Whether you’re using it to get links, to tap into long-tail searches, to review products. to build one-page mini sites, or to “pre-sell” your visitors with memorable, useful content – it’s literally the “currency” of the web.

But the truth is that writing SUCKS. Well, at least I think it does. Especially doing things like writing tutorials, product reviews and articles for distribution. It’s mundane, repetitive and boring.

Anyone who’s built a “conduit” site (product reviews) or even a content site about something they’re genuinely interested in knows that even to build the smallest of sites – you still gotta sit on your ASS for hours on end…

…writing.

This is where OUTSOURCING comes in.

And that’s a whole other skill altogether. Anyone who’s ever outsourced articles “on the cheap” will likely shudder from the bad memories of having to essentially totally re-write the “articles” they’ve gotten back from their overseas “writer”.

Been there, done that.

What it comes down to is that it’s very, very hard to find a good writer who can produce genuinely good content that would actually engage your visitors, get distributed (if you’re submitting it) or simply be worth your time. And when you do – it will cost you.

And this is simply because FLUENT english writers are primarily going to be from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and a few other locations. All of which have a high cost of living, which means that getting a full-length article for anything less than $15 to $20 (minimum) is out of the question.

Now the other thing about this is that any good writer is going to have a full line-up of clients. And in my experience, their plates are almost always too full. Which means that their turnover times and volume are limited.

In some cases, it’s almost faster just to write the damn articles yourself…

This is the reality of outsourcing, and anyone who’s worked with writers will relate to this.

Good help is hard to find, it’s hard to scale up – and you’ll never get it for rock-bottom prices…

That’s why I am very excited to introduce a service that I think will cause a lot of people to think twice about their monthly PLR membership fees – since getting 100% UNIQUE, QUALITY content (created solely by US writers), is, for the first time…

…incredibly cheap.

Introducing:

Articlez – Quality, Fluent Writing For “Overseas” Prices

Articlez, which just went live TODAY, is another project that’s being spearheaded by Dave Kelly (from LinkVana, and more recently, Ranking Loophole).

Dave and his team from LinkVana faced many challenges when they began dealing with the amount of volume that had to be processed from users who were building natural, one-way links through the LV network. In time, they managed to nail down an effective writer procurement strategy (in general, by recruiting semi-retired individuals in the US) that could not only produce quality content – but also in volume.

(That’s a hell of an accomplishment…)

And Articlez is simply a scaled-up extension of this style of writer recruitment and fulfillment.

The result?

You can purchase quality, UNIQUE content in mass (or singularly) for the following prices:

* 100-word snippets (useful for blog posts) for $2 a piece

* 200-word mini-posts (great for authority blogs, minimally-researched) for $4 a piece

* 350-word articles (product reviews, tutorials, promotional – well-researched) for $6 a piece

This is all done through a centralized web-based system, and your content is delivered in all of the following formats: TXT, CSV and XML format. Ready to be published directly into your HTML editor, blog or your site’s CMS.

And that’s all it costs.

There’s no membership fee or recurring monthly cost.

You simply join the Articlez system for free, purchase credits (1 credit = $1) and start submitting projects.

Think of it this way – it would cost you a measly $60 to create content for a 10-page product review site.

Or just $30 to create the content for FIVE of your one-page ”loophole” money-sites.

And on top of that – it’s all centralized.

There’s no chasing down individual writers, going through the hassle of using “escrow” or freelancer sites, or trying to keep track of all your writers.

You simply load up your credits, load up your project descriptions, send it off – and then focus on things that you actually want to do.

This is a total no-brainer, and I think it’s going to have a lot of people seriously re-considering their “PLR” memberships.

Because this is almost as cheap as PLR, except that you don’t have to “re-write” it for effective use on your site.

It’s already 100% unique.

Check it out:

Articlez.com >>

Enjoy!

-Chris

A TWELVE-page ebook brings in $6,000 a month. And that’s just on the front-end.

It’s a very simple (and short) guide, but it’s a life-saver for those who need it. (It shows people who have a certain financial problem how to get a checking account when no regular bank will give them one.)

The author, Alexis, probably wrote it in a matter of an hour or so. Puts a new perspective on the question: “So, how much do you make an hour?”…

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See the full story on how she did this right here >>

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Now obviously, it’s the salesletter and her marketing experience that make this possible, but successful product creation is still one hell of a lot easier than you might think.

The problem is that many of us equate “ebook” to being a regular book, except in electronic format. The reality is that the people who typically buy ebooks online are buying an answer to a problem. They’re buying results.

Not some literary achievement – by any stretch…

They want to know how to make their cat to stop pissing on the floor. Or how to fix their credit so they can afford to buy a house. Or how to stop the bank from foreclosing on their house. Or how to find out if their partner is cheating on them. Or how to otherwise fix a desperate problem…

They don’t care how long the book, or report, or “blueprint” or whatever “it” is – they care about solving their problem. That’s exactly why Alexis can recruit one satisfied customer after the next selling a 12-page PDF for $24.95 a pop. And that’s just where the selling begins – we all know that the “backend” is where all the money is in any niche that lends itself to repeat purchases. 

So how can you cash in on this?

It’s all about learning how to identify desperate markets, and then concisely deliver the solution they want.

I’ve been referring to Alexis Dawes, who’s also the author of what I consider to be the absolute best “step by step” blueprint for creating info-products that actually sell: Desperate Buyers Only

I’ve read through her blueprint many times, and every time, I come away with a new perspective on just how easy this really is. And I can personally relate to the excitement of watching A FEW DAYS WORK translate into what would be considered a full-time income for most people.

