None. Once you've taken a few minutes to set up your PayPal subscription payment and enter your link choices, your work is effectively done. All the time-consuming design, posting, site & server management, copywriting, search-engine crawling, commenting and profile-creation is down to the team of specialists at our end. We take care of all the on-going work and maintenance.

The whole idea of this system is to provide a steady stream of on-going links to your site(s) for SEO purposes - without any effort on your part. Then you're free to take care of your business, rather than the link-building.

We've been providing SEO, I.T. and E-Commerce services since 2004. Our systems were purpose-built around 3 years ago so we could automate many of our SEO requirements: both for us and for our clients. During that time we've successfully used this system to drive countless thousands of keyword phrases up the natural rankings in Google, Bing, Yahoo and others.

Do I Need To Upload And Install Any Software On My Website?

No, there's absolutely nothing to upload and install onto your site. Many other systems require this; we don't. Our system leaves a zero-footprint on your site(s).

How Do I Subscribe?

Click on the 'Join Now' button/tab on any page and you'll be directed to PayPal - where you can fill in the required subscription details. You'll then be directed back to our site, where you can choose a login name & password. You'll get subscription confirmation emails from PayPal and an account confirmation email from us.

Then, it's simply a case of entering the 'Members Area' to input and update your chosen back-link combinations.

Each month you'll also get an email from PayPal when the payment is made. It's best to file these emails as a receipt of each payment made.

How Do I Submit My Back-Links To The System?

To submit the URL's and keywords that you wish to drive traffic to, click on the 'Members Area' tab at the top right of any page on our website and enter your user login name & password. If you've lost your login details (shame on you!) then click on the 'Click HERE to recover a lost username and password' link under the login button. This will ask for one of your registered email addresses (one should always be your PayPal email address) and then send you an email with all your details.

Enter the keyword phrases & URL's (web page/site addresses) that you've chosen to build rankings for into our simple form. Help and advice on how to pick these is provided there and throughout this site. Each entry also provides a 'test' hyperlink so you can make sure it is working correctly. ALWAYS use this to test the link.

Because of the size and 'inertia' of our system, it can take a little time for your individual changes and updates to make it through the system and permeate out to the real world. Also, remember that even after a link has been submitted, it can sometimes take time to be accepted/approved, and then more time to get spidered and indexed by the search engines. Google also effectively adds more 'weight' to the links as they age, so they'll offer more power over time.

Does The System Allow Me To Change Where I Point My Links?

Yes it does, but we ask you to change infrequently, as the whole point is to build on-going and steady numbers of links to specific places and allow them to age. It's all about 'link-velocity'; and creating a stable and highly diverse one. You'll be given as much time as you need to choose your combinations once you've joined. See the SEO Basics page for background and advice on how to select your pages and keywords. Frequent changes will dilute your effectiveness, as historically generated back-links cannot be altered. A good campaign should cycle phrases over time though to avoid over-optimisation.

It's also worthwhile building web 2.0 properties (high authority social sites such as Squidoo, Hub-Pages, Tumblr, Facebook, MySpace, Wordpress blogs etc.) and sending a portion of your links to these. Obviously, these should direct-link to your key web-pages. You'll get better SEO results if you use some of your links for indirect and pass-through linking such as this - as you effectively leech 'trust-rank' from these sites. It's also an excellent way of reducing the volume of direct-linking to newer sites, which can help with ranking 'bounce'.

SEO strategy is covered in more depth on the SEO Basics page. There is also a wealth of free information available on the internet around this subject.

Can I Drive More Than One Of My Link 'Slots' To The Same Page?

Yes, you can. With each monthly subscription you'll have up to 20 'slots' (URL and keyword combinations.) All of them could be directed to the same page (NOT generally a good idea though!) or to many different landing pages or sites.

You could have 2 slots with the same URL and different keyword/anchor phrases. It's important to build variety into keyword phrases; having them all the same looks highly unnatural to the search engines. It's wise to use 3-5 similar phrases over time that support and complement each other - and also provide variety.

For example: 'weight loss dieting story', 'weight loss diet stories' & 'dieting stories for weight loss'. Each contains the main contextually significant words, but with minor variations. If you imagine how 100 different web-masters would link to your site, then you'd see that they'd use many different phrases for the hyperlink connecting to your site/page. This is what the search-engines expect to see when linking is natural.

