Blog Blueprint is somewhat similar to LinkVana in a lot of ways. In case you’re not familiar with LinkVana, it’s a service that delivers backlinks from decent PageRank sites and you have to write 100% unique 100-word blurbs for each backlink you want generated.
Well, Blog Blueprint works in pretty much the same way. In order to get backlinks with Blog Blueprint you have to write a 100-word snippet and submit it to their system. The snippets have to be 100-words and they have to be 100% unique and you get to choose which categories your snippet will get published to.
How many sites in the Blog Blueprint network?
No idea yet since their support team didn’t reply back to my email/support ticket form 3 days ago, at the time of this writing
Does Blog Blueprint work?
Here are some results from using Blog Blueprint:
1- One url was page 3 for term kiwi bird video before we wrote 5 Blog Blueprint blurbs, and that url is now “Google- dancing between the #1 and #2 spots on page 1.
3- Another URL for a much tougher term moved up 5 spots on page 3 after 1 day and 10 Blog Blueprint blurbs and is now page 2 and rising.
NOTE: This URL is now taken out of the testing/assessment equation since its getting links from elsewhere
4- For the term “swarovski spotting scopes” before page 16, after writing 10 blog Blueprint snippets, no change whatsoever now page 6
5- For term “google sniper review” before Blog AND Article Blueprint, page 1 ranked #10. After Article blueprint had no effect, we wrote 10 BlogBlueprint snippets, and went back to page 2, which is indicative of some “google dancing” but it will probably settle back to its previous position with no change.
6- For another term with medium competition, the test URL was at bottom of page 1, and after 5 Blog Blueprint snippets, no change whatsoever now ranked #7
7- For another term, we were ranked #11 or 12 before we wrote 8 blog Bluepint blurbs. Still no change whatsoever
8- For the term linkvana review, test URL (linkvana.biz) was page 4, now is page 3 (with only one 1 blog Blue snippet written)
9- Another URL moved up 2 spots on page 3, 6 Blog Blue blurbs were written for this URL
10 - Another URL for a productname + review term moved from page 1, #9, to page 1 position #1
Note: We’re going after product name kw now since it’d be overkill to keep hitting a top ranked term with more of the same anchor text (see strategic link building post for more info about “link sniping”)
Is Blog Blueprint recommended? NOT YET, But it’s looking better now
We will repeat these tests again with more links to the same URLS using the same anchor text and report back with updated test results
Concerns: At first we saw good results for one particular term and we got excited about this, then we thought that Blog Blueprint was pumping out the generated snippets all at once and maybe the search engines saw this as unnatural burst linking even though the # of links generated was rather small.
Whic his why we thought it wasn’t doing a good job at first.
But these links take a few days, maybe even a week to get found and to take effect so there’s no real “danger” to pushing out all these snippets at once, seeing as how they’ll get found naturally, so it appears.
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Daniel, is it indicative with these types of services to have a delayed reaction?
It seems like, with your review outline, that 3 months is enough time for a system to prove itself. At some point, doing a backlink check, you should be able to see some of the sites they are linking you to. This would give you some idea of the quality of sites your being hooked up to.
FYI – I tried the Free Traffic System, According to their report I had the article submitted to 32 sites. After 3 months I’ve seen 3 backlinks and the sites are V.poor quality.
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Ric, usually testing for 3 month sis a good idea, but mainly for making sure that service’s effectiveness doesn’t wane after you use it for 2-3 months and use up all their network’s sites (if it’s a network). Blog Blueprint works much like LinkVana…the effects are seen long before Yahoo Site Explorer or other backlink checkers see the link and recognize it as such.
In this case/scenario, the BlogBlueprint blurbs went out almost immediately, there was very little lag time between writing, posting, and having approved articles and for the site urls that did see some benefit, the effects were almost immediate.
Link Building CAN have almost-immediate effects which is why I was originally pretty excited about Blog Blueprint but then we tested for terms that actually had some competition and the results were disappointing.
As noted in the review, we’re going to repeat the exercise and perhaps we’ll have a better gauge on how many blurbs are needed to accomplish a certain end result (and for what kind of competition terms, too)
You mentioned that having too many OLB’s decreases the backlinking power of a website. However, with Blog Blueprint they limit the total outbound links to 300 per blog, unlike LinkVana which is more like 3,000 per blog. What about BLS? They don’t mention how often they retire blogs and from the sound of it Blog Blueprint sounds better unless they do a similar thing. I must admit BLS has an awesome interface when it comes to posting once you figure it out. Blog Blueprint on the other hand is a pain to post to since they use spin formatted text for their keyword/URL combo which is just stupid.
I’m a little nervous about BLS since I don’t know how often they retire blogs and if “G” catches on to them, I don’t want all my sites de-indexed. I was thinking about just using BLS or Blog Blueprint to link directly to Ezine instead which will pass link juice onto my sites, which should protect my sites from getting slapped. What do you think?
