Backlinks Genie Review

I can’t add much more to your comment than you’ve already said Tom. I suspect the price of this thing will put people off. But fact is that this is a seriously good investment, both in terms of money and time!

If I’ve proven to myself that I am indeed getting the value that I appear to be getting and its helping the rankings like nothing else is capable of doing (other than grinding it out myself), I may well up my investment, and that way I’ll be hitting Squidoo with 40 thousand links and not just 20 thousand, lol!

Hi David, sorry about the delay in responding – I had a day off – yippeee!

I would use this tool to create web 2.0s which then link back to my site. But all the other types of links I would point at those web 2.0s – at least in the early days until my money site is strong enough to handle more backlinking.

You can drip feed the backlinks – yes. You can set some up to drip to your money site, and point the rest at the web 2.0s etc.

Thanks for the heads up on the affiliate link not working – I’ll try to correct that one.

Cheers!

Joseph

Hi Rob, I thought you were busy slave labouring for others these days, or did you get fed up of the chains hanging around your neck?

This tool in my opinion is one of the best as you would kind-of expect with the price tag (although I’ve used some high priced tools in the past that served to do more harm than good). It offers the build up of web 2.0s a la Warriors 40 Day Challenge but on mega steroids!

Not much more than that to add, I don’t think Rob.

Hope you are well!

Jo

Hi Dave, sorry to hear about your limited success with such an expensive tool! Personally I would want to be using this tool on a number of sites, and I’d probably dip in and out of using it – one month use it, next month not, and so on. However, fact is that these sort of backlinks do tend to have the largest effect when they are left for some time. Let them mature and see what happens then. Case in point…

I set up a site back in November or so of last year. I focused on a mix of kwds – some high end, some lower end, and I used both hand created web 2.0s and article directory submissions as well as Genie. I did not use any other SEO method at that time. Results – fine for the lower end stuff, but the couple of higher end kwds did not rank so fast in Google, in fact, they were very slow to gain any traction one sitting just outside top 100, and the other sitting around mid 50′s.

Here we are, some months down the way, and one of those high ends, which I did not touch since then – 33k search volume on a global basis, is sitting in 11th in Google, the other 15th. So this goes to prove that if you leave the links to mature (and gain Google PageRank, which they will cos you hit them real hard with tons of backlinks), the juice will slowly build up enough to push the rankings really nicely.

I’ve used various services on Fiverr, yes. I’ve never used Xrumer myself but outsourced the work on my sites.

Using Xrumer to blast your anchor sites will work, yes. Same principles as above. Using services such as Xrumer/Scrapebox to blast your backlinks is fine, as long as you do not use the same kwds as you want to rank your site for. It can be any old kwd really – the juice will pass through regardless.

I agree – by all means forget about using those technical tools and services yourself – all that VPN’s, various SEO tools, captch’s and the like – let someone else do it for you, providing they are not touching your money site. I know a lot of folks on service stations such as Fiverr, Warriors etc. say they are “SEO Pro’s”, but are they? Why are they doing stuff on Warriors and Fiverr.com if they are? There may be a reason of course, but for most of them, they lack money so need to top up by offering services on sites like those aforementioned.

You’d be most welcome to come visit Kuching Dave! Do bring some photos of your own city. I’ve been to Russia a number of times but not to the Ukraine, and I hear that Kiev is a lovely city.

All the best Dave!

Joseph

Hi Harrison, nice to meet you too – what part of Malaysia are you in?

Its not so easy to design a specific routine as such because various websites may be more or less advanced than others in terms of maturity and backlinking. At the start, I tend to use Build My Rank each time, and then let that work for a few weeks before I introduce any other tool. Often I’ll see some decent rankings just with this tool alone. For sure I could use Backlinks Genie too because this sort of tool is also ideal for a new domain that has yet to see any or many backlinks. As long as I am slow and steady and I get my backlinking work done each day (much of it I now outsource but some of it I still do myself) then I’m happy with progress, even if the rankings are stagnant. I know that if I follow similar routines each time, I will for sure get the rankings I want, pretty much regardless of how tough the competition is (with some obvious exceptions to the rule here, of course).

