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30 Minute Backlinks Review

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Product Name: 30 Minute Backlinks Tutorial
Creator: Michelle MacPhearson
URL: www.30minutebacklinks.com
Purpose: To generate large numbers of one-way backlinks to your site from sites with Google Page Ranks of up to 5, 6, and 7.

This is an ingenious way to create one-way backlinks to your site. It truly is brilliant.

I wanted to write and update you on the progress of the backlink building I did using 30 Minute Backlinks. I also wanted to write my review of the tutorial now that I’ve had sufficient time to use it. It’s been 30 days.

I haven’t done anything more since my last update to actively build more backlinks. I did what I was able to do with the time I had to devote to it during the first 11 days.

Here are my current statistics since my last post:

Pageviews per day: 10 (up from 6)
Visits per day: 9 (up from 5)
Traffic from search engines: 13.6% (down from 23.7%)
Traffic from referring sites: 65.9%
Direct traffic: 20.6%
Google search results page the site first appears on: 2 (It’s result #19, search term “home office organization“)
Number of inbound links: 416 (siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com)

Benefits

As you can see, the number of inbound links to this site increased by 312 from when I started implementing 30 Minute Backlinks. I initially had 104 inbound links.

The Google search results page this blog first appears on improved from #7 to #2. It was on page one after 11 days but has fallen to page two at 30 days.

Daily pageviews and visitors also increased slightly.

The long-term benefits may be substantial, but I won’t know until 3-6 months pass. I’ll have to wait for the other software directories to scrape my content and add it to their directories.

The amount of work I devoted to getting the increase in backlinks wasn’t that much comparatively. I spent about 16 hours on it.

Downsides

I hate to say it, but there are several downsides to this tutorial.

The product hasn’t had the desired effect of bringing more visitors to this blog from the search engines. I’m still getting most of my traffic directly and from referring sites, which didn’t cost me anything but time writing content and submitting posts to the social bookmarking sites. I expect to spend time writing content and submitting posts to social sites because this is a blog, and that is what bloggers do.

Michelle says you don’t need any software-writing experience to use the methods she teaches, but I disagree. A small amount of knowledge is needed to understand the tutorials. Since I had no prior knowledge and some problems my first time through, I used the forum to ask how to solve my problem. The forum is the way you get help. I got a response that worked quite well, but it took 5 days for them to get back to me with a solution.

Thirty minutes is also misleading. The tutorial itself requires more than an hour of your time before you even begin to work on generating backlinks. It takes another hour or so to download all the programs you need to create the content for the backlinks.

There are 5 methods for generating backlinks. Once you have everything in place to start work, it takes about 30 minutes per method for 4 of the methods to create the basic content and use the free directory upload software you downloaded during the tutorial. Parts of method one don’t work as shown in the tutorial videos. The first method is actually two methods in one, so it takes an hour to implement the basics of it.

The 5th method requires you to create an e-book or long report. If you don’t have one already, you have to write one. I skipped using this technique because I didn’t have time to devote to writing a long report for this blog last month.

If you want to get the maximum bang for your buck, you have to buy the full versions of 3 programs, or you have to spend about 24 hours for each method each time you submit content by hand to the rest of the directories available. You could pay someone else to do that for you, but that still costs money. In either case, you have to spend more money or a lot more time to get the most out of this tutorial fast.

I’m using the slow option of waiting for the other directories to scrape my content into theirs. This will take 3-6 months to do what buying the programs or hiring help can do in a few days. Therefore, I’m not seeing the dynamite results advertised.

The 4th program, Snag-It, is software necessary to create some of the content and only comes with a 30-day free trial. Then you have to buy it if you want to continue using it. Snag-It is screen capture software and is extremely easy to use. If you plan on doing any sort of online marketing or producing any graphics, a good screen capture package is necessary. Although it’s another additional cost, it’s worth the money.

The cost of the tutorial is $100. The cost of each full software package is anywhere from $50 to $100. If you purchase the tutorial plus all the software the total comes to $400 - $500.

I didn’t have that much to spend, and I didn’t have 120 hours or more to spend submitting content by hand either. I have no idea what hiring help might cost for such a large amount of time. I figured it would be a lot more money than I could afford.

Conclusion

The 30 Minute Backlinks tutorial does what it says and teaches you how to create a lot more one-way backlinks to your site(s). In a few days, a few weeks or a few months you can have substantially more backlinks, depending on your implementation choices. This will lead to better search engine rankings.

It truly is a brilliant way to obtain one-way backlinks from high Google page rank sites.

However, it takes a lot more time than 30 minutes, and it’s not that easy if you can’t afford to hire help or buy the additional software, or don’t have much experience with creating software.

I think I would be much happier with the product if I hadn’t been led to believe it would be a lot easier than it is to use, or that I would have to spend more than the cost of the product for it to work. I would have been happier if the real cost and the real amount of time and work required had been made clear up front.

If you have the money to buy the additional software required, or you can afford to hire help, this product will get you tons of one-way backlinks and I recommend it. You can use the tutorial and programs over and over again to generate even more backlinks. You can use it on all your sites and blogs. Just lather, rinse and repeat.

You must decide if SEO and search engine rankings will really help you accomplish your goals. If you get or need to get most of your traffic from search engines to be successful, this is the tutorial that will do the trick.

You can find more information about 30 Minute Backlinks at:
www.30minutebacklinks.com

Sherri Joubert
30 Minute Backlinks user

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