I interviewed Joe from Backlinks Genie, but unfortunately I temporarily lost the first part of the interview so first up….here’s my summary of the first part of the interview, (to be replaced by actual interview when I get my notes back).
Backlinks Genie is a service that costs $199.00 ($50 dollar discount available at link below).
They have several project types, and projects are basically link types.
- Blog commenting project = 750 links/day Generated, to different blog platforms
- Xrumer blasts – 2k daily, or
- PR profile link wheel blasts – random linking to other profiles created on higher PR forums and CMS-es and what-not, and linking to destination/money sites as well.
- Web 2.0s – Upload a spun articles, inserts links to destination urls, and Backlinks Genie will create 15 web 2.0s properties/sites for you. 15 may not sound like much, when compared to other services and tools that “do web submissions, but these particular web 2.0 properties were selected as posting-to targets because they have a good “sticky” rate.
NOTE: As anyone who’s tried using Rank builder, SE Nuke, or SERP Assist can probably tell you, there’s a high % of web 2.0 sites that get deleted after creation, whether it be immediately or 2 days later or even 2 months later, so stickiness is important when deciding to use a web 2.0 poster/submitter/creator.
The commenting project is good for indexing everything created in the other project types, and also good for getting the number of credited links up. It seems like YSE and other backlinks checkers like the commenting links, accreditation-wise, and this accreditation does have some effect on rankings.
The profiles linking stuff works well, delivers as promised….
Other project types that Backlinks Genie has involved 3 and 4-day “campaigns” whereby you have a certain set of actions taking place at a pre determined interval
Example:
- Day 1- Web 2.0s submissions
- Day 2- Profile link wheels
- Day 3- xrumer blast of 2k
- Day 4- commenting links (to everything generated for this project thus far)
BEGIN INTERVIEW
Daniel McGonagle:: Hi Joe, thanks for doing this interview with me. I’ve been a paid member of Backlinks Genie for a few months now a nd I can see what it currently does and where it’s going and I like what I have seen for results so far, and kind of excited about future plans BLG has in store…
Joe Schmidli: Thanks for the chance to talk about our service Yes we have plenty of new projects we want to release. We are always listening to our customers feedback on what project types the would like to see. If it’s feasible we will make it happen. We have the article directory project type scheduled for release in the next few weeks.
Daniel McGonagle:: OK, so for those who aren’t familiar with Backlinks Genie (BLG) can you tell us exactly what BLG offers by way of link generating capabilities?
Joe Schmidli: Sure thing, BLG currently offers 4 main project types.
Joe Schmidli: First is web 2.0 account creation and posting of an article
Joe Schmidli: Next is a PR4+ profile link wheel. Where we create profile on sites that have a or of at least 4 and drop a link to your target and to another profile.
Joe Schmidli: Third is the blog commenting project type. We are currently running a minimum of 750 blog comments per project.
Joe Schmidli: Lastly we have the xrumer type profile project type. This project creates a minimum of 2,000 profiles with your anchor as the signature.
Daniel McGonagle:: Ok, cool. I don’t want to get into future releases and project types just yet if that’s OK, but have some specific questions about each of the 4 project types listed so far….
Joe Schmidli: We also have several multi day project types that will automatically build tiered back link networks.
Joe Schmidli: Ok ask away.
Daniel McGonagle:: #1- The Web 2.0 project type. 15 different Web 2.0 entities are created via one spun article, and the Web 2.0s, link to each other AND the destination url specified in the project admin area for the users, is that correct?
Joe Schmidli: The web 2.0′s will link to whatever links are in the article itself, but yes they are created from one spun article.
Daniel McGonagle:: OK, so why only 15 web 2.0 entities, and why those 15? Was it the only 15 you could repeatedly and automatically post to without fail, or were there other reasons for picking these particular 15 web entnties for posting articles to?
Joe Schmidli: They are the standard 2.0 sites that we have found to perform the best and still have a decent sticking rate. We do have more than 15 in our database so our script randomly chooses from the pool of sites.
Joe Schmidli: We are currently working on a completely new script that will allow us to expand our database and delivery. But that is still a ways off.
Daniel McGonagle:: OK, so stickiness is major consideration here, that makes sense
Joe Schmidli: Yes we are concerned about quality as well as quantity.
Daniel McGonagle:: #2- I’d like to talk about the Blog commenting project type next
Joe Schmidli: Ok
Daniel McGonagle:: 750 comments/day to dofollow urls, yes?
Joe Schmidli: There is a mix of of both dofollow and nofollow.
Daniel McGonagle:: Any particular platform, or wordpress only?
Daniel McGonagle:: Are we hitting blogs with PR? What considerations are taken into account here for generating these blog comments, if any?
Joe Schmidli: Our blog database is always in a state of flux. We do not target any specific platform. There are some blogs with PR in the mix but they are not specifically targeted.
Daniel McGonagle:: OK, btw I notice these kinds of links tend to build up credited backlinks better than some profile linking services I’ve used, just wanted you to know that. I used the comments project for 2 weeks straight for one site and it had almost 1000 links to it according to YSE at the end of that 2-week span…
Joe Schmidli: We have found the se results with the comments. They tend to show up on YSE more than profiles.
Daniel McGonagle:: #3 and 4 – Profiles links
Daniel McGonagle:: Why Profile Link Wheels, do they work and what’s so good about this project type?
Joe Schmidli: The link wheel is used to help the profiles to get crawled by the search engines. When they link together if one is found then it increases the chance that more will be crawled.
Daniel McGonagle:: OK, so why limit this to just 60 link sources, and why limit them to just PR4 or above sites?
Joe Schmidli: We do not use the traditional link wheel. But rather a random linking. This reduces the obvious footprint.
