Has Anyone Used 30 Minute Backlinks?

[FernHill]

I'm considering purchasing Michelle MacPherson's 30 Minute Backlinks product, but for the life of me I can't find any objective information online about it. Everything that is written seems to be an unqualified endorsement with no actual information about how it works -- beyond the fact that it enables you to create "software that is then listed in software directories with links back to your site". Huh?

Ed recently gave it a thumbs up on his tubbynerd blog as well.

But I like to know pros AND CONS before purchasing anything. Is it really white hat? What kind of "software" does it develop?

Can anyone help me out with some objective info?

Many thanks.

[AndyR]

Originally Posted by FernHill

I'm considering purchasing Michelle MacPherson's 30 Minute Backlinks product, but for the life of me I can't find any objective information online about it. Everything that is written seems to be an unqualified endorsement with no actual information about how it works -- beyond the fact that it enables you to create "software that is then listed in software directories with links back to your site". Huh?

Ed recently gave it a thumbs up on his tubbynerd blog as well.

But I like to know pros AND CONS before purchasing anything. Is it really white hat? What kind of "software" does it develop?

Can anyone help me out with some objective info?

Many thanks.

People go to software directories to seek genuinely useful software which might be worth downloading only to find they've been stuffed full of near identical files automatically generated by internet marketers? That's not going to improve the user experience one little bit is it.

Well there may just be a little more to it, but that would be very unusual to get *more* than what's advertised wouldn't it. So I think it stinks. Don't be a party to it.

Is that objective enough?

[dietserve]

You said you can't find any objective comments on it anywhere on the net !!!

Does that tell you anything?

The biggest mistake almost every new marketer makes is chasing that little blue pill !...The one solution that promises that you wont really need to work hard.

Anything that creates instant solutions, either does not work as promised OR within days everyone is using it and therefore "No Advantage" to anyone.

One of our researchers actually signed up to MM's course (we look at as much of others people's work as we can and only because we have staff paid to do it) and theres really nothing new in what MM is teaching. It's all relevant content but it's not really any different to what is in this course.

One thing thats good to remember is this.....

If someone discovers something that does all they promise they milk it in their own business and dont sell it. ONLY when it begins to become commonplace will they share it, and as the world turns the rest of the market catches up until the effectiveness of the tactics wear thin.

Its more beneficial to learn the concepts and how to apply then rather than chase that pill that gives you 30 min success. As for 30 min success tactics, IF they work then they don't give you any advantage for very long....the cheaper they are to buy and quicker they supposedly work , then the quicker every man and his dog are using them and they become worthless.

There are NO MAGIC PILLS, no 30 min cures to success. If there were they wouldn't cost $97 and by chance if there were any 100 dollar cures to traffic, rankings, conversion etc that didnt involve long hours writing, researching, posting etc then within weeks we all would be millionaires. Learn the basic techniques, learn to apply them, put in the hours and build a small business to where you can leverage you time by outsourcing the grunt work and keep doing this over and over reinvesting till your incomes are at the level you want.

In the case of MM's product she teaches you how to do the same as we are doing here. You gotta love marketing pitches..."using my techniques you can have 100's of links in 30 mins"...well using the 30DC you can do the same..as long as you have your niche and keywords already researched, a series of articles and buckets of web content already written and ready to go, all the forums and blogs and posts on which to comment already identified, and all your comments pre-written....Ooops did the owners of these products "forget to mention that to you??

Getting links and positioning in the search engines is easy...but it takes work , and no blue pill will change that .... but the sales letters still sound good don't they? Sorry 'bout the rant and no offense to MM as I'm sure her product is good (maybe) and instead of being free like this course is, you have to pay money to get the same information and it does work, it just doesnt do anything different to what you are already doing

[micronet]

I briefly had a chance to review some of it, and as mentioned,
It follows along the guidelines/system you can learn here.

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[FernHill]

People go to software directories to seek genuinely useful software which might be worth downloading only to find they've been stuffed full of near identical files automatically generated by internet marketers? That's not going to improve the user experience one little bit is it.

OK, that answers my question. That's what my common sense told me but I wondered if I was missing something (the magic bullet, perhaps?) I thought maybe MM's program generated something USEFUL for the directories, and I was perplexed wondering what that could be.

I would just like to add that in defense of MM, she did provide very good value in her Social Daily Media ebook. So that gained my trust. But when she didn't answer my question about 30MinuteBacklinks I did begin to wonder (she answered my email, but just with a repeat of her sales message, not with an answer to my question).

Thank you everyone who took the time to answer my question. I found out what I needed to know, and then some! This forum is invaluable.

[30DC2007]

John Reese (aka Mr Traffic Secrets) once remarked that our jobs as marketers selling to the internet marketing crowd is to save people time. A lot of what is being taught is freely available if you take the time to research it, understand how to use and then take action and apply it to your business.

I went to university for 4 years and paid thousands of dollars to be told what sections to read inside a textbook. How's that for the ultimate scam.

The value in *some* of these products is shortcutting the learning process.

I personally have no comment about 30 minute backlinks because I don't own it. I will say that I read the sale message and decided it was not for me. I have tried automated link generation in the past (autoblog posting sw) and it blew up in my face. In other words what I was taught lasted for 2 months and then Google 'abolished' its effectiveness.

Here's an idea that, in my opinion, is *more* effective when done well. There are dozens of video sharing sites out there and the search engines love them more than software sharing sites. Why not use something link JING and make a series of useful or entertaining videos and post them to all the sites. If you did 10 or 20 five minute videos and hosted them on the top 20 video sharing sites, properly optimized for your keywords and with a backlink, I bet you would get lots of traffic. I could refer you to a service that can do all the grunt work posting to 30 video sites in about 20 minutes but it is not free.


Glen.

p.s. That video posting service is a perfect example of what John Reese was referring to.

[aylafrance]

I think that backlinks are far more important than most people think. The best backlinks you can have are to established sites who themselves have a lot of backlinks to established sites.

One of my clients rates at No 1 for a very competitive market. She is a little one woman band. One of the larger companies mentioned to her that this was because she was linked to 3 sites that had been in existence since 2000 or before, one of which is mine. It has 4000+ backlinks and I have a 1 and 2 in Google for my umbrella phrase and a 2 and 3 for a very wanted phrase.

I got most of my backlinks in the early days using free backlink software. I would not write this method off. Google likes old. I watch as Web 2.0 pages come and go in weeks. My backlink sites are still there and so am I in the rankings. It was also very fast for my client to get to No 1 - not 6 months but weeks.

1 good backlink is worth 10 articles - you should be doing them both.

Just a personal view from someone who knows it works.