I started using Blog Blueprint on March 24, 2010. I wanted to try it out on 3 of my newest websites at the time. At the time these websites were all over the map. Some were indexed and some were not. I would say that initially when I had a site first rank they almost always land on position #11 until I can start back linking.
Here are the beginning stats:
Testing site: #100
Back Links at present: 0,3
Currrent Rank: Not even indexed (8 days old WTH???), after it was finally indexed it was at #12 and today it is #9
Blog posts on BB linking back to main webpage url: 6, today only 2 indexed
PR of blogs posted on: 2 posts on PR-
Testing site: #101
Back Links at present: 1 (Mister-wong), 4
Currrent Rank: #16 and 6 days old, #19
Blog posts on BB linking back to main webpage url: 3, today only 1 is indexed and showing up in YSE
PR of blogs posted on: 1 post on PR-
Testing site: #102
Back Links at present: 1 (Mister-wong), 9
Currrent Rank: sandboxed
and 6 days old, #6
Blog posts on BB linking back to main webpage url: 3, I added 20 more posts later and today 8 out of 23 total are indexed
PR of blogs posted on: 4 posts on PR- and 4 posts on PR3
Pros:
- Your posts get indexed within 4-7 days
- Its cheaper than Linkvana
- You can spin your blog posts which saves you time and money
- No limit on how long your keywords can be. Unlike some sites that won’t allow any more then 3 word phrases
- You have the chance for at least half of your posts to land on blogs with high PR
Cons:
- Limited to only 20 posts per day
- If you forget to get some posts qued up, your posts do not “roll over” onto another day. You still only get the 20 per day limit
- Poor communication from the creators. There was a bug in the system two weeks ago where 1 single post in someone’s que held up many posts from being posted that particular day. The creators did not send out any sort of email announcing this issue or to reassure members that all would be taken care of. Instead many people had to fire email complaints asking what happened
- Again, poor communication from the creators. There was a period of two days where my blog posts were placed on blogs that gave the error of “account suspended”. Apparently they were moving servers but failed to mass email notify us members of any issues
Final verdict for Blog Blueprint is that this is the best method to article market your sites. Its the quickest way to get anchored text links to your pages, pass link juice to your sites and have the back links show up within days in YSE.
Now beyond just these three sites I tested on, I typically spit out 20 posts per main webpage and 20 per inner page. Usually of those 20 posts, about half do end up on blogs with a PR of 3-4. I had even discovered that one was placed on a PR5 blog a few days ago. So BB definitely gets a thumbs up from me!
As far as rankings go, I have seen some improvement in my rankings. The past few weeks I have been focusing on back linking my last 10 sites I built since they had no back links and they are slowing moving up in rankings.
I think since this system was only 1 month old, they had a lot of tweaking to do. I would hope that in the future they would work on their communication skills. Members shouldn’t have to track them down to ask “Why are my blog posts being placed on blogs that say “account suspended”. There was no excuse for this. The creators should have notified us immediately that the blogs were being moved around and that there was nothing to worry about.
if you are interested in Blog Blueprint, you can check it out here.












Hello!
It’s cool to see this post because I just have the BB opened and plan to post some stuff in it. Just wanted to ask about your experiences – do you post 100 words posts only? Do you write posts yourself?
I’m a lazy boy so I tend to outsource everything. But 20 posts a day seems like a lot of writing and submitting… Takes time
I’ve recently started my small adsense empire building and plan to test different backlinking solutions with separate sites, to determine which one gets the most value for SEO. Like, site 1 – pure SEOLinkVine, site #2 – pure BB, site #3 – SENuke etc…site #4 – UAW …
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This is usually what I do for BB.
1.) Grab 1-2 paragraphs from a page of content already on my website.
2.) Find my keyword in my paragraphs and replace it with bbb.