Fact is though, each person has a different routine, so to spell it out as such is probably just going to confuse folks. I use a routine that I’ve developed over the years and I see some very good results in terms of Google rankings, and I use that routine each day, apart from on some of my sites that are more mature and thus are in need of more aggressive backlinking to achieve higher end keyword rankings. And these routines I now teach my coaching clients (most of whom are seeing very good results too, I may add ). In fact, I tend to use similar routines on working SEO for clients when I occasionally take up those type of contracts – again, it depends on where my client is at in terms of rankings (or lack of!!).

But yes – even the occasional site that I sell on Flippa these days – they almost all go through the same routine from start to finish and I will have a few keywords ranking top ten before I sell it. Reasons for selling a site can be varied and many, but occasionally I may pick out some sub niche that does not convert to income just as much as I would like, so I decide to offload the site and thereby free up some of my resources for usage on other – more worthy sites.

Sorry I can’t be more specific Harrison. Its not easy to actually map out a routine as it is dependant on where you are in terms of domain maturity and number of backlinks to that domain.

I wish you well with your own campaigns, sir!

Joseph

Yes Harrison, that makes good sense, but by all means use the info that is available from those folks you trust and who are spelling things out the way they actually are. By doing so, you will be cutting down hugely on the investment of time, and most probably money too. If I could turn back time, this is exactly what I would do – unfortunately I did not find anyone who I felt comfortable with, or I’m very sure my journey to where I am now would have been a lot less stressful and messy.

All the best Harrison!

Joseph

Hey Ian, yeah I did have a money-back offer on Genie, but they changed the whole pricing system so I deleted the offer. But yeah, I’ll re-do the offer although I’m afraid its not gonna be much as Genie does not pay out much for affiliation.

I can do $15 on the hi end account per month ($137 account) – they only pay out $27 to the affiliate.
And I’ll do $8 per month on the $67 account – I don’t know how much they pay the affiliate for that but I doubt its much.

Sorry the offers are so paltry in comparison to the cost, Ian!

Regards
Joseph

Brendan, is the lowest package the freebie version? I’ve never actually used anything other than the hi end simply because it saves me so much time (and/ or money – time IS money) setting up those web2′s. Its tricky to quantify just how effective it is because its a tool you would use in tandem with other tools. Nevertheless, I still feel its good value for money, and worthy of dipping in and out of rather than using it constantly for months and months and months. Hope it works for you!

Yeah, if Genie was on the market back in May of last year I would never have created all those web2′s by hand, nor would I have bothered using individual tools to shoot backlinks to them – Genie is the all-in-one package for that kinda thing these days. Although its not so great when it comes to a totally new site since it can and does generate 20 – 30 web2′s in one sweep (on the hi end account), which may very well be too much for Google’s liking.

You’re quite right – affiliate commissions for Genie are low, but these sorta things have high overheads to run ‘em, so its to be expected I guess. Looking forward to your 10 cents/month contribution nevertheless

Harrison, first things first – I mean’t to delete the Distribute Your Articles link because I trialled the service and did not like it much at all. I’ll do that now.

Genie – the $137 a month account simply allows for much more backlinks per day than the other two levels – the 9.99 and the 67 per month. Further, you can also set up article directory submissions on the hi level account (I’ve never used that so not sure exactly what’s on offer there) and web 2.0s. The web2′s really give this hi end account a cutting edge simply because of the amount of time you can save if you were to do all those yourself, or the amount of money you would save if you were to outsource this sort of work. All you do is insert a spun article with a couple of anchor text links within the body, a title, some tags, category choices and you’re done.

You can still only submit to one domain per day however Harrison. Its simply at a much higher level than the other two accounts on offer. And ease of use makes this tool very suitable to those like me – technically challenged.

Ooops, sorry – I did mean to mention the rebate previously Harrison. There are now 3 different accounts, and I offer two sets of cash back deals. Unfortunately the handouts by Genie to affiliates are not particularly attractive so I’m limited in what I can offer here. I see in a previous comment to Ian that I mentioned $8 for the lower end account and $15 for the hi end. Not a lot I’m afraid, but I gotta make it worth my while too.

