Interview with Sean Donahoe about his backlink booster script

Daniel McGonagle: Hi Sean, you have a backlink boosting product that helps index people’s backlinks to their sites, can you tell me/us the name of it and where people can go to find out more about it, aside from this interview?

Sean Donahoe: Sure, the product is called “Sean Donahoe’s Backlink Booster” and you can find more information about it on http://themanicmarketer.com/product/backlink-booster

Daniel McGonagle: OK, now this is a script that’s desktop or web-based?

Sean Donahoe: It is actually script based, actually based on a script we developed in house to create our own “Backlink” networks. We just decided to make it publically available to help others boost their rankings and drive floods of high PR link juice back to their backlinks to improve their rankings. We figure that if it is installed on your own server, you have control of everything, including different IP’s, Subnet’s etc. However, I don’t want to get all Geeky

Daniel McGonagle: Ok, we got geeks here who wanna know this stuff, too, but operationally how does it work, do you upload this script to one site and from there, what happens, exactly?

Sean Donahoe: Ok, let me kinda break down what happens step-by-step. First of all the aim of the product is to drive backlinks to your backlinks. The idea is that you can use these backlinks to channel massive amounts of filtered link-juice through your backlink (profile links, articles, videos, etc) anywhere online and have them act as a shield to protect your site from getting Google slapped while boosting the value of each main link exponentially.

We do this in several ways. Again, you can turn on and off features as you desire.

First, you go to your link and press the BoostIt! button that is on your browser. This sends the link to be boosted to the script. It allows you to tweak the title, description and keywords it discovered from that page and then goes to work doing the cool stuff.

Next, it can ping the backlink to as many ping sites and RSS sites as it can all over the world. We currently have about 80+ ping sites and this can help get your backlink indexed quickly in most search engines.

After that it adds the link data to an RSS feed that you can have submitted to 100s of RSS aggregators all over the world (as many as you can submit to). We also provide a free tool to help automate the submissions.

Sean Donahoe: However, we do not stop there. We allow the customer to create link networks at any size they want. For example, you can create a massive network of Blogs, WordPress MU sites, etc. Anything you can post to via email. And then the system will post to all those sites as well. We have people with networks in excess of 1000 sites

Sean Donahoe: We also allow people to post to high PR blogs and social networks as well for more high PR link juice using a direct post to Ping.FM feature. This allows the user to create about 47 different accounts with high profile blogs, social networks, etc and get all the link juice from those sites. Again, this is handled internally via BLB.

Sean Donahoe: Finally, we also allow the user to submit to social bookmarking sites using Onlywire or export the URLS to be imported into automated tools like SocialBot, Bookmarking Demon or SENuke, etc. Again, the aim here is flexibility and scale based on what you want to do. We just want to facilitate and streamline the process down to a single button click

Sean Donahoe: We also have a dripfeeder that allows you to bulk import links and boost them automatically over time, which is a massive time saver

Sean Donahoe: The other thing is that with a browser based button you can give that button to your outsourcers all over the world and let them build links and boost them as they go

Daniel McGonagle: OK, is there any registration needed by users for acocunts at those link source places… blogs, rss, social sites etc…. or is it really just buy the script, import some urls and click a BOOST button all day long?

Sean Donahoe: There is some setup required and it really depends on how much power you want. The main part is the creation of the web 2.0 profiles from Ping.FM. However, we do have a service we recommend that can set them all up quickly for you and they are very cheap. This saves a lot of time and get’s you boosting that much faster. That service is at http://themanicmarketer.com/accountcreation

Sean Donahoe: They also support account creation for many online tools like SocialBot, RSSBot, etc… very cool service (not part of my company) and they have a fast turn around.

Sean Donahoe: My aim is to get you pressing that button as fast as possible to reap the rewards of the process

Daniel McGonagle: Ok, so once accounts are set up, do they get integrated in with the script somehow, so it knows where to go and what to do?