You can also have multiple slots for 1 URL to change the 'weighting' of the submissions. For example; if you used 16 slots in total and 4 of them were to the same URL, then 25% of your slots have that URL, so 25% of your links will be built on that URL. (Each of those 4 slots could also have different keyword sets if you wish.) As opposed to if you used 16 different URL's, which would mean each URL would receive 1/16th of the total links.

We have a 'Naturalisation' option that massively helps with avoiding over-optimisation of anchor phrases. There's more on this feature on the SEO Basics page.

Is This A Legitimate Method Of Building Back-Links?

Yes, of course it is, this is all legitimate commercial Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and fully Google, Yahoo & Bing/MSN legal - so completely within all the rules. You can be confident that you're dealing with a professional E-Commerce company and not doing anything that would be considered wrong in any way.

Can This System Put My Site At Risk In Any Way?

Absolutely not. Our system is completely self-contained - and is not connected to your sites in any way. If something happened and the search engines were to penalise one of the sites we submit to in some way, this would have no effect on our subscribers (apart from the possible loss of a small percentage of inbound links to your site. That is the 'worst case' scenario.)

The search engines can only penalise a site that links OUT to a 'black-listed' site. They will never penalise a site for inbound links - that would be commercially impossible to implement - as you have no control over who links to you!

If you think about it, this would also make it easy to dominate page 1 of any search engine - by simply black-listing all your competitors by link-spamming them. To avoid this exact kind of problem, the search engines will simply ignore any links to your site from sites that they have de-listed. However, if you linked out to a site that was black-listed, then the search engines may feel that you are promoting them and therefore penalise you. This is why our system is one of the safest to adopt - as it has no footprint/code or functionality that runs on/from your site. It is completely external and provides multi-tiered one-way inbound links to your site only.

One of the big advantages of using any automated form of background link-building is that it creates constant 'link-noise' - a 'drip, drip, drip...' of inbound links. Since consistency is one of the most important factors for effective SEO, it's unwise to have large swings in link volume production. Automated production gives you a much wider 'band' to move around in - and establishes your site as one that attracts constant interest.

One way many people fail in SEO is they only do a little bit of link production, and then do a major 'push' to get lots of links. This gives them a short-term jump in rankings - and then it dwindles or even ends up in a worse position than before. This is mostly due to a lack of consistency, although Google has the infamous 'sand-box' effect when sites are less than 6 old - and they also have 'honeymoon' periods to allow for high-ranking news items that quickly disappear.

What Are The Rules In Terms Of Who Can Use This System? (Our Ethical Policy)

We have strict rules on WHO can join the system, as we will not allow its integrity to be compromised and affect all our hard work. We will refuse any sites that engage in the following: Pornography, gambling/casino's, viagra/pharmacy sales, or any unethical practices.

Our staff will hand-check EVERY page that we are provided to link to. If any page is found to contain or be part of a site that promotes these areas (or anything obviously illegal) then your site will not be approved for inclusion. If you have no other sites that are suitable then we will cancel your membership. If you're really concerned about your site, email us with the URL's and we'll let you know. Don't worry though, we DO have a sense of humour, we're not trying to censor anything - we just need to make sure that everything we include doesn't 'cross the line' (in terms of linking and system integrity) and affect everyone else. Our Directors discretion will be full and final.

What Restrictions Are There On Where A Link Can Point?

We want clients to be able to link to any of their content on the web. If you want to build back-links to one of your Squidoo lenses or hub-pages that points at your main sites/pages, you can do - in fact, we recommend it. If you'd like them to go to one of your Tumblr blogs or an 'E-Zine article' - you can do that too.

This process of linking through Web 2.0 sites should be a part of everyone's SEO strategy, as it not only passes link authority for your keywords, but also leeches 'trust rank' from these High PR sites to add extra power to your links. Flexibility is the name of the game.

As long as you meet our Ethical Policy guidelines, then the sky is the limit.

How Does It All Work?

We have access to a massive network of public article directories, blogs and general information sites - growing by tens of thousands of new pages every month, and spread across thousands of different IP addresses.

We clean and update this site-list daily, removing sites that aren't performing - and adding new ones to keep it fresh.

You will receive around 1,000 content link submissions each and every month. Our writers create masses of original content, and then use our own proprietary re-authoring technology to turn this into thousands of unique pages. Each page submission has only 2-3 back-links embedded into it. Yours will be one of the back-links, and the other(s) will belong to another Backlink Banzai member or one of our corporate SEO clients.

Our technology then goes to work to assist in crawling & spidering these new pages. This 2nd stage is SO important - and ignored by many e-marketers. Without it, often 70-90% of your links won't even be discovered by the search engines.

