I been thinking about reviewing Traffic Kaboom for quite sometime now but as always, it takes me too much time to get my ideas and plans into action (got to keep seriously working on that). Good thing that Shane Melaugh published his big blog network roundup first 30 day results as that was the trigger I needed to start this Traffic Kaboom review and case study.
It turned out that Traffic Kaboom provided the best results for Shane and it was the only recommended network on his roundup that I never used before. After seeing those results I decided it is about time to test it out myself and get some results of my own for you (and for me) as well as provide a detailed review of Traffic Kaboom.
Traffic Kaboom Overview
| Name | Traffic Kaboom |
| Creator | Jason Katzenback & Jason Potash |
| Focus | Blog Network |
| Price | $49/m* |
| Official Website | http://traffickaboom.com/ |
Traffic Kaboom Video Overview
Traffic Kaboom Seems Different
The first impression I had after logging in to the control panel is that Traffic Kaboom is different from any other blog network I used before (and I used just about all of them). It seems to be different and in a good way as it really looks like everything has been thought about from the user point of view and it really gives the feeling that I am using a professional blog network. If that will be the case or not we will have to see, but that was my first impression and I know how much first impressions mean in our world.
Why Traffic Kaboom Seems Different
Here are some of the reasons that let to my first impression:
Traffic Kaboom Navigation
The navigation inside the control panel can’t be easier. Everything is located on the left side of control panel screen and you can see in the above video overview all the different options that are included inside these menus.
The menu is divided into 5 different menus to make things even more clear and easy to find. There is really no need for me to further explain anything about the menus as I am sure it is pretty clear thanks to the above video and the screenshot image on the right.
Detailed Training Material
This is really big as it is something that doesn’t exist in any other blog network and also shows you that Traffic Kaboom is more than just a plain blog network.
You have detailed training that included videos about every aspect of Traffic Kaboom.
I must admit I was kind of surprised to see all the different options and features inside the control panel as I didn’t expect it. When I think of a blog network I simply think about an article submission screen and stats screen showing me how many submissions I got from each article I submitted.
I also felt a little overwhelmed as it seemed I wouldn’t be able to submit articles as fast as I wanted to but thanks to the great training material all my questions and/or concerns regarding how to go about using Traffic Kaboom were solved within 30 minutes.
Adding Blogs
This is nothing knew and most blog network will allow you to add blogs to their networks so the networks can grow in size. But the process of adding blogs with Traffic Kaboom is different than in other networks and I found it to be easier and more importantly, giving me more control over what content will be published to my sites, when and where (which categories).
This is super important as I can allow myself to add some of my money sites to Traffic Kaboom which is something I would never do with any other blog network due to the lack of control on the content quality and submission location.
As I mentioned in the video, Traffic Kaboom shows you which blog categories are mostly needed and I assume that if you add a blog in these categories the chances of your blog being approved will increase.
Video Submission
Traffic Kaboom is not only a blog network as it is also a video submission tool. I am not sure I will be using this feature at the beginning but I will try to test it out and see how it works.
You can see the list of 9 video sites that are currently supported by Traffic Kaboom in the screenshot on the right. You can create multiple accounts for each of the video sites which is important if you have different accounts for different niches.
Article Submission
The main concept of Traffic Kaboom (and any other blog network for that matter) is submitting articles with your links inside to various blogs. In Traffic Kaboom case the submission seems to be more strict than in any other network.
The article submission process consists of 8 steps that shouldn’t take you more than a couple of minutes to complete once you get used to it and know exactly what to enter where.
I am not sure exactly how unique the articles need to be in order to be approved by Traffic Kaboom (it seems that every article is manually approved) and the first thing I will test is if the Ultra Spinnable Articles are usable with Traffic Kaboom as that would make it a lot more powerful and effective for me personally.
You are limited to only 3 article submissions a day and for every blog you add to the network you will be able to submit 2 more articles every day. For those that didn’t really understood what I wrote, here is a simpler explanation:
- 0 Blogs – 3 daily article submissions
- 1 Blog – 5 daily article submissions
- 2 Blogs – 7 daily article submissions
- 3 Blogs – 9 daily article submissions
- 4 Blogs – Take a wild guess…
Article Submission Video
I will also add a video showing you an actual article submission so you will get a better idea as how it works and what 8 steps are included in the process.
