Jun 10, 2010
Hopefully, you read my last Magic Submitter review of Account Creation. Now, the long anticipated review of content submission. After all, what is an automated submitter without content submission?
As with my review of account creation, I will list site specific issues at the end of the post. One thing I would like to note is this review test run was performed over one week ago. Magic Submitter is constantly updated, so these any stated problems may have already been resolved.
This review was done with Magic Submitter 1.9, using 3 browser windows and the CAPTCHA solving service, decaptcher.com. I utilized the Auto Retry feature, which allows Magic Submitter to retry submission 3 times if errors occur. If it is unable to complete the task within three attempts it skips the site and lists the status as aborted. I used Magic Article Rewriter (MAR) to spin content wherever possible. I used a spun article for both article directory and blog submissions. The article was spun to nearly 200% uniqueness and generated spun articles ranging in word count from 630 words to 750 words.
Article submission did not go as well as expected. There were several accounts that were listed as not activated. I checked the email account for the activation links. Some article directories never sent the confirmation emails (not Magic Submitter's fault.) But there were other activation emails that appeared to have been clicked on. I tried clicking the activation links and was told by the article directories that the account had expired. All in all I was able to submit an article to 17 out of 24 article directories that I had an account.
Bookmarking submission was quick and overall, very successful. I was observing the submission windows, and most errors occurred due to inaccurate CAPTCHA solving. I have performed several bookmarking runs with different accounts. If you want the highest success rate I suggest using one browser window and manually solving CAPTCHA's. If you are using decaptcher, it helps to only use one browser window. You might want to log into your decaptcher account and check their service load. If it lists 50% or above I would choose to manually solve the CAPTCHA's.
Now to the meat and potatoes - Blog Submission. In my opinion blogs are the real power house of a tool like Magic Submitter. You can maintain several blogs with links pointing to other web properties, and with social bookmarking you can give these blogs authority over time. Blog submissions were hit and miss. I ran two submission through different accounts to see how things panned out. I was able to successfully submit my spun article to a little less than 80% of the blogs that had accounts. See the end of the post for the details. One thing I would like to note is that within 5 minutes of submitting the content I could find at least two of the blogs listed in Google search results!
RSS submission was quick with a few errors. Since there are only 14 sites I decided to manually solve CAPTCHA's and use one browser window. Most sites accepted the feed no problem, while there were errors with 3 of the sites. I was able to manually make corrections for the site's with errors. Most of the errors occurred because the sites had implemented some form of CAPTCHA, which was not programmed into this version of Magic Submitter.
Video submission did not go well. I was submitting a 27MB flash video. I used the recommended 1 browser window to minimize errors. On approximately half of the sites Magic Submitter would open a Windows Explorer window of the directory where the video was stored on my computer. The program would sit with the window open until it timed out, which by default is one hour. I changed the video timeout to 40 seconds, which helped Magic Submitter move along at a quicker pace, but did not increase the success rate of submission. I spoke with Alexandr about this issue. He said it would be fixed in the next update, which due out in a couple days.
I hate to end this review on a low note (Video), but I want to be honest with my readers. As promised, I have listed site specific issues below. Thanks for reading along and if you would like to purchase Magic Submitter Click Here.
SITE SPECIFIC ISSUES
Article Directories:
- Buzzle - Observing the submission window showed that Magic Submitter did not submit the article even though Magic Submitter listed it as "submitted". I logged into the account to confirm that the article was not submitted.
- Article Dashboard - Said I hadn't confirmed my account. When I clicked the confirmation link in the email it stated "account expired."
- Self Growth - User must select a sub-category.
- Bukisa - User has to manually choose category and sub-category.
- Searchwarp - Site stated "author account closed."
- ArticleRich - My account wasn't activated. I manually clicked on the activation link in the email and then I was able to submit the article.
- U-Publish - Magic Submitter submitted the article just fine, but then tried to submit another article. I stopped the program and manually logged into U-Publish to delete the second article. Please note, since I was using spun content the two article did appear different.
- Articlebase - My account wasn't active. I clicked to resend email. I clicked the activation link and was able to submit my article.
- Articlecat - You have to use the BB code for urls such as [URL][/URL]
Blogs:
- Hubpages - User has to manually insert tags one per line. Magic Submitter stops the submission process and tells the user that this step is required.
- Jimdo - Listed my site as missing.
- On Sugar - Site said I had to create blog first. I manually created the blog and was able to submit content. As a side note, I think the most important thing is to be able automatically submit spun content to the blogs on a regular basis, so once your account is set up you are good to go.
- Terapad - Magic Submitter listed "Can't locate username text field."
- Mulitply - Make sure you use short, 20 character or less tags.
- SOSblog - Site said my blog didn't exist.
- Zoomshare - Magic Submitter stated "can't locate go button." Indeed, I did not see a go button.
- Thoughts.com - Magic Submitter state "Success text posted not found." Even though the program state this error, it did submit the content successfully.
RSS:
- FriendFeed - Magic Submitter listed the error "can't locate import as service link."
- Plazoo - The program lists the error "can't locate submit RSS link." The link is there, and all the information is filled in, but there is a CAPTCHA. If you manually solve the CAPTCHA and hit "submit" it works.
- Bloglines - Requires a CAPTCHA.
I know this may seem like a lot of errors, but I wanted to be brutally honest in this review. I would like to point out that Magic Submitter has been updated several times within the first 10 days since it's release and the next update should be HUGE!
All in all I am happy with the success rate of Magic Submitter. Since, you can automatically create unlimited accounts you can cover your bases in shotgun fashion. I will be posting another Magic Submitter review once the new version is released, so stay tuned and sign up for updates!
