Well, you know I like to talk about SEO and back links. Back links are a critical part of SEO.  You also know that I am a big fan of Jon Leger and his products, incuding his 1WayLinks product. So I had an idea — how about some free backlinks for MasonWorld.com readers?
Basically, I thought people might like to take 1WayLinks for a test drive for free.
Update: 2/2/09: This offer is now closed. See Jon Leger's site to sign up for the real deal.
21 30 Free Back Links From 1WayLinks
Here is how you can get 21 free do-follow back links to any 3 URLs that you choose (7 links to each of 3 URLs).
- Link to this post from somewhere using some great anchor text like “free backlinks”. This gets me some much needed link love. Thanks! If you don't have an easy way to generate a link (like a blog), they you can digg this post instead.
- Twitter the link to this post and tell about this offer. This gets some traffic to this promotion. Thanks!
- Stumble this post. More traffic. Thanks!
- Leave me a comment on this post indicating that you intend to participate. I will confirm that you are “in”.
- Write a good article that includes 3 links to 3 pages of your choice. Use whatever anchor text that you like.  Use PLR content if you like, but do not violate copyright or plagiarize.
- Use plain text HTML only. Use anchor tags in your plain text. No fonts, no paragraph markers, etc. Just plain text, carriage returns, and anchor tags. Here is a tutorial on anchor tags if you need it.
- Email me at [email protected] proving that you have done 1-3 and include the post text. Use “free links” in the subject line.
- I will post your article to 7 blogs in the 1WayLinks Network. This will result in 7 live posts on the net, each containing 3 links for a total of 21 backlinks for you.
- Be patient. Every post on the 1WayLinks network is approved by an actual human. Network security is the top priority. It will take a few days for your posts to go live.
- I will email you with the list of backlinks. This list is confidential. You may not share the URLs with anyone ever.
- Buy 1WayLinks (if you want). If you like 1WayLinks, I respectfully request that you buy it through my affiliate link.
That's it — you get to “try” 1WayLinks for “free” and you get some backlinks. I get some traffic, backlinks and some sales commissions if you like it.
Simple. Transparent. No B.S.
Rules for this (can change without notice).
- This offer can expire without notice. I will stop offering this at some point.
- One offer per customer.
- First come, first served.
- Whatever I decide goes. I am a fair guy, so don't worry. But if I cannot post your content for some reason, the deal is off. I will explain why.
- I can change the rules whenever I want (in case I am forgetting something).
- Post, sites and links must be 100% completely non-religious and family friendly. No exceptions. 1WayLinks has very strict rules on this. No profanity, porn, religion (includes Christmas, St. Valentines Day, etc), hate, etc. They control this, not me. If you are worried about that, ask me first.
- Feel free to use PLR for your content if you like.
- Posts on legal, accounting or health topics must include a disclaimer.
- Do not put all three of your links at the bottom of the post. Mix them throughout the content naturally.
- Again, you may not reveal the location of your posts. That information is confidential. I will tell you, but you cannot tell anyone, ever.
That's all I can think of right now. Let me know if there are any questions.
Hey Mark,
Thanks for this, I saw the trackbacks coming by pretty much instantly so just need to wait for indexing now…. was fantastic…. I have twittered this post 🙂
Hi Mark, Thanks for the great offer. Will work on this today 🙂
Wow Mark, you go man! I’m in.
Let me work on this today, get a good post on my blog with links and a good article together for 1WL.
Thanks, Joe
Hi Mark,
This is definitely worth looking in to and I really like the offer of 21 free links.
I do have a question about Jon’s product. If you sign up for a few months at the monthly rate and then decide to discontinue service, do you get to keep the links you have paid for or do they go away?
Thanks
Rich Hill
Hi Mark,
This is a pretty clever offer and not that much work so I’m going to definitely give it a go. Are you going to write up how successful this offer was for you down the road? I’m very curious to see how it turns out from your end as well. Thanks, Jason
All right!! I’m up for this.
It will take me some time to come up with a nice article though.. How long is you offer is going to be live?