So can you, and here’s how:

First of all, yes, I am absolutely trying to sell you on Desperate Buyers Only. But not just because I get a commission out of it (which I do) – it’s because it’s the only blueprint I’m aware of that correctly shows you the REALITY of how to make it big with info-products, and it’s written in the same style as my own ebook, “Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate”.

In other words, zero hype. Entirely actionable.

In fact, there’s realistically no reason why can’t finish your first hot-selling info-product within 24 hours of getting Alexis’ blueprint. Let me explain why…

Here’s “Desperate Buyers Only” in a nutshell:

Without giving away any of Alexis’ secrets or, in my opinion, deadly tactics for whipping out a hot-selling product with ease, I’m going to show you how truly easy it is to launch your own product – and how much profit you can realistically expect to see as a result…

1. Identify a Desperate Market

I covered this in Part 1 of Confessions, but not as it relates to creating your own products. The key here is to identify problems that people would pay to solve without a moment’s hesitation. You can check out ClickBank’s marketplace for some ideas, or peruse through Yahoo Answers (or similar sites) to give you a good idea on what’s in demand for starters.

Look for problems that would keep people up at night. (And yes, the “cure insomnia” market is both a shining and literal example of that )

Alexa’s got a very precise sequence for not only identifying desperation and markets where zero-hesitation purchases are “business as usual”, but also how to specifically determine people’s exact wants, needs and problems. Their psychological breaking-points, so to speak.

From there, you simply “reverse engineer” the process, package it, and sell it.

2. Rapid Product Creation

Alexa’s running example throughout “Desperate Buyers Only” is the 12-page wonder that brings in about $200/day in sales. The beauty of this approach is that, as she puts it, “you can take free apples, turn them into apple-juice, and then sell it”.

Strangely enough, that sounds a lot like my previous blog post

Here’s an example of exactly how this happens:

Some of ClickBank’s top-selling “info-products” are really nothing more than glorified link directories (re: all those “legit online jobs” networks, or the “paid survey programs”, etc.), or otherwise a compilation of FREE STUFF that the users might not otherwise have known about.

And all it takes is a quick glance at their affiliate gravities to see that most of these products are selling into the hundreds of copies daily…

Now, I know full well that many of those products are, well, less than respectable in the way that they’re marketed. However – remember my previous post – the anatomy of a “breakthrough product” is simply common sense that’s been “systemized” into an action-oriented guide, leading the reader to do the inevitable in order to get the results they want.

(See my previous post for a full explanation on that)

So you don’t have to be unethical to sell people “free” stuff. Instead, you make an effective blueprint for them to follow – but it’s easier than you might think.

In fact, in keeping with the example above, making a comprehensive resource directory along with an explanation of exactly what to do with each resource would be incredibly valuable to someone who, for example, was wondering about how to actually find some kind of legitimate paid work via the internet. And all you’d really be doing is merging a “glorified directory” with a helpful step-by-step approach to accomplishing their desired result (working online).

Here’s what else Alexis covers in full detail in her blueprint:

* Compiling Actual “Insider Secrets”, Even When You’re On the OUTSIDE (in Any Market)

* Writing Your Short Report So That Readers Love It and GET Results (Specific Writing Methods)

* Naming the Product So It Grabs Attention And Sells (She has a killer “fill in the blanks” template with lots of suitable product name types)

* Pricing the Product So it Sells (This is normally very tricky - but her approach is surprisingly easy and hard to screw up)

3. Marketing & Promotion

This is where the rubber meets the road, and all too often – where a lot of “would be” info-product marketers end up biting the dust in confusion, poor results and failure.

Your pitch-page needs to convert; and for that to happen, you need targeted traffic.

Back to square one?

Not at all…

What I really appreciate about Desperate Buyers Only is Alexis’ style of writing – she just tells it like it is. And that includes her exact process for writing sales letters (it’s easier than you’ve been led to believe), as well as the precise sequence – including every marketing activity in full disclosure – that she does in order to generate targeted traffic.

I can tell you right now that as a product-owner, the HUGE advantage you’ll have over a regular website is the potential for traffic from active affiliates, bar none.

THAT is the ultimate strategy, folks. And if you’ve never seen how much traffic you can get by recruiting your own affiliates – you, my friend, are in for a very pleasant surprise.

Especially if you’re listed with a public network like ClickBank. It’s absolutely crazy how much attention your product will get once it starts selling consistently – that’s when things really start to take off for you. For example, even though it’s been a long time since I’ve made any even remote attempts to garner promotions or JV’s for “Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate”, did you know that on average, it still gets over 500 visitors per day just from ClickBank Affiliates?

(Yeah, yeah, I know – I’ll get my butt in gear and drum up some more attention soon – I’ve been busy…)

I check my affiliate reporting stats every so often, and every day I get referrals from more than at least 50 different affiliates. Of course, it’s usually only a handful of those that produce any sales, but still…

…try doing that with article marketing, squidoo, etc

So anyway – that’s the real power in having your own affiliate force behind you. And that’s a low-end example. I know that as an affiliate, I drive more than 1,200 referrals to a certain vendor every day. I can’t imagine how much traffic they get from the other hundreds of “me’s” out there doing the same…

Anyway, sales-copy writing and traffic generation are topics that are too complex to cover in a blog post, but they’re covered in specific detail in Desperate Buyers Only, and it’s specific to info-products, which is in some ways a lot different than how I lay things out in “Confessions”.

For example, a major part of her strategy is actually selling info-products on what she calls “springboard sites”, where members in a certain niche are specifically looking for information to BUY. (Hint: Ebay could be considered a springboard site, by this definition)

This makes it easier to sell a product in comparison to just relying on search engine results – because you’re not competing with results that have free information.

Alright – that’s Desperate Buyers Only in a very small nutshell.

