This is the response from Areeb, the owner of SEnuke:
Areeb here. Normally I would never comment on this kind of thing. Competition is healthy, it creates better products for the consumers, but I just had to, because not a single thing you said is correct. Not one single thing.
1) You speak of a low number of sites that the software supports. That is false. SEnuke has 3 times the number of websites in each module than is shown on the sales page. The sales page was designed almost 2 years ago. That’s what SEnuke looked like TWO years ago. We do have a note on the feature list that it’s really old and to check our blog. But thank you for reminding me that it severely needs updating. we’ve been concentrating too much on the quality of the software, not as much on the marketing side of things. Plus we’ve added 2 more modules since launch that are not even described on the sales page.
2) You speak of 20% indexing rates. Where did you get that from? Indexing rates are near 95%. Just check out our forum
3) You speak of shared spinner articles. That is false. Spinner articles are 100% per unique PER member through our integration with CB and TBS API’s. One click spinning to 45% uniqueness.
4) You speak of proof that doesn’t show the number of competing sites. That is also false. Just click the image to expand it Also, if you’d like proof, check out these 110 success stories: http://senuke.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=4
5) You speak of manual email verification. Where did you get that from? It’s 100% automated with one click.
6) You speak of a software that follows one fixed strategy. Perhaps you’re thinking of EVO2. Our software could not be more customizable to your own strategy.
7) The reason you created this video was apparently because we “targeted” your product. Or I guess one of our affiliates. Really? Is this the correct response? Find me two popular products whose affiliates are not targeting each other’s names to make sales? They’re affiliates… that’s what they do.
Me personally, I will not target the name of your product. I do not believe in that kind of marketing.Â
So…
I did this on purpose to make a point. SEnuke‘s supporters and affiliates have been messing with me and my products for awhile.
The fact is that both SEnuke and my software programs both work and work well.
I already knew they supported more sites, but relied on what I could find in their sales letter and treated it as if it was a fact.
I was aware of their indexing rate being better than 20%, but referred to a statement one of their users made (and used the worst one I could find).
All is fair in marketing…
However, out of respect, I’m not going to target the name of their product to promote my stuff. I’ll use it to promote theirs.
Their product is solid, so I’m going to do the right thing…
I’ve been bothered since releasing my two SEO software programs with the comparisons to SENuke.
It began in the Warrior Forum, where a member there with 33 posts attacked every software program I released. The only posts he has (except for about 5 of them) are to bash my product or sing the praises of SENuke.
Then, this morning, I got a Google alert for the name of my main product that showed one of their affiliates targeting the name of my product. Needless to say, it’s time to show them what happens when someone targets my stuff to sell something else. We’ll see if they like how well this posts ranks for the name of their product…
SENuke was the first SEO software to focus on link wheels. It’s focus is using web 2.0 properties to dominate Google. Even cooler, it actually worked.
They have awesome support and do whatever it takes to keep their customers happy.
Their keyword research module has some cool features. Market Samurai is far better. It’s the only keyword research tool anyone could ever need.
Other than my software, theirs is the only one that allows you to spin any type of content it submits. The negative is that they focus on spinning by word or phrase. Google will catch a spun piece of content that is the same length as a different one.
SENuke has many features. With video, RSS, social bookmarks, and web 2.0 content sites built in, you can build a lot of links to your sites and plenty of links to your links The social media focus on the software is a definite downfall. Google hands out slaps to social sites like crazy…
SENuke users have had a decrease in the indexing of the wheels they create using the software. One user reported a 15% indexing rate. That’s really bad.
SENuke has around 80 sites built in, according to their sales letter. That isn’t much. Between Link Wheel Software and Traffic Magnet, there are well over 3,600 sites built in. If you take out the web directories, that still leaves over 500.
SENuke users get 25 spun articles per month. Think about what happens when 1,000 send the same article out at once. That just isn’t cool.
The rankings shown on SENuke’s site is not good. If nobody searches for a term, there is no point in trying to rank for it. Ranking for the name of their product is important, but there is still only 195,000 results for the term “SENuke”.
SENuke isn’t as automated as they claim. You have to go into your email and click the email verification links that most of the sites send you when you create an account. Link Wheel goes in and does that for you… SENuke worked very well in the beginning, but doesn’t work as well anymore. Link Wheel and Traffic Magnet are customizable, so you can duck Google slaps with ease.
SENuke is the leader in SEO automation tools right now. They’ve opened a door for me to stomp right through and provide people with tools that will always do what they claim – work. It doesn’t hurt that they cost over $50 less per month either.
Edit: Please see the second part of this post and put your comments there: SEnuke part two.
I’m doing a special, one time only call on what traffic tactics are working for me right now.