3.) I go into protected terms within The Best Spinner and make sure I put “bbb” in the list there. Spin it with The Best Spinner to at least a 40% uniqueness. Sometimes higher. I create a last line under my spun post in TBS to be my title. I spin my titles too.
4.) I then hit the “Generate Spun Articles” so that it generates 100 spins for me.
5.) I create a folder that will be targeting my first keyword onto my desktop.
6.) I then use a tool called TexFinderX. It will search through a designated folder and locate your text files for whatever text words you set. So, I tell it to find all files that contain the bbb and then I set it to replace all of the bbb with Blog Blueprints URL syntax.
Voila! Oodles posts ready to be copy and pasted into BB.
Hi Sara, thanks for responding to my enquiry on BBP. I subscribed to it the last time when you blog about it. I did some test on my own. If you don’t mind I like to share some of my findings. The test sites used nothing for backlinking except for BBP and were bookmarked to the 5 major bookmark sites like Digg, reddit, etc before sending to BBP. The result of the 4 sites that I tested – 2 on 1st page. (And they got a better boast in ranking after sending them to UAW). One is on page 2. And the last site got a PR 2 but is still not in SERP. Each site I gave around 40 posts, spread across a week period. I also did another test on sites that had submitted to UAW. So far they didn’t respond much.
I have to agree with you, it’s not really set and forget. What I hate most is queuing up the posts and creating 20 different titles everyday. I also did a test on Backlink Solutions to compare with BBP. The first test site registers backlinks in YSE faster then BBP. I send 50 posts, got 28 captured in YSE in 2 weeks time.
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Thanks for sharing your results Tinman. I have been using BB for other micro niche sites, both 5+ old or just a few weeks old and have seen some rank boostings. I can’t say for certain but I just had a site hit #2 yesterday that was pretty much stuck at #11 for the past 3 months. I sent 20 BB posts to the main page about 3 weeks ago and suddenly noticed it started moving. I cannot say for certain if this was only because of adding BB posts because I did use Mayhem 2.0 on this very same site back in January and I have seen some back links trickle in each week from it.
Did you send all 40 posts to the main page? From my testing it is definitely more beneficial to send out as many back links to your main page using BB rather than just 20 here or 10 there.
Hi Sara,
Congratulation for your site which hit #2 yesterday. Yes I send all the 40 posts to my main page. But spread across a week. In some days I gave 4 posts some days 10 posts. The sites started to responded somewhere near to the seventh day. Except for the one. Another thing I am not too sure about the 20 post limit. I had ever sent more then 20 in a day and all my posts were accepted.
I read somewhere that if you are an IM Advantage member, the BBP in the membership got spinning capability. So instead of adding post to post manually, we can just need to upload the syntax doc that it. Not too sure if true.
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Nice submission tips! That TexFinderX program sounds like a real gem. I just subscribed to BBB, and I’m really interested in seeing the results. For some reason, I thought most of the blogs in the network had a PR greater than 1, but it looks like from your results that this is not the case and that there are still a lot of PR- blogs in the system. Still, getting just a few links from a PR3 blog (or higher) would be nice.
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I don’t wanna call the creators liars but I have noticed many of my posts being posted on PR- blogs. But as you even said so yourself, its worth it if even just a few can land on blogs PR3-5. I honestly never saw my articles from UAW being posted on blogs above a PR- so BB definitely has the upperhand as far as article marketing.
Sounds great, never been into blog commenting but Im convinced it is effective now – I have an old recipe site that I experimented with a few months back, only got about 60 inlinks on yahoo explorer, most of them were on other cooking blogs. The blogs i posted on were all new, but it seems that they grew in the time after i posted on them – had lots of pr2 and 3 on the list. The result? With only 50ish blog comments, my site was a pr2 at the last update and is ranking for loads of weird longtails.
Oh by the way, I have always used html sites, but just recently launched a wordpress blog and I am addicted! Im a complete newbie though, any recommendations for good sites to learn more? Particularly themes, plugins, and SEO guidance.