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Now let’s have some fun:

How Much Can You Realistically Expect to Make With Your Own Info-Product?

Well, let’s boil it down and see for ourselves…

Let’s assume that you decide to sell a short report on “How to Stop a Foreclosure!”

I’d say that’s a pretty desperate topic, and one that would certainly lend itself to a “no-hesitation” sale – assuming that your pitch-page presses the right psychological buttons, and – of course – that your product delivers valuable information. It’s also a timely topic, due to the current state of the US economy.

It’s also a topic in which your prospect DOES NOT want to waste their time – time is of the essence! They want short, fast, effective answers to some very serious questions. And that means that your report had better be brief, to the point and helpful.

Now let’s evaluate potential traffic streams. The Google Adwords “estimator” tool shows that the keyword “stop foreclosure” would generate an estimated 50-ish clicks per day if your PPC ad was in one of the top 3 results.

That’s just if you had an AD in that position. Keep in mind that, according to heat map tests across a variety of Google searches and users (re: StomperNet videos), the organic results get at least 5 times more eye-focus, and therefore clicks, than the paid results.

So we can realistically say that there’s probably about (at least) 200 searches on Google, daily, for that keyphrase. This obviously doesn’t include the traffic on MSN, Yahoo, ASK, and others, and it ALSO doesn’t include the countless other keyphrases and long-tail keyphrases that will make up a much larger SEO approach (ex. “foreclosure help”, “prevent foreclosure”, etc.)

And remember – you’ll also have the leverage of being able to recruit affiliates to promote your product and get traffic FOR you.

So what’s a realistic traffic expectation for your product site?

At a quick glance, I’d say that it would be realistic to expect a range somewhere between 200 to 800 visitors a day, including SEO traffic, affiliates, articles, forum marketing, Ebay, etc. And I’m leaning on the conservative side of things.

Now, let’s say that we price the product at $24.95, and that we’re able to get the pitch-page converting at even 3%, which would not be too difficult for targeted visitors in a desperate mindset. That’s 1 sale per 33 visitors on average.

So if we can realistically say that the product site could eventually (and potentially) reach a target of 400 visitors a day (the midpoint of our estimated “range”), then that would equate to roughly 12.1 sales per day.

How does the money break down? 

At 12.1 sales per day, that’s about 363 sales per month.

Since at least half of those would be the result of affiliate traffic (182 sales of 363), and your commission rate was 60%, then that immediately takes your price point per sale down to $9.80

If you were using ClickBank as the sales processor (primarily, not including Ebay sales via PayPal), then $1 plus 7% gets eaten up for each non-referred sale, and $0.67 plus 5% for the affiliate sales at the 60% commission. To make it simple, let’s just take off about $1.60 per sale total. So that comes out to around $580.80 in processing fees for the month.

You’d have earned $1783.60 from affiliate-referred sales, $4515.95 from direct sales, and the processing fees were $580.80. Your net profit for an average month – in this figurative example – would be $5718.75

And that’s just the beginning…

The beauty of selling affordable info-products is that you’re gathering a client-base who are already prequalified as buyers. They bought from you once, and they’ll from you – and your recommendations – for as long as you have their best interests in mind and present them with useful, relevant offers.

Although the “earning potential” of a client-base is particularly hard to guage (it’s practically unlimited), let’s keep it simple by factoring in just ONE backend promotion for this example. If you do a bit of research in the “stop foreclosure” niche, you’ll see hundreds of financial/consolidation and legal services offering their services to potential (and distressed) clients. What you want to look for, or establish, is either a commission-based affiliate program or one that pays per lead.

Let’s say you establish a marketing arrangement with a company that agrees to pay you $10 per targeted lead for every “foreclosure” client that requests information as a result of your referral from a trackable web-form (CPA). This is a common practice in a variety of fincancial/lending markets, and $10 per lead is realistic in this scenario. You can find offers like this, by the way, on networks like AzoogleAds.com and MaxBounty, etc.

Because the $10 CPA commission occurs just by having them request information from this company – and that would be one of the highly-recommended actions in your ebook – it would be realistic to expect no less than 25% of your customers to do so, and that’s being conservative. Remember – they’re not buying anything, just filling out an information request form.

25% of your 12.1 daily buyers equates to 3 form submissions per day, equaling roughly 90 leads referred per month, adding an extra $900.00 per month to your existing income stream.

Again – that’s being very conservative, and it doesn’t include the autoresponder follow-ups, affiliate promos, complimentary products and other CPA offers that you’d be presenting to them after the initial sale. Keep in mind that customer lists GROSSLY out-perform “prospect” lists in terms of promotion.

Example: I have a customer list comprised of 2,000 leads in a certain niche, and a prospect list of about 2,700 leads in the same niche. I mailed both of them the same offer about a week ago. The customer list generated over 60 sales (at $50 per commission). The prospect list generated about 15 sales. This pattern is consistently what you’ll see.

Anyway, that brings my figurative – yet realistic – example of what you can expect from launching your OWN “Desperate Buyers Only” info-product to just over $6,690.00 per month.

Can you see why product-creation is well worth mastering?

If you want to see how possible this really is – and if you want to learn from someone who’s got more experience than me when it comes to quick product creation that gets results like that – then I absolutely recommend Desperate Buyers Only.

It shows you how to do everything you need to do in order to get results like my example – and beyond…

Now go and make yourself your OWN 12-page masterpiece!

Cheers,

-Chris

P.S. I had a very clear “reminder” of just how powerful it is to target desperate buyers last week. My wife and I got a new dog, and she’s great.