Daniel McGonagle:: ok…
Daniel McGonagle:: The PR link wheel hits 60 chosen sites, right? Then provides multiple links in profile, one to destination site, and one to next profile…?
Joe Schmidli: Yes one link to the target and another to a previous profile in the same project.
Daniel McGonagle:: I just wanna know the reasoning and justification behind using this just on sites/forums with PR….
Joe Schmidli: The high PR is a better back link. The limit is due to the finite amount of these sites.
Daniel McGonagle:: ok
Daniel McGonagle:: #4- the 2k profiles link blasts
Daniel McGonagle:: do you have a certain percentage of these links set to be naked links, or do you aim for 100% anchor text links?
Joe Schmidli: We aim for 100% of the links to be anchored. However there may be some naked links that do slip in. We do run all of the profile through a link checker before the report is created. So you definitely get at least 2k live links…
Daniel McGonagle: Joe, when people see a service is recommended, they sometimes don’t know how a service will give THEM best/better results. So I was wondering…. what seems to be working best for current members, what links are delivering the best value, or is it the mix of link types that works best?
Joe Schmidli: What we recommend is building a network of web 2.0′s that point to your target site. Then using the other project types to build links to those 2.0′s Our 3 and 4 day projects make this process very easy. But they are just the start. We have completed many case studies where we blast the 2.0′s with blog comments and profiles for weeks. In one case we now have 25 of the top 50 results.
Joe Schmidli: Since no one solution fits every back link building project we built our system to allow you to tailor the projects to your needs.
Daniel McGonagle: Right, ok, so best practice is build the web 2.0s, which link to “money sites”, then use all the other project linking types to link to money sites and web 2.0s at same time, or just work on linking up the web 2.0s?
Joe Schmidli: You can do either. It depends on your unique situation. Is your “money site” new? How many backlinks does it currently have? More importantly what is the backlink velocity? Are you afraid of the google sandbox?
Daniel McGonagle: Right, ok got it, these are typical questions asked (and asnwered) a lot, so if you got a new site, work on building a linked-up web 2.0 network of inbound links so as to spread the links out and not overwhelm a new-ish site
Daniel McGonagle: And you’re saying these web 2.0 entities are ranking for some of the member’s keywords is that correct?
Joe Schmidli: Yes link velocity is the important factor. We do not investigate our users projects/results unless they specifically ask us to so I can not answer for what our users results are. But for our case studies YES! our 2.0′s dominate the results.
Daniel McGonagle: wow that’s cool, and so much better than building web 2.0s that don’t stick, like a lot of other tools do
Daniel McGonagle: Moving on though
Daniel McGonagle: We know what you offer (now) and BLG’s recommended practices, but what else do you have in store for BLG, more link variety I hope?
Joe Schmidli: Yes our article submission project type is coming along nicely and will allow you to drip feed articles to article directories. We plan on releasing it around the end of this month. After that we plan on tackling a social bookmarking project type and we have an itch to look into a wpmu type blog farm project type but the details for that are still up in the air.
Daniel McGonagle: OK, Article Marketing project goes live next? How many article directories get submitted to, is there a need to sign up for accounts there, and what’s acceptance rate like, any idea of that yet?
Joe Schmidli: No we do not have those details yet. I do know our script will create the accounts for you though. The acceptance rate will largely depend on the article that is provided.
Daniel McGonagle: OK, and I assume the directories are chosen based on certain criteria, like whether or not we can get the urls of our articles once live, or if they accept spun content, stuff like that?
Daniel McGonagle: I’m just curious, but since it’s not live as of right now, no need to give out details if they’re not 100% clear yet, just wondering about the next new release is all…
Joe Schmidli: Yes we will have a database of directories and they will be randomly choosen for each project. We are hoping to have over 1000 directories but that is what we have left to do on the project, building our database to submit to so that number is still a guess right now.
Daniel McGonagle: OK, good enough. I won’t ask for details on the upcoming projects coming out after that, but can you tell me/us what, if anything is in store for new projects after the article marketing and social bookmarking ones?
Joe Schmidli: Besides the blog farm, which the details are very vague, we do not have any new project types on the schedule. However we are always listening to our users so if we get a suggestion and it is feasible we will do it. We do have several improvements to our current projects on the schedule as well. Such as associating urls and keywords for the profile projects. We are also in the process of completely rewriting our 2.0 script. It’s being programed from scratch in a new language. Once it is done we will be able to increase the speed of the 2.0 projects which will increase the daily production. Another side benefit will the new language will also allow us to add additional sites to our 2.0 database.
Daniel McGonagle: OK, I’m running out of questions and things to pick your brains on. Is there anything I didn’t ask, or something not discussed here that you want current or future BLG members to know about?
Joe Schmidli: Your questions were pretty thorough. The only aspect we did not cover was our support. We strive to give the best support possible and will work out any issues that may arise. For example we have had to rewrite several of our scripts to handle the Greek alphabet at the request of one of our users. We are here to help you rank your sites and in turn make money. We know if that does not happen you will not be our customer for very long. So we will bend over backwards to make sure it happens.
Daniel McGonagle: Wow, nice of you to do that.
Daniel McGonagle: OK, final questions then
Daniel McGonagle: I use your service, and pay full price for it. I like the interface, and the results from using your service…but is there a trial period, or perhaps even a discount that could be made for the readers/subscribers to my blog at http://linkvanareviews.com ?
Joe Schmidli: Yes we have both a one week trial for $49 or a $50 off the first month that the readers/subscribers can access.
Daniel McGonagle: OK, very nice, and thank you for that! 
I’ll be sure to get that discount link up when I post this interview up on the site.
