Okay so let me lay out the prizes first

First Prize:

1 x lifetime membership to AMA
1 x lifetime membership to PLRPro (new version)
1 x lifetime membership to Progression Internet Marketing (private beta now launches in Jan)
1 x lifetime membership to Project X (cant mention it, it comes out in feb and is awesome)
25 AMA ready unique articles written for you

Value: HEAPS AMA is $500 odd a year, others are similar value….. so its thousands of dollars worth.

You get the traffic system
The content system
The internet marketing training on what actually works (Progression Internet Marketing)
A very very awesome program (project x)
And a kickstart into your traffic generation.

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE GET STARTED PACK ONLINE.

Second Prize:
1 x lifetime membership to AMA
1 x lifetime membership to PLRPro (new version)
1 x lifetime membership to Progression Internet Marketing (private beta now launches in Jan)
15 AMA ready articles

Third Prize:
1 x lifetime membership to AMA
1 x lifetime membership to Progression Internet Marketing (private beta now launches in Jan)
10 AMA ready articles

Fourth Prize:
1 x lifetime membership to AMA
1 x lifetime membership to Progression Internet Marketing (private beta now launches in Jan)
10 AMA ready articles

Fifth Prize:
1 x lifetime membership to AMA
1 x lifetime membership to Progression Internet Marketing (private beta now launches in Jan)
10 AMA ready articles

So how do you win?

Simple.

Head over firstly to http://www.theimalliance.com You will see its our new site on reviewing products that members have actually used before.

It has Massive Authority, almost anything posted starts to rank as soon as its indexed.

You will see there are IM Authors, IM Products & IM Services available. But much of it is empty currently.

Your prize winning ability is directly related to your ability to share your experience with products you have used or authors you have bought from, in order to help your fellow readers.

Only products that you have deemed to be usefull (same with authors) to you, should be considered for writing. This is not a bitch fess site.

Article review quality will be checked and should at least meet the standard currently on the site.

Minimum wording is 600 words, so usually 600 to 1000

There are multiple point earning methods:

#1 - Review a product, service or author that is accepted for site placement. Then write an AMA article also around that product, service or author and submit into the network.

AMA Article submitted must link to the review, and also either to the author belonging to that review, or if the ama article is for an author, the second link should link too one of the authors products in the system.

Anchortext suggestions: product title (or author name) + review

Bonus Tip: Use the Google Keywords Tool, simply place the product name, or authors name and do basic level keyword research. You will have a good range of keywords directly suited for that product.

Points Earned Per Review & AMA Article: 100

BONUS OPPORTUNITIES:

Review Multiplier:
If an author does not exist currently for your product, or a product for that author then you may choose to write an additional review article (you wont initially need an AMA article since the same article links to both review & author & vice versa)

Bonus Points: 80

AMA Multiplier:

Write another AMA article and submit for the reviews/authors you have already placed up.

Bonus Points: 70

Ranking Multiplier:
Receive #2 to #6 google ranking for a review you have written for the product name + review (example market samurai review) or similar/equal term.

Bonus Points: 60 (site ranks well as it is maybe that extra link or AMA article will get you 60 more points?)

Breadth Multiplier:

Build external promotions to your product/author review and get bonus points (squidoo, other article directories etc, linking back with appropriate terms for review.

Bonus Points: 60

#2 I’m Not A Product Buyer Method:

Maybe you dont want to actually write the review of the product or author?

Write an AMA article to promote one of the other reviews (using stame methods in first point) leverage your mastery over the AMA system by doing just that.

Points: 50

Bonus Activity Modfier:

Review as a user other people’s products if you have used them before and provide a quality user review comment for products & authors you are familiar with.

Points: 20 per unique review comment

So with some smart thinking you could write a review, and an author for that review, write the AMA article, write another AMA article, build some further links from other sources & nab a #2 ranking.

Bringing in a WHOPPING 370 Points

Or you might be better at reviewing what you have used and just getting AMA articles in for them. It’s totally up to you.

Competition will go for 30 days (yes thats right 30 days unrestricted access to AMA)

Instructions:

#1 - Make sure you are signed up as a free member at least by going to http://www.articlemarketingautomation.com/register AND sign up as a free user at http://www.theimalliance.com - Then when you give me your article review idea’s I will set you too draft writer for submitting reviews into draft.

#2 - Leave a comment on this post with your real email so I can get in touch with you & the following info.
Competition: Absolutely cant wait to get started. or if you cant sorry need to skip this one.

Review & or Author to review: Mark Joyner Review (author review), or Market Samurai review(product review) or….hehe Article Marketing Automation Review.

Planned Activity & Bonus Activity To Win Points:

#3 To start with its best in first dressed in selecting products to review or authors to review. Then following this I will get in touch personally to give you my email so you can get it right away. From after the first answers start coming through I will give you my personal email so you can get in touch with me and vice versa.

#4 If your topic is picked you will have to pick another.

#5 You will need to be a member at www.theimalliance.com to be able to submit articles, this is a free signup. I will manually make you a Draft afticle writer there if you would like to be involved. You will receive my personal email shortly so long as I know the person.

