That works out well, for me and you both. For me, I don't have to write many reviews, for you, you only get reviews of products or services that are being used in real life, and are worth using.

Ok, so what exactly is Article Marketing Automation? Well, This is a service from the guys at PLR Pro – Marc and Dan – and they are good guys. What they've done is create a system that allows you to do two things;

• get free, unique content for your website
• submit your own content for publication on other people's websites

Yes, there are two distinct services here, which can operate independently of each other. I'm going to look at them separately because it makes things much clearer.

Free content for your website

Firstly, if you are a website owner, you can register here for free and add your own website to the system. It's a pretty easy process;

1. register for an account
2. add your site details
3. select your article topics
4. specify how many articles you want to receive each day

That's pretty much it really. Once you've set your site up in the system, you will start getting articles posted to it. You do get the chance to specify whether articles are auto-approved and posted, or whether you want to approve them manually. If you're an auto-approval kind of person, I'd advise you go for manual approval at least for the first few days, just to make sure you've got the right categories and your articles are all relevant.

By the way, you also get the opportunity to link the article categories to your own website categories. For example, if the system has a category of "Internet Marketing" and your blog has a category of "Online Marketing" you can link the two so that any articles sent out in the "Internet Marketing" category are posted to your site in the "Online Marketing" category.

Posting your articles to other websites

This is the killer for me. If you're reading this, you probably know all about why you need links back to your website. This is an extremely effective method of getting them. In short, this system allows you to submit as many articles as you like and have them published on lots of other websites. In those articles, you can include up to three links back to your website, or to any other website.

It's difficult to explain how valuable this is, without starting to use hype, but I'll just say that without backlinks (links back to your website) you won't get any visitors, at least not from the search engines. Generally speaking, the more backlinks you have, the more likely the search engines are to show your site for any given search term. And that means more people clicking on your link and visiting your website, which is what it's all about.

This is what will make the difference between you having a website that has visitors and one that doesn't. The search engines still attach weight to links from other sites – they see links as a vote of confidence. If your site has votes, the search engines will assume it has useful content, they will display it in the search results, and you will get visitors. It's that simple. Well, ok, there are other factors involved, but this is the fundamental one.

There are other services out there (I have used them) that charge far more each month, have fewer sites that you can distribute your articles to, and are harder to use. Article Marketing Automation is one of only three tools that I regularly use for getting backlinks through articles, and it is the cheapest. This is definitely the one to start with, but that doesn't mean it's just for beginners. It has plenty of features for the more advanced article marketers out there, but it's also really easy to use so is ideal for beginners.

I know I haven't given very much away, the truth is I'm not sure how grateful Marc and Dan would be if I revealed the internal workings of their service, but hop on over to the sales page and read about it from the guys.

Can you use this to get on the first page of Google? Absolutely. Click here to go to the site.

Please note: this review applies to the current version of PLR Pro, which is now closed to the public until a major revamp is complete. I've heard rumors of upcoming features and by all accounts it will be a very different beast from this one. I'll redo this post to reflect the new service when it's open to the public again.

I know PLR (private label rights) articles are a controversial topic, so I wanted to share my experience with a couple of providers that I personally use. It's a sort of review, I guess.

The first one is PLR Pro. I use their stuff and I can honestly say they are definitely one of the best (maybe even the best) article providers out there.

If you're looking for decent quality articles that are only released to a relatively small number of people (200 in this case) then PLR Pro may be just what you're looking for.

Basically you get a collection of 40 articles written on 11 different topics each and every month. That's 440 articles in total. The topics – or niches – are always well researched so you can be sure there's a demand for the information. You also get the keyword research spreadsheets as part of the niche package, so you get quick and easy access to those long-tail keywords!

The guys also produce a complete set of graphics and website templates for each nichee. At the moment, the templates they provide are for Article Site Builder (which is an in-house article site building application which you get as part of your membership), WordPress, XSitePro, WebsiteArticleWizard, and Matt Callen's HyperVRE software.

What this means is that if you have one of these applications you can simply plug in the complete set of articles and out comes your website. It's a huge time saver. Oh yes, you also get the graphics in Adobe Photoshop format – just in case you want to tweak the header image or something.

You'd think that would be enough really, but you also get access to a gadget (technical term) which will create a complete WordPress blog for you, with a search engine optimized template for displaying your articles to best effect. The gadget will actually go and install WordPress on your web server and all all the right plugins ..etc. Pretty cool.

By the way, if you don't have your own server, the guys will also provide you with a hosting solution, with full WordPress support ..etc. And yes, that's part of your membership.

They also make available a network of sites where you can post links to your own article sites or blogs. The guys work on these constantly to build links, page rank ..etc, so it's a great head start for getting decent links to your own new sites.

One of the best parts of the membership is the incredible wealth of tutorials and videos, in which the guys explain everything you need to know about PLR Pro. I found these really helpful. Yeah, documentation is great, but when you don't know where to start, there is nothing like a video of someone taking you through it step by step to help everything drop into place.

Anyway, that's a quick review of PLR Pro. So, if you're looking for decent quality articles which are given to small number of people and you appreciate lots of help getting going, then go check out PLR Pro.

Oh, I almost forgot, it's currently $97 a month, which I still think is an absolute bargain.