Daniel McGonagle: Thanks again for all your time invested in doing this interview, Joe, it’s appreciated
Joe Schmidli: Very happy to answer your questions.
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Greetings Daniel McGonagle
My name is Xristos-Anastasios Kostouros and i am the SEM Manager of Greek Internet Marketing LTD Web Design & SEO Services.
Recently, we have had a discussion with JOE and i am very proud to announce that their service meets the criteria he spoke about.
Quote From Joe :
“For example we have had to rewrite several of our scripts to handle the Greek alphabet at the request of one of our users.”
I was the one who asked for the Greek language and he responded to me very fast. Their service truly meets the criteria he spoke, as he had all the patience to answer each of my questions and also come back with an answer or proposition
When they fix the Greek script, our company will join them for a long term relationship.
Xristos-Anastasios, Kostouros
SEM Manager
Greek Internet Marketing.com
Xristos, I vaguely remember an earlier comment you made on here about a “Greek” requirement/request, and that occurred to me when Joe told me that he made, or will make some mods for you, and other customers as well.
Thanks for confirming this for me,
Dan
Hello Daniel McGonagle,
You are doing great job for sure and to be honest, your efforts should be paid for what you are doing.
In our eyes you are trustworthy so i would like to request a review for “Niche Press Platinum” at “http://www.nichepressplatinum.com” since they do accept Greek Anchor Text.
Thanks in advice,
Xristos-Anastasios, Kostouros
SEM Manager
Greek Internet Marketing.com
Is it easier to push a squidoo lens or a blogger blog to the top of the search engine rankings?
I/we can blast links to a lens with more impunity than a hubpages hub…. I know that doesn’t fully answer your question but the comparisons are similar Hubs and Google owned blogger and moderated and sometimes they even wipe out blogger blogs en masse
I don’t see a good customer service at all from these people. Have been waiting for three days now to get the forum login activated and the same time for my questions to get answered.
Hope they shape up soon or I will not be paying this much for long.
Tom
Ask your question here tom, they’ll answer soon enough
Hi Dan,
Do you know if there will be a price increase for existing members once the additional features (article submission and social bookmarking) are added into the mix?
Tom
Can we run many project at the same time?
Just like to add that I have just started using backlinksgenie only 4 days in but I have already successfully created a profile links wheel & the start of a 3 day project (Although I did not preview my articles correctly so had to manually change some of the web 2.0 after creation – which may not be such a bad thing as it may help them to “stick”). Some how missed your $50 dollars off discount link – but hopefully you got some affiliate commission as I always checkout your site first before considering the linking tools. So far has been straight forward and simple to use – but it looks as if it can be powerful with the ability to create links back to previous projects by date. So you could schedule a whole months worth of linking with at one time if you wished.
One thing not mentioned in the interview above is that you can login and try the interface and view options – simply go to site and use username/password of test/test.
Just came across another linker tool by Howie Schwartz
it appears to create posts on social sites – have you heard of this or have any views on its potential effectiveness.
Ken
Daniel,
I see that BLG still isn’t in your top 4 most recommended. Do you foresee it making that list soon or not? Just looking to get the most bang for my buck and I trust your opinion.
If you could only get one but you could afford any one you wanted (out of everything out there), what would you choose?
Thanks,
Trent
Trent, I ‘m going to do the recommended page over quite a bit soon. BLG is will be top rated in the automated services category, next to LinxBoss. If I had the money for only one thing, I’d buy an article submitter like AMR, and use it extensively for links, do manual EZA submissions for direct traffic and links plus use a hodge-podge of home grown or one time fee tools to.
I personally spend about 1200-1500 month testing things out, but only about 400 of that is into services that work well for me, Linxboss, AMR, BLG, and if I had time Article Ranks or UAW.
If YOU only had $$ for one thing then 199/month for BLG may not be what you need right now, no matter how good it is. But I know you could spend 2 months using it and get one adsense site up to make 30/day if you wanted, so I really don’t think cost is an issue once you get your income streams going
I’m using Blg for almost a month now. I lOve it. Projects are done fast. I am also using the linklicious.me API for spidering as well
Dan I’m curious about what you say for an asense site above. If you had one free month of Blg too use for a test adsense site what strategy would you pursue? Thanks grabbed linxboss, Blg, articlranks, and buildmyrank via your links this past month. Loving the services
Hey Chris thanks for the feedback and sponsorship
Read this (my post on other blog) Passive Income with Adsense
Hey Dan thanks. I was just saying like if you had BLG to use for 1 month for one site, how would your calendar look
Cmon bite!!!
Chris
Thanks for the extra information Daniel. I am trying out AMR right now and will probably buy the full version when my trial runs out in a couple days. I’d like to see a little more time pass and another update about BLG from you before I jump on it. If you are still recommending it a couple months from now then I am in.
Hi Trent, good idea to try one thing at a time. Learn AMR, hit their forum, see their recommended best practices, index those livelinks, then when you’re ready for more.
For example, in the AMR forum they mention submitting a 100% unique version of an article to highest PR directory first, then submit the spins to the rest afterwards, good tip there that’s proven effective for me
Thanks for another great interview Dan. I have been looking at BLG, but I already have Drip Feed Blast so I was wondering this…. If I build my own 15 web 2.0 pages and do some drip feed blasts of these pages as well as a scrape box commenting project do you think it would be just as effective?
I know there are a lot of other variable, but your opinion is always appreciated. Thanks.
Jon
Hi Jon, thanks for the feedback.
Yes, if you had some of the tools like Scrapebox, then you could do most of what BLG does all by itself.
Scrapebox for commenting links and other stuff, too.
DFB for the profiles links
DFB also has a multi sig file feature, but I don’t use them anymore. I like BLG because it gives me most of what I want in one services, it’s automated, and I don’t have to run anything manually.
