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Internet Marketing Cliche Awards

Welcome to the inaugural Internet Marketing Cliche Awards for 2010.  We are here to honor all those worn out and excessively overused cliches used in Internet marketing.

Without further ado, let’s present the contenders:

Shocking

Usage Examples:

watch this shocking video

you need to read this shocking report

With the amount of shocking news happening in Internet Marketing land, you’d think everyone would have dropped dead from a heart attack by now.

The only thing truly shocking about this overused cliché is that anyone still bothers to use it.

Secret

Usage Examples:

get access to my top secret methods

I’ll reveal all my secret techniques

Secret?  Sure, just a little secret between you and a few million other people.  Now that’s one exclusive little secret.

Urgently

Usage Examples:

you need to act urgently as this offer will only last for the next 10 seconds

this offer will disappear if you don’t act urgently

The only thing that’s urgent is the desire of the seller to make as much money as possible in the shortest possible time.  Funny how all those urgent offers are still available months later.

Million

Usage Examples:

follow my exact steps to make a million dollars in 1 day

learn how to make a million dollars on autopilot

The only people making a million dollars are the ones selling you the dream of making a million dollars.

Discovered/Revealed

Usage Examples:

I’m about to reveal to you how to make lots of money easily

Discover how a fat teenage git made over 1 million dollars last month

The Winners

Well, there’s so many good contenders, the judges had a really hard time making a decision, so in the end they decided to award all of them.  This means if you want to use the ultimate cliche, here’s an award winning sentence that combines the subtly of all the cliches:

Discover my absolutely shocking secret that I will personally reveal to you how I make a million dollars a day.  But hurry, this one time offer is URGENT!

If you have any nominations for awards next year, please leave a comment.

Instant Article Factory

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly Jonathan Ledger comes up with great new tools for Internet Marketers.  It wasn’t that long ago that Keyword Snatcher was released, and his latest creation called Instant Article Factory is going to be even more popular.

If you find writing articles to be a real chore or if you often get writers block, then Instant Article Factory can really help boost productivity.

How Does Instant Article Factory Work?

Instant Article Factory works by having a selection of popular article templates, eg:

• Pros and Cons
• 3 Reasons You Should
• 3 Things To Avoid
• Top 5 Tips

For each of these common topic areas, there are thousands of unique templates.  After a thousand generates, the template is retired to prevent any potential duplicate content being generated.

When you choose the template you are interested in, you essentially just go through and fill in the blanks.  Certain fields are pre-populated with the text you previously typed to save even more typing.  A typical 300-400 word article should only take about 5 mins to write, compared to at least half an hour if you write it from scratch.

What Are The Drawbacks?

Well, like any automated or semi-automated generated content, it’s never going to be as perfect as what a top notch copyrighter can produce.  However, most of us aren’t professional copyrighters, so I think any guided assistance is a huge help.

At present, the number of templates is relatively small, but Jonathan is adding new templates all the time.  One thing that impresses me with all of Jonathan Ledger’s software is the speed in which he responds to enhancements and bug fixes.   Chances are by the time you read this review, there will be a huge library of templates.

Instant Article Factory produces unique versions of articles each time you open a template, however, it would be really good if it integrated directly with The Best Spinner.  This would give you the best of both worlds:

1.  An easy and quick way to write articles.

2. An easy and quick way to product lots of unique articles.

However, you can take the generated article and put it through The Best Spinner to generate lots more unique articles.  Additionally, you can enter spintax in Instant Article Factory so that you can use it with software like The Best Spinner or various blog networks that support spintax.

The Bottom Line on Instant Article Factory

Jonathan listens very closely to feedback and suggestions on his support forums.  You can be assured that Instant Article Factory will undergo a whole series of improvements.

Make sure you watch the video of Instant Article Factory in use to get a really good idea of how it works.

If you’ve been in Internet Marketing for long enough, you know just how important it is to submit articles to article directories for effective backlinking/SEO results.

There are many article spinning products and services currently available, but pretty much all suffer from the same symptom of producing poorly spun articles that at best, are barely acceptable to most article directories, and at worst, they are virtually unreadable and have a high rejection rate.

I’d heard a lot of good things about The Best Spinner, so I decided to check it out for myself and see if it lived up to all the spin (pun intended).

Luckily, you can get a $7 trial, where you get 7 days to try the software to see if you like it, and if you decide to keep it, you are charged $77 per year.

What’s Good About The Best Spinner?

The main thing that sets The Best Spinner apart from other similar spinning software products is the user generated thesaurus. This means that whenever The Best Spinner shows you a list of synonyms, the list of suggestions has been built over time by the thousands of users.  The software uses a weighted system, so that the more people use a particular synonym, the higher up the list it will be.  This means that you generally get very useful set of synonyms to choose from.

The Best Spinner will also work with short phrases as well as single words.  Some spinning products will only do single word replacements.  Having phrase replacements increases the uniqueness of the article.

Some of the other very good features of The Best Spinner are:

• The ability to export to various spintax formats.  This is great if you want to use your spun article with another product or website that uses a different spin syntax.  You can even define your own syntax.
• Nested Spinning.  The Best Spinner has unlimited levels of nested spinning, which you can color code up to four levels in order to make it easier to track.
• You can automatically generate up to 250 spun articles from your spun text.
• There is a word count and uniqueness percentage which is constantly updated as you work on your text.
• You can save a “Favorites” list of commonly used synonyms that you commonly use in your articles.

What’s Bad About The Best Spinner?

To be honest, I can’t really find any bad points.  Possibly the only thing that might put some people off is the $77 per year charge, but I consider that to be a pretty good payment for a piece of software that works really well.  Don’t forget that the annual subscription fee ensures you always have access to the latest thesaurus.

Conclusion

The Best Spinner is a very useful tool to have in the arsenal of the Internet Marketer if you use it wisely.   Like any Internet Marketing piece of software, it’s not a magic bullet, but it sure makes the process of unique article generation a lot easier and much faster.

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