Question: Will This Work for Generating Backlinks?

By Matt Dunlap on September 22nd, 2009

Tweet Tags: advice, backlinks, crowdsourcing, seo, Wordpress

I have an idea for generating backlinks to a website, but need some inputs from SEO experts if it will really work or not.

In summary, I give people a turnkey website that has a few income streams on it. The website makes money from Ebay affiliates, amazon astores, google adsense, etc… All the new owner has to do is add their affiliate id’s. The websites are built with wordpress because of the blogging capabilities and the RSS feeds. The website has an automated blog poster that pings my server every day or two to get a new blog post. The blog posts are all article (ezine) style, with a backlink to my website. So the person that I give the website to has a website that can make some money with no manual labor, and I get a backlinks… All the new webmaster has to do is generate traffic.

I think the concept is easy to understand, but there are a few problems, and I’m wondering if it will really work.

Pro’s

• I will get a lot of backlinks from all the websites I give away
• Since it is wordpress, I can syndicate the blog posts on all the remote sites to Twitter, Technorati, facebook, etc…
• leverage the crowd the help get a job done. It would be too hard for me to make several websites and manage, but if you get people to help it will be better. It has to be a win-win though… The new webmasters have to get something out of it.
• The new webmaster can make money with very little work and the website runs on autopilot

Con’s

• Duplicate content -  I have thought about altering each articles to make it a little different, but really don’t want to make this too complicated.
• Have to rely on the new webmaster to generate traffic to their site… Since I give the site away, many will not try that hard because nothing to lose.
• The websites will probably have PR=0 or very low Page Rank
• Too many backlinks from low PR sites can be bad

That’s basically it.

Will it work?
Is it a good idea?
Anyone want to try it?