Traffic Kaboom Case Study
I really want to put Traffic Kaboom to the test and provide you with more than the regular product or service reviews you found online. I don’t see any better way than to test Traffic Kaboom myself and share the results with you.
Main Testing Factors
- Submission Rates
- Number of Links
- Quality of Links
- Rankings Improvement
Target Pages
For the first part of this case study I will target 2 pages on my blog:
Target Keywords
- Traffic Kaboom
- Traffic Kaboom Review
- WordPress Backup
- BackupBuddy
- Backup Buddy
Initial Case Study Rankings
Traffic Kaboom Page
Here are my initial rankings for the 2 keywords I will will be targeting for this page (I will track the rankings using Market Samurai Rank Tracker module):
BackupBuddy Page
Here are my initial rankings for the 3 keywords I will be targeting for this page (I will track the rankings using Market Samurai Rank Tracker module):
Case Study Results
Stay tuned as I will be updating the results once I get some data and in the meantime, feel free to test out Traffic Kaboom for yourself. It is a Clickbank product so you can actually test it out for 60 days which should be more than enough time to get some results with no risk. Surprisingly, Traffic Kaboom is also cheaper than almost all other blog networks as the $147 for 3 months option means it is only $49/m.
Update 1 (October 16th)
It has been 2 weeks of mainly testing Traffic Kaboom and learning if I can use the Ultra Spinnable Articles with this service. The short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, but with some limitations.
It seems I can use the Ultra Spinnable Articles but you must use an article that is going to be relevant to the links you will be inserting into it. You can’t use an IM related article and promote a website about weight loss for example.
This is a serious limitation that you should know about if you are planning on using the Ultra Spinnable Articles with Traffic Kaboom and the way I see it, it’s a pretty positive limitation as it proves to me that Traffic Kaboom are really doing all they can to have high quality blogs in there network.
Don’t try to outsmart them. Every article goes under a human review process and it seems they really are reading the article (at least a few variation of it) so adding irrelevant links will not work. I really loved that they explain exactly why an article has been declined as that really helped me understand what they are looking for and how to fix my articles.
Submissions Rates
As you can see in the article submission video, the number of maximum submissions is determined by the uniqueness level of the articles you submit (which makes sense if you think about it) and the Ultra Spinnalbe Articles are getting a uniqueness rate of 88% to 91% which just goes to show how really great these articles are.
It also seems that the submission rate varies as I submitted 2 articles on the 2nd of October and one has already been posted 44 times while the other only has 11 postings. This just shows that the categories you select also have a big impact on the rate of submissions.
Update 2 (November 13th)
It has been a little over a month of using Traffic Kaboom and I have some stuff to share with you.
Ultra Spinnalbe Articles OUT
When it comes to what content you can use with Traffic Kaboom, I am sad to say that using the Ultra Spinnalbe Articles won’t work. Adding to the already limiting issue of the links needing to be relevant to the article, I also noticed that many articles are being declined due to duplication issues. Meaning that if someone already submitted an Ultra Spinnalbe Article you will probably won’t be able to use it.
Article Builder IN
Since I recently got hold of Article Builder, the new content generation tool from Jon Leger, I decided to test it out with Traffic Kaboom and see how it will work. Good news is that it does seem to work most of the time. I submitted 10 articles from from Article Builder and 8 got approved. Keep in mind that these articles are built using PLR snippents so that 80% success ratio really surprised me.
Submission Rates
I am more than satisfied with submission rates and here is a table that shows you some submission numbers:
Article Start Posting Posted Weekly Average
1 2011-10-02 100 20
2 2011-10-04 54 12
3 2011-10-04 57 13
4 2011-10-06 92 23
5 2011-10-06 61 15
6 2011-10-06 65 16
7 2011-10-08 87 22
8 2011-10-08 40 10
9 2011-10-16 58 19
10 2011-10-28 22 22
11 2011-10-28 24 24
12 2011-11-01 22 22
13 2011-11-01 22 22
14 2011-11-01 22 22
15 2011-11-01 20 20
As you can see the average is about 20 posting a week which I think is pretty awesome. It also seems that posting can go above a certain number which is determined by the uniqueness level of the article.
Rankings Impact
Here are the screenshots of the rankings progress over the past month for the focused keywords. Sorry for the lack of consistent rankings and the gaps you see but I started tracking rankings with Rank Tracker lately so I didn’t update Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker module on a daily basis.
