Very interesting thoughts on Portal Feeder 2.0, I was thinking of joining, but its very expensive.

Plus what I see from the sales letter the doors are closing tomorrow(sales ploy i dont know).

One thing I did read there though was the mentoring, this is a great idea, and could help get me or someone new started.

Thats one thing I found out when i joined another membership site, I have been in it for 3 weeks and haven’t really used it yet.

There are so many new membership sites popping up, and web flipping too, all out there to entice us.

Thanks,

Steve

Just read your post with great interest, as I am a very active member of Portal Feeder since it launched in December 2005, and I actually build Portal Sites (not WordPress blogs) on a regular basis using the Portal Feeder 2.0 application.

Here are a few sites I’ve built strictly using PF2.0:

Business Startup Articles
Travel Tips
Parenting Info

I’m not an SEO expert or a web designer. I basically built a generic “blueprint” HTML template, created custom tokens for all the templates and then developed a documented system that allows me to build a new site each week using my templates, tokens and Portal Feeder V2.0

I welcome your feedback and your opinion.

Martin

Thanks for replying and giving your verdict :)

I didn’t really leave a comment to try and persuade you or your readers to join PF – just to give an additional insight of some of the things that people can expect inside PF.

Since many people will find there way here looking for more info on PF – my review does offer a lot of additional info.

I’ve been in PF for about 6 months and it has evolved during that time. The main things that interested me was the big extension to the blog network and a piece of training on utilizing community sites to build traffic, links and exposure (its not just the case of submitting your sites to 80 social bookmarking sites).

Looking at what PF had before I joined I probably wouldn’t have stayed a member either, but the changes in the past 6 months made it worthwhile for me.

I appreciate that the review I gave does not go into huge detail on some aspects but there’s two main reasons for that:
- It would take forever to cover everything in full detail.
- I can’t really give away some of the marketing tactics/techniques that we use as it’s a private club.

* PortalFeeder v2.0 Review | Website Building Software & Plugins
* Portal Feeder 2 Promotional Tools | Permanent Link Building & Blog Power
* Portalfeeder.com Promotional Training | Amazing Results – Blog Automation & Social Marketing
* Portal Feeder Bonus & My Main Beef with PortalFeeder
* Portal Feeder Videos | PortalFeeder Training from Jason Potash, Jason Katzenback, Marc Quarles and more…
* Portal Feeder Support Team
* Portal Feeder Examples of Success

I have read through, it is still not enough to interest me.

I was a paying subscriber to Portal Feeder when it first launched. I haven’t seen anything dramatically different since then.

What I tend to do is delete links to every affiliate review for a product that is link dropped here, other than 2 exceptions.

1. It has to be amazing content, giving so much information that it counteracts my arguements.
2. Decent content that links through to me with a trackback – that is a fair situation where as I use Dofollow, they get a link back.
That is giving people a second opinion.

In fact in this case I haven’t really given much of an opinion because I don’t know what has really changed.

The problem is your review doesn’t give me enough information to see if anything has changed, so I am afraid it is too thin to keep a link.

It is a typical 4.5/5 review where the only negative isn’t very major.

I assure you that if I had the time to take up Jason’s previous offer, I would find things I would still change.

That doesn’t mean that Portal Feeder is a bad product, or hasn’t got a target audience who wouldn’t get immense value from it, but it isn’t the kind of product that the majority of my own target audience is looking for.

If your review doesn’t offer substantially much more than a sales page, I am not going to link to it.

I also appreciate that your hands are tied, because Portal Feeder at least the last time I looked has an NDA, so you can’t review it effectively.

Yes I am an affiliate (and a member) of Portal Feeder but the review is completely honest and spans 8 pages and offers insider info of what PF offers. I think maybe you missed the other pages of the review.

I do cover what I consider to be the negative aspects of Portal Feeder:
http://www.sitesalary.com/blog/portal-feeder-bonus-my-main-beef-with-portalfeeder/

While the review is largely positive that’s because I’m a paying member and extremely happy there, so I genuinely have mostly good things to say about the site – otherwise why would I be paying to stay a member.

I am always honest in my reviews and discussions of products – whether I am an affiliate or not an affiliate.

I was a member of jobcrusher.com – but I did drop out of that site because it just didn’t meet my needs compared to PF.

If you would like to learn more about Portal Feeder from someone who has actually experienced it – then please take a look at all 8 posts of my Portal Feeder review.

I honestly think you’d be interested in the different things that Portal Feeder offers – and next time you discuss PF you’ll have a better idea of what goes on there and it will help you educate your readers about whether it is actually worth joining or not.

Kindest Regards

Jason Green
sitesalary.com

I noticed that you are one of the few sites out there that has discussed Portal Feeder.

The example given isn’t really that relevant to measuring what Portal Feeder is about. It’s kind of like measuring how good wordpress is based on the sample of one site.

The PF software (and there is more to portal feeder than just the software) is just a content management system, that is more user friendly than most. It can be used on its own or in conjunction with other tools and software – it integrates well with WordPress (that’s how I use it).

Since I’m an member of Portal Feeder you might be interested in reading my lengthy Portal Feeder Review[edited] Crappy Affiliate Presales Page with scraped article headers that were not linked[/edited].

Let me also say that I 100% understand about the time issue. If only we could occasionally stop time :)

One thing I meant to say earlier is those site your are referencing are NOT mine and they look like old pf newbie sites. One thing we do believe in is to just start building your site(s) and learn from yoru mistakes. If you get stuck in analysis paralysis then you will go no where. You can not be a perfectionist, especially when starting out.

I always do hate sharing sites however, and the reason is someone will always be able to punch a hole through something. Oh, you have some supplemental results, there is spelling mistakes, your rankings dropped… the list goes on and on… and on.

As for the blogging platform, I am sorry but that is a misunderstanding and I am not sure how that came across but regardless it is. One of the advantages of Portalfeeder is being able to manage multiple sites and blogs. It does use word press for the blogging tool but what it does is manage that content to it. It however does more then just that… you can first of all easily have datafeeds, products, articles and rss feeds posted to the blog in absolutely any format you want on the blog. You can also have portalfeeder post content to your site and then post a snippet (as much of the article as you want) with a commentary to the blog at the same time linked to your article. This however is just touching the surface of what the software alone does.

As for saying you may as well just use a log, I disagree… but it is just my preference. I use blogs, I use portals, I use portals and blogs all mixed together.

The whole idea of the software alone is to allow you to have total control from one single location.

I want to stress also that PortalFeeder is more then just the software that we are talking about. It is also incredibly powerful promotion tools (I am biased though) and top notch SEO and SEM training plus we network together to help one another in a big mastermind.

Anyway, thanks for letting me speak :)

PS – I just noticed you said Jason Potash, actually this is Jason Potash’s business partner with PF Jason Katzenback

I have made a correction on the sitemap.

I did emphasise a few times that the site was a training site and might not be full featured.

Database: From memory PF was meant to have its own blogging platform rather than WordPress. If you are using WordPress for the blogs, you might as well use it for the whole site.

I wanted to have something fresher available, as people searching for PF information were landing all over the place on my site, and one of the main things they were looking for was an example, even though there was the information on the sales page. Maybe you should have just used a link, though then you wouldn’t have the social proof angle of them actually finding the sites at that position in the serps.

I will drop you an email regarding the rest. My rarest resource is time, though I spend time on things related to this blog because it helps meet long term goals.