Sean Donahoe: Yes, the script basically sends a command via email to Ping.FM with the links details and Ping.FM will then forward the post to all the 47 networks. It does the same with your blog networks and other services that can be posted to via email. Again, it handles everything and you control every step. We also have the ability to spin posts, titles, etc.

Daniel McGonagle: ok, so after setup process, the only manual thing is in spinning your blurbs, correct?

Sean Donahoe: Yes, again we like to have flexibility in what we do. So you can accept what the system presents and retrieves from the site (titles descriptions, keywords etc, very much like a search engine spider) or create your own. We also have a cool “Spin It” button that can take some pre-created titles and descriptions that we provide and you can modify so that if you get data you don’t like, it will generate fresh content for you on the fly.

Sean Donahoe: We try and make everything customizable and if possible, 1 click.

Daniel McGonagle: gotcha, so aside from ping.fm and multiple profiles and accounts there, what are the other link sources, social sites?

Daniel McGonagle: You mentioned blog networks and the like but I think we’re talking about WPMU networks or something like that there?

Sean Donahoe: Social Bookmarking sites, social networks, micro-blogs, Web 2.0 Blogs, WordPress MU, Blogger. There are lots of options

Sean Donahoe: And again, we export the URL’s you boosted so that they can be imported into any other automated tools at your disposal like SENuke, BMD, etc

Daniel McGonagle: Yup, those make sense those options….

Sean Donahoe: It really comes down to how much power you want

Daniel McGonagle: And there’s a mix of Dofollow Nofollow options here with these link sources?

Sean Donahoe: There are a good mix so it keeps a nice balance. We have an extensive SEO lab here and we test everything extensively. Even NoFollow links do get followed (something Google will never admit to )

Sean Donahoe: The majority will be dofollow though and many of these links will change over time and more sites go nofollow. However, at the end of the day, it’s about volume and boosting the links you have.

Daniel McGonagle: right, I agree on that, so let’s say I want to build a monster, a super powerful backlinking systme using your script, what’s best way to go aobut setting that up?

Daniel McGonagle: howe many ping.fms accounts, where do users go to get WPMUs created, should mass blogger blogs be created, etc….?

Sean Donahoe: Well that is a good question and you touched on something I had not mentioned. We do support multiple ping.fm accounts. So you can create a few and “spread the load”. As well as the ability to have multiple installations of BLB. However, to create a monster backlinking network does take time. You can get automated account creators for find and create wordpress MU accounts and create blogger accounts, etc.

Daniel McGonagle: right, like LinkFarmEvolution or something

Sean Donahoe: Exactly

Sean Donahoe: You could create 5+ ping.fm accounts, fully loaded. Create a massive WordPress MU network or even find someone who has one already

Sean Donahoe: Then just put their “Post” email in to BLB and have it send it to them to then forward to their network

Sean Donahoe: Again, this is industrial scale SEO but it can also suit the little guy with 1 site who just wants to press a button, boost his rankings and get going.

Daniel McGonagle: OK, so lets say I have a list of all my WPMUs, I need those logins and usernames and I enter them into the script and when I click boost it sends snippets or blurbs out from the script to them returning a link back to wherever I directed it in the snippet?

Sean Donahoe: Actually, all you need is the post to email address, thats it

Sean Donahoe: Most wordpress MU setups have that option and you just load that into a list and the system takes care of the rest

Daniel McGonagle: post to email address and it gets put on a WPMU , do you have to own the site the WPMU is on in order for this to work, just checking….

Sean Donahoe: So you could literally have 100s, 1000s or 10000s of them if you wanted to.

Sean Donahoe: Actually most of them have that built in to their system to allow post via email

Sean Donahoe: Some don’t and have that disabled but not very often. We do have an XMLRPC poster developed as well but we found that the Email posting worked very well

Daniel McGonagle: OK, so getting a list of WPMUs or creating them would help towards creation of a super system, how about blogger blogs, how to post to them ?

Sean Donahoe: Well again, we made this so that any site that accepts posts via email are available. Many web 2.0 blogs allow this including Blogger.