But what’s not great is her tendency to pee, poo, bite, jump (and everything else) in our nice, clean condo. And believe me – when you watch - in horror – as your pet systematically destroys expensive furniture, your Sony Amplifier, etc. - all those $39 “dog secret” ebooks start looking pretty damn appealing…

To myself, and no doubt thousands of others

3WayLinks.net

LinkVana (“link building nirvana”)

Both are extremely effective at creating search engine presence easily, effortlessly, and quite quickly. 

But both are also monthly paid subscriptions, and each one has it’s own set of strengths and weaknesses. So let’s find out which one you should use for getting easy rankings (and easy TRAFFIC).

But first, let me quickly explain why 3WL and LinkVana are so powerful…

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The lifeblood of free search engine traffic (especially from Google) is LINKS.

Yes, your site needs to have well-targeted content. And yes, using sitemaps and properly optimized internal linking, title-tags, meta-descriptions, header-tags and proper usage of the rel=”nofollow” tags (for page-rank funneling) helps to optimize your site for maximum traffic once it has some authority.

But all of the above is merely an afterthought in comparison to the importance of OFF-SITE optimization. Links.

Your site will never get substantial search traffic unless you have a solid foundation of backlinks from other websites. Especially one-way links given voluntarily, without having to link back to the site linking to yours (reciprocal linking, which Google can recognize and discount appropriately).

So how do you get one-way backlinks? 

There’s a few ways. Article submission, directory submission, press release submission, software/shareware submissions (to some extent), begging other webmasters, creating something really cool or controversial and then promoting it (linkbait), creating scripts and themes that, when installed, include a backlink - and so on and so forth.

The most powerful links, though, are contextual one-way links from sites recognized as an authority – where the link is one of only a few on that particular page (aka. not part of a link directory). Even a handful of these types of links can literally cement your search engine listings. An example would be a link from major authority sites like the Wall Street Journal, a Government site, Education/Universitry sites, or something similar.

And in almost every case, those sorts of links will only be acquired if your site contains something significantly different or newsorthy. (Which is why Google values them so much – they’re actually a “vote”).

The other way to get one-way links that will dramatically boost your search presence is to CHEAT.

Yes – cheat.

And I don’t mean “black-hat” cheating, content-scraping, comment-spamming, etc.

What I mean is doing perfectly ethical activities that, while NOT violating Google’s TOS, actually tap into a loophole that exploits the way that the search engine’s algorithms are designed – resulting in floods of traffic from search engines for very little effort.

Cheating, in this case, is paying for one-way text links from authority sites.

You can do this on an individual, site by site basis, but since most sites with a PageRank of 6 or higher charge more than $30/mth per link, this can get real pricey – FAST. And it’s getting harder and harder to purchase one-way links on a permanent basis. Webmasters have caught on to the linking craze, and they make far more money for their virtual real estate by charging on a monthly basis.

I do buy some text links individually, but I’ve almost stopped doing this entirely now, being as there’s no real way to “gage” where your actual rankings come from (which link you bought equated to SE rankings).

Instead, I “buy” masses of non-reciprocal links by using 3WayLinks and LinkVana as a major part of my SEO approach for affiliate sites, in addition to articles, directory subs, bookmarking, press releases, relevant forum posting, linkbaiting, etc.

They both give me a real and definite edge for ALL of my participating sites – meaning that I can do half the work and get twice the traffic of my competitors because of this link-foundation. I subscribe to both 3WL and LinkVana, and I use them both for different functions.

Here’s how they compare, head to head:

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3WayLinks & LinkVana both essentially do the same thing – they make it really, really easy to get one-way-links that actually count, for practically whatever keyword or keyphrase you want.

Both services can be used to generate literally THOUSANDS of one-way links. What that means in the real world is, potentially, hundreds of top-rankings for profitable keywords that will result in TRAFFIC and, if your site converts – EASY SALES.

They create an unfair advantage for their members, because obtaining non-reciprocal links for a desired keyword phrase is by far the most difficult and time-consuming task when it comes to SEO, bar none!

The only question is – which one’s better?

The answer depends on what you need. Let’s compare them in detail…

3WayLinks Overview:

3WayLinks is a proprietary, secure linking script that adapts itself to your own site’s design (leaving no “footprint”). Each site that gets approved for the program is allowed to acquire 250 non-reciprocal links with 3 keyword variations, pointing to the root domain link, for up to 50 domains per account.

Your site will receive links from quality sites, as well as linking out to other quality sites in the network – but NONE of the links are reciprocal. And each site in the network is scanned to ensure Google inclusion, so that no one is linking to a site that’s been banned or de-indexed.

The links are built across the network of other participating sites (there’s thousands), and range from PR0 to PR7. They’re also added gradually, so as to appear natural.

Jonathan Leger (founder, creator of 3WL) is also currently in the process of developing a new & exciting feature for members. I emailed him about it a few days ago – here was his response in his own words:

“Hi Chris,

The new one-way linking system lets members create a “helper” site which they install a script on which creates a categorized link directory. Each “helper” site links to whatever links the other members have configured, so that each member gets 1,000 true one-way links per helper site they have in the system. You can have up to 10 helper sites for each account.

Jon”

So in brevity, very shortly, in addition to generating 250 non-reciprocal links per site for up to 50 domains (under PR4, sites in your account with a PR4+ don’t count against your quota), you’ll also be able to potentially get up to 10,000 true one-way links for your desired keyword as well.

(Hint: that’s powerful!)

3WayLinks is $47 per month, but for the results you can currently achieve for keywords and keyphrases with medium competition in practically any market – this makes it a bargain.

LinkVana Overview:

LinkVana is basically an insider access-panel that allows you to publish an unlimited number of one-way, in-context links across an ever-growing network of established blogs. The network includes literally thousands of different domains across a variety of IP addresses and C-Classes.