I might make a post soon on how to piece together an seo tools suite that can do a lot of things, albeit manually. I just assumed that most people want more automation in their life so they/we can focus on building more income streams/sites.
For example sick Profile Submitter can work ok, too, I just prefer NOT having to fire up a tool to get links.
I’d be very interested in this. Guys like me who aren’t seeing the ROI yet but still want to get the most for their backlinking efforts would love a post like this
Hey Sammy, for ROI purposes, ascertain what long-tails are converting, hit those first, rank for those first, then whatever small time traffic comes in will (or should) provide the ROI you’re looking for.
Sometimes we try to rank for terms that are high search volume as a priority, but if I/you/we focused more on creating sites that ranked for the money-making keywords, then the whole “mission statement” for a site (to make money) become an easier attained thing.
You could run some PCC campaigns to see what keywords actually DO get searched for, then see if that particular KW search traffic (long tails or otherwise) covert, then focus on ranking for the money keywords, which might be a bit easier than the heaviest volume keyword.
Good question, by the way, thanks….
Sounds great, but is it possible to submit more than 2 URLs? That would be great!
you can submit as many urls as you like
Thanks for posting the interview Dan.
@ Tom – please let me know any of your issues. I will personally make sure they are taken care of. As far as I know all of our support emails/questions have been answered. Our forum is for paying customers only and if you registered a different username then you will need to email support with your forum name. Then they will activate your account asap.
And no we do not have any price increases planned but if or when we do our existing customers will be locked in to their current prices.
@ zack – you can run one project per day per account. If you need more than one account you can email support for our bulk pricing. We have some really big discounts for multi account users.
@ Jon – yes you can build the same type of Backlinks we do by using a combination of other services/ programs. But you have to ask yourself, How much is your time worth? Coordinating all the services/programs to build tiered backlink networks takes a lot of time. I know I used to do it myself for my own sites. Not to mention creating the web 2.0′s, captcha costs, and cost of proxies.
@ Paul – You can target as many URL/anchor combinations as you like. Obviously, you would not submit a web 2.0 article with hundreds of links in the body as it would be removed by the sites admins. But you could run a different article each day with different URL/anchors. For the other projects there is no limit. All we ask is that you be reasonable. You would not want to run a 60 pr4 + profile project and drop 50 urls in it as the target. You would only get about one link per URL and that is not going to do much good.
If anyone has specific questions they would like answered please feel free to contact our support. It is the fastest way to get to us. I frequently answer the support emails personally. It gives me the best read as to how our service is performing and what areas if any we need to work on.
Bests regards,
Joe
HI Daniel,
Great interview,
What about the reposting feature ? do you use it ?
Hi Ron, I don’t use it no, but its more of a “not yet” thing rather than a “not going to use it” kind of thing. The web 2.0s part, reposting or otherwise, requires content, usually spun so that’s a bit of a hurdle sometimes for me. I think it’s important to develop the web 2.0s that get created out there, instead of just making one-hit wonders all the time. Web 2.0 mini sites make for good backlinks and pass decent link juice
Daniel, I agree that building up the web2s is important. I shoot for 3-5 posts per project, so the BLG repost is good.
But I’ve got a question: do you think it is better to build a the 3-5 pages with just 1 or 2 links to my site total, or drop 1 link in every one of the posts?
Frank, good question…
Think of the fleshed-out web 2.0 entity as a site in and of itself, but something the search engines see as just one page. If the SEs see it as just one page, then there’s really no benefit to linking to the same single url from each of the posts. the goal of a fleshed out web 2.0 is basically to create a mini-site that ranks for the keywords in its title and content, thereby creating a traffic-generating “website” and a traffic generating website getting found for keywords related to your destination site give better, higher quality links than one hit wonders.
consider the re-posting as an opportunity to build out a mini-net of mini-sites, which, when linked together and outwardly properly, will deliver some pretty good results. It’s just a lot of work.
Read the posts in the mini nets category for more information about what I’m referring to here
Hey Dan, “If the SEs see it as just one page, then there’s really no benefit to linking to the same single url from each of the posts. ” What if I link to different urls in each of my posts?
If I want to promote multiple pages of my site, which one is better in terms of giving link juice:
1. Big web 2.0 sites (10-20 posts?) with each post linking to different urls of my site (less sites, more posts) OR
2. Lots of mini web 2.0 sites (3 posts?) with each post linking to a specific url of my site (more sites, less posts)?
In terms of IP diversity, there’s no difference but in terms of link juice, the big web 2.0 sites would give higher quality links?
Because if big web 2.0 sites win I can just keep using the repost feature until I have full on authority web 2.0 sites that have lots of posts promoting different urls of my site.
Hope you can shed some light on this Dan.
Thanks!
BLG rocks. They deliver. It’s a simple interface. Customer focused. What’s not to like?
Paul, I deleted your last comment accidentally. Paul commented that Backlinks Genie has an API that ties into Linklicious, thereby making it easier to get everything indexed, and this sorta frees up the use of the blog commenting project, which a lot of people use for getting things indexed.
No doubt! I have systems in place already these services just make life a whole lot easier! Things always changing as we all know so well.
Hi Dan, Just subscribed from your affiliate links, thanks for your review. I hope you don’t mind if I ask you something when I got problem.
Regards,
Joni
I’ve been on the fence about BLG. On 1 hand I love the fact that most of everything is available at your disposal for link building and will get even better with bookmarking and article distribution, but on the other hand, I don’t think the price warrants the limited amount you can do each day. It’s very restrictive in this regard.