Yes, Tweets add value to the rankings because Goog tend to respond to them relatively well. Social stuff like Twitter tweets and Facebook Likes is a good way to help mix up the game play.

Hi Tai, that’s the way I’ve been brought up so my parents did get something right after all :-}

Yeah, if you take Genie via the link in the post, you get the $137 account to use for a month at a $67 price tag.

There’s one down-side – there’s no way to space out the web2 creation. And although the package details says you get 10 web2′s built – you don’t – you get more like 20 – 25 each time.

Which service would I use to point directly to the money site? I’ve not tried the article marketing service, so may be that is appropriate. Web2 I do tend to point directly to money site but obviously that cannot be done on a fresh domain with few backlinks in place. Otherwise, its all about hitting outer tier sites with tons of backlinks.

All the best Tai!

Joseph

Hello Philip, thanks for taking the time to comment!

You’re in Thailand are you? I just got back from there as you may be aware from a couple of my recent posts. Fun times indeed!

Congratz on being able to jack in the day job Philip – that surely must have been a very pleasurable moment for you!

The confirm you are not a spammer box… that’s part of the Anti-Spam plugin called GASP which you can download for free at this site…

http://www.growmap.com/growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/

Happy Christmas Philip and hope to see you over here again soon!
Joseph

Oh yeah, how are you doing Dave in Waikiki? Nice to have you over here again and thank you kindly for your feedback about my blog and the IM community over here.

Hmmm… I sure know what you mean about getting a reply when you post up a comment. On the very popular blogs you do well to get a reply, which for me is just not good enough, so I tend not to comment at all – other than Pat’s blog of course. I do fully expect a reply if I make a pertinent comment and take the time in doing so, which is why I always take the time to reply to everyone who leaves a comment on here!

Anyway, with that concern out of the way – BLG.

I’ve not been using it recently, no Dave. A jv partner has been using it however – on our stuff, and it seems to be working as well as it was previously. For me, its not necessarily the mass backlink feature they have, since those links are pretty weak and probably don’t stick for too long, although I may be wrong about that – perhaps quite a few of those links do stick over the longer term.

Its the web2 feature they have which is key. Not sure if any other service out there competes with this aspect of BLG – the say they will post to 10 web2′s for you, but normally its between 15 and 30.

One concern with that is if its a fresh domain you are linking to, this would be too much too soon. If its a little less green of a domain however, that’s a very good number. Plus, the whole service they offer is so easy to use, and that’s why I’ve liked it for so long. Some of the other similar type services – when I’ve tried them in the past, I have little idea how to use them effectively.

Now, if its mainly the web2′s that you are looking at then I’ll let you in on something here Dave…

There’s a fiverr gig which is excellent. What this lady does is she will post spun content (that you provide) to 6, 12 or I think she also has an 18 package – of web2′s, then she will backlink to those for you. I suspect she may in fact use BLG. The 6 pack costs 5 bucks, and I’ve found that to be nicely effective on my rankings. The 6 pack is good for a fresh domain. So, if you are only looking to do this sort of thing a few times – perhaps to 2 or 3 different domains that you have, and only once or twice, then this service is very cost effective.

Username: Volarex

I’ve found this service to be the best SEO service on fiverr.com and I’ve used a lot of SEO services on there over the past 9 months in particular.

Hope that helps Dave!

Joseph

Hi Dave, my pleasure!

Yes, I hear where you are at! When you get familiar with what you are doing then its overly tempting to speed up the process. After all, that’s a life normality – when you get skilled at something because you’ve done it often enough, you begin to speed things up. Its very difficult to hold yourself back and I feel that SEO is no different. The temptation is always there to do more because you are faster at it, and thus – hopefully – make more.

Its a hard lesson to learn that it does not necessarily work out however. Although having said that, depending on your budget – if you are outsourcing a lot – or on your work ethic if you are not outsourcing much or anything, you could turn this ethic around.