Sean Donahoe: So, again, you can create many accounts, add their emails to the list and you have just expanded your network. We primarily work with WordPress MU but you get the idea.

Daniel McGonagle: Yes, I do, create mutiple ping.fms, blogger blogs, wpmus, post to them via email from the script interface which is web-based

Daniel McGonagle: and other accounts and profiles, too I assume

Sean Donahoe: Yep, pretty much anything you want from one press of a button and the whole thing is updated at once. We also support other aggregators like HelloTxt, etc. and always looking for ways to expand this. We have a very large project in the works that takes this all to a whole new level of SEO and backlinking but I am going to have to keep those details under-wraps for now

Sean Donahoe: It’s in the lab being tested and so far we are very excited about it

Daniel McGonagle: OK, sounds good

Daniel McGonagle: how many links a day can be boosted, is there a recommended number?

Sean Donahoe: Well, again, it depends on scale. We are not worried about Google slaps here because we are boosting backlinks to backlinks. However, you want to spread the load if you have a lot of links you want to boost. So we recommend 50 per day per Ping.FM account maximum. Also, the one thing I stress is quality of the post. As you know, as soon as a good strategy gets out there, people abuse it. However, we recommend that you make a post of at least 200 words or more and that will prevent any issues.

Sean Donahoe: So if you want to boost more, throw an extra ping,fm account into the mix. Also, one very good tip. When creating accounts, add a bio, profile, etc

Sean Donahoe: It just makes your accounts stick around longer and less likely to get flagged for any reason.

Daniel McGonagle: Ok, but this is a backlink boosting tool, and you’re saying people should write decent content just to boost link juice towards their backlinks? Why not direct link to money sites with this, footprints avoidance?

Sean Donahoe: Exactly, you end up with a massive footprint and too many link directly to your site will get you slapped quickly. The reason you want a bit of content is so that you have relevance, a little bit of good content and a link. Google is smarter than people think. If they know a blog and see a 1 liner description, they will ignore it. So if you want to have maximum link juice then 200 words is not that big a deal. Again, you can create spin-descriptions that you can then just press a button and create a unique piece of content instantly that will do the job

Daniel McGonagle: OK, figured that

Daniel McGonagle: OK, basic question, aside from the ability to work with and syndicate to wpmus and blogger blogs and web 2.0s via post by email, what does your script come with, what can it do out of the box, as is?

Daniel McGonagle: Also, is it only necessary to host this on one website/hosting to do everything it can do?

Daniel McGonagle: Or am I missing the point here, the point being is carte blanche empty, does nothing but can do as much as you want with it, up to the users?

Sean Donahoe: Well, you can boost as many sites as you like from one installation. Out of the box it allows you to get your backlinks indexed, store the links for import into other tools and create a RSS feed for syndication. Heck, just that alone will create 100+ links with every boost if you submit the feed.

Sean Donahoe: However, as you can see, you can scale it to what ever you want based on your needs

Sean Donahoe: Again, we also provide a free tool to submit the feed or recommend other tools depending on what you want to do.

Sean Donahoe: So lets say you have 50 links boosted, thats an extra 5000 links per day to your backlinks and that link juice is passed down to your site. Not too bad for a press of a button

Daniel McGonagle: Right, scalaibility is good for power users, but again out of the box do you need to give it logins information to do anything at all, to be able to boost anything, or is there some integrated ability there to do something, without importing or adding in new logins and what not. You know how we are, we’re lazy and want to upload a script and click a button and start getting links booosted….

Daniel McGonagle: It’s acceptable to me, personally if that’s the case, it’s expected… just wondering if it’s “good to go” right after install
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Sean Donahoe: Yes, it is good to go out of the box. Once you have it installed you just submit the RSS feed to the directories and you are good to go. You only have to do that step once as the RSS directories come back time and again to check for new links.

Sean Donahoe: No messing around with logins, usernames, account creation ,etc

Daniel McGonagle: OK, good and rss feed, how’s that created, where is it hosted?