Cheers,
Alex
Mark,
just finished everything up and sent you the article. I’m looking forward to seeing how this works.
Thanks
Joe
Alex — you are in. Let me know when you are ready.
OK — here is the official list of people that are participating. If you are not on this list and you think that I missed you, ping me. I will update the list every day or so.
Forest
Alex (Net)
Bridgett
Joe
Joanne
Rich
Tony
CD
Gandree
Ron
Rusty
@Rich — I am almost certain that the links persist, but I need to make sure. Let me check in with Jon to get you an official answer.
I’m in 🙂
Very well done post and idea.
Roll on the marketing machine!
Hi Mark..well..since I’m getting my zip drive..and I have sites being set up using the Wonderful Adsense templates you provided….I would love the backlinks. Ill reread this again…(Remeber..Noob)…and proceed to do what is required.
May take a bit..But I’ll do it!
Thanks again
Gary
Delete trackbacks? wow I’ve always accepted them.. Thats good to know and makes sense!
Hi Mark…thanks for the offer…I’m in!!! 🙂
@Jason — Sure, I would be glad to.
@Joanne — OK — got you down!
Thanks,
Mark
Hey Mark, This is starting the New Year off right. Thanks! Consider yourself Posted, Tweeted and Stumbled. Now I just have to come up with an article that covers three diverse sites.
Question, I understand about the 2 say trackbacks. Do you have the same problem with pingbacks?
Joe — I have posted your article for review.
Mark
Mark,
I’m in but it will be a while. Got a lot of irons in the fire.
Let me just be sure. I can write a post on one site, and put links to three other sites, right?
Where do you post the articles for review that you mentioned to Joe?
Rich Hill
I sent you an email Mark.
I’m also interested in the status of the links after you cancel your membership.
@Rich — no problem. Take your time.
You write a single post with 3 links in it. The three links can point to any site you want, and you can use any anchor text that you want. I will publish the post to 7 sites on the 1WL network. That will result in 3 x 7 = 21 backlinks to your sites.
Make sense?
Once written, the article is “submitted” to the 1WL network. A human reviews the article and the target site for adherence to the 1WL TOC, which includes a very strict “family friendly” and “non-religious” policy.
Once approved, the post gets dripped out to sites on the network.
Regards,
Mark
@Alex;
Got your email and replied.
As for the links…. As part of the 1WL program, you “donate” a blog to the network. I just took an old domain that I was not using and installed WP. This blog is referred to as the “donor blog.”
The unofficial word in the 1WL forums is that as long as you leave your blog up (after leaving the network), your links will remain.
I have not heard from Jon specifically on this yet…so I am waiting before I give the official answer.
Hi Mark,
Letting you now of my intention. Have already twittered and stumbled, will post a link as soon as my sites come back up. Grrrrrrr Looks like DDOS on my shared hosting. Will work on the article.. 🙂
Joe — your post was approved. You will start seeing trackbacks soon. You should delete them as trackbacks create 2waylinks. 1waylinks are better, so delete the trackbacks.
And remember, the trackback URLs are confidential.
Thanks,
Mark
Ok Mark… I’m in. Thanks. I’ve Backlinked and Twittered… now I’ll work out this Stumble thingy… (I’m over 50… still learnin’)
Mark, I have a question, why don’t I just write for EzineArticles.com and get this for free? I hope someone didn’t already ask this…. Why is 1way better than I can get for free?
I don’t know if I can write 250 articles a month, my imagination is not that good. LOL I’ve resisted PLR, not a lot of them in my niche anyway. Maybe I need to rethink PLR and I don’t have the funds to hire people, not yet anyway….. Thinking out loud maybe you have some suggestions to help with underfunded.
I’ve had people tell me when they submit to EzineArticle they often take the post word for word off their site. That doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.
Thanks!
Mark,
I would love to partake, but I don’t use twitter. I suppose I could sign up, but I just don’t want to deal with twitter at this point. I have enough as it is. Can you think of an alternative?
I’ve considered some of these programs before, somewhat nervous, about Google being able to track the links some how.
