minus points -I can’t really think of one other than price, I think it is expensive now but it if it works then it is worth every penny

My wife really likes BMR, mainly because she can vent in a blog post and it is still work. Their system really is one of the easiest I have ever used and that alone makes it nice. All too often I find I don’t build links because I can’t face fighting with the system, this is not the case with BMR.

If you are watching the pennies – Sign up for the free version of ezal and the free months trial of postrunner. Then work the system hard, if you concentrate on building links for just a couple of sites for that first month you should see some increase in income and that will hopefully persuade you to keep on using them. The secret in that sentence, “using them” if you do not post articles then you won’t get links and no links = no traffic.

These are the three things I am using daily, I actually just posted 10 new posts to BMR before I did this blog post, so you should at least check them out.

Oh and tomorrows post is all about a huge mistake I made with my last test and how you can avoid it, just going to write that now so be sure to come back and read that tomorrow.