Sean Donahoe: It is created automatically by the script and is pulled from the database where the links and information are stored. Every time you boost a link a new entry is added automatically and your RSS network is automatically updated. The RSS feed is hosted on your site or you can mask it with somewhere like RSSMix.com or any other RSS mixer. We cover this in the setup guide as well as a way to triple the power of just this aspect alone.

Daniel McGonagle: OK, so RSS feed created isn’t self hosted, but hosted elsewhere?

Daniel McGonagle: OK, asked and answered thanks

Sean Donahoe: Yeah, got to love Skype’s ability to edit your previous posts LOL

Daniel McGonagle: So we can basically make rss link dumps with this tool

Daniel McGonagle: and submit the urls of those link dumps (RSS feed urls) to the rss directories

Sean Donahoe: Yes, you can take the RSS feed, use RSSMix, FeedKiller, Yahoo Pipes and make more unique feeds, mix in other content from other sources and triple and quadruple your RSS network’s power

Sean Donahoe: All automated with 1 click of a button to update it.

Daniel McGonagle: Right, ok. You mentioned a user set up guide, is there a best practices guide provided by you too or is that part of the overall user’s guide?

Sean Donahoe: Yes, we cover that in the guide and show people how to set it up and get going. We also have a video that shows how to do it. We are actually revamping this with the new project (which is a monster) and having a lot more indepth SEO training that shows exactly how we get our consitant #1 rankings and what we teach to the SEO Experts and Studios.

Daniel McGonagle: OK good, do you also point people towards sources and tools that would hlep with scalability as was previously mentioned?

Daniel McGonagle: I know there’s an option for multiple ping.fm creations, just wondering if you tell people, “hey, here’s how to scale this up with blogger, web 2.0 and wpmus” ?

Sean Donahoe: Yes, we do make recommendations and suggestions based on that. Again, we cover this in the guide which is about 40+ pages.

Daniel McGonagle: OK, excellent

Daniel McGonagle: Is there anything I haven’t asked you that you think would be helpful to readers of this text-erview?

Daniel McGonagle: Lord knows, I tried to ask everything , but there’s always other questions or points that product owners want made clear so buyers are better informed…

Sean Donahoe: I know what you mean, there is always something that you slap your forehead with after the interview is over.

Daniel McGonagle: no worries, you can always respond to the blog comments if there are any

Sean Donahoe: Well I think we have covered everything here Dan, nothing comes to mind and I will check in with the blog to see if there are any other questions I can tackle. Thanks for the interview, it was fun.

Sean Donahoe: Also, if anyone does have any questions, we do have a dedicated support center at http://themanicmarketer.com/support and a dedicated team there that can tackle any questions people may have

Daniel McGonagle: OK, last question then ok?

Sean Donahoe: Sure, go ahead

Daniel McGonagle: You read my other interview so you know I’m gonna try and wrangle a discount out of you for my readers, so what say you, do you think you can arrange for a discount on this, even though it’s only a one-time-fee type of tool?

Sean Donahoe: Well, I am happy to sort something out there. In fact, I am going to do something extra special here… I have a pack called the SEO Overload pack that contains Backlink Booster, my popular Link Magnet strategy, some backlink resources and some kick-ass wordpress optimization stuff as well.

Daniel McGonagle: Fair enough, we can settle that out later and thanks I appreciate that special offer, and for offering your time here

Sean Donahoe:

Here is the info page:

Here is the discount link

Sean Donahoe: The page will show $67 but when they order it will be reduced to $37

Daniel McGonagle: OK, and do they get backlink booster script as part of that package?

Sean Donahoe: Yes

Daniel McGonagle: Awesome, nicely done

Sean Donahoe: The link magnet strategy that comes with this was the talk of Stompernet Live so your guys can get that as part of this pack.

Daniel McGonagle: great, its appreciated by all

Daniel McGonagle: thanks again and have a good one Sean!

Sean Donahoe: You too, take care