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Hey Tim, some things that count as OBLs are BlogRolls, Powered by Wordpress + Theme By…. links and of course the in-content/on-site outbound links, so if there’s only 300 OBLs per blog in Blogblueprint’s network, and they set max. submission to 20/day, AND if they only post 1 blurb/snippet to unique IP address, then 20/day X 30 days would mean 600 sites would get these links posted to them.
If you had 20 users a month using this system to max capacity of 20 submissions/day, that’s 20 users X 20 submissions X 30 days = 12000 links/month from 20 users. If they had 100 users doing this that’s 60,000 outbound links a month so not sure how they can keep their OBL limit to 300/site.
About getting de-indexed from using BlogBlueprint or BLS or whatever else, that’s not gonna happen. You won’t get de-indexed and slim chances of getting slapped if your linking campaigns are done properly. I’m sure BlogBlueprint takes good care of their network, and I know for a fact that BLS does, which is why they keep capping their membership levels, to keep things effective for their members.
Also, there’s always the fear that these links are only as good as long as the network is up and active, which is why it’s still always a good idea to do the normal stuff like submitting articles to the major directories and what-not..
BLS will only retire a blog/site in their network if its gets de-indexed from Google and they consistently add new sites to the network to increase growth and offset any sites attrition (if any)
Thanks for the detailed response! The 300 links per site was based on what they said in their promo video. However, I doubt that they are sticking to that number. Your post makes perfect sense and I think my backlinking method is going to mostly concentrate on UAW, Ezine, other article directories, etc. for the conceivable future because I want these links around for a long time. However, I might use BLS in the future because it works, but don’t plan on using Blog Blueprint again (too time consuming).
as a fact, the backlink under 100 words must have more vaule than a blog comments. Google must pay more attention it.
But,in my opinion, the trouble is how to write lots of 100 wrods per day or per week.
rent must cost lots of money and is not good idea.
Use The Best Spinner in conjunction with Blog Blueprint, works well
I use blog blueprint and i agree with the saying “its the poor mans lankvana” though i do not go after hard terms i do rank #1 very very quickly… i have never tried lankvana but blog blueprint does work for my needs. how many links a day did u post?
I’ve heard that Blog Blueprint does a pretty good job.
I used it to rank one of my other sites for the term Google Sniper review, and it took about 20-30 links to get it from top of page 2 to bottom of page 1. Article Blueprint and Link Blueprint sucked so bad though, so I opted out of the whole package. You don’t hear anyone talking about Article blueprint or Link blueprint though. Also got sent some forum threads text from the forums over there and those people just rub me the wrong way with the way they treated their people.
I don’t know how manylinks a day I was creating, to answer your question
I’m cancelled my blog blueprint account, but there is an option to just buy Blog Blueprint for $57 without Article Blueprint which was a waste of time.
my linking strat is pretty messed up to be honest but it works really well… i do enjoy article blueprint… its not amazing amazing but it does get me extra links from my ezine articles.i like blog blueprint because i use it to support my entire network… not just the money page i use all 20 posts every day and its amazing how quickly i get some pages ranked… i do a ton of keyword research though and that may be why i rank so well so fast…
Hi Daniel,
How’s your progress going with Blog Blueprint? It’s the only tool i found worthwhile out of Article & Link Blueprint… how are your sites / tests performing now? Curious to compare my results to yours…
Cheers Mate,
Anthony.
Blog Blueprint Results
These results are after submitting 10 unique articles per day (2 per keyword) over a period of 2 weeks. Then a break for 2 weeks – ‘Finish’ positions recorded one month after first article submitted.
Site No. 1 is in the dating niche, it is 2.5 years old and has had a lot of link building done to it in the last 6 months. Tested 3 keywords:
Keyword 1, out of 8,950,000 results: Start: dancing around position 16-17
Finish: Steady position 4
Keyword 2, out of 8,880,000 results: Start: steady postion 16
Finish: Steady position 4
Keyword 3, out of 42,500,000 results: Start: dancing around position 14-15
Finish: Steady position 5
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Site No. 2 is also in the dating niche, it is only a few months old and had hardly any links built to it. Tested 1 keyword, which was an exact match with the domain:
Keyword 4, out of 33,500,000 results: Start: dancing around position 19-21
Finish: Steady position 2
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Site No. 3 is in the auto niche, it is only a few months old and had hardly any links built to it. Tested 1 keyword, which was an exact match with the domain:
Keyword 5, out of 410,000 results: Start: dancing around position 4
Finish: Steady position 1
If you see the result, why you don’t recommend this service?
Because I don’t see results anymore with it
Thanks for the detailed Stats.
So it appears to me that Blog Blueprint has performed well for this trial you have done? How would you call it.
I just went to check the size of some of their blogs, they claim it’s max of 300 posts. All the one’s i checked are offline. That’s offputting. + last check i see they’ve put pop-ups for their own business op when you leave the blog post page.
Check it out…
i am also curious about there overall value now… i have had great results but last couple of my posts have gone to pr 0′s no fun!