Hi Dan,
Blog Blueprint is not blog commenting. Think of it more as mini-article marketing. You are submitting a mini blog post (article) that is a minimum of 100 words but you can actually post a longer word length post if you want to as well.
If you are building xfactor sites on wordpress then using Clickbump’s wordpress themes are a no brainer. He designed the themes to run very smoothly and he has set it up so that each page is SEO optimized. I do recommend showing post tags both on your pages of content and in the sidebar though. This has really helped me target ads better. I have a doll furniture micro niche website and I kept getting adds for like Ethan Allen and other similar furniture ads, as soon as I set the tags to display in the posts and in the sidebar, I suddenly got the exact ads I was honing in for.
As far as plug-ins go, if you are using any other theme besides Clickbump’s, then you should install the All In One SEO pack. Also Google XML Sitemap is a good plug-in to have.
That is actually great advice as far as the sidebar tags-I utilize the post tags on my only micro niche site right now!
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Sara, that is very interesting about the tags. I wonder if the reverse would hold true for a larger site where there are more “less related” tags. Might be better to not have tags on a more varied site, but great with a micro-niche?
I have tags in the sidebar of most of my sites but I think I left it off my larger niche blog b/c it the cloud was just too big. Now I think I will look for a WP plugin that may allow some control over the tagging as I would like to have tags, but I need to slim them down and refine them.
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In case anyone else is interested:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nktagcloud/screenshots/
Haven’t tried it yet but looks promising. I also hate how the tag font sizes vary so this will fix this also.
Thanks Sara for the inspiration!
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I do use that plug-in on my diet niche blog and its fantastic! I haven’t bothered with my micro niche sites because they do not have very many tags to begin with but I just recently started adding “cheap widgets” etc to my tags since another member on John’s forum said he has had great success with reeling in more traffic by doing so.
Hi-I am new to your site, but I am wondering if you have utilized UAW?
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Hi Kelly,
I have used UAW for a few months and honestly have not had tremendous success with it. The links are really slow to show up in YSE, taking up to 2-3 months sometimes and the majority of blogs your articles get posted to are on blogs with a PR- or they are rejected by blog owners. So even though UAW may tell you 50 articles were submitted, maybe only 1-2 were accepted. The biggest problem is that I have not seen much success with long-term back links showing. What I mean is that the links may show up for 3 months or so but then one day…poof…the blogs were deleted. The only articles I saw that have some long-term back links were through some of the article directories they post to. but then at that point, you may as well just use an article submitter and do it yourself.
BB is great because they actually own all the blogs that your links are posted to so they guarantee the links will be long-term. Many of the blogs are 6 months-2 years old.
That actually sounds good-my only concern is what if there whole system is just shut down since they own it all. I am actually very interested in that though!
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Well, i don’t really fear their blog network will shut down because the blogs are registered on different hosts and they use different class IPs so it makes it so the blogs are not connected to one another. Plus, I imagine they have hundreds of users. Just imagine how much money they are earning each month if hundreds of people are all paying $57-67.00 a month? That’s enough incentive to continue buying new domains with decent PR to add back to the network.
Hi Kelly,
I would not be too concern about it. The truth is nothing is going stay as it is forever in business. Especially in the internet. What works today might not work tomorrow. We constantly need to try out new methods and tools. Read recently in WF, there is a member that are lamenting about Xfactors method, how it didn’t work and he had lost $1000 following exactly his method in the book. The thing is, how many of us here used exactly the same method Xfactor taught? Those who I know like Sara and Mikser have their own slang to it and they are successful. And I believe John might have done things very much different from what he had taught earlier on. Maybe if the chap had started Sep last year, follow exactly what Xfactor taught, it might still work.
So jump on to the bandwagon while it still work.
.-= Tinman´s last blog ..Day 33 – Getting More Backlinks To My Site =-.