As you can probably see, overall there is an improvement in all keywords. Traffic Kaboom keywords really shoot up to the top in the first 2 weeks but dropped quite a bit since. The backupbuddy keywords showed very small improvement and WordPress Backup only recently showed some progress.
More updates coming soon.
To your success (and mine 
),
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Any success using the ultra spinnable articles?
Hi Chris,
Yep, glad to say that it seems the USAs are working with TK
Still doing some testing and I will update my case study once I get more date and results.
Thanks.
I have been with TK for about 3 months. I’m really impressed with quality of the blogs in the network. IMO, it is much better than UAW. Most of them are tightly focused niche site. I think thats the reason why I got good page 1 ranking for several kwds just by using this service. Highly recommended.
Hi manhsan,
Thanks for sharing your experience and results with Traffic Kaboom. Can you maybe tell me about the bad or negative things in Traffic Kaboom that you encountered, if there are any?
Thanks.
One thing i notice that they sometimes take a bit longer to approve the articles. If you submit your articles on Friday, the articles sometimes get approved on monday the next week. Overall i’m happy with the system
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Thanks for pointing that out. I did notice that during the weekend but that makes sense with a human approval process. Using a high quality network does come with some drawbacks and the approval process is one of them.
Hi Dave,
I’m considering signing up to Traffic Kaboom. But just as it is to you, it is important for me as well that we can use the USA’s for this network. So I’m glad to read that you’re having no problems with it. But what about the level of spinning? Do you just paste an USA into their backend and they accept multi level spinning?
Hi SaSh,
Traffic Kaboom supports multi level spinning so that won’t be a problem. You can just page it in as it is and that’s it.
Okay cool. Thanks Dave. I’ll give it a try through your link
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the excellent review. Just wondered if you’ve used MyArticleNetwork (MAN) and if so how TK compares with it. I currently use BuildMyRank (BMR) and MAN, and although I’m happy with BMR I’ve been a bit disappointed with the quality of the blogs on the MAN network. At $49/month TK is around the same price as MAN – maybe worth switching service?
Neil
Hi Neil,
I did use MAN and stopped a few months back exactly due to the reason you mentioned. Traffic Kaboom seems to be much better than MAN if you compare the quality of the sites. It is also cheaper by almost $20/m. BUT, submitting articles to TK is a bit more complicated than MAN and each article is going under a human review process so low quality and irrelevant articles will not be approved. That alone is proof of the higher quality of blogs in the Traffic Kaboom network.
I would wait for my final results before giving the thumbs up for TK but I can surly say it is better than MAN.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the in depth review. I am still learning about blog network…how it works etc. I am so glad i found your blog. It sure helps many of us especially one at beginners level.
Will being a member of different blog networks help in ranking?
Hi Sheyda,
I’m glad that you find the information I share useful and helpful. That is really the main reason I share it with others. Blog networks are a big part of my link building process and I do think they will help in getting high rankings but you should include them together with other link building methods. Never rely on just one link building method no matter how good it is.
Over the last few days I tried the TK network. And yes, I’ve come to the same conclusion as you did. Posting irrelevant links will not be tolerated. And yes, this proofs the quality of the network indeed. But to me it’s a big disappointment.
I guess that when you’re using the business USA’s for promoting IM related keywords one would have no problem to get them approved. But I’m a multi-niche affiliate marketeer, and I’m using the multi-topics USA’s . So I can’t use these two services together. Or do you have any tips?
Hi SaSh, I guess you can’t have it both ways – a great network with high quality blogs and the option to freely use the USA’s.
With the new Ultra Spinnable Articles marketplace you can purchase any USA you want according to keywords so you might be able to find articles on your specific niches. That is the only tip I can think of other than getting your article written specifically for you targeted keywords.
Hope that helps.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your reply. And it makes perfectly sense.
May I ask which network do you recommend considering that I want to freely use the USA’s ?
You can use Authority Link Network, ArticleRanks and Unique Article Wizard. All 3 are great and recommended and you can use the USA’s without any problem.
After two weeks of testing this network, I have to say that it’s not so easy to get the USA’s approved. As I mentioned earlier it’s not allowed to use irrelevant articles/links.
But just as you mentioned earlier, you have to choose between the best of two worlds. So I only tried to submit relevant articles. But most of them get rejected anyway.
