THE ARTIFACT

If you are anywhere close to the affiliate marketing area of interest you have possibly heard of Alex Becker and Alex Cass’ new computer software called SEO Zen. It is taking the internet by storm with reports of affiliate sites developed in 60 seconds that completely fill with monetized content and loved by search engines. I got my hands on a beta copy before it was released and want to dispel some of the rumors, and provide an insider SEO Zen review so you can get the real skeletal.

What Does SEO Zen Do?

SEO Zen is branded software, but comes in the form of a WordPress plugin. You can instal it on pre-existing or brand new websites through the normal plugin install process.The plugin is supposed to SEO your site by creating Silos using your keywords, pull relevant content with video, monetize it, and then help you find relevant high PR back-links to get your website quickly ranked and achieving you money fast.For comfort I will break out each of these qualities and address them separately.You can also skip to the object demo video to watch Becker set up a page using SEO Zen in 60 seconds.What Is A Silo?Siloing isn’t something new, but it is definitely fantastic for constructing search engine-friendly websites. It is essentially where you build your website using keyword groups that deliberately link to each other.Simply the way it works is the top of the Silo is a keyword you want to rank for. It then links to a sub page built on an LSI form of the keyword. Then that page links to another sub page fashioned on an LSI version of your keyword. This bottom Silo page then links back to the top of the Silo.A Silo adds more frame to your website allowing the search engines to easily and quickly categorize the site. A properly Silo’d website in low competitor niches can sometimes rank very high with tiny to no backlinks.Also, any backlinks you send to the top of the Silo send link juice completely through each page of the Silo allowing you to get more bang for you buck with your backlinks. This can help variable pages of the Silo rank with fewer backlinks.SEO Zen will build your Silos automatically for you, which is how it helps you quickly rank for your combination of keywords.How Does SEO Zen Add 100% Unique & Monetized Content?By joining in your keyword into the SEO Zen control panel, the software will scrape relevant content and automatically add it to your website. The content is 100% unique (verified through CopyScape), and you have the way to go to spin it using the built in SEO Zen spinner.To harness the electrical power of video, it will also scrape, pull, and embed a relevant YouTube video into the page.You also insert your affiliate link for whatever offer it is you want to boost, choose the anchor text you want to use for your affiliate link, and SEO Zen will automatically convert each happening of the anchor text in the content into a clickable link to your affiliate offer.High PR Backlinks Using SEO ZenThe link-building strategy of SEO Zen revolves around finding high PR blogs relevant to your keywords that you can leave a comment on with a link pointing back to your affiliate site.This is riding the waves of the really results high PR blog commenting is still providing for positioning today, even after the recent Penguin 2.0 update.My Opinion On SEO ZenDo I endorse SEO Zen? The answer is Yes and No. Just hear me out:)In my opinion SEO Zen is more of a short expression solution for rankings and sales. I think if you are interested in suddenly ranking a website to make money fast, then SEO Zen is almost certainly more for you.If you are looking to build a long-term, advantageous brand in which you can create a real affiliate business with, then I do not recommend it.After playing near with SEO Zen, I have actually come up with a strategy I will use to execute it into my affiliate marketing business.My SEO Zen Affiliate Advertising And Marketing StrategyI plan on with SEO Zen in 2 ways.Launch JackingI think SEO Zen is correct for launch jacking. It has everything you need to quickly build and rank a website built in, which saves time and money. However, I will need to modify my strategy based on the plugins limitations.Since the scraped content is often not of the highest quality (i.e., readable), I will personally write my key posts or give via iWriter to ensure my most important posts/pages are <blank>, useful, and are written to convert.Again, since SEO Zen is even more of a short term strategy it fits perfectly into the timetable regularly needed for product launch jacking.Feeder BlogsYet another way I plan to provide SEO Zen is using it to build feeder blogs that link to my affiliate money sites.A feeder blog is a place that is built solely to provide relevant links to your money site, or other Tier 1 belongings. Feeder blogs can be high PR, or simply related.Since you can easily build suitable, themed websites complete with videos, you can easily create multiple Tier 2 websites that can boost rank of your money sites without fear of your main site getting disciplined.Readability of the content on Tier 2 sites is less pressing than on Tier 1 sites, so you don’t have to worry about posting or outsourcing content.What Does All This Mean To You?You simply need to understand if SEO Zen fits into your affiliate marketing business. Evaluate what your short-term and long-term strategies are, and see if it makes sense.Because it just produced, SEO Zen is available right now at a substantial discount. But I recommend you don’t base it simply on the discount price.Here is an awesome diagram of what a basic Silo looks like…