Product and Software Reviews

Comparing Portal Feeder and Authority Site Center - Two Really Hot Memberships

In another post I mentioned that I'm a member of Portal Feeder and have been for almost a year. I am also a member of Authority Site Center, where I joined in the winter of 2006. Since I am a member of both I feel qualified to write a comparison of these two membership sites.

In some ways Portal Feeder and Authority Site Center are alike. They both have great forums, lots of training available in archive as well as ongoing, and they both provide some powerful tools for making money online. But there are many differences, as well.

Differences include:

• Portal Feeder focuses on HTML sites and has a powerful software that fills the web site automatically at intervals that you specify
• Authority Site Center focuses on building blogs that are authority sites
• Authority Site Center has 2-3 webinars every week during which you can ask questions, whereas Portal Feeder has webinars more sporadically
• Authority Site Center has a fantastic software for creating blogs that with regular posting and some smart promotion will do great in the search engines and get good pagerank
• Portal Feeder has more tools included in the membership than Authority Site Center for getting links to your sites
• Authority Site Center has two levels of membership, one (half price) creates one blog for you (your topic) and some training, the other tier creates one blog a month for you and gives you access to all the training
• ASC is always open for new members, whereas Portal Feeder is only open for new members when they decide to open the doors

Similarities include:

• great forum
• great training (each has some training that the other does not)
• each has some great tools, and with a lot of time and hard work you can succeed
• both have very awesome programmers who are continually coming up with amazing business-building tools
• each are operated by a very knowledgeable team
• both have hired people from within the members to join the operating team

The reason for the two levels of membership fees at Authority Site Center is to provide people a less expensive introduction to ASC. If people like what ASC offers and want more than one blog that uses ASC's own version of Wordpress, they can upgrade at any time to the full-paid membership.

Portal Feeder is a little bit more expensive than ASC's full membership, but they provide more tools. There are many tools that you can download and use forever, and there are tools that are only available to members. They are very generous, and their goal is to help you succeed.

As a member of both, I see a good reason for Portal Feeder to only open to new members for a short time every now and then. When new members are constantly joining time has to constantly be given to training them from the start. It might not seem significant, but it can be helpful to have have everyone beyond the beginning stages so time can be focused on intermediate and advanced training.

Which membership do I prefer? That is really hard to say. I am a member of both, and enjoy both. They are different enough from each other that I believe the expense is justified. I see them as investments in my business. Also, since I am making enough money to cover the expense, there is no reason to leave. The only drawback is my time limits. It would be great if I could focus 4-5 hours on each of them every day.

If the price of Portal Feeder is too high for you, then I highly recommend Authority Site Center. For less than $100 you get one blog set up for you using their souped-up version of Wordpress. You also get a lot of training. For less than $200 you get one blog a month set up for you and access to all the training materials. I have been a member of ASC since the winter of 2006. It's where I first started to make money online.

Whichever you join, you must be serious about making money online, and and be willing to put a lot of time and effort into it.

What I like about both Portal Feeder and Authority Site Center is they offer great tools, great training, fantastic forums, get you focused on what needs to be done to make a living online, and so much more.

I have sites with both memberships that have done very well. One site with ASC reached pagerank 6 in 16 months. Several sites with Portal Feeder have keywords showing up on the first page of the search engines (when they were just 1 month old).

If you have been wanting to join Portal Feeder, now is the time. If you can not afford the price, then I highly recommend you get started with Authority Site Center for now, get a blog up, focus your time and energy on that one site, and start making some money.

The important thing is you get started now. Take action. Eventually you will be able to invest in your business by upgrading to the full membership at ASC, and maybe even join Portal Feeder next time they open the doors to new members.