Build more sites with a view to slowly plodding along with the backlinks and adding fresh content. Therefore, over time you will be very possibly/probably be sitting on a thoroughly nice portfolio of strong sites that are making a very nice income. Then its either about keeping them or selling them.

All the best Dave!

Joseph

Jim, for 10 bucks a month, that makes this tool a BARGAIN! Once you get your web2′s and article submissions up, you can also then hammer them with fiverr gigs, so after 3 or 4 months I suspect you could actually get some pretty good rankings for some fairly tough kwds.

Brendan, if you know what you are doing with your backlinking then BLG can save you an absolute fortune. The 137 per month account – I agree – it seems its very expensive. But look at the amount of power you get for that price. If you were to outsource the same amount of work that you can do with BLG each month, it would probably cost you well over $1000 a month, providing you can get it on the cheap and your employees are very good at what they do. If you were to do all this by hand, you’re looking at probably over 40 hours a week grinding. No, when you think it through, this tool is a proverbial “no-brainer”!

Yes, forming online relationships with your online peers is a very good way to progress Brendan. Although that’s not always as easy as it would seem unless you are in a niche where you truly do know your stuff then folks will listen to everything you’ve got to say and you are soon judged as one of the guys or gals to go to. Such as your own niche – no doubt you could build a community in the J J world, which would be a terrific example of how to be successful outside of the make money online niche.

Very many sites will never be much of a social focus so its very tricky to “socialize” them in terms of gaining lots of interest from the likes of Twitter and Facebook. So what alternative is there – you either sink and disappear, or you backlink your site. All this garbage that Goog spits out about folks linking to your site because they like what you do and say. Fine – that would work on a really good blog, or perhaps on some really unusual niche based site where its more of a curiosity for folks. Otherwise, you have to rely on tools like BLG to get your site visited by folks once you’ve achieved the rankings. And one of the best ways to achieve the rankings these days is to use BLG with the 40 days challenge format. Its one of the safest ways of getting really strong backlinks to your sites, and it most definitely does still work!

Yeah, I got your email, thanks. I’m just trying to work thru the backlog and I’ll get back to you shortly.

Ah yeah, I see what you mean. Yeah – when you’ve only got a few websites on the go or when your sites are not ready for a certain level of backlinking, its money wasted to be investing in a high end tool. With the BLG tool though – its good for even the newest of sites since you can set up a few web2′s and some article submissions which link back to the money site – get them all set up over a week or so. Then you can wallop them with backlinks – also using BLG.

Hi Fede, welcome to my blog (world) and thanks for your comment!

Since its a new website, it would be much wiser to build up a few web2′s and do a few article directory submissions and link those to your main site. Then use BLG to send lots of links to those web2′s and article directory submissions in order to pump up their “juice”.

I definitely would suggest you do not send lots of links straight to your new site – Google will penalize the site and you may not see it again in the rankings for many months if at all.

Hope it goes well Fede!

Joseph

Hi Fede, I think it wise to do the article and web2 submissions manually if its a totally new domain. Otherwise you are risking too many links passing back to your new website all in one go. Best to go out of your way to lower the risk because if your site gets penalized that could spell doom and its possible your site will never truly recover.

Sounds good Fede! I wish BLG was around when I was doing the Warrior Forum 40 days challenge – would have saved so much time and hard work

Sorry for the delayed reply Brendan – I had a bit too much to drink last night

I don’t think that matters too much actually. As I show in the video – I get a bit lazy from time to time so I use the easy way out and dump the “lesser” quality backlinks onto the outer tier sites. However, I’d prefer to use better quality links Brendan because they’ll last much longer than the crappy links. That’s my thinking anyhow.

Furthermore, mixing up the backlinks which go to the outer tier sites is obviously much less important than it is if you were linking to your money site.

Better to be safe than sorry Brendan – as you say, unless your site is very mature, it would be wise to hold off using Aladdin on the money site.