I’m also going to show how I got over 20,000 visitors without affiliate help for a recent product launch.
It’s going to be cool and I’m excited to share with you.
Register for the call here. (I don’t keep your info, it’s just so you can get an SMS or Email reminder)
Here are a few of the things I’m going to be talking about:
All you need to know about SEO in 1 minute or less.
The unbelievable type of directory that’s dominating Google instantly.
I’m sitting here with my family on Easter morning, attempting to enjoy them to the fullest.
Problem is, I can’t get this situation out of my head. It’s driving me nuts…
I figured the best way to get it out of my head is to air out my thoughts.
Recently, a competitor released an automated traffic robot. With them being my competition, I watched it to see what they were doing. I’m on over 100 marketing email lists and saw a ton of promotion for this product.
They definitely did some smart things with their product from what they claimed on the sales page.
Being that they are my competition, I’m not going to do the whole “Name and Shame” thing. If you glance through your email box, you’ll be able to figure out who I’m referring to. Please don’t blast them in my comments section either.
It was on their sales page that I saw something so shady that it made me want to puke.
They had a graphic of Google results for the name of a product. The page showed the name of the product in the search box and a fair amount of competition for the term and they dominated nearly the whole page.
The problem came when I glanced at how many results there were for the term and found that what they searched in Google was not the term that they left in the search box. Here is an example:
They had “product name” in the search box, but the real search was for “product name scam”.
It’s the most obviously misleading example of faking proof that I’ve ever seen.
What they did was dominate the entire page for the term “product name scam”. Then, they did a search in Google so they could screen capture their results. What they did wrong was erase the word “scam” from the search box before taking the screen capture.
I couldn’t believe the balls. Anyone could see it for themselves if they just took the time to look closely at the graphic.
Disgusting.
This brings me to something I’ve been doing for my products since I’ve left StomperNet. I have tons of proof I could show for different things I’ve done lately, but a lot of it is for Reputation Management stuff, which I cannot show due to the nature of what I’m doing.
I’ve got plenty of search listings I’ve snagged lately. My favorite was being able to rank #1 for SEO Software and Traffic Software for 3 days. I got a TON of traffic for that and know exactly how to do it again whenever I want…
Yet, it’s misleading to put up a graphic of the 2008 visitors I got to the page during the 2nd day. So, I refuse to do it.
I use proof like search listings, because that’s what my software is all about: Being able to get traffic from Google.
My ethics are costing me money…
Yet, I’m able to sleep at night and be happy with my business as I rebuild it. I’m proud of myself and after discussing this with my wife, loved the way her eyes shined at me.
I am sick and tired of hearing SEO dummies give out advice about duplicate content. They talk about duplicate content being a “myth”. They refer to Google’s Webmaster Blog as though Google is going to tell you the truth about how to manipulate your way into the top search results. That just doesn’t make any sense to me at all.
More importantly, Google is directly referring to something that doesn’t affect most of us.
In this blog post, Google discusses the impact of duplicate content on your own website. For people that make their money through Adsense, this is relevant.
What about the rest of us?
What about content marketers that syndicate videos, articles, press releases, and blog posts?
This blog post doesn’t apply to us directly and they don’t discuss our main concerns at all.
They reveal some slightly relevant details, but unless you make your money through content sites, I’d recommend not wasting your time reading it.
In a few pages, I’ll give you some advice on how to conquer that side of the duplicate content penalty, so your time is best spent reading this through to the end.
Here’s the truth about the duplicate content penalty:
When it comes to content marketing: Google is only going to give you credit for the first 3 or 4 times it finds your article, video, press release, or blog post if it is exactly the same as the other versions.
This means that you can submit an article to 300 directories and you’ll get credit for 3 or 4 of them. After that Google says “I’ve already seen this one, so you get no credit for it”.
The links pointing to your website won’t count.
The amount of times it’s been reposted and syndicated don’t count.
That’s where content spinning comes in, yet every single content spinner available does it wrong.
Yes, every single content spinner is based upon broken logic and there’s a better way to do it.
The time has come to finally solve these problems. NOW.
The Problem And The Solution
Here is the problem in a graphic:
This is what happens when you submit an article or other type of content. Google knows that the others are there. In fact, it even indexes them.
It just never shows them for the search results of the keyword you target.
To see this for yourself, do a Google search for the title of an article you’ve submitted like this: “Your Article Title Here”. By putting quotes around the title, you’re telling Google to only provide results that have that exact phrase in the exact order that you ask for it.
You’ll find from a few dozen to hundreds of times that Google has found your article. Yet, It shows only the ones that have the most authority when someone searches the keyword term you’ve targeted.