Each link is posted within a short text blurb (blog post) consisting of about 100 words, or a paragraph in other words. This can be done by you, your writer, or it can be outsourced through the LinkVana panel for $2 per post.

The beauty of this system is that these are contextual links that, when posted, end up on established sites with few outbound links per page. This means that your incoming links will have much more value than links in a directory.

There’s also no participation required from your own site – no code to install. These are true one-way links in every sense.

LinkVana is currently $147 per month at the moment, and is scheduled for an increase to $197/mth shortly. There is a member cap of only 300 members. That may sound like a lot for the price point, but considering how well this works, how much of a shortcut it is for generating links, how many people want to boost their search rankings, and how many people can generate a massive ROI from their membership – the 300 member limit will be reached very shortly.

That’s an overview of both services – now let’s look at each one’s strengths and weaknesses:

3WayLinks Strong Points:

* Truly Automates the Link-Building Process. You simply plug your site into the program, and you’ll gradually attain 250 non-reciprocal links over the course of a several weeks, without lifting a finger.

* Tracks Your Ranking Progress For Each of Your Sites. Your user account panel at 3WayLinks is very intuitive and useful. You can see the effectiveness of your linking campaigns in real-time right from your 3WL account.

* Perfect For Mini-Sites, Adsense Sites, Small Product-Review Sites, etc. If you’re targeting long-tail or mid-tail keywords with traffic, then this is a TOTAL no-brainer for you. Let the competition kick and scratch for the coveted terms with 4 million competing sites while you clean up with the automatic rankings for keywords that fit the “desperate” profile in Part 1 of Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate…

* Perfect For Building a Network of Sites Within a Niche. I mentioned using “kindling” sites to gage the effectiveness of layouts, “angles”, keyword clusters and so on in niches simultaneously to see which direction to take with your actual authority sites, feeder products and so on in a previous post. 3WayLinks makes ranking these “kindling sites” a total breeze, and you can later feed the traffic and pagerank from your “kindlings” to your authority site within the niche for an instant influx of traffic, exposure and “link love” when the time is right.

* The Price is Right – To Say the Least. $47/mo. had better be what EACH of your sites is making from the automatic rankings you get from 3WL – if not, then you’re either selling a total dud, or targeting ridiculous keywords (or markets)! In all seriousness, though, it’s excellent money for value. More than worth the membership fee…

Check Out How 3WayLinks Works Exactly >>

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LinkVana Strong Points:

* Truly Unlimited One-Way Links. These are real one-way links, inside a contextual paragraph, on well-established sites that Google spiders daily. Many of these sites are over 6 years old. Each site is made up of only UNIQUE content, and none of it is “spun”. The users create it, and after approval – it’s posted.

* Build Authority for ANY Page on Your Site. This is a huge benefit with LV that provides a massive edge on your competitors in practically ANY market. Getting EACH of your site’s profitable pages (product reviews, etc.) ranked highly is easy when you can literally blast an unlimited number of high-value backlinks with your desired keyword anchor at each specific page.

* Zero SEO Risk. If you don’t want to risk the potential discounting of links or perhaps a domain that get discovered in a 3-way scheme by SE algorithms, then LV is the way to go. The only thing you’ll ever see as a result of using LinkVana effectively is an increase in SE presence. (The built-in posting delay prevents mass-link postings from being published in close proximity, so as to appear natural).

* Links Can Be More Natural, More “Authentic”. This depends on your own posts within the LinkVana network, but it gives you the option of literally using as many keyword variations (and landing page variations) as you want, resulting in a much more natural-looking backlink pattern for your site, from in-context links no less. This will result in the building of a rock-solid ranking foundation in practically any niche.

* 300 Member Cap is a GOOD Thing. This basically assures you that you’ll be up against anywhere from little to ZERO competition within the LinkVana network itself for your niche keyword targets.

Check Out How LinkVana Works Exactly >>

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3WayLinks Weak Points:

* Limited Links Per Domain. Only 250 links can be acquired for each domain, which are made up of a variety of 3 different keywords as the link text. Also, only the root domain (home page) can receive links. LinkVana supports unlimited backlinks, unlimited keyword variety and ANY page of your site can acquire one-way links.

* Your Site Must Link to Other Participants. In exchange for automatic non-recip link building, your site needs to “give in order to receive”, in the way of links out to other pre-approved member sites in the 3WL network. This can result in pagerank leak, which may lead to lower rankings than other sites competing with you that have a similar backlink foundation, but with less outlinks.

* Only 50 Domains Per Account. 3WL only allows 50 domains (under PR4) per account. Sites whose homepage have a PageRank of 4 or higher don’t count against the quota. Adversely, LinkVana allows unlimited projects to be created.

* Google Can Allegedly “See” 3-Way Links. I’ve done research on this, and the general consensus among respected professionals in the SEO industry is that Google can spot 3-way links. I have no idea how, but technological advances in search algos is beyond my understanding, so I’d definitely say that a 3-way footprint “may” be visible. Though your site won’t be banned for participation, the more likely scenario is that the links obtained from the network may at some point be nullified in terms of SE value.

(But still, this only makes it a shorter-term strategy at worst, because it works very well at the moment, which can still be used for list-building, sales, profit, propogating authority sites, etc.)

LinkVana Weak Points:

* Links Are Self-Created, Not Automatic. Unlike 3WL, LinkVana is sort of like a priveledged publishing arrangement, rather than an automatic script that creates gradual backlinks for you on auto-pilot. Work or outsourcing is required. Each post can take up to 3 or 5 minutes to create.

* It’s Not a Forgiving Membership Fee. This is sort of a “good” barrier to entry for existing members, because it protects the network of sites from idiots with crap sites who are happy to generate a few bucks a month from each site. This means that members will lean towards creating quality posts, to quality sites, which will then get quality rankings. Still $147/mo. is definitely not chump-change.