After 2-3 weeks, we then compile a 'live' list of the top 100 indexed content pages in Google, because these are the strongest links to be used for the 3rd stage. And then the system kicks into over-drive...

Over the next 2-4 weeks we build, (and slowly force search engine crawling/spidering) over 1,000 'blog comment' links and 1,000 'profile' links (on web 2.0 properties and forums.) All of these are pointed at the 100 content pages, (thus creating around 10 comment and 10 profile links to each page.) Again, we use our 'crawling' technologies to ensure that these are slowly found over a few weeks by the search engines - so it doesn't look unnatural or too quick.

So now you've got another 2k links, in a second 'tier', massively 'juicing-up' the link power of the initial content submissions... We've just created a gigantic '2-tier link-wheel'; and we do this EVERY MONTH.

You can divide your back-links up across multiple sites/pages or anchor text combinations. i.e. If you had four sites to promote, you could choose a few pages on each and give some of them multiple keyword phrases.

If this sounds confusing, don't worry - we have a simple SEO Basics tutorial which explains this (as well as some SEO theory & strategy) in more depth HERE. We show you exactly how to go about picking the best combinations. It's really a lot simpler than it seems at first!

For more information on our system (and comparisons to other methods) please click on the More Info tab.

Why Should I Stay With This Link-Building System?

Every month, you'll get the benefit of thousands of new links created for your sites, and as long as you stay in, this will keep on increasing.

Remember, we designed this system for our own use (we just stuck a 'pretty' front-end on it for clients,) so it will be continually expanded upon, improved and diversified for our own needs - you can just enjoy the ride!

And don't forget that to ensure system integrity, and keep the loading at a comfortable level, we have to control the number of members we allow into the system. Since many positions are permanently reserved for us and our business clients, we only have room for a certain number of subscribers.

Once the system reaches its capacity - we will have to close new registrations.

The real key to success and longevity of ranking (and thus visitors to your website) is a continual and consistent growth of diverse back-links. Adding in various Web 2.0 properties (that direct-link to your main sites/pages) will further increase the effectiveness of the program. By 'Web 2.0' properties we mean high authority social sites such as Squidoo, Hub-Pages, Tumblr, Facebook, MySpace, Wordpress blogs etc. Pointing your links at a page created in one of these areas, and then pointing the links from that page to your website, (called 'pass-through' linking,) has enormous benefits for SEO, because you 'borrow' trust-rank from these sites - which further boosts the effectiveness of your links.

What's The Catch?

There isn't one... But please don't expect instant results. SEO is not a quick-fix - but a mid-term 'proper' fix. That's one of the reasons why we've kept the price low - this is something that can just sit in the background and be forgotten about. Your back-links (and consequently your presence on the web) will build solidly and progressively over the months/years.

You should also use as many other diverse methods as you are able to afford and manage. All the main back-link building methods are covered on the 'More Info' page.

Most systems that come close to providing our level of service charge at least double the price. And most also require you to produce time-consuming content.

If anything, since the Google Panda Updates of 2011, the 'catch' is on your side; is your site 'worthy' of ranking?

Back-link building is not a cover-up or solution for a low quality site. If you promote low-quality sites with minimal content, then don't expect back-link building to catapult you to success...

Regular, high quality and original content is what the search engines love. They hate 'thin' sites and web-pages that offer no real value to the searcher. You need to ask yourself, if you landed on one of your pages, would you feel cheated or let down? Or would you feel that you'd actually found information of value? And be honest with yourself! If you'd turn away and look elsewhere, why do you think any of your visitors would do any different, let alone the search engines?

If you take time to provide good quality information, in a simple to access fashion, then visitors will love you for it... and most of the time, so will Google etc. And that's where proper SEO and back-linking practices come in. Back-linking is like a new coat of paint for a metal pole; if it's rusty and falling apart, it will yield a poor quality finish - and flake away quickly. However, if it's clean, shiny and well maintained, a good coat of paint will last a long time!

Can I Get A List Of The Sites Where My Links Come From?

We do not and cannot provide a list of site links. Tracking these is an enormously time-consuming task, and so we'd rather utilise our resources on building and crawling new back-links. The primary objective of a system of this nature is to raise your website in the search engines via scaled outbound link-building, not to attract traffic which is then diverted to your site via the links (although this may happen from time to time).

Most link-tracking tools that you could use will show many of these pages over time. They are all standard public web-pages. You should also receive ping/track-backs over time, if you're using a WordPress site.