Josh, thanks for the input and feedback here; you make valid points. With Backlinks Genie we’re sort of “hamstrung” by the scheduling doing only one thing at a time, but the point to using this kind of service is to make it an all in one solution. SE nuke costs 147/month I think, and it’s a manually run tool requiring manual labor and effort. And yes, you could use Scrapebox to do many of the things BLG does for you, but SB requires harvesting new urls, targets, to maintain your proxies, to write the snippets for the comments etc…. It all works the same way, I just prefer to spend less time doing that kind of thing and focus more on new niches, sites, and income streams, know what I mean?
Yeah BLG is so easy, I had SE Nuke for prob a year. TO be honest I def did not take advantage of it because I knew of the time it too. With BLG you just set it and forget it. I’m thinking about grabbing another account
Is there a limit on how many websites you can promote per project. Is it 1 project=1 website type a thing?
Also, would you recommend this over linxboss as far as effectiveness.
Daniel, think of a Project as a day where just one thing gets done, whether it be commenting links, web 2.0s or other stuff.
So yes, you can promote 15-2k sites/day with BLG, it just wouldn’t be very effective that way
Daniel, would you recommend BLG for people who have 50+ websites to promote? It sounds like a real timesaver!
Hi Daniel,
In posting your best practices for a new single website as above, what would be a best practice for an aged website… the general senario.. rinse and repeat?
Day 1- Web 2.0s submissions
Day 2- Profile link wheels
Day 3- xrumer blast of 2k
Day 4- commenting links (to everything generated for this project thus far)
Thanks
Todd
Todd, I think for an aged site yo umight want to analyze your inbound link profile and see where you’re deficient in link variance. Are you missing social, article, commenting profile links, or have a need to get links form more real estate (IP addresses)? If so address those more aggressively for an aged site, that would be my best guess.
A lot of times I see “stuck” sites move up in rankings once they start acquiring different kinds of links en masse
Dan, are you able to comment on your BLG serp results? I realize the new posting option was added in past couple months, but am curious if you have studied the cause/effects? thnx
Hey Paul, BLG works great at providing the base links you’d need when starting to compete with other sites that are doing heavy-duty linking, but I’ve used BLG to rank sites just site 3 straight weeks of blog commenting and those links are sticking pretty well, and the link counts continue to go up, amazingly enough.
It seems that the stickiest of links are the blog commenting links, but they just take a while to show up in link counts, but they do work pretty well for rankings increases, too, just slow-acting.
If I weren’t doing so many review of other tools and services, I’d probably just use BLG and one other tool, but I’d have to order additional accounts with them to sustain what I’m currently doing.
As far as the re-posting to web 2.0s is concerned, I haven’t really tested it, but when I first heard about it I thought it’d be great for building fleshed-out mini-sites, but the mini-sites that BLG posts to aren’t the “high-level” web 2.0s I’d want to build mini-sites on so I’ve not done many re-postings to flesh out some of these web 2.0s. Right now I just use them for added link variance and it does help.
What works best these days, seemingly, if getting as many of th elink types as possible in smaller numbers, and ensuring they’re all indexed. This is actually a more effective way towards ranking sites, since it allows us to do more with less backlinking effort.
I hope this answers your question, I’ve got a bit of an infection these days and can barely think straight!
Thanks,
Dan
Dan, hope you are feeling well. What’s always worked well for me is fluids. I mix a 6-ounce: 2-parts orange juice and 2-parts everclear. I get some solid sleep and I feel better.
I’ll take your advise. I’m going to run the commenting and see how well that does. I have blg dialed into the linklicious.me api – which is becoming one of my favorite programs.
Take care & feel better. Thanks again.
Hey Paul, thanks for the advice, I sleep as long as I can, then do some shovelling and rest, then more shovelling the nrest then online stuff etc…
The thing I don’t like about the BLG >LinkLicious API thing in regards to the blog commenting is that there’s no need to use this, because the urls where comments are being made are already indexed and using LL to ping those urls won’t really speed up the indexation of your comment slinks much, since those urls already probably have tons of comments and OBLs on them and it will take a while for the spiders to find your links no matter what you do, which is the main reason it takes so long for these commenting links to be found, but these are sticky links on already-indexed urls so kinda worth the wait, if you’re a patient man.
I would run the commenting links for 3 weeks max then switch to other project types
Would you blast all of these blog commenting links to your money site each day for the entire month? Are the blg profile links or blog commenting links better?
Eric, I’d do it for 3 weeks tops (see my last reply).
Commenting versus profiles links… I think the commenting links have a much higher stickiness rate and I’ve used them to rank some site solely with that link/project type, but what really matters and affects your sites most is getting more of a link variety basically
I have been a member of Backlinksgenie since October 2010 and I really love it. Their support is very responsive. I submitted two support requests and they both were answered within some hours. I also love the fact that Backlinksgenie keeps adding new features (Xrumer profiles, Linklicious API, now the article submitter etc.)
Sandra, all those things are great, however… what everyone who reads comments like these are really wondering is… can you attribute Backlinks Genie as being the sole reason for any of your sites ranking well, or better?
I appreciate your feedback and comments by the way
Thanks,
Dan
Is it….
1 Project PER URL Per Day
(I.E. The urls are limited to 1 project per day and I can have unlimited URLS)
OR Is It More like this….
Only Can Use 1 URL For One Project Per Day.
(I.E. You only get to use 1 project for each day of the month for just ONE url of your choosing.)
I have several websites and this seems like an excellent hands-off tool if it works how I THINK it works.
However, If I can only do ONE thing per day for only one URL for $200 per month — Then I’m not sure how valuable it will be in light of all my other tools, none of which are nearly that expensive.
-Sean
P.S. Sorry If I missed the answer to this question already, but I scanned and didn’t see it anywhere.
@ Chris.
If you’ll take a pinch of guidance here from someone who was thick as dog dirt at this a few years ago and learned a lot of stuff the hard way.