Here’s how to fix the problem:
By spinning your content the right way, Google doesn’t see duplicates. It sees a lot of original content.
That gives you better results, more backlinks, and most importantly, it gives you what article marketing is supposed to give you in the first place:
The goal of article marketing is to get your content syndicated to give you more backlinks and traffic.
The graphic above shows an article syndicated from a single directory. If you spin your content the right way, that should happen for many of the directories and you’ll get credit for the first few times your article is picked up by sites, on top of the credit you get from the directory posting.
This is MUCH better than simply submitting a single article to dozens or hundreds of directories to only get credit for 3 or 4 of them.
Here are 2 key benefits of spinning your content (not just articles)
1. Better results from a single piece of content.
2. Target more than one keyword term with one idea or marketing angle.
Getting results is the reason we spend time writing content, blogging, creating videos, etc…
Why would anyone be satisfied with 3 or 4 backlinks from a great article?
The ability to target more than one keyword term with a piece of content is amazing and the results are, too.
With a single video, I targeted 5 keyword phrases and ranked in the top 3 for 3 of them within 4 hours. That is a measurable result!
Most Content Spinners Suck.
The core concept of spinning content has been limited by the software programs that help you do the spinning.
Nearly all of them are based upon the idea of spinning individual words or phrases inside your content to make it appear different.
The key problem with this is that the fully automated ones butcher your content.
It pulls words from a Thesaurus database to find ones that can stand in for the words you used when you originally created the content.
Yet, software is not smart enough to use proper grammar rules and makes you look silly.
Seriously, the English language is one of the most complicated languages in existence. Software can’t “do it for you” the right way.
The semi automated ones require a lot of time as you go through and pick similar words to replace the original ones you used.
When I created my content spinner, The Spin Wizard, I knew this was something that had to be fixed.
The solution was to have the core spinning function be based upon sentences, with word and phrase spinning added in to make content more unique.
By spinning this way, you rewrite sentences to say the exact same thing using different words.
It’s far easier to restructure a sentence then it is to change every word in your content.
Google Is Not As Smart As Most People Think!
On July 8 of 2006 I announced the death of the link exchange via a press release.
The funny thing is that just a few months ago, I found a very competitive keyword being dominated through link exchanges as one of their core link building method.
If you do a search for “Make Money Online”, you’ll find this site at #1
Scroll to the bottom and you’ll find their “link partners” listed there. You’ll also see link exchange partners in their “blogroll” on the right side of the blog.
I couldn’t believe it.
While I still feel that link exchanges stink, bloggers do it all the time with a few relevant blogs and it works out just fine for them.
The point in telling you this is that Google is not as smart as most of us think.
We focus on their ability to “figure out” what we do when trying to build links.
We all give them far too much credit.
Win With Duplicate Content
Calling what Google does a “Duplicate Content Penalty” is misleading. It does exist, but instead of being a true penalty, it’s more of a natural way for Google to give credit for relevance.
Google is simply choosing the most relevant version of the content that it finds.
The first thing it will do is give positioning to the sites with the most authority. Sites like EzineArticles, ArticlesBase, YouTube, Viddler, PrWeb, Webwire, Squidoo, and Hubpages have a very high level of authority and you’ll find them ranking for longer keyword phrases very easily.
The next thing you can do to defeat the “penalty” is to build links to your content, whether it’s an article, a video, or a press release is to build links to it. RSS feeds, Social Bookmarks, and blog posts are great locations to send some link love to your content and get them to rank better.
This doesn’t just apply to content you put out, but to duplicate websites or web pages. By building links to them, you can outrank the original site. It indicates to Google that you are the authority, not the original.
Giving your content a thorough spinning will help, too. That will take the whole “duplicate” issue out of the game completely.
The Spin Wizard is available through Traffic Magnet and Link Wheel and it’s the only content spinner online that gives you the ability to spin by sentence and individual keywords or keyword phrases. It is also the only one that gives you the ability to spin the text associated with numerous types of content: Videos, Articles, Press Releases, Podcasts, RSS, Social Bookmarks, Classified Ads, and Web Directories.
In the video, I talk about the changes Google has implemented over the last few years, including some very recent ones. I hope it opens your eyes to ways you can easily out market your competition in pretty much any market on the internet.
They’re lazy, if you take the extra few steps and follow what Google’s revealed to us, you can easily crush it.
As an aside, I created another new video that you should watch. It reveals ways that other “traffic teachers” are faking proof to convince you that they might know something… I’d rather just teach you, my credibility will come when you see results
To see the new video, head over to my Traffic Magnet site and give me your email address. The confirmation emails seem to be a touch delayed, but you’ll get the video as soon as you confirm that you asked for the info.
