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Just2EZ
Joined: 14 Nov 2010
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#1 · Posted: 8 May 2011 11:25
Curiosity and clicking on an ad cents for this forum today I ran into this;
"All links come from relevant articles concentrating on set keywords. They are placed in a number of blogs and portals from thousands of bloggers. No useless link exchange, no footer links, no link farms."
BackLinks Genius lets bloggers earn money without ads, just text links.
It's a plug-in for most blogging platforms that finds keywords in your articles.
Advertisers pay BackLinks for the keyword links from articles on other sites.
Bloggers get 10% plus a % of refferal bloggers earnings.
Doesn't look like a lot of income but for doing nothing new it is EZ.
You don't even have to write new material if you have pages already.
What got me was their calculators, the advertising one made lots of sense.
I took an average $100/mo AdWords budget and compared what I'd get.
100 backlinks from PR5 websites at least 3 yrs. old with at least 100 pages.
You can tweak any of those numbers to get a price quote.
There was no real information on the sites or keyword bidding.
So, has anyone here used them for income or advertising?
Oh yeah, they have an affiliate program and an agency discount.
I may have to try them out on all levels but would like some feedback here.
TIA
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mountainmom5
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#2 · Posted: 11 May 2011 08:50
Wow, that sounds cool - let me know what happens. Or send me your link then. Might as well help a fellow marketer out if I decide to try it. 
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Just2EZ
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#3 · Posted: 12 May 2011 18:28
Well, I didn't jump to join. I always read the TOS for clues.
Several items did not set well, one a non-disclosure agreement.
It prohibits naming any websites so who knows where they link from.
Supposedly you can see the urls in your control panel, no refunds though.
What really got me was the payout for content providers, uh say what?
To get paid you must have at least 50 Million BG credits.
1 BG credit + 1,000 Euro per their website.
Don't think I'll be using them but the idea is a good model.
The company is based in the U.K.
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Just2EZ
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#4 · Posted: 12 May 2011 20:54
Just2EZ: 1 BG credit + 1,000 Euro per their website.
Should read:
1 BG credit equals 1,000 Euro per their website.
oops.
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JackDProvost
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#5 · Posted: 12 May 2011 23:31
Very interesting. If you do decide to take the test drive please let us know the outcome. 
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asca
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#6 · Posted: 19 Mar 2012 11:17
These guys are a scam, BEWARE! This was the first site in a google search for backlinksgenius review so I'm going to share my experience here.
Having found no real reviews, and against my better judgement I have signed up with them, set up my account and everything went pretty smoothly initially with them starting to put up links.
However:
All the links are from extremely crappy article farm sites, most of which also employ tactics such as cloaking and will very likely get your site penalized. This is against their own terms of service, in which they declare all their sites must have unique content and be reputable and yadda yadda.
After seeing the links they were putting up I immediately cancelled my account, and then demanded a refund for the rest of the money that hasn't been spent. At that time, I have only spent a couple of bucks, after having deposited a good amount. Not unreasonable, right?
Needless to say, they are denying the refund saying that because I have cancelled my account they can't look up my details and they don't know how much money I spent, so they won't refund me. Obviously that's a lie, if they're the least of legit they should have records so they can record what they're paying their suppliers. Plus, they should have the record of the payment from paypal.
I have filed a PayPal dispute. The flaw in their logic is that by trying to sell me this lie that they have no record of me using their services, then clearly I have grounds for an 'item/service not delivered' dispute. Can't wait to see how this works out.
I have faith in PayPal to clear this up and hopefully get these guys banned from PayPal altogether. They messed with the wrong guy.
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talfighel
Joined: 17 Mar 2007
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#7 · Posted: 20 Mar 2012 08:39
Jimmy,
Would be nice if you tried them and then let us know your results.
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Just2EZ
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#8 · Posted: 20 Mar 2012 09:24
talfighel: Would be nice if you tried them and then let us know your results.
I think I spelled it out pretty clear already. No Thanks!
Just2EZ: Well, I didn't jump to join. I always read the TOS for clues. Several items did not set well, one a non-disclosure agreement.
It would be a waste of my time and talents.
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asca
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#9 · Posted: 2 Apr 2012 04:42
Just an update. I escalated to a PayPal claim and PayPal refunded me. They were even unresponsive when PayPal contacted them so that says a lot about the legitimacy of this business.
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