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I love programs that offer free trials, particularly those programs with a trial period of a full month, and I generally will try these out with little hesitation. And to be honest, I rarely extend my memberships beyond the free trial period.

The Link Juicer was one of these programs that I signed up for with real doubt as to whether I would keep the program going past the free month trial period. The reviews of The Link Juicer have certainly been mixed. For example, Sara over at Noteworthy Tips thinks it is a total waste of time, whereas Daniel McGonagle over at LinkvanaReviews says it is one of his top choices in backlink building services. In a recent post over at the Warrior Forum, the reviews seemed mostly positive – but users did not rave madly about how it would get you to position one on Google, or anything like that.

So I signed up last month and my one month trial period ended yesterday. I have decided to extend the membership and become a paying user. Given the $47 a month price tag, I didn’t take this decision lightly.

So why did I decide to extend the membership and start paying cold hard cash for this service? Well, to be utterly honest, it is mainly because I have spent so much time setting up campaigns for the system this past month and I didn’t want to throw away all of this effort yet! The Link Juicer’s free month trial is really an ingenious marketing strategy that can easily suck you into becoming a paying member – so consider yourself warned.

That said, I also see how this service can play an important part in my overall link building strategy. But in order for you to understand why, I need to give a little more details about what The Link Juicer is and how it works.

The Link Juicer is an automated backlink building system that allows you to slowly create (drip feed) links to your websites. These links will come from a variety of sources, including social bookmarking sites, blog posts, and the system will even create executable (.exe) ebooks for you and post them to software directories. A monthly membership will generate up to 1500 links a month (50 a day).

The system allows you to spin all your postings, including titles and tags – and you are strongly encouraged to do so. It even has a built in spyntax tester to make sure your content is unique enough and formatted properly. The interface is pretty easy to use. To get started, you will provide some information for the social bookmarking sites it uses (it sets up most of these automatically for you, although there are a few you will need to set up manually), and then you will create a “campaign” where you will enter in the necessary information for the system to start generating links to your site. Here is a screenshot of the campaign interface:

It is recommended you set the speed of link creation for each campaign to just a few a day (the maximum is 20), and you are limited to a total of 50 posting a day for all your campaigns.

I created about a dozen campaigns, and on average I found it took about an hour for each campaign. Creating them is not actually hard, but since it involves a lot of spinning, it can be time consuming. It probably took me around fifteen hours to create my twelve campaigns (but I may just be slow).

Since starting the campaigns, I’ve only been able to find a few dozen or so posts so far showing up in Yahoo Site Explorer. These are generally coming from sites or bookmarking accounts of low PR value (often PR 1 or even lower), and from software directories.

So why did I decide to renew this service? What benefits do I see in it that are compelling enough to make me pay $47 a month for a bunch of low PR links?

Here are some of the features I really like about it:

- The Ease and Speed. The slow and fully automated link building process, makes it a great tool for building backlinks to younger websites without risking the so-called “sandbox” effect.

- Accountability. Unlike many link building services, The Link Juicer tells you where all your links can be found. You can not only check on them and make sure they have appeared, but also download a list of all your links into a CSV file for your use and use this to submit them to your favorite bookmarking or indexing program.

- Creates Unique Content. Although the spinning can be a pain (unless you have an excellent spin program already), the system strives to create as unique of content as possible with an automated system like this. I really liked the ability to spin things like tags, which is often not possible with similar services.

- Link Diversity. Most similar services only create one type of back links (from articles directories or from blog posts, for example), but with The Link Juicer you are going to get a nice mix of links. Not only this, but it also creates links back to the links it creates. So, for example, it may create a social bookmark to your site, create a blog post that links back to your site and then it will go and create a social bookmark to the blog post that links to your site. The ebooks are also a nice touch as well, since I usually don’t bother creating these myself (although I know I should).

There are some things, however, I don’t link about The Link Juicer as well:

- System Freezes or Slows at Times. There have been a few times I have gone to work on a campaign, and the entire system seems to have slowed to a snails pace. Not sure what causes this, and it doesn’t happen very often, but it is annoying when it does!

- The Low PR Value and the Young Age of Many of the Sites (often three months or less). I already discussed this above, but I have yet to find any high PR links being generated. However, I also know this is not necessarily unusual for these kinds of services – but I guess the Blog Blueprint has kind of spoiled me in this regards.

- Lousy Affiliate Links. If you click on my Link Juicer Affiliate Link, you’ll see why – the affiliate link involves a redirect to the main page, taking about 30 seconds to fully complete the redirect. I imagine a lot of people will just get impatient and click away, or think something is up and get scared, and click away. Not a good way to set up affiliate links!

You should be aware that with The Link Juicer you are not going to see fast results. This is the kind of system that will take a few months to fully see the benefits. Still, having 1500 links built a month slowly to your sites should certainly have an effect, especially if you make an effort to make sure these links are indexed by Google. But if you are looking for a service that will quickly “blast you to the first page of Google” – this certainly isn’t it.

I’m going to give the system a few more months, and then come back here with another review, to let you know where I stand at that point on the service. In the meanwhile, if you are interested in checking out the free thirty day trial, visit The Link Juicer today to sign up and try it out.

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