Content Desk Authority Site Center
Review 

(Above graphic is actually from Jack's popular blog.)

Intro:
The Authority Site Center is the new name for 2006's "Content Desk
Content Publishers Alliance Membership"  (whew!..no wonder they
changed the name! :)

What used to be the "Content Desk" for short has become either 
"Authority Site Center" or "Content Desk" for short.  Anyway, this
ground-breaking organization continues as the latest and greatest in
"Authority Sites* - producing" memberships. 

* "Authority Site" is the current buzzword describing a website built with gobs of high-quality, white-hat SEO content that's updated regularly with RSS, new articles, and visitor content--like blogs, visitor reviews, etc. Now, "Authority Sites" have been around since the beginning of the internet (without RSS and blogs), but they just weren't called "authority sites;"  but that's why they've been around so long! (because they had all the right "white hat" features.)

Price:  $249 $197 $97 per month.

Cons:
When it was $249/mo., the only "con" I listed last year (when it was
the Content Desk Content Publishers Alliance Membership) was price.
Now it's the best deal anywhere for what you get--so no negative
things coming from this reviewer.

Pros:
As a matter of fact, I'm not aware of another membership that could
compete in the same category as Content Desk; there's just not
another membership designed quite like it, with all the features and
incredible software customed designed for you. 

Yes, there is the StomperNet, but that is $790/month and you have
to do more footwork yourself to get your authority site up and running
than you do with the Authority Site Center...

Now, truth be told, I'm not a member of StomperNet, so I can't say
for sure what they do, however, my buddy Marc is.  And Marc shares
the info with me (like you're not supposed to ;) and he went to their
seminar down in Atlanta last month.  (I did join "StomperNet Simple"
for their 30-day trial to see if it was all that it was cracked up to be--
which it is/was.) 

In any case, there's only one other competitor to the Authority Site
Center (or "Content Desk"). And that is Jason Katzenback's and Jason
Potash's Portal Feeder.  However, once again, the price is far above
the Content Desk's paltry $97/month.  Besides, their membership is
closed until further notice.

There are other memberships that offer good content for their members,
like "NichRevolution.com" (the Callen brothers), and NichesInABox.com
(Jean-Philippe Schoeffel) to name a couple, but their memberships are
based on pre-made content sites that are shared by the membership. 
So they're not even in the same league as the Content Desk, Portal
Feeder, or StomperNet.

More:
The following 3 software titles are the big advantages of a Content
Desk membership from a software standpoint.  There are other
advantages like coaching and "the tightest-knit support forum on the
entire internet"  but the focus right now will be on these three
Content Desk-exclusive software titles...

Since these 3 software titles were written exclusively for Content Desk,
I thought they deserved their own (non-clickable) box images...

O.K., this feature here is only available to Content Desk members:  You can setup your incoming content thru your 'fancy' RSS feeds (PheedPress) to return very specific info. Now, I know this sounds vague or 'no big deal' until it's used: You can input keyword PHRASES, and pretty long keyword phrases instead of just one keyword to go out and find the content that fits your site.  If you've ever used RSS for this, you'll know the great time-saving feature this will be.

Host unlimited domains as part of your membership on "high quality servers."  (The "unlimited" websites is the advantage here...they also advertise "high quality, expensive servers," but that part is pretty much standard with most hosts.)

Unlimited use of WordPress Master...

                             
...Regular WordPress software is nothing special.  But Content Desk's
"WordPress Master" is a whole 'nother ballgame.  In addition to a blog
it's designed to be a content management and marketing tool.  It's
designed to work with "Content Press," another Content Desk
exclusive software. No one else but members get to use this.

Unlimited use of PheedPress...

                    
...Another great software crafted exclusively for Content Desk,
PheedPress supposedly does a bunch of cool things: 

	Reliable "bullet-proof" (to use their words) XML validated feeds that are tagged from Technorati and all other tagging engines.
	With a couple clicks, import all your feeds at once to MyYahoo and Google Personal Pages.
	All feeds properly tagged to take advantage of social bookmarking.
	Create a feed for any keyword that's in your blog, and unlimited custom feeds.
	All feeds are instantly live--no waiting for cron activation (this is indeed cool.)

...ContentPress is the third major piece of software custom-designed
exclusively for Content Desk.  Now, if the claims for ContentPress are
true, ContentPress and WordPress Master combine to form a "one-two
punch" unequaled by any other content RSS-to-blog software out
there.  

	"Brand-new, cutting-edge technology" (their words).
	ClickBank affiliate module (plugin) included. (This is pretty cool.)
	Add commentary--top and bottom if you want--to organically fed articles.  (This is not anything special--you could do that with any article.)
	"Blow most every SEO company out of the water for some of their own coveted terms!" (It's getting late and I lazily copied their own hyped-up claim.)  It is cool, however, if you can do things like outrank Google, for example, for "Google." (which happened briefly with another dude not related to Content Desk some time ago :)

Since Google has changed its TOS (Terms Of
Service), among other things (like its site ranking algorithms, for
instance), there has been a much-needed and long-anticipated shift
in which websites are doing well and which are floundering. 

These changes have been cheered by those of us trying to produce
quality products for the web--sites that actually enhance the visitor
experience.  But those folks who have been producing crappy,
spammy sites are now crying the blues while watching their bank
accounts shrink like cellophane over a fire. 

But it had to happen sooner or later, it was bound to happen...
there's just no way those machine-generated adsense sites could have
gotten more numerous before something had to happen.  And that
something finally did happen:  without going into too much in this
review, check out the "Matt Cutts videos" under "The Latest News."
(Matt Cutts is a Google 'user experience specialist.')

Personally:
You would be getting the best bargain you've ever gotten if you
could just make a fraction of what some of the better earners are
making:  Income claims go from $6000-$25,000+ per month...

This would pay for the $97 monthly membership fee (almost ;)

The Content Desk (or Authority Site Center) does nearly everything
for you...it would be hard to fail to make money with any site that
you did any half-a** keyword research for.

I think with things like this, any failures are the result of lazy people
who want a magic bullet; they're willing to pay any price to not have
to do anything themselves.  These folks invariably blame the program
for their failure.  They'll go from program to program with the hope that
they'll hit on one that takes themselves out of the equation--yet
somehow magically fills their bank accounts while they lay in a
hammock.

I know this type of person because that was once me!  (Only I never
blamed anyone or any program but my own faulty computer program
running in my cerebral cortex ;)