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So What’s the Verdict?

As you can see, LinkVana is the more powerful of the two options, with its flexibility, no-risk rankings and unlimited, true one-way links (to any page on your site).

However, at $147/mo. (currently), it’s definitely not an impulse decision. You need to be very comfortable with SEO, keyword research and understanding how Google, Yahoo and MSN “tick” in order to get the biggest bang for your buck with LinkVana.

Much like full-scale graphics editors like Adobe Photoshop – LinkVana is very powerful, but only in the right hands. It’s also expensive, and that’s the trade-off. It’s not for everyone. And it’s not necessarily for every site, either…

3WayLinks is currently an awesome tool for getting hands-off rankings for mini-sites, small review sites and small content sites whose purpose is to act as a “kindling” site, which will eventually link to your:

* Authority site(s)

* Product(s)

And so on.

So to be honest, the best possible option here is to do what I’m doing – subscribing to both services and playing them each to their strengths for maximum search engine penetration.

I use 3WL to build passive, effective backlinks (and rankings) for my mini-sites and small review sites that will pump out consistent profits (when the traffic hits), while eventually serving as feeders for my authority sites and products.

I use LinkVana to generate authority for each page that I want to get ranked for its target keyword – especially specific product review pages. It’s not uncommon for product-review pages to convert at anywhere from 5% to 10% of COLD search traffic, so even a small amount of search traffic can be VERY profitable.

I also use LV to give me an edge overall with ranking for the major search terms, especially for authority sites or product sites. This, in combination with articles, directory submissions, press releases, bookmarking, and natural organic voluntary links from other sites (based on site usefulness or news-worthiness) leads to a very effective and agressive SEO strategy that leaves many of my competitors dumbfounded.

LinkVana Homepage >>

3WayLinks Homepage >>

What Should You Do?

If you’re new to the game and want to improve your current rankings for an existing small affiliate site (or a few sites), then 3WayLinks is a no-brainer for you. It will improve your rankings if you choose the right types of keyword targets. It’s been very effective for doing so with several of my own, small, 10 to 30 page mini-sites.

That’s where it really shines – especially because it’s automatic. It’s perfect for a network of mini-sites where you can simply get the site created, plug it into 3WL, submit a few articles and directory submissions, and then move on to the next site…

If you’re at the stage where you’re building authority-sites that have content worth linking to and a proven profit model in your niche, than LinkVana is going to stretch your dollars alot further (if you put in the effort). It’s a MAJOR shortcut, making it easy to acquire the hardest possible variable in off-site SEO:

True, contextual, one-way links from established sites.

You can literally build thousands of one-way links for any white-hat, quality site, and any PAGE on that site. And unlike article submission, each link is “unique”. (It’s not stuck in a byline that’s identical to the other 950 sites that published your latest submission…)

Closing Words…

Both 3WayLinks and LinkVana are very effective, representing a major shortcut in time and effort for anyone who knows first-hand the almost unlimited amount of traffic (and profit) that can be extracted, for free, from the most-popular starting points on the internet itself: Google, Yahoo and MSN.

If you’re brand-spanking new to all of this and still have to maneuver your way around the basics of website creation and keyword research – neither of these will make sense for you at the moment. Get your first site live, and use article marketing to get things going at first. (It takes awhile, but it’s free and it does work – but it also requires a LOT of work).

If you have a few sites, but want better rankings that get “some” results – but don’t have much money to spare – then seriously consider 3WayLinks. It’s an easy, automatic way to get ranked for most “mediumly-competitive” keywords rather easily. It usually takes about 2 to 3 months to see results.

If you know the game well, then you’ll already see the major ROI potential with LinkVana, and you don’t need my critique to make your own final conclusion.

Here’s to conquering the search engines, one site at a time

All the best,

Chris Rempel

Building and creating membership sites has been a popular subject lately, with some high-ticket courses out there explaining how you can teach people about anything from how to play the guitar to dieting to really almost anything – on an ongoing basis – earning a consistent income through monthly SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Not just one-off sales. 

Some people make six figures monthly from just ONE site. Not too bad, if you ask me…

However, the problem with membership sites is that it’s NOT “set and forget”. It may be recurring income – but it certainly isn’t passive income, like with affiliate marketing from organic traffic sources.

You need to be creating – or have others creating – quality content all the time, continually, for as long as the site exists. So it’s more like a high-paying job. And it requires lots of maintenance, management, and all the rest of it.

This might sound alright in theory, it’s just that in some niches, you can really only teach so much stuff, without eventually having to simply re-package the same stuff and call it an “update”.

And traditionally, you also need to have the site pre-loaded with TONS of impressive stuff to justify the customer’s subscription while they anxiously await your updates.

The typical situation is one that likely ALL of us have seen. Someone launches a membership site, and it goes strong for the first few months. And then the updates start coming in a little less consistently. Eventually, the site owner skips a month here, a month there.

And then it turns into a ghost-town.

This happens for a number of reasons – but most commonly – they’ve simply run out of stuff to provide, things to teach, or perhaps even motivation to keep going if the monthly “attrition rate” (unsubscriptions) is greater than the amount of new member signups.

Not all of them turn out like that – but it usually takes some major planning, know-how and a niche that lends itself to ENDLESS updates, news and so on to actually build something that will pay you consistently for years…

And – hey, let’s face it – creating membership sites is also a hell of a lot of work.

And I’m lazy

And that’s why what you’re about to read is going to be incredibly exciting and liberating if you’ve ever wanted to try the membership site strategy – but you’ve always been, like me, a little bit turned off by the problems I’ve mentioned above…

This approach to membership sites is totally different.