@CD — sure. Any social bookmark will do. Thanks!
@Joe — well, the reason to delete them is because natural linking is usually 1way. link exchanges which are more artificial, are 2way. My rule is that if the trackback adds value (like social proof), I leave it. Otherwise, I delete it.
The other issue is that the trackbacks increase the blog network footprint.
@Tony — thanks!
Okay, I stumbled and I added a link from Reddit. I also added a link from my blog.
I will write the article in a few days. I’m working on taxes. Argh!!!!
So do you have any comments on Google’s ability to detect the linking system?
Great way to market it though.
@Gandree — I would delete anything that links back to the 1WL blog posts. So, yes.
@CD — sounds great. Thanks.
The bottom line is that Google can detect anything they put there minds to. My opinion is that Jon does a good job of not attracting attention. However, there is never a guarantee on anything where Google is concerned….
I think the risk is small and worth it.
Plus, at the end of the day I see very little difference between this approach and article marketing from Google point of view.
Regards,
Mark
@Gandree — by the way, my opinion is that you are always better off with a single topic article linking to 3 pages in one site (or at least related topics). So, you might write an article about your shoe website, link to the home page and then deep link to two interior pages (red shoes and blue shoes) or whatever. Just an opinion.
Great Rusty.
We will allow just a few more…..
Hi Mark- I would like to give this a try even though I am a buck newbie. It could take some time to figure it out… Do you still have a space available?
@Earlyriser — no problem. You are in and I will help you. Just post here if you have any questions.
@Rusty — Your post was approved (it required slight moidifications by the 1WL team). Will send you a link. It will fan out to 7 blogs over the weekend.
Remember — backlink URLs are confidential, and you should delete any trackbacks.
Thanks,
Mark
Glad you mentioned the trackback, I’ve often wondered about that.
Will keep an eye out for those. Is there a setting to block all track backs from being posted or maybe a plugin?
I’m trying to find someone working cheep in the Philippines (where I live) to write for me so I can come up with 250 articles. I too really need to know if the links are persistent. Did you ever get an answer?
Thanks….
Mark,
I commented, stumbled, twittered, linked, and have posted an article which I will email you a copy of. This is way cool and I can’t wait to see the results.
Your explanation of deleting the trackbacks was something that I would not have thought of because I always considered a trackback to be another link in.
One other thing that your readers might not have caught is the fact in the very first part of this article you stated that these backlinks will all be “do-follow” links and that is a very powerful point to emphasize.
Thanks again.
Rich Hill
Hey Mark,
Great offer, thanks.
Have put a link to this post on my blog http://www.grandopening.e-storz.com
I will send you an e-mail with the details of the the Web 2.0 submissions soon.
It may be a day or so before I can get a good article put together. Hope that’s OK
John
Mark,
Don’t know if you are still running this offer. I’ve Digg’ed, StumbledUpon and Twittered this post in hopes that I’m not too late to participate. I’m sending you an email with my article just in case I am not too late. I’m not sure how to prove my Web 2.0 submissions but I am more than willing to provide whatever proof is necessary.
P.S. Judging by your Twiiter handle, I think I’m safe in saying “Gig’Em Ags!”
Greg R
OK — closing this offer today, and increasing the number of links to 30. So, you all get 10 posts on the 1WayLinks network instead of the original 7.
Mark
Joe and Rusty — your posts have been published on 7 sites. I will increase the count to 10, and then send you the URLs (which are confidential).
aaah, Mark, I’ll need another day for that post to be done.
Long weekend with the kid and wife 🙂
Hey Mark,
Fantastic. I’ve been trying to get backlinks but it’s
been a struggle. I can’t believe you’re offering this
to people.
I would like in Mark if I could but I would need a
little time to get all the tasks done that you are
requiring.
Later,
Jeff Sargent
Hey Mark,
Bummer, I just went back and read all the comments and
noticed that you closed this off Feb 1 and in my previous
comment saying I want in you’ll notice it’s Feb 2.
Surely you can let one more person in.