If you have any further idea’s to contribute, please you have 24 hours left before I lock this hard in as the competition.

Looking forward to your replies and helping you get results.

Onwards & Upwards
Marc Lindsay

Whew that was a great read! I am sure all of you enjoyed reading the comments and ideas for the Free Trial and Membership Giveaway.

So without further ado, here are the ten commenters that will win a free AMA account for life:

Commenter #18: Brad

Commenter #35: Ryan Rigney

Commenter #36: Amir Dash

Commenter #44: Shelly

Commenter #46: Jimmy

Commenter #64: Adam

Commenter #65: Corina

Commenter #73: DonD

Commenter #75: Mark

Commenter #84: Baldwin

The winners will receive an e-mail from our staff telling you that you won (we will use the e-mail that you wrote when you commented). Please coordinate with our staff to claim your lifetime account upgrade.

Now, for the next phase, we will roll out the details of the AMA competition in a few days.

A shout out to all the people who participated.

Marc Lindsay

If You Are Not A FREE Member Yet

Click Here To Register a FREE Account on AMA

The top 10 answers below will get a free AMA account for life.

All you need to do is be creative and put a good competition & competition rating example forward on what would be a really nice competition you would have fun being part off.

Well coming into December and having an absolutely stellar 2009 together we wanted to give you a little bit of a bonus to help some of the free members here see the power of AMA and get some early christmas results for those niche sites of yours.

This will happen next week on Tuesday I have yet to set a time.

What will you do with this free article submission period?

Do you think we should do a mini competition?

If so what should the reward be and what should the competition be?

Who can get the fastest results through AMA?

What do you think?

Post your comments below, the top 10 answers in creativity & depth will win a LIFETIME AMA membership.

Marc Lindsay

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1 - Edward Seward with 3,655 points
2 - Andrew Kelly with 2,716 points
3 - Timothy Solosa with 1,978 points
4 - Roue Yecpot with 1,628 points
5 - Geoff Ford with 1,583 points
6 - Haiming Jiang with 1,502 points
7 - Chris Morris with 1,009 points
8 - Michael Shook with 1,005 points
9 - Susan Odea with 937 points
10 - Patrick Loh with 896 points

Congratulations to the winners we will be contacting you via email with instructions on how to claim your prizes.

Keep a look out as we will be announcing another competition very soon for a different aspect of AMA. Already the growth and results generated by the network are astounding.

This is all thanks to you guys in supporting us and AMA

Keep up the fantastic work…. Onwards & Upwards.

The AMA Team

When you go to your Articles section, you will notice a new green button called, “Rankings”.

The system takes all the anchor text options that you use to promote a specific hyperlink, and checks the position where the hyperlink is displayed in the Google search results for each anchor text option.

You can track your progress by printing the results and comparing them with the new results every few weeks.

We trust this will make your life a little easier, and add even more value to your AMA subscription.

I have to tell you, the AMA network has been exploding, not just in terms of size, but in terms of results for members…

That’s not why I wanted to chat to you today though, we have put together a “little” competition for members of AMA, and it’s as simple as this, who can add the highest number of sites into the system.

The results of the AMA network are driven by 2 things, it’s size and strength… now we are adding our own sites into the network here as well, but we can’t be including ourselves in the competition that would be cheating

Now, it’s my birthday tomorrow, and it happens to be Marcs wifes birthday too, so we were going to have this competition and give away a bunch of PLRPro memberships and AMA memberships and stuff that is fantastic, but it isn’t… real… not like cash is anyway.

So Marc and I kicked around the idea of putting up $3k in cash and prizes for grabs.
Its time to lay down the rules for the AMA Site Smackdown Competition.

Here’s the really cool points.

1. Free & Paid members can compete
2. There are some really cool prizes
3. All you need to do is add your sites into the network to get prizes.

For every site you add into the system you will receive 1 point, if that site is on a unique ip address you will receive 5 points.

The top 10 point winners will win the goodies.

Click Here To Register a FREE Account on AMA

So lets lay down the prizes.

Prize #1 - $1000 USD in cold hard cash to help you with your Internet Empire + 1 Year FREE PLRPro Membership Valued At $1164 (includes AMA FREE Also) + 1 Pro Version Traffic Travis + 1 WP SEO Sniper Professional WordPress plugin

Prize #2 - Sony PS3 + 1 Year FREE PLRPro Membership Valued At $1164 (includes AMA FREE Also) 1 Pro Version Traffic Travis + 1 WP SEO Sniper Professional WordPress plugin

Prize #3 - 8GB Ipod Nano with $100 in Itunes vouchers + 1 Year FREE PLRPro Membership Valued At $1164 (includes AMA FREE Also) 1 Pro Version Traffic Travis + 1 WP SEO Sniper Professional WordPress plugin

Prize #4 - $200 in cash + 1 Year FREE PLRPro Membership Valued At $1164 (includes AMA FREE Also) 1 Pro Version Traffic Travis + 1 WP SEO Sniper Professional WordPress plugin

Prize #5 - $100 in cash + 1 Year FREE PLRPro Membership Valued At $1164 (includes AMA FREE Also) 1 Pro Version Traffic Travis + 1 WP SEO Sniper Professional WordPress plugin

Prizes #6 - #10 1 Year FREE PLRPro Membership Valued At $1164 (includes AMA FREE Also) 1 Pro Version Traffic Travis + 1 WP SEO Sniper Professional WordPress plugin

You can see the top 15 people via points in the sidebar, so you know how close you are to nabbing a top 10 position.

