(03-29-2019 03:58 AM)12days Wrote: [ -> ]If anyone is still interested in this product, here is a very good, un-biased review that should help you make your decision a little easier.
GREAT REVIEW ARTICLE
For me it clinched it, I am no longer interested.
12days saying once again, just my 2 cents worth!
Un-biased review?
Really? Did you read it? (or write it!)...
You mean the review you linked to with HUGE COLORED LETTERS, which criticises one product only to end with his own affiliate link to another product?
= which is Wealthy Affiliate, by the way.
You mean a review that has 2 main criticisms of this product, both of which are dumb, and repeated often (because he has only 2).
And anyone here who knows anything about Wealthy Affiliate will also know that any review site that says 'WA' is their prime recommendation, is a WA 'acolyte' doing what WA acolytes always do, in the way that WA tells them to -- review other products, criticise them, then link to us (WA)...
If I was cynical, I'd guess you are the owner of the blog you linked to and this is part of your link building exercise... if I was cynical.
Otherwise, you are just a bit uninformed and shouldn't be writing here advising people about much.
As for WP Affiliate Machine...
It's fine. It does the job it says it does. And if people are silly enough to use it cold, without editing and adding to the scraped posts, then more fool them. I mean, what do you expect from a plugin that tells you up front it scrapes the reviews from elsewhere?
Big surprise! It's duplicate content! Big surprise, 40 other sites are using it = 40 lazy affiliates (who'd have thought affiliates might be lazy?)
So, what do you do to get around that?
Here's an idea -- take a few minutes out of your day and rewrite the intro paragraph. Or maybe more. There you go, no more duplicate content -- but at least WP Affliate Machine has set you up with the basis of a review. That's why it's useful.
And the other 'con' mentioned in that review was that it 'sometimes takes days to get permission to promote the products as an affiliate'...
Ok man. If that and duplicate content are your 2 main (un-biased) criticisms. You need another part time job. Because, clearly, auto-scraping content and 'waiting' are too much work for you.
Dumb stuff.
So, my review?
WP Affiliate Machine does what it says on the label. No more no less. If you're lazy, it will get affiliate reviews for you and post them to your site. Great!
Get it (with the OTO so you're not limited). But make sure you rewrite some of the content! And if you have a few more minutes spare maybe change the image alts and meta data (maybe even swap the images out for others) and maybe even add a YT vid and a few sentences of your own. It's not a VA, it's just a scraper targeting affiliate reviews, that's all. But useful.
And, by the way, don't waste your time (and money) with Wealthy Affiliate!