“System first..automate second”
Throwing money at SEO tools then trying to work out how to piece them all together to make a workable system is (IMO) the wrong way around.
Start small (that doesn’t mean slow) get a site up, try making a few WEB2.0′s by hand, post a few articles by hand, post some comment links by hand. – YOu can even do some forum and profile links…by hand.
Measure what works for you – then look for tools to speed that up.
No two IM’s have the same profile. micro sites,mini sites, authority sithigh ticket, low ticket, email list, no list,info pages, long form,video, social networking IM, local marketing, global marketing, “real” product, electronic download, affiliate schemes.
You name it – we are all different.
What works for one approach isn’t neccassarily going to work for yours. Find the solution THEN automate.
It need only take a week or two of testing and messing to get a good idea.
You will save a TON of cash and wasted effort in the long run – there is an awful lot of crap out there. (Which Dan does a decent job of sifting through on our behalf)
Just signed up. Another automated tool to make life easier.
Part of me actually wants to tone down on the outsourcing (BMR posts mostly) and get 2 more accounts over at BLG. With the multi account discounts they offer, it seems like a decent plan.
When you break down the costs of BLG, it comes down to about $6.60 per day, which is a VERY fair price for any of those projects if you were to outsource them individually.
And considering there is no searching for reliable people to hire, no email communication, no “delays”, no “raise” requests, this seems like a damn smart service for anyone. The price tag is a hefty one, no doubt, but if you break it down to what you’d have to pay to outsource it or the time it would take to do manually, it’s quite a good bargain — provided it all works as advertised of course.
-Sean
Quick Note: I signed up for linklicious basic membership and used the API key to connect my BLG and LL accounts. This way every link from every project is guaranteed to get crawled and has a much better chance to get indexed. It seems like a smart one-two combo if you ask me.
Like a maniac, I just bought 2 more accounts at the discounted rate. The way I figure it, I’ll move some money from the “outsource” pile to the “software/services” pile. For what this service promises, it seems like a smart move. I need more link variety and I think this should just about do it!
Thanks for the Find Dan!
Sean you crazy man!
It’s not uncommon for BLG fans to do this, just realize please that you also have a ton of indexing power here.
You could use one BLG account strictly for indexing everything AND boosting them, too with the Comments Project type.
Dan,
Are we able to promote just 1 main site with 1 BLG account? or we can promote many different money sites with 1 BLG account? please advise.Thanks
Can we get the report daily to our email? or weekly? or monthly of the work that is done?
Henry – you can promote as many sites as you want. You can only run one project per day.
Linklicious.me has an api for BLG so the links are populated automatically. You need a subscription to linkliciious. The reports are downloadable from the blg site. I don’t know if they can email them to you – I haven’t pursued that option.
take advantage of the linklicious pro account and they api. Its a beautiful thing
I have two of the accounts, seem to work on some sites better than others…
Played around with the different options and noticed that if you keep hitting the money site and one of the long tails with web 2.0 properties and then those with blog posts and url wheels… after a couple days a LOT more of the long tail pages start to show up in the ranks. That part was incredible to watch.
Thanks for the feedback, when you wrote blog posts, did you actually mean blog comments?
Is a service link BLG still viable with the new google changes? Before, sure, but with the crackdown, I’m having trouble seeing the value of comments & forum profiles.
Sean, someone commented on here that they posted to web 2.0s, targeted long tails, then hit those with long tail blog comments anchors and watched steady rises in SERPs, and to use his words, it was “amazing” to watch…
Why is the reposting feature for the web 2.0 properties such a big deal? Can’t you post to your web 2.0 properties again using seo link robot or senuke?
Good question Eric, BLG’s a time-saver that’s where it’s value lies, set up a 3,4, 5-day or whatever….set up re-posting to flesh out a web 2.0 to make it a bit more robust, interlink to all sorts of things, have BLG comments auto-run to index the lot, etc….
I’ve been testing BLG for a little over a month now. So, I thought I’d chime in with my feedback.
Overall, it’s been quite handy tool to have. I can see why you love this service, Dan! To me it’s a combination of what Serp Assist wants to be when it grows up and what SEnuke would be if it had a wife to help keep him better organized.
The ability to schedule an entire month of projects in one or two sittings is priceless to me. During my month of testing, I targeted two competitive terms and a few that were less competitive. For one of the more competitive terms, I’ve seen a significant jump from the bottom of page 2 to the bottom of page 1 (at the time of this writing). I’ve seen similar results with some less competitive terms either jumping from the bottom of page 1 to the second position of page one or jumping from page 2 to around the 5th or 6th position on the first page.
Keep in mind, though, after a few weeks of using BLG alone to get feel for what it difference it would make alone, I was getting links from other sources. But BLG (as it should be) was/is one component of a larger link building strategy. I also made use of the Linklicious API. This seemed to help quite a bit, too.
I agree with Paul Clarke above, you definitely have to “Find the solution THEN automate.” Otherwise, you may not see the full benefit of BLG right away. It’s also important to realize that BLG (as well as any other service or tool for that matter) isn’t a one-stop solution for ALL your backlinking needs. For me, it’s been a great complement to my backlinking efforts.
Having said that, you can sure get a whole lot done in far less time with it, especially when it comes to building web 2.0 blogs for long-term use. For me, that’s where the ultimate strength of BLG lies, especially if you repost to existing blogs rather than setting up a bunch of one-hit wonders. It may also help to log in to these blogs and do a bit of customization (adding a brief bio, a pic, deleting the default Blogrolls, etc.). It would be cool if BLG did this. I may suggest it. When I used to build my long-term web 2.0 blog networks with SEnuke or via outsourced workers, this proved to be valuable in keeping them alive when the mods come by with their hammers looking for blogs to delete.