It’s SMART, and it’s FAST.

With this strategy, you can literally be taking orders for your membership site in as little as 48 hours from “idea” to “site launch” – and you only need ONE initial article or content-piece to start out with…

You’ll see momentarily why there’s not a single dose of hype in that statement.

Better yet -it’s ACTUALLY passive. It’s not a “job”. You set it up once, and it’s done in such a way that your members are never waiting on you to “create more stuff” on a monthly basis.

The way it’s set up also lends itself to retain subscribers more effectively than with traditional membership sites. (You’ll see why shortly)

It’s been pioneered by someone who I admire and trust, and someone who’s had a few of the most successful traditional membership sites in the marketing niche, as well as other niches: Jimmy D Brown

Perhaps the best part of all is that you don’t need to buy anything to see what this strategy is. Jimmy writes salesletters just like I do  – we both provide a lot of free, actionable content directly on the sales pitch – because we know that people are done with “hype”.

It’s called “Membernaire”.

Find out why I’ve been up all night with torrents of ideas flowing through my lazy head – go to http://www.thelazymarketer.com/membernaire/ and check out the ULTIMATE, lazy and incredibly profitable approach to launching a full-scale membership income FAST.

Again, you don’t even need to join his site to see how this works – it’s described in full detail right here, and the site is a “live example” of the tactic as well.

This totally eliminates the traditional barrier to entry for creating a membership site, and if you’ve been wanting to take the membership site route anyway – then definitely check this out.

You might be a lot closer than you think to getting that idea off the ground…

Enjoy!

-Chris

P.S. These types of “membernaire” sites are a perfect upsell for feeder products (re: Part 5 & 6 in my ebook), with a much easier way to increase lifetime client value than trying to sell a big-ticket product.

Also, affiliates go crazy over promoting products/services with recurring commissions. That’s because psychologically, the prospect sees the monthly price point as a SINGULAR consideration. $19/mth is just “$19.00″.

And so as long as the value is there – this is an easy way to exponentially multiply visitor value with the same conversions, relatively. Again, if this interests you, check out Jimmy’s strategy right here: http://www.thelazymarketer.com/membernaire/

LV is designed to give its members a substantial & competitive advantage in any reasonably “reachable” market (in terms of organic SEO) because it provides you with the ability to obtain an unlimited number of one-way, non-reciprocal links to your site.

And more specifically – to any page of your site, and with any anchor-text and article context you want.

At first glance, it might seem like a confusing (and pricey) alternative to manual linking campaigns. However, there’s a reason why I jumped on board the moment I saw it go live.

(But that said - it’s definitely not for everyone.)

It’s designed specifically for people who already know how Google ranks sites according to search keywords & keyphrases – but want to shortcut the normal amount of effort and time (and money) it takes to actually build up a substantial number of quality backlinks from a variety of different sites.

Let me explain why LinkVana provides a tremendous shortcut for marketers who understand SEO - saving us tons of time, outsourcing costs and, well - time…

What Is It?

To put it quite simply, LinkVana is cleverly designed to be a natural, inpenetrable & powerful search engine rank-booster because it basically gives you instant publishing access to post your links – with your own anchor-text, of course – to literally thousands of different established, authority blogs.

* Each blog is comprised only of unique content – more specifically, yours.

* Blogs range from a PR 2 to PR 6

* Each blog has a good amount of “domain age” – some are over 5 years old

* Each blog stands on its own two feet with a solid organic foundation of its own backlinks – every site has real authority – not just “fake PR”.

* The blog network is spread out over a vast number of different IP addresses

* Blogs are categorized according to their overall topical relevance

* The blog network is completley private. Even members of LinkVana won’t actually know the URLs that they’re receiving links from (until later when they show up on reverse inlink searches), and no one member has “linking priveledges” to the entire network – rather, they get access to an ever-expanding “cluster” of sites within the network.

This is smart, because it creates an un-traceable environment with NO footprint. This means that your links won’t be discounted and that your sites aren’t at risk (more on that below…)

How Does it Work, Exactly?

LinkVana basically gives you a centralized “mini-article” submission panel, where each 200 word “mini-article” you submit will get published on a blog related to that topic – including a one-way link to your site, with your desired landing URL and anchor text.

If you submit 1 “snippet”, you get one link.

If you submit 500 “snippets”, you get 500 one-way links -spread across a variety of domains, C-classes, IP addresses, and so on and so forth.

If you submit 5,000 “snippets” – well, you get the picture…

Now – a major key here to making this work is making the links build naturally – gradually. And this is exactly what LinkVana does. It automatically creates a schedule for your posts so that they’re published on an on-going basis – rather than “suddenly”, all at once.

(This feature is really what sold me on it…)

From my own tests, I’ve come to see that Google reacts WAY more quickly to links that build up over time.

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Side Note: Article submissions, freeware/shareware submissions, directory submissions and any other kind of “mass, instant” linking campaign is going to have a very delayed effect – if any at all. In fact, I’ve actually had sites drop out of the index for a few weeks due to adding too many links too quickly.

In time, the rankings are restored – and often strenghtened – but it’s a gamble in comparison to building a “sure thing” presence in the SE’s as fast as possible by obtaining links that get built over a gradual time-period.

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All posts submitted are manually audited by a human to ensure quality, unique content is the only thing that ever gets published on any blog within the network. This means that some idiot can’t just “spin” 600 versions of the same thing and expect for that to fly – it won’t.

Similarly, link-spamming will be strictly enforced as a violation. Anyone caught stuffing their posts chock-full of links will be warned, and if they re-offend, they’re outta there. It’s obvious that having a quality network with content that will actually be useful to the blog’s actual visitors is important to LV – impressive.

