Does SYNND 4.0 worth the investment? I have tested all 6 modules in 17 different niches, guess what I got after spending 16946 credits. Read the Results Below.
Time is Money. We can’t create more hours in a day, BUT we can AUTOMATE TASKS so they take minutes rather than hours so we can get more done. Automating your marketing is what SYNND is all about.
To get the most out of this SYNND review use links below to jump to the the most important sections:
- How to make money with SYNND
- How effective SYNND is for SEO and Social Promotions
- Possible Obstacles and for new members
How I got into SYNND
Way back in 2008 I was browsing one of the popular Internet marketing forums and saw thread about driving insane traffic and sales using social media. This thread lead me to seo2020.com (website owned by Charles Heflin – one of the SYNND owners) where I downloaded blueprint on how to market your business through social media. It was called “The GRID” – information and ideas in that report were shocking, I would say revolutionary for any online business owner at that time. Charles was exploring and unfolding the idea that everything we do to make money online (traffic, sales, link building, list building) can be automated, intensified and replicated on much larger scale using social media, producing crazy business results. I was hooked. Then somewhere in 2009 I got an email about SYNND – private content syndication network. The idea of leveraging hundreds of members promoting your content through social bookmarking, voting, tweeting, commenting, all done automatically was very appealing to me. I am a big fan of automation, why spend hours when you can spend minutes?
What is SYNND?
SYNND is a tool – unique blend of powerful software and business community. If you already know what the SYNND is and just want to know how to use it to make money click here.
Imagine having hundreds of people promoting your content through votes, bookmarks, comments, ratings and article distribution. Imagine having the ability to automatically create thousands of references to your content, dominate SERP’s, establish social proof, and spread your content like wildfire across the Internet. Here is how it is possible using SYNND network:
1. You create piece of content (blog post, article, video, podcast, report, anything with url can be promoted) the better your content, the better results you’ll see.
2. You start promotion campaign for that piece of content within SYNND – there are 6 types of promotions available:
- Bookmarking – hundreds of members will bookmark your content across most popular social bookmarking websites
- Social News – your content get submitted and voted up on major social news sites like Digg, Mixx, Reddit
- Twitter – other members will re-tweet your message
- Article Submissions – create one article, spin it and SYNND will syndicate multiple variations of your article to TOP article directories providing you with ever growing traffic and quality backlinks.
- Blog Commenting – comments are submitted by other SYNND members or you can submit your own comments within SYNND and they will be posted on your blog or news story by other members to prime comments and provide social proof.
- Facebook Likes – other members will “Like” your page, blog, website…
3. Depending on your needs you can choose one or two types of promotions or you can go hog wild and use all of them to increase reach and visibility of your content as quickly as possible.
Ranking Triad
Read this if you want to know how to dominate SERP’s and get free traffic from Google.
As you may already know all major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) are striving to provide their users with most relevant, accurate and timely results so they constantly crawl the web searching for new and updated content. Up until recently their ranking algorithm was based on two core variables:
- Content (structure, relevance, keywords, domain name etc.)
- Links (quality, quantity, inbound, outbound, authority etc.)
With growing influence of Web 2.0 websites (i.e. YouTube, Twitter, Digg where content is created and driven by users) Search Engines give more and more weight in ranking algorithms to social buzz factor – interaction around particular piece of content going on social media properties and user activity going on your own website – traffic, RSS subscriptions, comments, updates etc. So, if visitors actively engage with your content – vote, bookmark, comment, tweet you will get backlinks coming from different Web 2.0 properties and will see higher positions in SERP’s (Search Engine Result Pages).
So now if you want to rank high in SERP’s you should be focusing on three main things (ranking triad):
- Content
- Links
- Social buzz/User activity
What SYNND can do for you
Here is how SYNND can be used to drive more visitors, subscribers, customers and sales for your online business according to new ranking triad rules.
- SE Rankings – Inbound links are still major factor in Search Engine rankings, the more links with relevant anchor text you have coming from authority websites to your pages the higher you rankings. You can get plenty of incoming links on autopilot with bookmarking and article submission campaigns. Inbound Social Buzz surrounding the deep content of your website or blog not only increases the visibility of your content, it tells the search engines that your content is “popular”, “timely” and “relevant” … The search engines want this kind of content at the top.
- Traffic – Traffic is now an important ranking factor for Google. Your site could have perfect content, tons of inbound links but if your content doesn’t have traffic then you will not rank well in the search engines. SYNND generates traffic. With hundreds of members promoting your content on most popular websites you’re tapping into giant stream of traffic. Use bookmarking, article submission, social news and re-tweet campaigns to drive traffic to your site.