Overall, I’m a happy BLG customer. As said, I was already building tiered link networks using a mix of several tools, freelancers, and services before BLG. So, time was certainly on my list of things to conserve. Since I’ve been using BLG, it’s helped me be more efficient and saved me from hours of butt-numbing work while saving me a bit of cash to boot.
Dan,
Great info on BLG. I have never heard of them before your website.
Quick question if I may…I am doing mainly local seo for clients throughout the US. I am not really doing Internet marketing and money sites….yet.
So, my current strategy for customer local seo sites, albeit some are still in a pretty competitive niche (some competitors have 2,000 back inks and 25pct good anchor text, yader yader) is to put them all on Linxboss first off. Then supplement Linxboss with 3 other services:
1. linkvana for blog link building (10-15) links per month
2. Linahola (20 profile links per month) also being sent to web 2
3. ultra seo solutions (blog commenting…scrape box, not sure) and creating about 15 per month to the client site and 10 per month to the web 2 sites.
4. I will pay someone on fiverr $5 for social bookmarking to 50 sites, maybe do some website directories.
Then when the sites are ranking where I want them, I take everything off except Linxboss to keep them there. So far this seems to be working good. I just ran across your BLG and was wondering if I could replace almost everything I am doing above with that 1 tool?
The problem I saw with that idea is that the BLG said it is a minimum of 750 blog comments per day and 2,000 profile links per day. I am a little confused on this…..can that be scaled down / divied up among multiple sites?
Or is this just too much for local seo and likely to get clients sandboxed?
Hey Patrick,
Replace Linkvana with Build My Rank (BMR is cheaper and better)
Use SickSubmitter for doing your profiles links (if at all, profiles links seem less effective nowadays)
Blog commenting do manually or use ultraseo people, or use BLG for massive comment links
Fiverr idea is a good one, but minimal SERPS changes expected from social links, just helps round out link types basically.
Use Article Marketing Robot for link volume
Try MyBlogGuest.com for finding good places to do guest author posting in relevant niche sites with traffic
If you found this answer helpful, and it should because it saves you a lot of money, please go here and read this
Thanks,
Dan
Succinct & great thoughts. One of your best posts imo.
Dan,
Thanks for the PROMPT and AWESOME advise!
$25 to the cause…served up and delivered. Good luck on the run. I did a 1/2 marathon once…….once. Thanks again!
Patrick
Thanks for the donation Patrick, I will be matching it, 100%, just waiting for a few more donations to come in via PayPal so I don’t have to do this several time. I’m matching donations sent via PayPal 1-1 because donations via that method won’t get you or others that tax deduction, so I’m trying to at very least increase your “karma” donation
Thanks again!
Dan
I’m not seeing much results with BLG and wondered if I’m using it correctly. I spoke directly with BLG’s Joe, and he recommended running one-week campaigns that look like this:
Day 1 – submit a web 2.0 project with a highly spun article, with target $ site URL at bottom/resource box
Day 2 – Submit a different spun article to article directories with each linking to two of the day ones 2.0 sites in the resource box.
Day 3 & 4 – Blast all of the previous links with blog comments
Day 5 & 6 – Blast day one and two with xrummer profiles
Day 7 – repost another article to the 2.0 sites.
I’ve run 3 such campaigns so far and seen zero ranking improvement. Two of the campaign were on new blogs that had no ranking at all, yet. One was on a year-old affiliate site that was already ranking #4 for it’s EMD, and I was using BLG to try to rank it for 3-4 other competitive keywords in that niche…so far, not even on the charts for any of those KWs.
I’ve read, above, what Paul F said about having success with BLG ONLY in conjunction with other tools, and Dan’s reply to Patrick, which also recommends multiple tools like BMR, with BLG only used for the Blog Commenting part. I was originally hoping that BLG would be the one-stop-shop that’s been mentioned, and that would eliminate the need for also using BMR, AMR, Linklicious, et al. Lazy me:)
So since it ain’t moving any of my KWs up the SERPS, the obvious questions for me are:
1. It seems like the folks who have had success with BLG, above, were starting with KWs that were already ranked well, like on page 2-3 or lower on page 1. I’m wondering if BLG can be effective on KWs with no current Top 100 ranking?
2. If so, is blending it with other tools a must, or can BLG really get the job done by itself?
3. Is it a question of needing to run the above routine more than once through, or run any part of it for many more days?
4. Is it a question of needing to wait for months, instead of weeks, to see the results?
BTW Dan, donated to your cancer run, thanks for doing that:)
Rhythm
I noticed they implemented the bookmarking project type. Do you think that 100 bookmarks is enough?
There are an awful lot of scuttle sites out there they could have included in this project type. I’d say at least 300.
They dropped the price by $63 a couple days ago.
Also can anybody give some best practices for this service. I’m still trying to figure out the best way to use it since panda hit.
Yeah check out http://www.chrisazzari.com/backlinks-genie-review/ for a good case study
New price structure is awesome!
If I could just write 100-200 Words for the PR4+ Profiles Module I believe this service would work much better. As it stands now they don’t allow you to write a single word in the profile or signature. That makes it harder to get those profile pages indexed after the farmer update.
I heard that backlinks from high PR sites work best, so why I need all these other methods?
Hi Daniel,
regarding to BLG new fonctionalities – complex 3 days link wheel -, will you still prefer LinxBoss over BLG?
I’m hesitating between both…
thanks for your reply
What I don’t like about BLG is the fact that I need to provide the content for certain thing in the link wheels functionality, maybe I’m just lazy, but it requires me to then find writers, get their content, copyscape it, then submit to BLG with links inserted properly in order to make the link wheels work.
