So I just shelved out whopping $7.00 for an “outstanding” e-book of only 11 pages long (1,243 words) explaining me the “secret sauce” of

how to get 10 to 15 .edu backlinks per hour! SOLD!

( this ebook is also being promoted as
“20 .edu backlinks in $7.00” )

from the sales pitch:

Why Should You Buy This Report?

1. It’s only 11 pages long (1,243 words). In 10 minutes you’ll be

done. Then, go!

2. It’s simple. The language is clear. Examples are provided.

3. It’s completely, totally 100% ethical.

4. It’s easy to implement. No special software or tools are required.

5. It’s repeatable. You can do this again and again and again.

6. Any person, in any niche, in any situation can use the method.

7. It’s a fast way to get .edu back links with very little effort.

Well, as you can imagine $7 doesn’t buy you a real secret.

In fact it doesn’t even buy you an ethical method description.

All that they tell you is, that you should

1. Search for .edu blogs and forums
(and make sure they are somewhat relevant to the topic)

2. And add relevant, good comments in there, with a link back to your site

That’s it.

The remaining 1,100 words are just some samples of complex Google queries

and re-assurance that blog-comment spamming is ethical as long as you try to add real value to the blog post… well – that might be true, as long you REALLY provide some value to the blog.

But I assume 90% of the buyers will be happy to find out about google operators, as they introduce with

LOL. What a secret.

Then finally you’ll also get a good query sample very similar to

so you make sure you find pages with “blog” in the url (you can vary that) on .edu domains where you can post a comment and the comment-auto closer hasn’t yet closed those comments…

Hum, no news at all for somebody been looking for links for a while already, and you see these query samples all over the web…

Once again it was the “too good to be true” promise combined with nice sales letter language that sold what is actually common knowledge

some nice phrases on the sales page

1. very clearly explain how to get .edu back links

2. completely, totally 100% ethical.

3. a couple of nice testimonials

4. and of course a price point where most people won’t even bother to complain (note that I’m not complaining but like to analyze this as a sales letter case study)

Still, I am missing the typical “risk-free” on the sales page,

but you have the refund option as usual.

Well, you end up finding blogs that are already pretty much exploited by spam bots (sure you can automate all that) and got links to porn, pills and casino. So you if you don’t have a problem being co-cited with that bad neighborhood – go ahead and leave your “valuable” comment :-)