- Social Proof – comments, votes, re-tweets and “Likes” are “social proof” that gives more credibility and authority to what you’re saying. You probably have seen it – a lot of websites now display badges with number of Diggs, Tweets and Facebook Likes on their articles and blog posts to draw your attention to the most popular/discussed topics and to establish social proof. Use bookmarking, Facebook “Likes” social news, blog commenting and re-teweet campaigns to establish social proof.
- Visibility and Viral Spread of Your Content – Content is King. Interesting, controversial, funny content raises up in social networks – look at the viral videos that can get 1 000 000’s of views in one day. SYNND is a tool that ignites viral spread and increases visibility of your content. So if you publish great content SYNND will help you rise above the noise and get noticed. Use all types of available campaigns to increase visibility and reach of your content.
Social Proof + Social Signals
While most people consider SYNND as link building tool I consider it more of a social proof building tool and I want to share small case study on how “social proof/signals impact conversions”.
Social Proof – Social Signals Case Study
It was 60 days experiment – testing 5 different variations across 2500 unique visitors on a very simple opt-in page with no graphics. Graphics were removed so they didn’t influence the results of the study. The purpose of this experiment was to determine if Social Signals increase opt-in form conversion rates.
- Minimalistic landing page with no color or graphics
- Broad PPC traffic from consumer based-keywords
- Vague, non-specific text of the landing page
- Landing page v. 1: No social signals; 500 visitors – 6 opt-ins = 1.2% conversion rate
- Landing page v. 2: Google Plus – 0 Facebook Likes – 0; 500 visitors – 4 opt-ins = 0.8% conversion rate
- Landing page v. 3: Google Plus – 0 Facebook Likes – 38; 500 visitors – 17 opt-ins = 3.4% conversion rate
- Landing page v. 4: Google Plus – 43 Facebook Likes – 82; 500 visitors – 24 opt-ins = 4.8% conversion rate
- Landing page v. 5: Google Plus – 95 Facebook Likes – 439; 500 visitors – 36 opt-ins = 7.2% conversion rate
Case Study Conclusion
Social Signals act as a social proof and increase conversion rates. With no social signals conversion rate was 1.2% with 400+ social signals conversion rate settled at 7.2%. Big takeaway – add social signals to all your pages – this will create social proof and increase sales, conversions, engagement. Social signals cause people to stop and pay attention. It is human nature to stop and see what all the buzz is about, that’s why all big news sites have social badges on their news stories that display number of likes, re-tweets etc…
How I use SYNND
I’m sure your mind is already ticking, thinking of how SYNND can work for you. There are a million different uses for this thing, and I’m going to leave it to you to figure out which is best for you. However, some suggested uses are:
Affiliate Offers
When I am choosing what products to promote I have couple rules that I follow:
- I should try the product myself or I should know the owner
- Product should be relevant to my audience and niche
- It should be risk free – they should have at least 30 days money back guarantee
- Commission should be not less than $15.
How I use SYNND to promote affiliate offers:
- I create review page that goes in depth about features and benefits of the product and surround it with other articles that my audience might be interested in. For example if I would promote “How to make money blogging” product I would surround my review with articles about affiliate marketing, SEO, guides how to get more traffic, subscribers and followers.
- Plug all these pages into SYNND and start Bookmarking and Article Submission campaigns in order to get relevant backlinks and top positions in Search Engines for my target keywords.
- Select several really good articles for voting campaigns on websites like Digg, Mixx, Reddit. Depending on topic and category vote them up to hundred votes, if the content is good viral nature will take over from there and it will get voted up naturally.
- Channel incoming traffic from Search Engines, referring, Social Media sites to the review page and capture it to my mailing list.
Offline Business (Local SEO)
SYNND is great tool for promoting local businesses because competition in Search Engines for local keywords (Fairfax dentist, North Bethesda plumber, Upper Marlboro Painter etc.) is very low but local businesses (dentist, layers, plumbers, chiropractors, surgeons, you name it…) are willing to pay big bucks for leads and customers. Before I knew anything about SYNND I was offering SEO (search engine optimization) and PPC (pay per click) services on CraigsList. That’s how I landed my first clients – couple of local dentists. They wanted to get their websites listed on first page of Google for dentistry related keywords in local searches. I was a newbie and only asked $2000 per website. Back then it was a lot for me. I finished the job, my clients were very happy with the results – websites were bringing 5-10 new clients every week. Only after a while I found out that on average every new customer for my local dentists was worth $1500+. They were happy to pay me because they knew that they will recoup their investment after just two clients. But the fact is very few online marketers considering local businesses as money making opportunity, bad for them because they’re leaving a lot of money on a table.
How I use SYNND to promote offline business:
Now I charge $3000-$5000 to optimize and rank website on the first page of Google for keywords relevant to their business plus $100 a month to keep the rankings. With SYNND it is easy – after optimizing website structure and content I run several bookmarking and article submission campaigns which is usually enough to get TOP 10 listing. I often see campaigns for all kinds of local businesses within SYNND ran by other members.