And finally – crap sites won’t be allowed links from the LV blog network. This includes blackhat sites, cloaked content, scraped articles, and the like. Only real sites with actual value for the visitor can benefit from LV.

Don’t Feel Like Writing Hundreds of Blog Posts?

LinkVana has it’s own built-in outsourcing panel, where if you don’t feel like writing and submitting the posts yourself, you can have LV’s staff of writers create the content FOR you, for $2 per post. It’s very easy to assign projects, and unlike requesting articles, etc – all you need to do is select is click two buttons, which will make sense once you see Dave’s tutorial videos after signup

$2 per permanent, one-way link. OR, obviously, free one-way links if you create the posts yourself, included with your membership.

What’s the Value Here? Is It Worth the Monthly Price-Tag?

The end result from using LinkVana is that in a few months - if you’ve done your keyword research, and if you’ve established enough links with the right anchor texts - Google, MSN and Yahoo will be sending you a ton of business, for free.

That’s the main thing.

But the REAL VALUE here – at least as I see it – is that LinkVana ensures that your link building efforts aren’t wasted, that’s the value…

Yes, you can write articles on your own – but who’s to say they’ll actually get published anywhere other than the article directories? – and articles take WAY longer to write. You can build 10 one-way backlinks with LinkVana in the time it takes you to write and submit one article to EzineArticles (or your preferred submission service). 

And again – unlike article submissions – the text links build naturally, the links are contained within the article – and the links are posted with your exact anchor text specifications.

Just think about how hard it would be to get 10 quality sites to link to you – with your desired anchor text – on a daily basis. That would basically be impossible, unless you were buying links, or outlaying some serious capital on capable freelancers.

If you’ve had experience with doing SEO the hard way – then you’ll have already “seen the light”.

Now, the other major benefit with LV is that you can develop an unlimited number of one-way links to your own sites, without having to link to anyone, take part in a 3-way exchange or doing ANYTHING to your current site, whatsoever.

If you need to get 1,000 one-way links (over-time) to secure a top-ranking for the most profitable keyword in your niche – you can do it. 10 posts a day for 3 and a half months is all it would take to accomplish that. And you could either outsource that, or hire someone for the project specifically, etc.

Take a moment to really think about what that means in terms of long-term traffic for almost any keyphrase you want to dominate.

Finally, the other thing that I really appreciate about LinkVana is that your control panel is built smart. You can add an unlimited number of projects (usually a “project” is a virtual workspace for a domain of yours), each with its own link URLs and corresponding anchor texts, which can then be instantly inserted into a blog post that you’re creating – or simply “outsourced” at the click of a button – literally.

I’m already implementing LV into my daily marketing itinerary – I’m genuinely excited about this, because I know how much my SE rankings mean for my wallet!

Some Considerations and Potential Pitfalls 

My review has basically been nothing but roses so far, but there are a few things that you need to think about or at least take into consideration before pulling the trigger.

While I trust Dave based on the instant wave of positive feedback I watched him receive from people I respect when he first launched the service – no system is perfect. Especially not new ones.

LinkVana is, by its own design incredibly secure and effective.

HOWEVER – as always, the one thing that always fails whenever a perfect system is involved is the people.

The long-term success and value of LinkVana will ultimately depend on the people behind the scenes who make the wheels turn. This includes the management, content moderators and the writing staff. As much as you’re investing in links and SE rankings with LinkVana – you’re also investing in the people behind it.

And this can be a great thing – and likely is – but it’s the people that can, at times, potentially ruin everything.

Even a perfect system.

This is just something that you need to be aware of and consider so that you’re not making a purchase without first thinking sensibly about the risks associated with the investment.

So – with that in mind, let’s take a look at the breakdown of the service:

LinkVana in a Nutshell

Pros:

* Legitimately create unlimited one-way backlinks to any URL, and with your desired anchor-text

* Links are published on actual authority sites (with pagerank)

* Postings are automatically “stagger-scheduled” to ensure that your links grow naturally and gradually

* No code required for your own site – you don’t need to take part in any kind of link exchange

* Guaranteed link-placements

* Secure blog network with NO traceable footprint or crappy (or dupe) content

* Built-in Outsourcing option for truly “hands-off” link-building

Cons:

* Not for SEO beginners – you need to understand keyword targeting, etc. before you attempt to use LinkVana

* Still requires “work” to some degree. Unlike 3WayLinks, where you just “plug in” and get links – but at the expense of having to provide links to other sites, along with potentially being penalized if a footprint is recognizable within the network. (So it’s more of a security-feature than a “con”)

* Price may be an issue for some – especially those who are just starting out in the organic world of SE traffic

The Final Verdict:

The final verdict is that if you understand the basics of SEO – you’ll have reached your own verdict already about LinkVana if you’ve read this article fully.

It’s a HUGE time-saver, to say the least.

And in comparison to buying one-way links on an individual basis, the price is hardly even a factor. Many webmasters are literally shelling out 4 to 5 figures a month just to maintain their collection of PR 6, 7 & 8 link spots (or whatever). Take a look at any major “link marketplace” if you need to verify that.

So the value is incredible – for those who understand why it’s valuable.

Bottom Line: If this article made sense to you – then I strongly recommend LinkVana for generating easy, “point and shoot” rankings for your site.

But if you don’t “get it” – then don’t get a membership just yet. Focus on the free linking methods for the moment until you have your own experience, tests and traffic results to rely on as a foundation of SEO knowledge on which to base this kind of decision.

LinkVana is currently in pre-launch.

The price jumps up by an extra $50/mth when the pre-launch is over, so if you’re going to try it out – do so “sooner than later”…

LinkVana – Pure Bliss For Lazy SEO Geeks Like Me >>