Thanks Sara, and Tinman
.-= Kelly´s last blog ..Family Always Comes First – Even Before Business =-.
Thanks for sharing, this is the kind of information that we need!
I think what also makes things complicating (from various posts on this topic), that it’s important to have a diverse backlink portfolio. I tend to believe this but what immediately follows is that it becomes very hard to ‘test’ one type of backlinking since it is (partly) dependent on additional methods. What is your take on this?
At the moment I’m leaning towards blog blueprint + linkwheel + some linkjuice (recently bought some PR3-4 domains to have direct access to this, hopefully these domains will keep their rank/trust)
I do think it is essential to have an array of back link sources coming to your sites. It is more natural looking that way and if you use too many back links from one domain, Google will discount some. For example, if all your back links were from ezine only; eventually after so many back links from your ezine articles, Google just wouldn’t let the weight of those links pass onto your site. Therefore, becoming rather worthless. Unfortunately I do not know the exact number as to which Google finally says “Ok that’s enough credit from ezines now”. It could be 100 links, it could be 1,000. I’m not sure. But mixing up your back links as much as possible has a greater impact on funneling link juice to your site.
And yes, i do agree that it can be very difficult to test only one back linking structure. I know i can’t seem to have a pure test because eventually I start trying different back link methods to help boost sites.
hi there Sara. congrats on the increased income in April!
can you enlighten me on one thing..
how many average views per site you get? in one day.
Its hard to say but I think on average my top earners are getting 10-30 uniques a day.
Ya, great post Sara and thank you kindly for sharing your own data and experiences with the BB!
I don’t take the time to check up on the PR’s and what have you so its actually very useful to see that you have and that the stats are adding up rather nicely.
Sorry but did you mention anything about many of your posts that you publish in the same category going to the same IP at all? I have seen this happen recently in the Media and Entertainment category, which it has to be said is a bit concerning. Must monitor this but I would certainly appreciate your own feedback regards this!
I’m in the midst of a 40 day Warrior Forum Challenge hence lack of posting on your blog. Things are going rather nicely and Blog Blueprint is very much a part of my over-all strategy, so your own stats are even more valuable from this point of view!
Great stuff Sara!
Kind regards
Joseph
Hi Joseph,
I have not checked IPs for the blogs my posts are posted to and so far I have only seen 2 posts posted on the same day go to the same blog. I’ll look into the IP thing though. Thanks for reminding me.
Ok I just looked at the pingbacks I received from today’s submissions and so far out of the 6 posts, 2 got placed on the exact same blog but the other 4 have different IPs. They are similar but not identical IPs.
Hi Sara, thanks for getting back to me/us regards the IPs.
On one site I’m seeing 15 pingbacks – 14 of which are the same IP. Ouch!
Further monitoring to be done, I should say!
Thanks again Sara!
Regards
Joseph
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Apologies, I’m too busy for my own good! Not taking time to check more closely what I’m checking (if that makes sense?). Yup, IP’s are indeed nicely varied so I take back my comments re that.
Regards
J
.-= Joseph Archibald´s last blog ..Carving a GREAT Lifestyle from a Career in SEO =-.
I love the fact that you share your skills and reviews – and I very much appreciate your help in a number of situations so far (simply by reading your blog!). Keep it up. Happy Mother’s Day, btw!
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Thank you James!
Hi Sara,
Love the blog thank you for your efforts.How do get so many exact name keywords with over 3000 eaxct local searches. I built 2 micro niche sites, I realised my mistakes so I want to try to improve, but I have spent 4 days looking for 3-4 exact domain name keywords, but everything seems to be taken. it’s driving me nuts
Hi Paul,
I totally understand how you feel. When I first started off I felt that same exact torture as if no matter how long I researched, nothing good came my way. I finally came up with my own rules and way that i conducted research and I fine tuned it and found that it works for me every time. I share my keyword research in this post. I hope if helps you.