Resell Services
This strategy alone could easily recoup your investment in SYNND if you put it to action right away. People are making money reselling SYNND services. Yes, that’s right – you use 50% of your SYNND credits for your own needs and sell other half to customers. People are craving to outsource their marketing tasks – look at crowdsourcing/micro jobs websites like:
- http://www.fiverr.com
- http://microworkers.com/
- http://zeerk.com/
- http://gigbucks.com/
- http://uphype.com/
- http://taskarmy.com/
- http://www.justafive.com/
People are happy to pay $5, $10, $20 for someone to bookmark their website or “Like” their Facebook page. Be creative and put together nice packages, see example below.
For $20 I will provide the following every month:
- 10 Bookmarks
- 10 Retweets
- 10 Articles submission
- 10 Digg Votes
- 10 Facebook Likes
- 10 Blog Comments
You can have them (clients) provide all the materials (articles, text of the bookmarks) so all you have to do is to plug it into the SYNND. Good packages have thousand of sales, just browse some micro jobs websites mentioned above and look for popular offers.
I know members that are specificly reselling votes for social news sites. Bunch of website owners want to get to the front page of DIGG, Reddit, Mixx because that mean instant surge of traffic – thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of free visitors. But they can’t do it themselves because they don’t have network of friends powerful enough to bump up their story several hundreds votes, so they have to purchase additional votes. In my humble opinion OTHER companies out there are charging ridiculous prices for these services (see it yourself – Google “buy digg votes”).
usocial front page service:
- Reddit – $250
- DIGG – $600
- Mixx – $200
DiggFront – front page of DIGG -$495
I have seen better prices on Warrior Forum (300 Diggs – $80)but is not available anymore. Why pay for votes if you can have as many as you want with SYNND – each vote is by separate user, with aged profile, unique IP, unique name.
How I use SYNND to sell votes
A successful DIGG campaign can bring you massive traffic gains. Do you have an article or publication that needs some real exposure? SYNND can provide you organic diggs from a network of users. You can see right now how powerful SYNND network is – grab DIGG votes at LOWEST price on the Internet:
- 25 diggs – $18.75 (0.75 per digg)
- 50 diggs – $27.5 (0.55 per digg)
- 100 diggs – $35.0 (0.35 per digg)
Contact me with your story details and number of diggs needed.
Product Launch Bonuses
If you have been around Internet Marketing for any length of time you know what the “Product Launch” is, these days every major information product is released using this strategy (this is over simplified overview just to give you an idea how it works):
- “Prelaunch” – you give away great content (videos, software, strategies, reports relevant to your niche) for several days building up buzz, momentum and excitement around your product. People love free stuff, they can put your strategies to work, see social proof (comments, tweets); everybody get happy and exited.
- “Product Launch” – you make an offer to buy your product, back it up by “rock solid money back guarantee”, offer all kind of bonuses to “fast movers”, open your shopping cart and wait for sales to roll in (this is ideal scenario). Usually cart stays open for 24 or 48 hours and people are rushing to buy the product because it can be gone forever after the launch is over.
Affiliates promote product launches like crazy because they’re getting hefty commissions. Usually commissions range anywhere from $1000 per sale up to $3000 and more per sale for mastermind classes and private couching programs.
Here is how to choose RIGHT Product Launch to maximize your earnings:
- Look for higher priced products
- Look for products that are generating ton of prelaunch buzz
- Look for products with recurring commissions built in
- Look for people having launches who you’d like to meet personally or do business with
How I use SYNND to Promote Bonus Offers for Product Launches:
The key to making money with product launches is simple – you have to be in the right place in the right time with great bonus offer. I know it may sound over simplistic but let me explain. When somebody is about to invest several thousands dollars in information product they need to know that is not scam, that it is best product they can get and if they can get some type of bonus to sweeten the deal. So people start searching in Google for “product name” + “bonus” or “product name” + “review”. I am an affiliate marketer myself so I want my bonus offer to be in front of people that are about to purchase product that I am promoting.
One of the product launch promotions I have done on this blog was for “Video Boss” – training program from Andy Jenkins about video marketing, great product by the way, you can see my “video boss review” here. I wanted to be on the TOP positions when people searched for “Video Boss Review” or “Video Boss Bonus” so I can say
“Hey this is great product, if you buy through my affiliate link now you’ll get this complimentary bonus, it works great with a product you’re about to purchase and definitely will help you make more money”.
Put yourself in a shoes of that person – “It hard to resist – you have nothing to loose, you would buy this product anyway but now you can get cool bonus just for buying.”
In order to get the top spot in Google you need to have:
- Relevant content
- Your page need to be indexed
- Have more backlinks/buzz surrounding your page than your competitors.