Out of 10 submissions, 8 haven’t been approved because of duplicate content, or paragraph structuring issues…even so I didn’t receive a message while submitting.
Too bad, but I guess I have to cancel my subscription.
Hi SaSh, I am going to update my review in the coming week and I will say that using the USA’s with Traffic Kaboom is not going to work.
As you say, many articles are being rejected due do duplicate content issues and I am still trying to figure out if that means duplicate content with other articles that were submitted to the network or with other content that is published somewhere else. I am also testing it with Article Builder now and I will post the results of that soon.
Traffic Kaboom is closed right now. IMO when a blog network “closed its doors” until further notice is hiding something. Never heard of a real business closing its doors and putting you on waiting list.
Hi Shean,
That is your point of view. I actually think that it might be a good thing as they try to keep their network high quality and by opening it up for everyone the end result is losing quality. Also, keep in mind that they are manually reviewing every article that is being submitted to the system so too many users will force them to hire more people which could be another reason to close the doors for now.
I really don’t know why they closed the doors but I don’t think you should jump to conclusions. From my testing so far I can tell you Traffic Kaboom is one of the best blog networks today if not the best one.
The guys behind traffic kaboom ALWAYS close the doors. They then release a similar product. Blogging blueprint was the one before traffic kaboom. It is great marketing. People opt in to the list on the traffic kaboom website, disappointed that they missed out. They then get an email about the next product and want to sign up before the new doors close too. It is great marketing! I signed up to Traffic Kaboom on the last day it opened and I hope to see results.
Dave, do you have an update on how your keywords are doing in the search results due to Traffic Kaboom?
Cheers
Ramy
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Hi Ramy, I didn’t really use any of their previous products so I can’t comment on their marketing but I do know they closed the door for Traffic Kaboom and it might be because they are offering it as an up-sell to a new plugin they launched.
I will update my review this week.
Thanks.
Dave,
I was wondering if it’s a good idea or not to use the same keyword as anchor text when building links with traffic kaboom or any other network for that matter. I’ve heard conflicting stories, with some people saying always use the same keyword to get the best results. Others say using the same keyword leaves a footprint. What would you suggest?
James
Hi James,
There is a common thought in the SEO community that you should vary the anchor text you are using and not use the same anchor text for all the links and when you think about it, it makes sense. When i’m building new sites I do vary my keywords a little but I make sure that most of the links (70%-80%) are with the main keyword I want to rank for. Usually when I build a new site I am not trying to rank for just one keyword so it makes it easier for me to vary the keywords I use.
I think it is less important for bigger and more established sites and for this blog, whenever I post a new post and I want to get it ranked in Google I only use the keyword or keywords I want to rank for.
Hope that helps.
Hey there, great case study, I noticed that backupbuddy and backup buddy today are both only 1 spot higher than what they originally were at (Oct 2), do you think they are dropping links? I’m not sure if it’s worth the price now (they raised it to $197) given the fact that you’ve submitted 15 high quality spun articles to only move a single spot, not to mention that both keyword are “low” competition according to Google Keyword Tool. What do you think?
Hi Brian,
I see that the doors are closed so I don’t know where you saw they raised the price. Even if it will raise to $197 every 3 months it is still in the same price range as most other blog networks. I don’t think you can jump to conclusion based on one post on my site and I doubt if they are dropping links. The articles go live and stay live as far as I know and it will be very bad for them to drop links. Doubt if they will do that.
Never judge the competition of a keyword according the Google Keyword Tool. That just shows you the competition for AdWords and it has nothing to do with SEO. Judge SEO competition only by analyzing the top 10 results in the Google. The competition isn’t too hard but I wouldn’t call it low
Hi Dave,
Great review. I signed up awhile back with traffic kaboom, I believe through your link, but not sure. Anyway, I noticed when posting my articles to the TK network I’m only getting 1 blog to post my article. The TK system indicates I should be getting about 3 blogs daily posting my article and a total of about 110 blogs per article. Yet, I’m seeing only a few blogs weekly posting each article. Is that normal?
Hi Donald, no, that is something that didn’t happen to me. Whenever I saw that an article should go out to 110 blogs than it would be submitted a number of time each day. I recommend you check that out with their support to get the best answer and solution for this issue.
Hi Dave. Great writeup. I’ve been on their waiting list, and got an email from them saying that they are going to open back up again with a $1-14 day trial. I guess with an offer like that, I don’t really have anything to lose.