It’s my understanding that their link wheels are more like tiered linking, you create some web entities, then next day link them up, then next day link up other parts of the wheel or the tiers.
All in all, not a bad way to do things, but I prefer simpler solutions like LinxBoss where you just drop in a url and let them build links for you
As mentioned in the Back from the dead post, I will be re-testing several services to see if they’re still worth using, a new BLG test, and updated review is coming soon, once I find time to devote to a test of this.
Thanks for the question and comment,
Dan
Now, they are saying you get the Aladin package done in 1 day. That’s insane. Really tempted to get back into this now.
http://backlinksgenie.com/images/aladin.jpg
That package looks fantastic, but you don’t want them done in one day
I haven’t done profile linking in a long time. The last time I did it I sent 500 links to a Weebly page and it got a -500 penalty for a couple months and never came back to the top 20.
It was some guy on the Warrior Forum not BG. Of course, there was no text on the profiles so that might have been the problem also.
Anyway, do you think Profiles will hurt my properties after Panda?
Is anybody here still using profiles?
I hope they focus more on expanding the number of platforms they submit to. At one point they were talking about submitting to directories, but they never did implement that.
I’m hoping they start submitting to Wikia, WPMU and Micro Blogs now. Diversity seems to be the name of the game now since Panda.
If I want to promote multiple pages of my site, which one is better in terms of giving link juice:
1. Big web 2.0 sites (10-20 posts?) with each post linking to different urls of my site (less sites, more posts) OR
2. Lots of mini web 2.0 sites (3 posts?) with each post linking to a specific url of my site (more sites, less posts)?
Dan: This is a quality versus quantity kind of question, both will help
In terms of IP diversity, there’s no difference but in terms of link juice, the big web 2.0 sites would give higher quality links?
Dan: yes, the better Web 2.0s give better links because they will rank for some of your niche keywords, and get niche traffic
Because if big web 2.0 sites win I can just keep using the repost feature until I have full on authority web 2.0 sites that have lots of posts promoting different urls of my site.
Dan: My thoughts exactly, when I first heard of BLG’s reposting feature, but the reality is… BLG doesn’t post to highest quality web 2.0s but “merely” posts to the web 2.0s that have a long history and track record of providing sticky links, ie. your sites, and articles won’t get deleted, like it does to those senuke and rank builder users who are all hitting the same set of web 2.0s. So with BLG and its web 2.0 re-posting feature, yes, you can build fleshed out web 2.0 mini sites, but it’s not the same as building a slew of hubs and lenses…
As far as linking to money site urls, I think doing things somewhat randomly may be best way to go.
Link to your article directory articles, the wikipedias definitions, to other urls ranking for some keywords (but where you’ve successfully left comments), stuff like that helps.
Hey Chris, on another post I outlined the best practices, but if I was hell-bent on using this service for just one site, I’d do the following:
New site –
Days 1-5 Build out the web 2.0s, using re-posting feature, 5 days straight,
Days 6-10 – Profile Link wheel to all the web 2.0 urls
Make an RSS feed url somewhere, hosted, either with an RSS feed aggregator, or RSS hosting entity, and save this list somewhere
Days 11- 20 – Profiles blasts to the web 2.0 urls, the Profiles link wheels urls, and to the RSS feed urls
Days 21-30 – commenting links to web 2.0 urls, the Profiles link wheels urls, and to the RSS feed urls.
Why make urls for RSS feeds and send links to them? Because when you xrumer spam link to forums, there’s less chance of profiles deletions when the forum admins see your signature url link is merely an RSS feed, which you’re placing there merely to help get whatever is inside that RSS link dump indexed.
And I’d rinse and repeat until I got what I wanted out of this, but if I had to repeat, I’d build more web 2.0s, perhaps less fleshed out though, to increase chances of gettin glinks from new domains to destination sites.
Now thats the stuff!! lol Thanks!
yeah i need to take more advantage of the web2.0′s, I have not re posted to them at all, I should def build some strength up with them.
I have been using spun articles of course, but would love a feature where you could select to use unique articles for certain web 2.0s. Joe had said I could basically do {Article 1|Article 2|Article 3} etc but the chances of the same article getting posted are bound too happen.
Regardless it gets links out there and I still have mine own network of web 20s that i post unique content too.
Like I said I have just grabbed a handful of services and am learning them. So my system is coming together muahhahhahah muahhaha lol
I just gave the mega link builder a shot too. Gonna test it on domains that have been sitting for years
Thanks again!
Chris, you’re welcome, but remember, please…try to be a student of the game here, and figure out what’s working best for you. Everything I wrote there would change, given the scenario you gave me, if/when they release their new project types, know what I mean?
@ Chris.
If you’ll take a pinch of guidance here from someone who was thick as dog dirt at this a few years ago and learned a lot of stuff the hard way.
“System first..automate second”
Throwing money at SEO tools then trying to work out how to piece them all together to make a workable system is (IMO) the wrong way around.
Start small (that doesn’t mean slow) get a site up, try making a few WEB2.0′s by hand, post a few articles by hand, post some comment links by hand. – YOu can even do some forum and profile links…by hand.
Measure what works for you – then look for tools to speed that up.
No two IM’s have the same profile. micro sites,mini sites, authority sithigh ticket, low ticket, email list, no list,info pages, long form,video, social networking IM, local marketing, global marketing, “real” product, electronic download, affiliate schemes.
You name it – we are all different.
What works for one approach isn’t neccassarily going to work for yours. Find the solution THEN automate.
It need only take a week or two of testing and messing to get a good idea.
You will save a TON of cash and wasted effort in the long run – there is an awful lot of crap out there. (Which Dan does a decent job of sifting through on our behalf)