Does any one want to send me their 100 word articles !!? Freelancer looking for content
Hi Daniel,
Can you tell me if Blog Blueprint is still worth signing up with at this stage?
Thank you for the honest review Daniel.
I’ve just received an email promoting blog blueprint and it’s autoblogging abilities. It comes from a good source so I went and checked it out on the sales page…
And then did the obvious search to see what others are saying, and your post came out as the best.
I like your in depth follow up and I’ll be following you with your results and feed back before I finally make my decision.
I’ve never been a big fan of auto blogging. To me it seems like spam right from the start. It reminds me of the worse case of duplicate content.
And although duplicate content is not as dangerous as some may say, to me it makes sense to be the original provider of the content and let the search engines do the job their paid to do and score the original at the top of the SERPS.
I am keen to do a bit of autoblogging.
If there was ever such a thing as “set it up and leave it”, auto blogging seems to be a reasonable way to do that, although in my opinion there is no such thing as set it up and leave it.
Every website or blog needs constant attention (be it small or big) if you want your content to stay at the top. However, a blog that needs less attention is something I’m sure most people would enjoy.
Anyway. Thanks again Daniel!
I’ll be following your testing and results.
Well done mate.
Best of fortune,
John Adams
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The blog blueprint that you are referring to is not the same blog blueprint that Daniel is reviewing in this blog post. The blog blueprint being reviewed here is the one offered with SEO Blueprint or IM Advantage.
The blog blueprint that you are referring to is an autoblogging course. Hope that clears up any confusion.
Thanks for your review, testing and opinion on Blog Blueprint. I’ve been a member of IMA for awhile and although I don’t use all the tools available as much as I should, I have been using Blog Blueprint with two new sites. We’ll see how it helps with their rankings.
What got me re-interested in BB (since I was paying for it anyway!) was an SEO casefile by SEO Training Alliance. They offered a two-week membership for a penny. The casefile was very interesting!
Anyway … they (SEOTA) are sold on ‘editorial backlinks’ and they feel are the best performing kind of backlinks to get. In their case study, they used only LinkVana and for them it achieved the rankings they were looking for.
I’m not ready to invest that kind of jack for Linkvana, but Blog Blueprint does offer the editorial-type backlinks they recommend so I’ll hang onto my IMA membership for awhile yet and keep drip-feeding the links to my keywords.
Hi Mark, thanks for dropping in with some feedback, please report back with any findings you come up with. I suspect your sites will respond well at first to the onslaught of links form Blog blueprint, but those results will fade away over time as the sites hosting those links get de-indexed and/or the posts get moved so far back into the sitemaps they become de-indexed…
Blog blueprint doesn’t provide true editorial links, so not sure why SEOTA whatever that is, recommended BB as a good toll whilst it DOES NOT generate editorial style links.
Editorials links are those naturally acquired links, and in true sense of the word, they’re not Generated, but Acquired.
hope this helps!
Dan
i hate to say it but i have joined two master groups…including link liberation 2 and google corruption….. both of which were honestly not worth it at all… i am a member of ima as well and until the day i stop getting results i do think its the best out there…. i have tried all of your top three and ima does close enough to the same thing… along with isnare and buzzle for article marketing……ever blog network including steves will be found out sooner or later…. it just takes time…. ever one in history has been busted and each site in it sandboxed…. ie not the people who buy the links the just websites giving them
yeah guys
i can see where you guys might get some things about blog blueprint wrong. now, there are some things you have to understand before you make comments about a product, first of all, research and that is why some get good results from bb and some don’t get. the stuff is this, you don’t just get a keyword that has about 1,000,000 and expect blog blue print to perform magic or even at all. you don’t expect bb to defy the Google rules of ranking. if you want bb to work very well for you, look for those keywords that has lesser competition because the lower the competition the more chances you stand to rank that’s it.
Interested to see if the improved Blog Blueprint will prove th its backlinks have log-term value. Anyone liking socialmarker? A lot to click through, but does bookmarking do much?
I have been a member of IMA for a good while now and had success with a domain using primarily Blog Blueprint with a moderately competitive term (33,000 exact match/month). There are a few third-party programs available now that you can purchase to automatically spin and post articles to Blog Blueprint, so you can essential queue up 1000′s of posts overnight and just let them run.
I purchased an aged domain about four years old (totally unrelated to my new niche). Then I outsourced about 7 articles on my niche topic and posted them to the domain. Then I queued up posts in Blog Blueprint and let it run on autopilot for about 4 months. I eventually reached the #10 position and got stuck. It took some additional backlinking to get further up on page 1, but overall not bad for something I can set and forget.
After the Panda update, that domain went to page 2 but it made a fair amount of money for the time it was one page 1.
Article blueprint and blog blueprint both work really good together with in 5 days I was already ranking number 7 for a keyword with medium competition however, I do not use article blueprint directly on my site I like to use article blueprint on web 2.0 sites that are linking to me site and I use blog blueprint directly to my site I have just seen much better results that way and blog blueprint is suppose to get upgraded soon so I am excited to see what is going to be different.