With regards to their marketing strategy, they included this statement in their email “This is *not* some lame scarcity trick or anything. You’ll see.” Yeah, I guess I’ll just have to wait and see lol..
It’s a shame you can’t use USA’s. I actually found this post be searching for that exact question.
I wonder what would happen if you took an unspun variation of a USA (readable article), and then used the Best Spinner along with a little manual work. Do you think that with an approach like this you might be able to come up with something somewhat unique.
How well spun do they have to be to get a good distribution rate?
Regards
Mike
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Hi Mike, I think your approach might work but it would take time to get a readable USA article to a high level of spinning which will give you good distribution and will be of high quality. I only used the USA’s and Article Builder so I don’t know about lower level spinning. Can’t help you with that.
Hi Dave,
So using Article Builder you can get about 80% of your articles approve?
AB seems to have a finite number of categories to choose from is that a problem or am I missing something there?
With TK I’m not sure if I understand how many articles you can submit. You mentioned you have to submit blogs to the network to earn higher submissions than 3. Is that similiar to Authority Link Network? So if you don’t have any blogs to submit, then your limit to 3 submissions a day at the current monthly price?
Lastly, I’m confused on your submission table in your review. I’m a newbie so please excuse me if this is a dumb question. Could you explain what “Posted” and “Weekly Average” mean?
I’m looking to buy one or two backlinking systems to fit my business model of building 40 adsense niche sites a month using VAs.
Thanks for your time.
80% is what I was able to get. Can’t guarantee it will be the same for you or anyone else.
AB does have a limited number of categories but they will keep adding more as time goes by. When it only opened it had only 4 categories.
The limit is 3 submissions a day and if you add your own blogs you will be able to submit more.
Posted means how many articles got posted on various sites and weekly average shows how many articles get posted every week (on average).
Dave,
Thanks for the reply. Still little confused about what you said
“Posted means how many articles got posted on various sites and weekly average shows how many articles get posted every week (on average).”
Take for example the first row article 1 has 100 posted and a 20 weekly average. Does that mean article one at some later date had 100 posted articles total and averaged 20 per week? So it took about 5 weeks to reach the 100 postings?
Thanks again.
Hi, the table shows the results after 5 weeks of use so article got posted 100 times which means 20 was the weekly average.
Just curious if your Article Builder articles are still being accepted?
If you are going to count on articles from Article Builder in order to signup with Traffic Kaboom than I recommend you don’t signup. Even if some of them are getting accepted (and they do) it is not something you can really count on and you should join only if you don’t have a problem in generating unique articles (by yourself or outsourcing them).
I see you have a list of the number of times your articles have been posted. Is that available on Traffic Kaboom? I just started using it and had my first article approved on Feb 6th. Every time I go to the stats page it tells me there are no stats yet so I’m not sure what it’s going to tell me when I finally get stats. How long did it take you to get some postings after the article is approved?
Hi Carolyn, I know that TK have changed their interface lately so I am not sure how it works right now since I haven’t logged in for quite some time. If you are having problems I recommend you open a support ticket as I know they are very helpful and they will probably be more helpful than me
Dave:
Thanks. I had submitted a ticket but it must not have gone through because I got no response. I’m trying again.
Carolyn
I signed up for TK a few days ago and have already started posting content and videos. The layout is much different than other networks I’ve tried (Authority Link Network, ArticleRanks, SEO Destiny) BUT it seems that is a good thing. And it seems that even though it might take a little longer to submit content using TK, and a little longer to get your articles approved, it “feels” like a much better network. It seems that with all the time taken to add all of those really great videos makes the network even that much better as well. TK reminds me of the story of the Tortoise and the Hare; slower wins the race.
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I appreciate the honest review and the recommendations for what to do to get better ranking. In Traffic Kaboom, are you required to post links on your own blog? So it’s kind of a link exchange?
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If you add a blog to the network than it will accepts posts and links from other users.
Hello,
I see you are in first place for your keywords you use in this test. Is this the result of the use of traffic kaboom?
Thanks
Among other things. I don’t think any one thing/service got me there. You can see everything I did in the case study.
With havin so much written content do you ever run into any problems of plagorism or copyright violation?
My website has a lot of completely unique content I’ve either written myself or outsourced but it appears a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my permission. Do you know any techniques to help prevent content from being ripped off? I’d truly appreciate it.
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