User reviews
Niche Press Platinum is a private blog network created with the intention of widespread article syndication. This private article network currently claims that it has over 450 active blogs in its network, as well that they are spread over a large range of IPs.
Niche Press Platinum gives you the ability to spin your articles as well, which is essential if you want the most success from your network blasts. You have the ability to spin both your content and titles. They also support nested spinning, which allows you to have really unique content.
Niche Press Platinum gives you access to an online userzone in which you can post to the article network and view your previous submissions. Niche Press Platinum also gives you the URLs of your previous submissions, which is a great feature.
Overall Niche Press Platinum is a good blog network to be a part of. The pricing is reasonable compared to other similar blog networks and it seems that they are continuously adding additional IPs and domains to the mix. This is important since the goal is to have the smallest possible footprint between all of the sites.
Niche Press Platinum is one of the best values for blog networks currently available on the internet. It is still in its infancy but I feel that if continued on the same track it could be one of the best. There are a few issues that should be dealt with though. The userzone and website are slow, and sometimes impossible to access. Most of the blogs where your content is posted to are also slow, and often display a 404 page. This is bad from an SEO perspective as Google and other search engines can often discount sites that are extremely slow or frequently down.
One other issue is the lack of diversity in TLDs, currently Niche Press Platinum is comprised of a significant amount of .info, and a very rare and occasional .com or .org. It’d be nice if there was some additional TLDs in the mix as well.
In closing, if you are looking for an additional blog network to help with some of your other powerful blog networks such as SEOLinkvine then I’d highly recommend Niche Press Platinum.
I’ve had Niche Press Platinum since they started. There has been a lot of growing recently to their network, and they have begun to transfer to diversify their hosting by using SEO Hosting.
Honestly I’m disappointed a little bit by the network. The diversity in the network seems to be a huge problem. Lack of diverse IPs (until recently), lack of diverse TLDs, all low pagerank blogs (not a single one with PR), and top it off with having them allow the same content across their whole network jeopardizes everything.
Rather then intelligent preplanning, I noticed a lot of after thought. Sure it’s backlinks so I can’t complain a whole lot, but I wish they would take it one step further.
You’ll find that we make or made no claims in regards to page ranks of our domains on the network, aside from that Google has and is on the prowl for sites that are designed specifically to pass page rank. When Google finds them and deems them as designed for the purpose of passing page rank guess what happens, de-indexed.
You also could be falling for the myth that Google gives preference to .com’s over other domain extensions. This is another myth completely debunked by Mr. Cutts himself, and all our studies show that in the search engine results our domains rank just as well or even better then .coms have. Yes we do have some .coms in the network.
Here is something you do not know. Many of our original domains now show traffic stats in the 1-3 millions according to Alexa. Yes I realize that Alexa ranking should be taken with a grain of salt.
To have your content on a network who’s sites have that decent of a traffic rating is a pretty decent perk.
The facts are that NPP does exactly what promises, syndicate articles. The users ability to create and spin great articles will ultimately have the final say in the kind of results the user experiences. Not directed at you John, I don’t know who you are.
If its NPP, SEOLINKVINE, UAW, none of us have a magic wand that we waived over our systems to make our users get ranked high in the search engines. Its always been and will always be about how well the content is written, how well one researches keyword phrases and uses them as titles. Basic stuff that any one should be learning as fundamentals of internet marketing before putting up their skinny made for Adsense site with only one page and a false sense of hope.
If your not experiencing great results send me an email at the support address and I will be happy to help you in any way I can.
I have been a huge fan of both NPP and BLE. The pair together really is wonderful. NPP puts out all your blog post links, which makes it nice because BLE will then help index them. This is a nice and easy to use system and Russ (and the other guy) provide excellent customer service. You really can’t ask for better.
I have been with NPP for a while, since the start and their Warriorforum release. I’ve watched Russ develop the program and build it up from where it is, to where it is now. Overall I’m pleased with the service and will probably keep my account for sometime.
I saw that Russ mentioned that they didn’t claim there was any pagerank with this system, which is fine. The one complaint that I have is that indexing is pretty sub standard in comparison to other similar networks. It seems that they don’t focus on building links to their sites which is a shame as this should be a really important aspect of a blog network. Tons of links from low quality, and unindexed pages can only have such a positive effect on your rankings.
@ WickPC,
I am glad your happy with NPP and your membership is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!
Now time to get on you a bit. hehe
There are a few reasons why no major efforts have been made to back link the network.
The 1 most important reason is that we want a few months of content on the sites before building massive amounts of back links to the network.
As we stated before these are “NOT” aged domains, they are all new and building a crap load of back links to such new domains is not natural at all.
With that said, we are working with Steve Aylor to bring a solution for our users to back link their articles which will naturally back link the network as well.
Also I can not stress enough how important it is to make your article titles unique and keyword rich!
As I mentioned before there is no magic wand.
We monitor our users articles, we do Google searches for their titles, and…
What I say next is not directed at you WickPC because I have no clue who you are so its just a general observation and statement.
The one thing that find most consistent is the better the title the better the ranking for the article.
I have seen well done titles in very hard niches out rank ezine and other article directories. We have even seen our users articles outrank the site they link to from the article!
It all comes down to the titles and content.
Every time we have had a user complain that NPP sucks bla bla we log into that users back office and examine the articles they are publishing.
Without FAIL their articles suck, their titles are sub par and the article body is sub par, and in many cases we find that their links are not even relevant to the article topic! That’s just sheer stupidity, and a waste to time and money!
NPP is a tool, and we believe a great tool. But like anything else its how you use the tool that dictates its effectiveness.
A condom won’t prevent pregnancy if it never leaves its wrapper! LOL right?
@Alex Smith,
Thanks for your kind words and support.
Russ – I wanted to check back and see what type of backlink solution you implemented. It’s been several months since your follow up and I’ve been monitoring but haven’t seen an increase in backlinks to posts.
Which means that indexing of posts is pretty low right now. Also what can we expect from NPP in the future. Thank you.
I believe Russ and his partner set out to create NPP as a great network and I am sure they have done a lot of work but it truly has dropped in quality of late. All the server updates has made the system impossible to use. I have been reading online and have found many unhappy clients.
I wish Russ would have set a limit of people to join, made the network grow and then allow new members in and continue the same process. There is another similar network on WarriorForum being advertised and as soon as that network started getting very popular the creator stopped new memberships to concentrate on growing his network progressively. Not sure if I will keep NPP, too bad cause it seems so promising.
The website is way to slow to make proper use of all the advertised features.
Since this review was written, from roughly February 2011 to May 2011 and still currently their website has been either running extremely slow or to the point of not resolving at all. And the majority of their blogs have been down for the past several months. Yet they still managed to charge their customers for a service that is non existent.
You couple that with the fact that 90% of the domains are .info’s have minimal or no backlinks to them. And are all PR0 blogs and you get one of the poorest article networks I have seen in a LONG time.
When and **if** it does come back online, really ask yourself would you rather get 600 PR0 links, of which 50-100 actually get indexed? Or would you rather join another article network and get 200-300 quality links, on a number of blogs comprised of PR0, 1,2 and PR5 blogs? For me, it has always been and always will be Quality over Quantity. And having 600 PR0 backlinks on the same overly spammed blogs each month, doesn’t do your site any good.
Hey Mark
I too have noticed this and have been a member for quite some time. I keep hearing the same thing though over and over from the NPP and nothing ever changes.
I’m beginning to think that this was a project and now all of the owners have gone onto bigger and better things forgetting and giving up on NPP.
Which networks would you recommend as I don’t want this to happen again and have to go through my time wasted.