The sooner Google will index your page the better – ideally you want to appear in SERP’s within hours from the time you publish it so you can drive traffic to the bonus offer. If you publish your review and bonus offer on brand new domain that doesn’t have any backlinks it can take up to several weeks for Google to index your website (if you do nothing about it), but you don’t have several weeks. You have several DAYS maximum, so we need to get a lot of backlinks leading to our site from authoritative and trusted domains that get crawled often by Google bot – bookmarking sites and article directories are great for this purpose.
Here is how to dominate first page of Google with your bonus offer using SYNND:
As soon as I publish the article I setup several bookmarking and article submission campaigns within SYNND and use my primary keywords as anchor text for the links. Next thing is plugging viral component – I use twitter module which allow your message to be re-tweeted by hundreds of SYNND members. I tweet about product, my review, bonus offer. All these tactics allow me get my page indexed very quickly, get bunch of backlinks and social buzz and channel traffic to my bonus offer, spending minutes instead of hours.
Four examples above are just tiny fraction of how SYNND can be used for online business. It can be used anywhere where you need more visibility, traffic, backlinks.
- Sell Your Own Products
- Drive organic traffic to your AdSense sites or CPA offers
- Drive traffic to build targeted list of subscribers
- Increase popularity and visibility of your blog
- Became visible in your marketplace
- List goes on…
How Effective is SYNND?
If you plan to see immediate rankings and gobs of money the next day you start using SYNND I have to disappoint you because it won’t probably happen that quickly. I have tested SYNND in various markets ranging from “dog training” to “diesel power stations” (17 different niches total) and here is what I was able to get:
SYNND for SEO
- How good is SYNND for SEO – I started SEO campaign for one of my blogs using SYNND bookmarking module, within 3 weeks I spend 1258 credits on this campaign and was able to get 600 backlinks. Those 600 backlinks were spread between 7 pages I was promoting. I was targeting mid-range competitive keywords 25 000 – 300 000 indexed pages for exact phrase (Google your keyword in ” ” i.e “dog training” – 4 880 000 results). For keywords with low level of competition (below 40 000 competing pages) I was able to get TOP10 listing, for more competitive keywords TOP20 – TOP40. For example one of the keywords I was targeting was “YouTube SEO” – I was able to jump from position 276 to 19 in 3 weeks.
I think this is extraordinary results, considering that I have only spent 30 minutes to setup bookmarking campaigns. Could they be better? Yes they could if in addition to bookmarking I would use SYNND article marketing and social news modules. But I didn’t have articles ready for syndication at that time and none of the pages was worth news submission. Campaign is still running so my positions in SERP’s will be improving and if I need more links I always can create another campaign.
Can SYNND be used to rank in highly competitive market?
To rank in a highly competitive market (weight loss, payday loans etc) all you need to do is create more content and then start a bookmarking and/or syndication campaign on that content. Then fire up an article marketing campaign to distribute your content to the top article directories. The collective social buzz from all the “related” content will cause you to rank higher and higher for even ultra-competitive keywords/phrases.
Of course it takes more content and more SYNND campaigns to rank for ultra-competitive keywords but if you start with the lower hanging fruit then you will build into the higher, more competitive terms through the authority that SYNND will help you build.
SYNND for Social Promotions
- How good is SYNND for Social Promotions – as long as you have good quality content, enough credits to support all of you marketing campaigns it just matter of time to get to the top of social media sites.
If your plan is to hit front page of social media news sites supported by SYNND – regularly produce and submit killer content and vote it up as much as you can.
If your plan is to be listed on most popular tags on social bookmarking websites (they have high PR and get crawled often by Search Engine bots) – choose 6-8 tags (more tags will take longer) and consistently run bookmarking campaigns using these tags. Depending on tags you have selected it may take from several dozens to several hundreds of bookmarks.
If your plan is to increase number of followers on twitter and drive traffic to your website or blog – create fantastic content, tweet about it and then run re-tweet campaign within SYNND and re-tweet your message as many times as you want. But don’t be a spammer, do not tweet straight to sales and opt-in pages, lead people to helpful articles, educational videos and then offer them to follow you and sign up for your list.
SYNND for Twitter
Driving gobs of traffic from Twitter using re-tweet function within SYNND may sound like a great idea, but don’t be so quick – here is why. Normally if a person has a lot of followers on Twitter when s/he re-tweets your message all their followers will see it and some of them will visit your page and hopefully re-tweet your message again.
SYNND will create accounts for you and post re-tweet messages on them. But those auto created accounts aren’t really targeted – one re-tweet is about “weight loss”, another one is about “server load-balancing”, they don’t provide much value, so no real person would follow them. People that are following my auto created accounts are probably bots.
I am exaggerating that re-tweets from other SYNND members are completely worthless in terms of driving traffic directly from Twitter because they don’t have real followers.
