by Mike on February 7, 2010
The best part about having an IM Advantage membership, is access to Blog Blueprint. I’ve been using it for the past couple of weeks, and it is dead simple to use and the results have been fantastic. For those who haven’t read about it yet, Blog Blueprint is a web based link building tool. It essentially allows you to submit your own blog posts into the system, and once it’s approved, it will get randomly posted to one of many available PR2-PR5 blogs on the network. Posts have to be a minimum of 100 words in length and you can include 1 link per post.
I hope you can see from my description how powerful this is. In my experience, having a highly relevant link in the body of a blog post is quite a bit more powerful then some random link on the sidebar or footer of a page, which is normally what you get with Link Blueprint. With Blog Blueprint, you have control over the article itself so you can make sure that it is highly relevant to the site you are linking to. The 100 word minimum is actually pretty easy to meet, and you can usually churn out small blurbs in less than 5 minutes each.
When you log into your Blog Blueprint account you’ll see a list of your posted articles. Your articles can be in one of four states: pending, approved, published, or disapproved. There is someone who does actually look at the posts you submit to maintain quality of the network which is a good thing. Just don’t post any adult or gambling topics and you should be ok. Articles get approved several times throughout the day (even on weekends), so you never have to wait too long to get your links posted. One downside of the system is that you are currently limited to 10 published posts per day. However, you can input as many articles you want into Blog Blueprint and they will be automatically drip posted for you.
A strategy I’ve been using with Blog Blueprint is to maintain a set of short 100 word articles centered around the sites I’m working on building links for. I spin these articles using an article rewriter like Magic Article Rewriter or The Best Spinner. Then whenever I want to write a post, I’ll spin a version of a relevant article and tack on a short three sentence paragraph to the end of it that includes my link. In this way, I can generate several relevant links to my sites in a matter of minutes.
So, does Blog Blueprint work? We’ll if you’re reading this post then you can be sure it does since I’m using it on this site. One thing I can definitely say is that once your post gets published by the system, it gets indexed by Google incredibly fast. While it’s probably not enough to make Blog Blueprint the only part of your link building process, I think it should be an essential piece of it. If you are an IM Advantage member, check it out for yourself, and let me know in the comments what you think of it.
by Mike on January 29, 2010
The IM Advantage is a membership course run by Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey. Yeah, those same guys who are the masterminds behind Commission Blueprint and Niche Blueprint. As far as internet marketing gurus go, Steve and Tim are two of the best. All their products provide great value and they always try to overdeliver. Check out the comments about them on the various IM forums, and you will rarely hear a bad thing said about them.
I’ve been lucky enough to be a member of The IM Advantage since September, as part of a bonus package I received for purchasing Commission Blueprint 2.0. The training and tools are unsurpassed, and I can’t tell you guys how much the membership has jump-started my online business. For us lucky members, the IM Advantage has sort of been underpromoted as Steve and Tim have been focused on the Commission Blueprint 2 and Niche Blueprint 2 launches. But that’s about to change, as I just got an email from Tim himself announcing future plans and a new pricing structure for the membership. Since all these changes are coming, I decided to share with you guys my own IM Advantage review.
So what do you get as a member of The IM Advantage?
Backlink Database – This is Steve and Tim’s own personal database of sites that they are building backlinks on. Each of the links has good PR and is dofollow, so you know that you are getting the maximum link juice from your efforts. Each month, they aim to add 200-300 new domains to the list, as well as clean up any existing links that are no longer good. As of today, they have over 997 domains with a page rank of 4 or more. This database can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet and it’s a wonderful resource for building links.
Tools – This is where you’ll get the most value from The IM Advantage. I’ll go into more detail on the tools in a separate post, but as part of your membership get access to some of the same tools that are part of CB 2.0 or NB 2.0 including Keyword Blueprint, Link Blueprint, Article Blueprint, and Authority Hub Finder. Exclusive to The IM Advantage though is Blog Blueprint allows you to submit blog posts and have them posted on Steve and Tim’s personal network of PR2-PR5 blogs. Think Linkvana, but much more affordable and useful. Also being promised in February is an automated social bookmarking tool which will integegrate with some of the other tools. Definitely can’t wait to use that!
Complete Courses – Some of Steve and Tim’s old IM courses like SEM Business Blueprint and Commission Blueprint 1.0 are available in their entirety on the site. Plus they have a couple of courses created by Ben Schaffer which are actually very good as well. Sure, some of this stuff is a little old, but there’s still valuable tidbits to be learned if you take the time to go through them.
Training – There’s quite a bit of exclusive video training on the site. You’ll find topics discussing SEO, link wheels, flipping websites, email marketing, pay per click, CPA marketing, landing page design and much more. There’s a wealth of knowledge in here and I hope you will take the time to consume it all.
Templates – Here you’ll find tons of templates that you can use for your own sites. These include CPA templates for marketing CPA offers, email auto responder series templates, a template for creating adsense sites and much more. If you aren’t a designer yourself, and just want to get started, you can use these templates to get up and running really quickly.
There’s quite of stuff I left out in this quick IM Advantage review. But there’s just so much content on the site and I wanted to highlight some of the favorite things I’m using. In future posts, I’ll go into more detail into some of the tools, as I know many of my readers are interested in them. The IM Advantage comes with a 60 day money back guarantee, so I encourage you guys to take advantage and see if you can use the membership to kickstart your business. I know it’s helped me a lot, so definitely check it out.
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