Hi Dan, I don’t believe that BLG use their own network in any shape or form – they find “sticky” sites to post content to. What I mean here is that they constantly update their databases about sites that are working well and sites that are not, so its in a state of constant flux and there should be no footprint at all.

Regards the link you are referring to – sign up to the $137 account for $67 per month – I’m afraid that offer ended a while ago. I can only offer $15 per month back on the $137 account and $7 per month back on the $67 account since the affiliate commissions are small.

Thanks for your interest Dan!

Joseph

Hey Ryan, I was using the 10 dollar version in the video because I decided to pick BLG up specifically for the video production. I’ve now upgraded to the 67 account and may well upgrade again to the $137 should the need arise.

I also use services on Fiverr.com – I simply do a search for “backlinks” on Fiverr then click the “Rating” tab at the top to get the current top rated backlinking gigs, then work my way down the list until I find some that I particularly like.

The social bar plugin is called TF Social Share.

Joseph

Fede by all means email me some details and let me know where you confusion lies and I’ll try to remedy this for you. joseph@josepharchibald.com

Hi Dan, yeah, you can only run one type of project per day on BLG, although you can obviously target many different websites within that one project.

Once you’ve set up all the Web2′s you want, I would suggest you start to backlink to those. You can use any of the formats to link to the Web2′s Dan. Article submissions, Web2′s to Web2′s, Xrummer etc. I would think that the longest lasting links are the article submissions and the Web2′s – particularly if you post more than a single article to your Web2′s.

Good luck with that!

Jo

Hey Dave, as much as I really don’t like to talk about obtaining second rate backlinks, we are trying to survive in business here and facts are that Google still value backlinks over and above anything else – and in this case, second rate backlinks still work very well. I’d never use second rate links to backlink a money site unless the money site was nicely mature in terms of already having thousands of backlinks in place. Second rate links add a nice mix up, so why not?

Now that I’ve said that…

Although I have no actual proof of this, I’d have to think that Web2′s and article submissions are going to last much much much longer than the likes of xrummer, scrapebox and second rate blog comments (meaning comments set up on blogs that are created specifically for this purpose). Of course, when you are using a tool such as BLG then quite a few of your article directory submissions and Web2 creations don’t last more than a week, but the ones that do tend to stick around for the long term.

Therefore, linking back to Web2′s and article directory submissions with more Web2′s and article directory submissions is in general a better way to gain long term rankings leverage.

Having said that though… I’m happy to use BLG in such a way as to link back to “authority sites” which then link back to my money site by using the second rate backlinks. After all, as you’ve said in your comment – its far easier to get thousands of xrummer links than it is to get thousands of article links.

Ryan, it could be that your Web2′s were Google indexed on different days, in which case you’d be fine. But its still a bit risky all the same. Once you get a Goog penalty it can spoil the whole game plan.

If you don’t know already, you can schedule two BLG backlinking projects at the same time. If you create a bookmarking campaign first, you can choose another campaign to work on the same day.

Thanks Ryan!

Dan – yeah – the password and username parts are for logging into each Web2 in case you wish to add more content to those. The url’s are to be used to issue your backlinks.

Say, for example, you decided to utilize the blog commenting option to link to your Web2′s – you would work through the options and then you would copy/paste your Web2 URL’s in the appropriate step. That’s it!

Jo

It varies on that score Ryan. Sometimes you get more, sometimes not more…

Fede – one keyword phrase is being targeted per page of content – is that what you are saying?

How large is the variation in anchor text to each webpage?

Yeah, there’s not enough action here for the site to warrant a dumping… other than the fact that it may be wise to vary your linking patterns – maybe a few article directory submissions linking to money site and some blog comments etc. There’s nothing that you’ve told me Fede that would encourage Google to award any penalty.

With Google rankings, at the moment, a lot is very much backwards – crappy sites in top ten results – lots of very good sites being bumped off. Madness!

Ryan, if I may, I’ll transfer your comment to the blog post I did a couple of weeks back – “Does the 40 Day Warrior Forum Method Still Work”. I think that would be a more appropriate “home” for your comment. Thanks for the feedback – very encouraging!!