All I am saying is that re-tweets by SYNND members are not as effective as they could be because they (Twitter accounts created by SYNND) don’t have real followers. You can get traffic by posting tweets about interesting/trending topics and have them re-tweeted by SYNND members, so when someone searching on Twitter sees your message/re-tweet they are enticed to click to find out more.
So, even if you get your message re-tweeted a lot by SYNND members it won’t get exposed to thousands of their followers, this may seem like a downside of a system, but it is ok because you get 2 other benefits:
- Social Buzz – more than one person is ACTING on your content. This is Social Buzz. This is good for rankings. Search Engines can’t see difference between Twitter accounts – all they see is activity.
- Social Proof – on your pages you display re-tweet widget with number of re-tweets, so other readers can see how many times your blog post/article has been re-tweeted. This is “social proof” and it will entice other readers to re-tweet your content outside of the SYNND network. When new visitors see “the count” then they will stay on your page longer to read your content. This is good for establishing “Activity” factor discussed in the Ranking Triad.
What will Social Proof do for You?
Social Proof through a Twitter campaign will:
- Cause people to stay on your page longer. Length of visit is a ranking factor for Google. The longer people stay on your page, the better you will rank… Simple. Visitors will stay on your page longer because you are showing them that OTHER PEOPLE have found your content interesting enough to re-tweet it.
The search engines are paying attention to the Social Buzz created from Twitter. If more people re-tweet your content you will do better in the search engine rankings.
SYNND for Facebook
Up until recently I was all confused about Facebook marketing – pages, profiles, groups, ads… I did not have a clue about how to use them properly. Since then I improved my Facebook marketing skills and picked up couple strategies that seem to be working great for me. So here are some key takeaways:
- Facebook Profile is your PERSONAL profile, it is not intended for marketing, your friends should be your real friends – people you really know.
- Facebook Groups are great for organizing on a personal level and for smaller scale interaction around a cause.
- Facebook Pages are better for brands, businesses, bands, movies, or celebrities that want to interact with their fans or customers without having them connected to a personal account, and have a need to exceed Facebook’s 5,000 friend cap.
Here is Facebook marketing strategy that I am using right now:
- Create Facebook page about something that people already love and are passionate about.
- Use SYNND to establish initial social proof (“Likes”) then use Facebook ads to promote page
- Provide interesting, valuable content, occasionally inject marketing message but provide value first.
- Add tab to your page with opt-in box and move people to your list and sales funnel.
So far it has been working great – from 0 to almost 1 000 000 post views in less than 3 weeks. How long would it take you to get your message exposed 1 000 0000 times on your website or blog? Best part about it – I did not pay to get my message seen, I paid initially to get those fans but after they “Like” page everything I post on the wall will automatically show up in their news feed.
Here is how SYNND fits into the Facebook game – use Facebook Like campaign to generate social buzz around your content and establish initial social proof – more people will “Like” your page if they see that other people did the same. The more people “Like” your page the better you will do in the search engine rankings; this goes true for pages on your own website and for fan pages on Facebook (now they are ranked and indexed by SE too).
4 Things You Must Have
There are 4 things you need to have in place to start making money with SYNND and get the most out of the network:
- Central Hub
- Content Syndication Network (SYNND)
- Social Networking Accounts
- Sales Funnel
Central Hub
Central Hub is the area where you publish new content and drive traffic to, that’s the place where people are entering your sales funnel. Let’s take for example www.powerofcomparison.com (this site) – this is my personal blog where I publish content about “online business and making money online” along side with reviews of different product and tools that I found useful.
I have created free tutorial series that show people how to start making money online and start their online business, I tried to make them as good as possible, sharing valuable information that I have learned over the years. People are coming to these articles from different places: my YouTube videos, other pages of my website, Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing), Facebook, Twitter, other blogs and websites etc… If they like what they see they can opt-in for more tutorials and strategies that will help them to start and grow successful online business. When they subscribe to my list they will start getting emails from me encouraging them to work harder and make more money online. While they’re working their way through the program I recommend them great products that will help them to make even more money. That’s how I move people from my central hub to my sales funnel.
Content Syndication Network
Content Syndication Network (SYNND) – content syndication is the secret element that most Internet marketers know absolutely nothing about. The reason is quite simple, content syndication is relatively new and is a byproduct of the explosion in participation in online social networks. Content syndication is the act of extending the reach of your central hub content by distributing it to your content syndication network – hundreds of members promoting your content through social bookmarking, voting, tweeting, commenting, all done on autopilot through SYNND.
Social Networking Accounts
Social Networking Accounts – the whole SYNND ecosystem, is based on credits. To accumulate credits, you have to spend some time promoting campaigns of other members. You can bookmark their page to a social bookmarking site, vote or comment on their story on Digg, or re-tweet one of their tweets, each action you take will earn one credit.