When we first started, we DID provide some lists, but ended up with huge problems with members spamming and mass-pinging the pages that had been built - to try and increase their rankings and get them indexed quickly. This ends up damaging the site in question and often kills their server, meaning loss of sites. Protecting the networks of sites that allow us to distribute our content to is our utmost concern, and should be yours too; that's where your rankings come from!

At the end of the day, this may not suit everybody; we really do understand that. But please also realise that we, like many other systems in the SEO industry, simply cannot provide these lists to you; we have to protect the sites and system above all else. If you simply must have this facility, then you'd need to look for an alternate system.

How Do I Know For Certain That My Links Are Building Each Month?

Unfortunately, this is the nature of the beast when it comes to SEO and the internet. We have literally millions of individual pages that we've never visited, that contain links to the nearly 50,000 pages in our personal business & sales network. We know they're out there benefiting us because of the continuing growth and increased rankings in the natural search listings. We also have in-house software which monitors the system and gives us feedback and certain stats. The search engines will also 'spider' and index those pages at varying speeds, and no-one has any control over this.

It's a bit like going to the gym really - you know you're doing the right thing, but it takes time for the results to become visible. What you'll see is the effect of the back-links driving you up the search listings for the search terms you've specified. And don't forget to be checking in Bing/Yahoo too - everyone needs to get out of the 'Google Only' habit!

What Tools & Link Building Methods Do You Use?

We sometimes get asked about the tools and methods we use. But we simply can't discuss these, for obvious reasons. Much of the software and the key distribution systems we use are in-house bespoke technology, but we also use just about every main SEO tool on the public market.

You need to understand that a tool is just that; a piece of software to do a job. What really matters is the strategy with which you use and guide that tool. The best software used incorrectly will yield awful results; whereas some very simple software, if used in a completely optimised way can generate staggering results. It's not about the software systems, (although these are important to us to be able to cope with the 'scale' that we do,) it's all about correct SEO strategy and implementation, via whatever tools most closely fit that job in question. Years and years of front-line experience, coupled with massive-scale empirical testing are what sets us apart.

For the average person to try and recreate what we do would require huge resources, years of experience, and a lot of personal time. The whole point of this system is for it to be 'hands off' for you, the member; so you can concentrate on what's important; your sites and developing your business.

Are All My Links Submitted As Part Of Proper, Original/Unique Content?

We buy large quantities of content from many different providers, and also use our own in-house writers as well. We then utilise our own proprietary parsing technology to reconstruct and 'spin' it into thousands of different versions. We’ve never had any problems producing original content; and we push out millions of submissions per year.

All of your main content link submissions are embedded into proper and unique 450-700 word 'articles' using correct English. (All our writers and content providers are native English speaking.) And, as stated above, we only ever include 2-3 links in any content submission.

What About Content-Theme or Topic-Relevant Content?

Some SEO practitioners make a very big deal out of content-relevancy. Our years of testing agree with most of the SEO Experts - it's not strictly necessary. 'All links are good links' (well, nearly all) is a phrase that you should remember. The whole myth of getting links from only pages with 'relevant' content and the use of LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) has been over-discussed so many times as to be stupid - but new people to the game still get sucked in. Just for clarity... How on earth could any search engine write an artificial intelligence routine that 'understands' what a page is about - enough to determine what is 'relevant'. If you look at a simple phrase, for example 'fresh bread', how would you decide if it was relevant on a page about 'French Cooking' or '18th Century Baking Practices'? It's an enormously complex A.I./language problem - often used in Universities as a study topic.

The amount of computational power required to actually implement true LSI on just a few million pages would bog-down the most powerful computers. And this increases exponentially, not linearly, with the size of the page database. Google is estimated to index around a trillion pages now - so it's quite simply impossible for this to take place. (They're desperately trying to find ways to reduce the computational power required - not increase it - because of the growth of the internet.)

We cannot, of course, use 'relevant' content to every URL; this would be simply impossible, and also not advisable. We use original and highly mixed content and place ‘in-content’ links. But it would be impossible to submit thousands of articles across 20 different URL's for each subscriber account (thus maintaining a wide submission footprint) while retaining content-relevancy to all those URLs/Anchors.

...And actually; this ISN’T what you want. Contrary to popular SEO myth, content relevancy is largely... ‘irrelevant’!

Some of the best links and juice we’ve ever had have been from completely irrelevant (thematically) sites. It looks highly unnatural for example to have thousands of links from weight loss articles/sites all pointing with weight loss keywords to another weight loss site (it’s the sign of obvious manipulation.)

