Overall I've been happy with this service and it does seem to be getting better.
I did one scrapebox index test (sorry didnt realize this would strain things) and found about 111 pages indexed out of the 600 it sent out, pretty good...
Yes, scrapebox does strain the CPU and resources of hosting accounts. One might not think that, but that's what happens. In turn, it will cause blog pages to load extremely slow (which of course search engines don't like).
We know that we can't control this, so that is why we decided to put all the blogs on a dedicated server and upgrade the IPs from 120 to 225 IPs. This should make the blogs load much quicker even if software like scrapebox is being used on the system.
We do these things because we want to make this service better. As best as it can be.
My post wasnt an attack or anything - I
want to stay as a customer, I was just pointing out the fact that it was a really poor first impression. If you manage your customers expectations, then pretty much every negative type post in this thread would probably have been avoided. A simple standard message or email to let customers know whats going on would have made me think "ok cool, nothing is going to get indexed for a while, so I will just carry on with my work and let NPP do its thing, no biggie"
As opposed to checking my first batch of links and thinking "wow no links are indexed, and they are all on sub domains with 0 pages indexed, and 0 backlinks"
Posting to hundreds of domains with spun content - awesome
getting reports with all your links - awesome
<$40 for all this - awesome
Fast posting times - awesome
Like I said, I think NPP looks great, but I was just given a poor first impression because my expectations were not managed.
Anyway, I respect you, think the service looks great, and will stick around and see what happens
Thanks for the note. We are extremely passionate about NPP and how well it works.
I talked to my partner as he is usually the one who sends out these types of announcements and I believe that we have came up with a solution.
1. We are setting up a twitter account for our programmer. So he can tweet maintenance updates.
2. I believe we are going to start to leave bulletins on the main login page so people can see any performance or maintenance upgrades we will be doing also.
To explain a couple of the upgrades that we are doing.
1. I think the upgrade to having all the blogs on their own server a split across 225 IPs is pretty self explanatory. I'm hoping everyone is happy with this.
2. Yes, we are now using subdomains as the categories instead of the top level domains. This is good for two key reasons. When all the posts are just split up in categories on a top domain, although they are targeted per category, it still is hard for relevance to completely work in its favor because you have so many different types of articles and categories underneath that top level domains. Not to mentions that the out bound links do indeed increase dramatically. Also, each new post we like to have stay on the front page of that domain for better indexing reasons. So here are the benefits of this change.
a. Because posts ONLY relevant to that subdomain will only be posted on that subdomain, all links on that page will be extremely relevant to each other. Which of course helps with page rank as well.
b. Because you have less posts going to these subdomains, there are now a lot more "front pages" in the network. You posts will now stay on that front page for an extended amount of time for better indexing and search.
c. Because these subdomains as categories do act as an individual website, this will also drastically lower the out bound links to the site which also helps with page rank. It also makes backlinking the network more beneficial.
3. We are making it so you can purchase your very own blog network, so that you get to post to your very own 600+ websites and not have to compete with any other posts. This especially comes handy if you want to be extremely targeted with your niche OR if you are an SEO professional looking to build specific kinds of links for your clients.
4. We are going to make blog commenting available in the network also, because as we all know, having a variety of links is very important. You will be able to search posts on the top level domains that pertain to your niche and you will be able to choose the exact posts all of your SPUN blog comments with links will go to. But the comments will one get posted on the top level domain network.
5. We are going to do two things which will also benefit our members in our network. We are talking about leasing domains we already have for a very small monthly price, so people can place their adsense on each domain. Remember, because one domain has 40 domains because of the categories, that will be 40 websites with your adsense code in. This will also greatly help the network as if there is a slew of different adsense, adbrite, or whatever other advertising network you use within the system, it will make a small foot print even smaller. (I would like some feed back on this)
6. Also, if you have domains or hosting accounts that you are not doing anything with. We are going to start letting people accept posts as well from out system. This in turn will increase our domains and IP diversity to an even greater number. Plus for the people who sign up, they can also benefit by putting their ad codes in their very own NPP blogs as well. We will still be keeping our blogs, but this is a very good and efficient way to expand the network and make EVERYBODY win.
7. We are also in the process of making a mini network just for backlinking purposes. That means that your posts will automatically be backlinked so you don't have to worry about that. Also, we know that some of our members would rather not have ALL of the domains disclosed. So this is a way that we can backlink your posts so you don't have to, then disclose you 10 to 20 posts from each spun article so you can still see the system in the works. This way we can keep the majority of the domains secure and you still have your progress bar. Remember, you can always find your backlinks through using software. People do this anyways. (I would also like some feed back on this).
Now you know everything we're working on. I'm sure there's a couple of things here and there, and we may tweak these some. But I just wanted people to see what is on board for NPP as far as making the network better and trying to continue to deliver for our customers.
If anyways has a Domain or hosting account they are not doing anything with, let me know and I'll be more than happy to see if we can add you to the network.
Thanks