You don’t actually have to login to each site and manually enter in all the required information. Instead, you just select tasks to complete, and they will get sent to your Remote Automator which will do them for you. The Remote Automator is a little program that you need to install and it sits in your computer’s system tray waiting for tasks to complete. In order to be able to earn credits you need to have accounts on social networks supported by SYNND (SYNND will automatically create them for you) so your Remote Automator can use those accounts to complete the tasks and earn you credits.
Sales Funnel
Sales Funnel – It will do you no good to start getting traffic if you have not built the process through which people will buy from you. This is a no brainer but you would be surprised how many people start building something online without any idea of what they will sell or how they will sell it.
Go ahead and build your sales funnel process. There are many different types of sales funnel processes. Yours may be as simple as leading someone to the sales page of an affiliate program you are promoting or as intricate as a 30 part ARS (Auto-Responder Series). Whatever the case may be, go ahead and map out and build your sales funnel.
After you have mapped out your sales funnel, go ahead and develop the content for it. If you have planned on developing an ARS series then go ahead and create that content now. Get everything in place and ready to go for when you start blogging and setting up promotions.
Possible Obstacles
I know by now you’re all exited about SYNND and can’t wait to get your hands on this phenomenal tool so let me burst your bubble a little bit so you’ll be prepared when you get it. These are the things you should be prepared for when you join:
- Learning curve – there is a bit of learning curve involved. SYNND is a powerful tool and with power comes responsibility. All members must have been through brief certification process (30 min or less) to make sure everybody knows how setup and use the system. If you brand new to social media marketing I highly suggest to go through social media science education course – you’ll learn advanced strategies and techniques to dominate Web 2.0 landscape and how to setup your Perpetual Internet Traffic Machine that will produce steady flow of targeted leads and sales.
- Spinning syntax chore – it is not ideal to have the exact same bookmark text being saved by hundreds of members and articles with same text distributed to dozens of article directories that’s why SYNND support spinning syntax so you can create text variations quickly and easily.
The sample description below will create up to 256 variations of the description that are randomly distributed from one SYNND user to the next (it only took me 10 seconds to create):
SYNND is {amazing|great|extraordinary|powerful} {tool|software|application|program} for {online|Internet} {marketing|business}
With introduction of version 3.0 SYNND supports nested spinning giving your SEO campaigns even more flexibility. Nested spinning allow you to create variations inside variations: {SYNND is {amazing|great|extraordinary|powerful} {tool|software|application|program} for {online|Internet} {marketing|business} | If you have {online|Internet} {marketing|business} you can use {amazing|great|extraordinary|powerful} {tool|software|application|program} SYNND}
Creating spinning variations for bookmarking campaigns is quick and easy but if you plan to actively use article distribution module it can be time consuming process unless you use automation tools. For creating spinning variations I use The Best Spinner.
- Quality control – SYNND have human quality control to make sure spam is NOT propagated and submitted content is appropriate for particular network (i.e – It would look unnatural if article about “Penis Enlargement” would be voted up to the front page of DIGG, because that type of content is not appropriate for that particular network). After you setup your marketing campaign in SYNND it gets submitted to quality control team, usually it takes 12 hours or less for your campaign to be approved. I see some new members complain about quality control, I think mainly because they haven’t taken the time to read these 2 documents:
- SYNND best practices guide (PDF document)
- Reasons for campaign rejection and how to correct them (PDF document)
I never had a problem with quality control beside that they don’t work on Sundays (maybe they will in the future)
- Leave your PC on – as I said before whole SYNND ecosystem is based on credits. Your Remote Automator (RA) completes tasks on your behalf earning you credits, so if you want credits you need to leave your computer on and RA working in the background from 8 am to 10 pm of your local time. With basic level membership you’ll get 1500 credits each month send to your RA automatically if you need more you can always select more tasks manually.
- Slow support – I don’t really use support that much, but during updates and weekends you may experience some delay. Usually they respond within 24 hours or less. Good news is recently they have added 24/7 support.
Who uses SYNND
Social Media has changed the way we communicate and browse the web, every business now are trying to have some type of Web 2.0 presence, because that’s where conversations are going, business brands and identities are shaped. I see some folks from really BIG players in social media space and largest content publishing platforms are using SYNND to increase visibility and ignite viral spread of their content:
- techcrunch.com
- mashable.com
- cnn.com
- espn.com
- nytimes.com
- news.yahoo.com
- gizmodo.com
- microsoft.com
- bbc.co.uk
- 37signals.com
If you’re thinking about using social media for your business, do not hesitate about getting into SYNND. Get it now and use it to your advantage before it is too late.
Conclusion
Everything in online business– links, traffic, sales, income, business growth, everything boils down to how much you can get done in 24 hours. You do nothing – you get nothing! I joined SYNND almost a year ago, it wasn’t smooth ride all the time, but I stayed. You’ll ask why? Because SYNND is my secret weapon, I never going back to marketing my business online old way. My time is too valuable. I don’t want to spend 90% of my time hunting for links, traffic and rankings. I want all of the above happen automatically so I can focus on my business instead of beating myself up over marketing chores.