The litmus test with SEO is always to stop and think what would the system look like if it all happened completely naturally, and you didn't do anything to increase your back-links? Well, for one thing, you'd have incredibly varied links coming from widely diverse sites, themes and content, and the anchor text would be constantly changing. It certainly wouldn't match up with what you'd personally build. And that's where our expertise comes in; there's a fine line between building content and links that combine diversity with ranking power, and over-optimising your pages right out of the organic listings.

The bottom line is, since the Panda updates of 2011, you want as wide a net of links and content as possible; in EVERY sense. Diversity in anchors, IP and site/platform, as well as content and submission timing. Any real SEO (and by this, we mean someone who has and continues to do extensive testing and measuring of empirical data,) will tell you that the ‘mix’ is FAR more important than anything else. The truth is, you just can't predict how the SE's algorithms will affect a link - and they're always changing if you did. So... Keep it simple, and understand it's down to an expanding range of 'aged' diverse links with a consistent growth pattern.

What Is The Page-Rank (PR) Of The Sites You Submit To?

We occasionally get asked this question by some marketers, but it indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the back-link building concept. The Google PR of the sites is anywhere between 0-5, with obviously vastly more at the lower-end than at the top. But this is completely irrelevant... You need to understand that Backlink Banzai is a system designed to create volumes of links for building link-authority, not trust-rank.

Most marketers will actually find that a few hundred in-bound links from ANY pages will give them a high ranking for a well-chosen keyword phrase. You build trust-rank and site-authority by using pass-through linking from the Web 2.0 properties we've discussed.

Other ways include adding a very large number of original pages to your site (we're talking tens of thousands) to try and self-create authority-rank, or to buy/rent a few specific high-PR inbound links. A single Google-PR8 link will normally cost around $1,500 per year - so it's not cheap - and we've been burned several times. And really, if you're going after phrases that require very high PR inbound links, then our system is only going to be one small part of your arsenal.

Don't get hung-up on Google Page-Rank; enough SEO professionals have explained time and time again, that this is NOT a particularly useful or relevant metric to link-building. Concentrate on building a steady and consistent volume of in-bound permanent links with the correct (and highly varied) anchor-text, and you'll get the results you're looking for.

Page Rank is fast becoming out-dated in terms of SEO use, and Google themselves state that it doesn't reflect in organic rankings for keyword phrases. Factors like on-page keyword optimisation, overall in-bound links to a site, in-bound links to a page and page-title/headers play a far more important role in most pages organic ranking than 'Page Rank' does.

Will Your System Create A Footprint On My Site?

No, it won't. There is nothing on your site that connects you to our system in any way at all.

How Do I Cancel My Subscription?

Cancelling your subscription is very easy, and it's completely under your control at all times. Simply log in to your PayPal account, locate the subscription transaction, and cancel your subscription there.

This is one of the main reasons we use PayPal - and not typical credit/debit card processing. Have you ever tried to cancel a subscription that you've set up with a credit card? It can be enormously difficult with some companies.

We want our subscribers to know that THEY have the power to control their payments. PayPal allow most credit/debit cards and also direct bank payments; they also allow you to update and change payment methods transparently. They're quite simply the number one on-line payment processor in the world.

Obviously, we don't want to lose your custom, but we'd rather you feel confident you're in complete financial control.

What Happens To My Links If I Cancel My Subscription?

When your subscription is cancelled, your links will remain fully active - we do not (and cannot) delete them or turn them off. However, as we add, grow and move sites into the system you will experience a drop-off - as you will not be carried forward with current subscribers. You may also experience some rank 'bounce' if you don't replace our link-building activity. Remember what we say everywhere in this site: Consistency is the key.

I Want To Ask Another Question That Isn't Covered Here...

Please feel free to email us at dojo@backlinkbanzai.com with any question you don't feel we've covered.

We'll publish all good questions and their answers here, along with any useful comments from our members. (Many of the above FAQ's have grown from questions we've been asked by our subscribers over the last 4 years.)

PLEASE make sure you've read through this site first though - there is an awful lot of information here. And if we had a dollar for every time we've been asked the same question that has been explained in depth already...

Only $67 per month

1,000 new content link submissions
automatically done for you each & every month
- so you can promote up to 20 different pages or
sites, each via its own specific keyword phrase.

1,000 comment & 1,000 profile links
automatically built for you each & every month,
pointing at the top 100 content links to form a 2nd tier 'link-wheel' powered-up SEO structure.

How Much Of My Time Will This Take?