Competition End Date is Midnight, EST (New York time), on October 10th 2008, so you have 14 days to go nuts adding sites.

Click Here To Register a FREE Account on AMA

Remember a unique IP is worth 5 points.

Mark Ling & the guys over at http://www.traffictravis.com have also donated 10 copies of their latest SEO software valued at $99.95 per copy.

Dewald Pretorius over at http://www.wpseosniper.com donated 10 copies of his WordPress SEO plugin software valued at $97.00 per copy.

Good Luck…Have Fun & Win some prizes

AMA Team

Update: Site points are recalculated once every day.

Go to Options/Settings, Writing, and look at the list of ping services in the “Update Services” text box.

If you have a long list of ping services there, then that’s probably the reason why you’re getting the error messages.

Pinging all those services is taking so long that the AMA software times out while waiting for your blog to respond back to say that the post was successfully published.

Please remove some of the ping services until you don’t get the error message. You really only need http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ in the list, and that one alone won’t slow down publishing on your site.

The AMA system cannot wait indefinitely for your blog to respond, otherwise we would never be able to get through all the publishing that the system must do.

If removing the ping services does not solve the issue, then check if any plugins are slowing down the publishing process.

Log in to your blog with the admin account, and go to Settings, and then Writing.

Check the box next to “XML-RPC” on the Writing options page, and save the settings.

If you receive an error message and the article was actually successfully published on your site, the most likely cause was a plugin on your site that either crashed or generated PHP warning messages.

Some plugins run after WordPress has published a post. When we publish to the blog, we expect a well-formed XML document back from WordPress to tell the AMA system that the post was successfully published.

The trouble is, if a plugin (or any other PHP script) generates errors or warnings on your site at that point, those error or warning messages are included in the response we get back from WordPress.

That extra content breaks the XML, and then AMA cannot understand the response we received from your site.

Check the “error_log” of your site for any PHP error or warning messages generated by plugins. If possible, please deactivate those plugins.

You can usually find the “error_log” file in the root (home) folder of your site.

We’ve noticed that the OnlyWire plugin is one of those that crashes the XML-RPC interface on some blogs.

You can go the easy route, and insert just normal hyperlinks (3 at most per article), which means all the copies of your article that are published on sites are going to contain the same anchor text on the links back to your site.

However, there’s a better and more powerful way to do it… by submitting spinnable anchor text inside the article.

Here’s how to do it.

Your normal hyperlink would look like this:
<a href="http://example.com">anchor text</a>

To spin the anchor text, write your hyperlinks like so:
<a href="http://example.com">{anchor 1~anchor 2~anchor 3}</a>

Here’s an example:
<a href="http://example.com">{fish tackle~tackle for fishing~fly fishing tackle}</a>

When AMA distributes your article, it spins the anchor text before it publishes the article on a site.

Hence, on Site 1, your hyperlink would say:
<a href="http://example.com">fish tackle</a>

On Site 2, the link would say:
<a href="http://example.com">fly fishing tackle</a>

Etc…

It’s very important to make sure that every anchor text option makes sense within the context of the sentence where you’re including the link. Reading the sentence back to yourself with every anchor text option helps a lot to ensure that an option doesn’t break the sentence grammar.

There is no limit to the number of options that you can put between the { } characters.

It’s important to note that you cannot do this via AMA’s assisted rewrite feature. You must insert the spinnable anchor text options before you submit the article on the new article submission page in AMA, and then rewrite the article using the assisted rewriting feature of AMA.

You could stop here if you wanted. It will already give you a lot of power with hyperlinks.

But, you can go to the advanced level and really mix things up. Note, mix things up, not mess things up.

You are generally going to have more blog posts on your site than the number of articles that you’re going to submit into AMA.

What if there were a way to insert a link to “blog post #1″ in one copy of the article that’s distributed, and a link to “blog post #2″ in another copy of the article that’s distributed?

Here’s how to do it.

Step 1 is to spin the hyperlinks themselves:

{<a href="http://example.com/link-1/">anchor</a>~<a href="http://example.com/link-2/">anchor</a>~<a href="http://example.com/link-3/">anchor</a>}

Step 2 is to spin the anchor text inside those hyperlinks:

{<a href="http://example.com/link-1/">[anchor 1|anchor 2|anchor 3]</a>~<a href="http://example.com/link-2/">[anchor 4|anchor 5|anchor 6]</a>~<a href="http://example.com/link-3/">[anchor 7|anchor 8|anchor 9]</a>}

Note that in this case, the hyperlinks are spun by the { } delimiters, and the anchor text is spun by the [ ] delimiters. Do not include { } inside { } delimiters. It won’t work.

With AMA, you can spin text at two levels, by including [ ] delimiters inside { } delimiters.