If you’re spending more than 10% of your time marketing then you’re spending way too much time away from the “bigger picture” for your business. What is your time worth? Outsource your marketing already…
If you don’t have a network like SYNND then prepare to be crushed by those that do. Marketing chores online are just too time consuming these days to handle alone. You need a team… Better yet… You need an army … Get SYNND.
Dmitry,
Of all the reviews I’ve read on Synnd yours stands out as one of the best, for a number of reasons. First, the quality and thoroughness of your analysis is obviously rooted in the amount of time you spent learning the entire Synnd system, a process that, by your own admission, has been going on for well over a year. Second, your patience…seen especially in the manner to which you engage in controlled testing, has paid great dividends…as you seem to be able to apply Synnd strategies to an extremely wide range of marketing needs and goals. Third, you have discovered that Synnd cannot be used in the same way for each business endeavor. Because you took time to use (and especially to test) each of the Synnd MODULES (i.e. Bookmarking, Twitter, Social News, etc.), you learned their unique strengths and weaknesses for certain marketing goals. Most of the new users who become frustrated with Synnd’s learning curve (and some do give up) do not display the kind of patience and diligence you describe in your review. Well done.
As one of the Synnd owners/developers I admit that most of our team has been consumed with the ongoing support and software refinement issues, almost exclusively. This has left us with little time to write on the unique Synnd strategies that we and others have successfully employed to produce some amazing results. We look forward to the day when all the Synnd modules are complete, and when each of the syndication channels we consider critical (e.g. Video, Press Release, Podcast, RSS Feeds, Social Network Segmenting & Categorization, Blogging Networks, Feeder-site Systems, Google Places, Multiple Mobile Channels, etc.) are available to our Synnd family…giving them an unprecedented and fully automated social marketing arsenal.
As more modules are added to Synnd users will come to see how it differs radically from other social marketing systems, like SENuke and Traffic Geyser (nothing against these excellent products…as we still use some of these ourselves). Latent and unused portions of Synnd will soon be integrated, producing a new marketing matrix. As more of Synnd’s structure is exposed we expect to see new social marketing highways emerge as our members find new ways to employ Synnd power.
In this review you convincingly describe how Synnd’s power is already creating some dramatic results. What few people realize is that Synnd’s true marketing potential ultimately lies in its capacity to work synergistically with ALL the current and future syndication channels being prepared for inclusion. Once this happens we plan to execute unique campaigns that are based on scientific research and verified “social proof” metrics that we have tracked for over 3 years. As this comes into view Synnd’s compounding power should allow for some extremely effective marketing solutions. The evidence of this prediction should already be obvious from the objective marketing results that hundreds of members are currently seeing as they use Synnd daily…just as you have attested here. If Synnd is slowly gaining popularity now, (and believe me…it does produce some amazing results), then imagine the viral impact it might have a year from now when the larger Synnd Content Syndication Network is fully developed.
Once we finished with our main programming goals, our staff will focus more on compiling a body of tested solutions to share with our Synnd members. These will come from our staff and from people like you. But for now, (or until we find that Angel Investor who understands Synnd’s potential, and shares our passion for speeding up the development process)…until that time we must rely on people like you to test, re-test, and fine tune your Synnd strategies so that others can learn from your experience and perspective. I think all our Synnd affiliates (and affiliates in general) could learn a lot from your review.
Synnd is now in its 4th year of development…with over 1.3 million lines of code and approximately 2.4 million in programming costs, and we are finally coming into the home stretch…with the finish line clearly in view. Our team is increasingly encouraged as we see our vision taking shape and as more people support our efforts. Thanks again for being a Synnd user and for keeping others up to date on the unique ways that Synnd can be used to market their business.
Thomas Rozof, Synnd.com Co-founder/Owner
Can someone compare what SYNND does to Brute Force?
Thanks
Don Banks
Before becoming a SYNND member, I looked into SENuke, EVO II and a couple others. Checked reviews, forums…basically read whatever I could. Can’t go by the sales pages these days,…well…because they are sales pages and I am getting tired of the “best thing since sliced bread” type pitch.
So I did my due diligence, liked the rationale and logic behind SYNND and appreciated the way they “sold” their system. I see SYNND as a long term investment, not a hit and run piece of software.
I am glad to have found this review because it reinforces my decision to join.
I’ve been using Synnd for 2 months and very little within their system actually works. Three major features within their site are broken and don’t look to be fixed at any time soon. In fact I was told a particular feature will be ready and operational “at the end of the week.” I was told that three times over the course of 4 weeks and still, the thing isn’t fixed.
You can create campaigns that get you a set number of bookmarks. I set mine to ten per day. I’m lucky if I get one.
