The Article Video Robot end-user concept is simple: you write an article. You paste this article into the window in the software program. In about three minutes, you’ve got an up-to-10-minute professional-looking video that is ready to be uploaded at YouTube, Video Jug, Meta Cafe, your website, content sites like Associated Content, and any other place you can find that publishes videos on the Net.

Internet marketers have been using article marketing on the Net for some years now, and they know it works. But we also know that video marketing also works. The Article Video Robot gives you the best of both worlds–for every article you can bang out, you can also quickly, easily, and cheaply produce a video. It’s like writing a book and then also making money off the movie version!

Now, this robot’s real power is in its ability to make Internet video production as do-able for writers as Internet writing is. If you aren’t sure why that needs to be done, let it be known that there are some obstacles to making high-quality, professional-looking videos for the Internet for the average person. Videos get indexed into discoverable places in search engines much faster than articles do.

*To get the good quality video making equipment you need, you have to lay out about $1000. Then, if you really go all-out to make a top quality video and you need to use a voice-over professional, you are looking at $10-$25 per minute. The robot makes the video cost you about 97 cents per video, if you pay the $97 monthly fee and make the 100 videos that that price gets you.

*A lot of people struggle with learning how to make quality videos once they have the equipment. This costs them a lot of time, and if they keep making bad videos that don’t get them any business it costs them a lot of money. But this program is virtually automatic, leaving you little “screw up” room.

*It is very difficult to manually submit a video to 20 or so different content sites. A lot of times the process winds up taking hours. Not so with the Robot.

*How do you find the right footage, images, photographs, and music to make a quality video? This can be very hard, and possibly very expensive. But the Robot takes care of all that, too. With your account you get access to 5 GB of hard disk Royalty-Free stock photos in the image library and hundreds of music files for you to use in your videos.

*Using social bookmarking for manually submitted videos can be a nightmare. This software makes it easy.

*Many videos never get much action because the video editor doesn’t allow them to be unique enough to stand out. The AVR account gives you a specialized, high-end video editor that will take care of this problem–and it doesn’t cost you even an extra dime.

THE BOTTOM LINE

We have to give two thumbs way, way up to the Article Video Robot! There’s nothing like this, and with a 60-day 100% money-back guarantee what have you go to lose if you want to make your article and video marketing explode?

In fact, I can go on ebay right now and purchase 7,000 PLR articles for under $20.00. But when I use Content Composer which is one of the tools in my arsenal and run these articles through they’re showing up as duplicate content all over the place. Sure I can use Content Composer and churn out 25 Unique Variations of this article but this will take me an hour or so to accomplish. So until something explains to me in detail how to use PLR to make money I’m against it. I can easily write 5-7 unique articles each day. That’s around 1500 a year, more than needed to build an authority site in any niche so that’s my rationale. But I’m open to suggestions and if I’m wrong don’t be afraid to call me on it. But if you do please be prepared to break down the numbers for me.

So does this mean that Article Underground is worthless? Far from it. A lot of the big name marketers endorse this Content Solution and Article Marketing System. Many members have made thousands of dollars. So that being said, let me tell you what part of this system I believe has value. The Article Announcements Traffic System is a network that will let you post your content on 25 different high PR websites as well as 60 Blogs contributed to by members. This alone imho pays for the membership itself. In the business of Article Marketing if you want to be successful, you want to have access to as many communication channels as possible. Each place you are allow to submit your article to is a communication channel.

The other thing Article Marketers will face at least in 2009 is lack of proper training. The people who run this Membership Website understand this and will give you very specialized training which will explain how to get deep links to all your inner pages and Blog Posts. This alone is again worth the price of the Article Underground Membership in my opinion. One of the strategies they teach is called “Building Utility Sites”. This will allow you to aggregate many text links to increase your chances of ranking much higher in the search engines.

Another benefit of joining Article Underground is their members only forum. Some of the top Article Marketers and White Hat Content Specialists hang out here, so it’s a great place to get advice and tips when you are stuck. And if you’ve been around a lot of the free Internet Marketing Forums, almost all of the time the info you receive will be marginal at best. These are an aggregated group of top Article Marketing Pros who will answer any questions you have about how to manage and distribute your content properly. When I was starting out I had a business partner who had my back on this stuff each time I had a question and vise versa, so I was lucky enough to get a solid grasp of the fundamentals on my own.

The price for Article Underground is only $97.00 per month. Not bad for what you get but only if you use it. The backlinks alone should generate any decent business model 50x more than that within a year of using the system. If you are already have your own consistent content strategy in place and are producing content for your business on a regular basis than I’d say you’d be nuts not to join this service. If you are just starting a business but haven’t tested your business model and don’t know how it converts make sure you do this first and get your numbers right.

As of now we are one of the top 20 Article Marketers at Ezine Articles. Our articles in this directory alone have received almost 300,000 page views to date and we worked hard and are very proud of this. We’re also one of the top authors in a few other Article Directories, so if you read this and actually apply these Article Marketing concepts, you should steadily see an incremental increase in your Website Traffic and sales your business generates no matter what niche you are in like we have. If you haven’t done this yet, go to Google and signup for a free Google Analytics account. Also get a free Google Page Rank Checker and install it in your browser.

The great thing about straight Article Marketing, which many refer to as “Bum Marketing”, is that you are borrowing Page Rank from very high ranking Article Directories. The first thing you need to know is the concept of a Double Bio. What this means is you will create two links at the bottom of your sig file. One will point to the home page and the other will point to the page you are trying to rank for. This will give you strong PR Juice to your home page but more evenly distribute the PR Juice the Article Directories give you to other parts of your website which has great long-term effects. And if you score a doubly whammy and rank on the Keyword you are linking to in your Anchor Text, then more power to you.

The main article directories are Ezine Articles, Buzzle, Go Articles, Article Dashboard, Idea Marketers, Hubpages, Squidoo and Aff Sphere. What I recommend is writing just one article per day every day and submitting it to each of these directories with your Double Bio. If you do this within one year you’ll have a Website or Blog with 365 posts. This will make your Website very strong with google and each page or post will have backlinks. We did this with our website MLM Review Kings and now it gets over 800 visitors each day on most days. That’s $300 per day of free advertising we get.

Our recommendation is to install a WordPress Blog and use Carl Ocab’s Ultimate Blogging Theme. This way you can install Adsense, and even charge advertisers for placing 125×125 ads on a monthly basis once you build up the traffic for your articles. So writing one article per day yourself for any niche you are in is recommended, and within 1-2 years you can become an authority hub within your niche, especially with a Blog. Blogs are becoming much more popular and if you stick with a website and a squeeze page only you are handicapping your efforts severely, and in time it will show.

Writing one article per day and submitting it is a task that shouldn’t take you more than 1-2 hours each day, so it leaves time for all your other promotional efforts. Also it wouldn’t hurt to go to PR Web and submit at least one Press Release per year which is only $200 if you do it yourself, and will also give your website lots of backlinks. As far as the articles, you can hire a Ghost Writer to write them for about $5.00 each, although you might end up doing some minor editing. We use Need An Article for ours.

Getting lots of backlinks is the key which is why you want to submit your articles to the Top Article Directories. The cool thing about this technique is it’s totally free. I can if you can get an Internet Connection, you can be borderline homeless and build up to a nice income over time doing this. Also have fun monitoring Google Analytics to see what pages are pulling. Once you identify these, you might consider writing more articles and pointing them to the pages that are already getting traffic to lock in the Search Engine Rankings for that page. I personally write 3-5 articles per day when I’m not doing other critical tasks not for the pay but I realized now that I love writing and am good at it. I call it my labor of love.