Please, I’m begging. LOL! 🙂
Thanks,
Jeff Sargent
@Jeff – no problem. You are in.
@Alex — no problem. Take all the time you need.
@John — no problem.
@Rusty — You lost me. 250 Articles? No need for that, if I understand your intent. The whole point of 1WL is to put a single article on many sites. So, you could write 10 articles, and put them on 25 sites each (total of 250 posts total).
Does that make sense?
Regards,
Mark
@Rich — Thanks. Yes, you are exactly correct. These are DOFOLLOW links for the purpose of SEO. Thanks Mark
Just a reminder to everyone — I think I was not very clear,
so sorry about that.
Your article that I submit to the 1WL network should be 250
words (or more). In that post, you should have no more than 3 links
back to your site(s) using anchor text that you are trying to rank
for.
That will result in 3 dofollow links to your sites from each place
where the article is posted. I will post it to 10 sites, resulting in
30 links to your site(s).
Articles must be completely family friendly.
Does that make sense?
Here is an answer to the backlinks question — what happens if you quit 1WayLinks:
According to Jon, as long as your donor blog is still active and the posts kept live, then nothing happens. You quit paying, but all links stay there. If you take down the donor blog, then all you posts on other people’s sites also disappear.
Hope that clears things up.
Mark
Mark, it’s been a great idea. I’d got your email when you sent it the other day, but felt a bit lazy to sit down and write. Today, I noticed that I’m almost writing a post everyday. Why not writing another one at the end of the day for this interesting offer. So, You’ve got it now in your links@emailaddress.
Keep up the good work and we get addicted to you.
Thanks Rahman — got your submission and will take care of it this weekend.
I’ve found getting backlinks to be quite helpful in creating additional traffic to my website, microjumps.com. Linkmarket is a good site to get solid reciprocal link exchanges. It’s only $19 per month for full membership.
Just wanted to come back and give some feedback. I’ve seen an increase in traffic from the keywords that I targeted. I want to see if it remains stable and/or increases even more. If so, I’ll be a believer.
Seems like a great way to target lower competition keywords/phrases. Any thoughts on how competition ones?
Is there a limit on the # of links you can obtain for any given phrase?
@CD — Excellent. Don’t be surprised if this dances around a bit up and down. You are correct that this system is great for long tail keywords. High comp keywords typically have thousands of backlinks. You can use this system as part of a balanced attack on them — but it will generally not be powerful enough to get the job done on the tough ones.
Very interesting deal:) Sounds good. PUt me on the list. I’ll write a 3 links article and send it to you by mail:)
Hi
iam trying to submit my link in websites that are based in France without reciprocal links where can do this
Mason, you might want to read this post here and tell me your thoughts…
http://danielmcgonagle.name/1waylinks-reversal-on-my-1waylinks-review
Thanks,
Dan
P.S. I see you all over the place in the SERPs, good job!
Hi Mark,
I started to follow up on your offer for free backlinks and ran into family trouble and had to put it off. My grandson was born with a disconnect in his aorta that keeps blood from reaching his lower organs. They did surgery today and the little fellow is doing well but his almost two-year-old brother is living with me. As you can imagine, life has pretty much been put on hold. Since you were nice enough to make the offer, I thought you should know why I disappeared.
By the way, your contact form didn’t load when I tried to get to it from this page.
thanks mark for the great offer, this really nice idea
your design kicks some serious ????
sharing such helpful information is great it can help me at my backlinks tnx!!!!
Well thank you for all the info in this blogg I hope all the work I am doing with bloggs pays off in the end. I have spent lots of time and money trying to launch an online bussiness only to find i get no traffic.
Great article on creating backlinks
Thanks for sharing such helpful information .
It is really nice to see people like sharing this kind of private information. But everyone is talking about the back links. I understand it maybe a major ranking factor in search engines but what about the other factors. I have heard that there are more than 200 ranking factors in order to get on the top of the search engines. But have not read more than 20 to 30.
Good idea to get much more one way backlink to your websie/blog.
Good luck Mason.
Thanks. Good luck to you as well.
Thanks for the tips. This is great stuff!