You can create campaigns to spin an article for you and submit to over ten article directories in one go. The feature is broken and they don’t answer my question about when it’s going to be fixed.
You can create a campaign to have people leave a certain number of comments on your blog. I set mine to five per day. I don’t get any whatsoever.
They’ve emailed this response to me twice:
“The problem lies in the algoritm that selects which campaigns will get action first. The algorithm sweeps from the top of the list “newest” down to the bottom (oldest). It also sweeps from the bottom up, selecting older campaigns and then moving to newer. The algorithm also sweeps from the middle-top down and from the middle-bottom up. This was done to (hopefully) give all campaigns (despite their age) equal promotional opportunity.
Apparently there is still a problem with that logic so we are fixing it.”
I don’t give a hoot about the algorithm, I just want to know when it’s going to be fixed and why the heck you are charging me money for something I’m not getting.
If you’re thinking of buying it, then don’t.
You’re right they have had some performance issues in the past but it was fixed by the update they rolled out, now if you set your campaign to 10 promotions per day you should get 10 or close; as far as comments it largely depend on your topic and content – if it is very niche specific, technical or boring most people will have hard time trying to write thoughtful comment. Luckily they hired professional writers to leave comments now so you get better quality comments.
Did you mention it costs $97 per month? That is not insignificant. I think it would certainly merit inclusion in the ‘Possible Obstacles’ section. Otherwise, one comes away with the impression that this would be free – or nearly so – a sort of cooperative. At $97 a month, it might still be good value, but it needs to be compared to other big-ticket SEO tools like SENuke or XRumer.
I don’t know why people complain about SYNND, it works great for me. Don’t expect wonders to happen right away if you’re in a competitive market – you need to create a LOT of content and run promotional campaigns on every single piece that you publish. I am in a cut throat niche and thanks to SYNND went from 0 to 500 visitors a day in 3 months.
Hi,
Is it true what Amy just said? Is there anyone from SYNND who cam confirms that the problems has been resolved?
Thanks!
Yep, it was resolved, you can read more on their update screen when you click “Login” on their site.
Hi, Dmitry:
Thanks for the thoughtful review. I’m with Ted and Steve (above) on this one, so I ordered it. I hope your commission on my order through your link gets you a nice dinner out. Now to go get on that learning curve…
Cheers,
Dennis
Hi Dennis,
I am glad that you decided to purchase SYNND through my link 🙂 I know learning curve can be a b##ch, especially if you have other things to do. Let me know if you have any questions or need help.
Dmitry
Dmitry, what a comprehensive review! Many thanks. It’s given me a lot to think about how I can use SYNND to develop my business. Just need to get that initial cash flow to be able to afford it 🙂
Best wishes, Jan
Dmitry
Many thanks for your most detailed review. I purchased SYNND just on a week ago and am still trying to get to grips with it all. I did so after a 2 hour webinar and some close consideration. So it is good to get such detailed confirmation from yourself on the quality of the product.
So far I have accumulated a number of points and created one simple bookmarking campaign. I have also created a number of tickets and the response time and response quality from Joerg has been excellent.
Thanks again
Hi, thks for the detailed info on Synnd review. I understand that currently Synnd offer 15k credit to Pro member. I kinda confuse is that, must I leave PC on, if I need the next 15k to be credited to my account for the next month or will it be automatic reset to 15k once one mth period over?
Also for 15k credit, how many social bookmarking can I create?
Thks
Stunning! If only The Internet contained more articles like this, rather than ‘reviews’ (and I use the term loosely) that are more akin to thin sales pages for affiliates. A proper in depth case study, with the good and the not so good covered. Just goes to show that even ‘honest’ reviews can get affiliate sales. Can’t remember where I first read about Synnd but this article has sealed it – I’m in. It may have a learning curve but provides so many possibilities. With old school SEO taking a big hit and many people and businesses being slow to realise this, I feel as though I am, for once, if not ahead of the curve, keeping up with it. Thanks Dmitry
This is such a great review! I was just thinking of using the service for one of my blogs. However, you now have me thinking of other ways I could utilize this. I recently hired someone on Fiverr to syndicate 2 posts on a similar network to Synnd so I supposed I could do the same thing with Synnd.
Curious, if I use Synnd would I still need to use a service like onlywire? Onlywire just puts the content out there once where as Synnd has thousands of users that would do this.
Thanks again:) Susanna
Hi,
Why is there no money back guarantee? I really want to try this service and will gladly buy thru your link but I’m not sure without a money back guarantee.
Kevin
Hi Kevin, I believe they don’t offer money back guarantee, they offer free version of SYNND with limited features for you to test drive the system and decide if you like it or not.
I’ve been researching the synnd tool all day, and I think I’m going to go ahead with the purchase. Thanks for the great review, really well written and very honest!